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KCR is a special case. Other college radio stations don't "cater to commercialism", yet play little jazz (WFUV, Hofstra, NCC, Stonybrook, etc...). According to PS, WKCR has something in its charter that says it has to play so much jazz, so much classical music, etc... Comprende?
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I should have mentioned that what I said was my opinion based on listening to KCR's on-air people mispronounce jazz musicians' names for many years now, and cracking me up by saying things like, "and playing the drum set on the last song was...".
Basically, they sound like very intelligent people who don't know too much about jazz. They don't take anything away from the music that they play, and almost always tell the personnel on every cut, which is more than I can say for WBGO DJs.
So, despite your snotty tone and inability to spell the word incorrect correctly, I'll keep on listening to KCR.
My partially tongue-in-cheek last comment reflected the fact that, because KCR's board (or whatever) ignores market forces (unlike every station in the tri-state area), it often plays more interesting music (IMHO) than most of the other stations.
As for my last statement- you don't know me from Adam, so what makes you think I'm a "working musician who'd like to make money in a free marketplace"?
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I listen to KCR constantly at home, and I think most of the DJs other than PS and a few others, are Columbia students who either don't have anything better to do, or are getting partial credit for DJing.
The only reason KCR is still playing jazz (with probably 75% of it being "Free Jazz") is that it's stipulated in their broadcasting contract with the University, according to PS on one of their recent pledge drives.
If the students had their way, they'd probably be playing hip-hop and the stuff you hear on WFMU, 24/7.
One reason why I support a Socialist Jazz State Gov't.
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My unk was born in 1928, so it was probably late 40s to early 50s. I don't know if they ever got someone to sing them; my aunt used to sing my dad's tunes, but after they all got married, they stopped doing music.
Imagine crazy Papa Joe writing pop tunes...; - )
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Very sad to hear... "Mixed Bag" was one of my fave LPs of all-time, every track a masterwork.
He was a very kind and generous human being according to my childhood BF's parents, who worked with him at a Summer Camp in upstate NY. There's nobody to replace people like this...
RIP, Richie...
"And don't mind me, cause I ain't nothin' but a dream..."
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Paul Bollenback recently told me that he played at a concert where PS was gushing over his playing the whole night, and then he met him on the street the next day and PS didn't even know who he was and ignored him!
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Here's an interesting story about Joe Maneri:
My uncle used to be buddies with him back in the old days in Bushwick, when he played clarinet and sax at Greek weddings, where he specialized in compound time signatures. He remembered one time he had to pick him up in the middle of the night after one of his gigs, because his car broke down.
Anyway, my uncle collaborated with him on writing "pop tunes" of that time (maybe the late 40s?) with my unk writing the lyrics, and JM writing the music. I wish I could say I have some of those tunes, but my unk never seems to know where they are now...
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Yeah, Gerald's was a hip club. I used to play in the big band they had there led by Ray Abrams. Bernard Purdy was the drummer.
Don Blackman sounds great on that second video in the link. I didn't know he was also an excellent vocalist.
I read that he was supposed to be the next big thing back when he released his first LP, but it didn't catch on like they thought it would. He still did very well in the fusion/R&B field, and played jazz regularly at that club I mentioned before.
According to that trumpet player who used to play a lot with him, he was the equal of any of the top guys playing today.
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Shit. I never got to hear him, but a trumpet player I know used to sit in with him at a club in Queens, where DB was in the house band, and said that he was an incredible jazz pianist, who played in a very hip,Herbie Hancock-style bag.
A great loss for jazz in Queens. RIP, DB.
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Yeah, he mentioned Carmen Leggio a lot. He's lived in Yonkers all his life, so he's worked and recorded with all those cats in that area; Eddie Bert, Aaron Sachs, Joe Puma, Herb Bernstein, all fine musicians I've played with on occasion.
Aaron Sachs was an important musician in the history of jazz from the 40s up to the 60s, and he's still playing beautiful solos; he must be about 90!
He was a sideman on Red Norvo's Sextet sides in the 40s, played and recorded with Earl Hines in the 50s, appeared as a sideman on most of the Terry Gibbs recordings of the 50s, and then released at least three LPs as a leader in the late 50s, one of which featured Hall Overton and Jimmy Raney. Like a lot of the hipper NY musicians back then, Aaron studied arranging with Hall Overton, and we used to play some of his charts in a big band I played with him in for many years.
He also played on the John Lewis LP for a large ensemble ("The Golden Striker"?).
Back in the 40s, he described himself as being groomed as the "Great White Hope" of early bebop, and told me he once ran into Bird on the street, and Bird said, "I know who you are, don't go thinkin' you're so cool" (OS
LT) !
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I've done my best to document some of the best obscure jazz musicians for Organissimo, and what do i get in return? Does larry give me that gold watch and chain he promised me?
