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So sad to hear. The amount of his knowledge of the music was staggering. RIP

Yeah, this guy was off the wall. We were playing a one day cruise on the west side of Manhattan, and I told him I didn't like his use of a maj6th chord on the bridge of September Song. He said, "Oh, you didn't like that change, huh, let's see how you like this.." And he knee-dropped my poor little Roland Cube amp so it rolled over, right to the edge of the deck of the boat. Then,when I yelled at him for almost sending my defenseless Cube into the Hudson River, he said, "Come on, I'll send you overboard, too!" My amp seemed alright, so I just let it go. He looked like Charles Manson, so he used to get picked up by the cops for just looking dangerous. He was voted by his high school as "Most Likely To Become a Serial Killer" I saw his obit online a number of years back. He died when he was only 36.

No, I've been playing that song since I heard the SM version over 30 years ago, so I just used my own stuff. One thing I did copy was Lani Hall's beautiful subtle changing of the melody on the words "One must be right for me". I gave it to the alto. I remember working with this keyboard player who called Lani Hall "the whitest singer that ever lived". If that nuance she added is 'white', then he can shove it. That was the main reason I chose that song. I'm assuming that you don't have Netflix, and didn't see that movie I was talking about "They Shot The Piano Player". It's like the thing was made for you.

I just wrote a BB chart on their version of that, using SD's "Black Cow as my groove.

Great closing paragraph! Have you seen that Netflix film, "They Shot The Piano Player" yet? It involves a Brazilian "Samba Jazz" pianist, Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. He only put out one album as a leader, when he was only 22, but went on to play on many important Jazz Samba/Bossa Nova records as a sideman. I posted on it in the Miscellaneous Music section amonth ago. RIP, Sergio. You brought the world some great music that people are too stupid to appreciate now.

I'll try.

I can't believe this.

This guy belongs to a jazz guitar online forum I sometimes visit He get funky wit Bobby Watson here: He posted some Polish sax player's group once that was one of the best things I ever heard, but I forget the name of the group

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11242654/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1 This is new on Netflix. An animated fictional docudrama about the 'Disappearance' of a Brazilian Samba Jazz pianist named Francisco Tenorio Jr. in Buenos Aires in 1976. The story is about a fictional writer for the New Yorker, who is assigned to write an article in 2010 about the history of the Bossa Nova, and stumbles on a Brazilian samba-jazz pianist in his listening research, who only made one album under his own name, but played piano on many classic samba/bossa nova sessions. The writer, voiced by Jeff Goldblum digs the pianist, but is upset to find that the pianist stopped recording completely in 1976, and there is nothing on the pianist after 1976. So then the film becomes a mystery about what happened to the real life pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr. in 1976. The writer goes to Brazil for his research, and through a friend, gets in touch with all the major Bossa Nova musicians and vocalists still around in 2010, such as Nasciamento, etc.. and inquires about Tenorio. He even talks with Bud Shank, as part of his research on early bossa nova, and Ella Fitzgerald is also shown singing with the missing pianist in an early scene. Bill Evans even appears playing "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" in a Brazilian jazz club, and hangs out with Tenorio afterwards. By this time, the writer's editor convinces him to write a book about Tenorio, and the rest of the film centers on the mystery of his disappearance. here's something from his first album, msde when he was only 23:

A guy I know got in contact with the estate of the bass player that recorded that album, and he said his father recorded a bunch of gigs that this great quartet recorded, and plans to release all of them! I can honestly say that this has been the first jazz guitar recording that brought a big smile to my face throughout its entirety. This was the man that Bird would listen closely to every night JS would be his accompanying act at Birdland, instead of going out and scoring.

LOL! No, it was nobody but his idol, Bill Evans, of course. Probably had no place to live for a while. My friend was witness to the legendary 'one hand" performances at the VV, when one of his hands was completely unusable, and just hung there like a dead piece of meat on the keyboard, ready to be pressed down to play one pedal note by his good hand. My friend said he still sounded great.

A piano player friend of mine wears his "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" shirt every time I see him. He studied with Sanford Gold and there was some guy sleeping on his couch. Guess who it was?

They also did a song for the party scene in "Midnight Cowboy" that the nudist pianist composed. Kinda Charles Lloyd-ish

I met Jack Wilkins once, and he claimed that he played in that band!.

Sonofabitch! That's him. Don't mention his name; he might do a search and kill me or something.

No, that's alright. A well known jazz pianist I used to be in a band with played in a rock band in the 60s that had an album cover with the whole band nekkid on the cover. Later on he became a college professor at a well known music school. I wonder if any of his students ever saw it?

Yeah, I cracked up when I read that on Wiki! As far as the Sam Most four CD set was concerned, Most's playing is great on the other albums included in the set, the arrangements by Bob Dorough and Teddy Charles aren't as good as the ones by Woellmer. Jimmy Raney has a good solo on one tune on the record he's on, and Davey Schildkraut has some nice solos on one of the other records.

AGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need Help!!!!!!!!! Charles Albertine seemed to be the equivalent of Bob Graettinger to Stan Kenton! I liked that alto sax stuff towards the end.

Interesting stuff! I was under the impression that Les and Larry Elgart was a dance band. You're totally messing up my mind with this album TTK. I'm going to have to report to Wikipedia for re-education.

Someone I know was so overwhelmed by the CD, he contacted the person in charge of putting out the album, and he says that the bass player on the gig taped a lot of other gigs the group did, and he's obtained legal approval to release all of it! This stuff is JS at his best, with a group that is smoking.

I never knew that. You can tell that the group had a lot of stuff worked out in Colorado, where they played live. Smith got burnt out on NYC sometime in the early 60s. He could see where the music biz was going. He said he never looked back in his rear view mirror as he approached the Geo. Washington Bridge.

He was only 49 and still playing his ass off. This just came out yesterday and the bass player taped a lot more. There's some distortion when they get loud, but a lot of spirit and swing. The piano player is good, along with the rhythm section. https://dickpatterson.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-night-at-shaners

Finally got the Sam Most "Four Classic Albums" from Ebay. It's from that Avid Jazz series of four albums by one artist on two CDs, and it only cost me twelve bucks and change. The album I was looking for, "Sam Most Sextette- "I'm Nuts About the Most-Sam Most That is!" with a picture of a squirrel munching on a nut on the original cover, didn't disappoint at all. As mentioned in my previous post, all of the arrangements were done by an ex-trumpet player who was a DB poll-winner until he got his teeth knocked out in an accident named Ronnie Woellner, who I did a few months of gigs with years ago. He astounded me with his changes on his new instrument, the keyboard, as he controlled the entire arr. of tunes because he played left hand bass, being that there was no bass player. The unusual instrumentation of the Sextette was Most on flute and clarinet Marty Flax on Bari Sax Barry Galbraith on Guitar Bob Dorough on piano Oscar Pettiford on Bass Bobby Donaldson or Osie Johnson on Drums All the arrangements were swinging, imaginative, unaffected charts that made the album a delight to listen to, especially compared to the second album in the set, "Musically Yours" which was anything but, due to the fact that they had no arr's and featured the piercing sound of Most's clarinet on too many cuts. He's a great improviser on the clarinet, but the piercing sound he got out of the instrument made it clear why he stuck to flute as his main instrument. His brother, Abe Most, is much more pleasant to listen to on the instrument. Woellner's arrangements used the unusual chorus of Bari sax, Guitar and Flute or clarinet for most of the lines, and the wonderful use of counterpoint, substitute harmony, swinging ensembles and silence, gave the music a clarity that I find lacking in most West Coast small ensemble jazz of that time, and lacked the boredom of East Coast writers like Manny Albam, Al Cohn, and the overdone exoticism of Gil Evans. The only writer I could compare him to of the 50s would be the underrated Rod Leavitt. Woellner stays out of the way of the soloists, and there's wonderful playing by Most, Galbraith and Flax. Dorough plays his parts well, but is not the strongest soloist. I'm looking forward to the other two albums featured, "Sam Most Plays Monk, Bud, Bird and Miles" and especially "The Amazing Mr. Sam Most" featuring Jimmy Raney in the quartet.

I used to check out all the record stores in the downtown area of NYC, and there were a few strange owners who I only went to once, and that was enough for me. Bleeker Bob was the most uptight dude I ever met, and I ran out of there with a cheap copy of Woody Herman's Sextet "Live at the Roundtable" as fast as I could. There was an older British guy who seemed to be a rock dude, who was some type of maniac or something..LOL! He made a sale of a record to someone, and it was so draining for him, he had to rush me out of his store with an overpriced copy of Grady Tate's disappointing album with "Sackful of Dreams", so he could unwind with a bottle of booze. He said I could come back in an hour or two...LOL! It turned out that another guy had a deal with TSS where he'd sneak into their warehouse, and pick up their jazz records after midnight and get them in bulk for a very low price, and sell them for 10x what he paid for them. And so on...

RIP. He was great in everything he was in, even playing Major Major in Catch-22. He was in "Cold Turkey, too.