No, man- I'm lucky to get severance pay and shit,,,
Anyway, in my long and undistinguished career, I've had the fortune to work with some great musicians who will never be featured in your Down Beast magazine, cause they're not under 30, or the right color, or some shit..., but I did a gig with this cat yesterday, and he's still playing beautiful alto sax at the age of 87!!!
He's played with a lot of people in his time, but here's the only LP he recorded under his own name as leader. Enjoy!
He told me he did the arr. on it, and I asked him who he studied arr. with, and he pointed to himself!
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Sure, Gil weren't no "Py-ano virtuoso", but his solo on the Astrud Gilberto rendition of "Look To the Rainbow" keeps playing in my mind for years now, and that's all that matters.
Any duo with Martial Solal is worth picking up- an absolute genius at the art of duo playing
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Sounds like a string quartet doing an arrangement of some rock tune, most likely comprised of younger players who are trying to say, "Look, we can play your "Jimmy"(sic) Hendricks" (sic) and your Fred Zeppelin- we rock!
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Just aim your mind at EC's response to Hawk's melodic genius, and you'll be zoned for hours!
I should thank you also for turning me on to Eddie Higgins, and I look forward to hearing his interactions with Hawk.
Both EC and EH epitomize EC's only printed verbal quote, "GOOD JAZZ MUST SWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hawk seemed to seek out accompanists like them- Hank Jones, etc...Both Hawk and Clark Terry showed up at EC's Memorial Concert.
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I've read a few things about about this phono pre-amp, but not being a UK resident, have not heard it.
What's a good used price for it? Would I be better off getting the more recent upgrades Tom Evans has created?
What amp, turntable and speakers does it work best with?
TIA
Forget about it, I bid $400 for it on ebay, and was just edged out by someone who bid $1,136!
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I bought the "Moodsville" Hawk w/ Eddie Costa and Thad Jones on vinyl years ago, and the sound was so bad, I never listened to it again.
Just recently I heard the CD of this 1960 date, and couldn't believe how great it was!
The contrast of Thad and Hawk was fascinating, and hearing EC with Hawk was better than hearing Monk with Hawk. EC's comping for Hawk sounded so spontaneous AND matched to what Hawk was playing, that you felt like they did a vulcan mind-meld!
They even got another pianist to comp for EC when he played only vibes.
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First Jess Franco, and now the screenwriter for Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"?
Who's going to be left to make bad movies?
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The best thing i ever heard at Smalls was the Eyetalian alto sax player, Luigi Grasso. Do you know if he's playing there anytime soon, regularpepsicola? I know his bro played there recently.
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Never saw that one. thanks for the heads up!
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Franco started out as a pianist/composer, and featured mediocre European jazz in many of his flicks of the 60s.
i just saw "The Awful Dr. Orloff"(1962) on TCM, and it featured his dubious practice of splicing in nude scenes of actresses who weren't even in the movie- right in the middle of a scene!
TCM (the last bastion of esoteric film- now that Sundance and IFC have succumbed to the ineveitable pressures of capitalism, like Bravo, A&E and all the others) recently showed Franco's "Venus In Furs" (1970), which stars James Darren as a jazz trumpet player.
Manfred Mann is featured in one party scene, and most of the music is pretty good in this one.
RIP, master of Eurosleaze.
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Just to annoy Frisell fanboys and put things in perspective, I remember reading a review of a Frisell concert in the New York Times
where Frisell tried to play acoustic guitar, and the reviewer said he sounded like a beginner- just technically unable to play the thing.
I heard an NPR feature once on him playing with Jim Hall, and he was again featured on what sounded like an archtop guitar.
I can only concur with what the reviewer said.
Sure, I know he usually plays a Fender with lots of f/x, and he's achieved some type of Krishna-consciousness where he's able to play with no ego, and he wins all the Down Beast polls
, but that doesn't mean his music neccessarily 'speaks in a very special way' (as we were taught to say in graduate school) to me. 
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Be forewarned, the first page has a couple of appalling errors:
At Ginny’s Supper Club across the street, a mostly black crowd of men in suits and women in heels sips and sways as a band turns out a haunting rendition of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things.”
But this one is much worse:
The early 1940s was a high point for jazz in Harlem, where young and brilliant musicians like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke and Coltrane jammed and experimented. At Minton’s, they created the genre known as bebop.
Even my wife knew that was wrong, Coltrane as bebop pioneer. The Times is pathetic.
Gotta agree with you there. The New York Slimes has become just as repulsive as the Daily Snooze and The Post in its own Bloomberg-butt-lickin' way. The only time they write about jazz is when Wynton writes a new ballet about cotton pickers in the South. -
First time I saw the name would have been on Billy Joel's breakthrough album. Now knowing his jazz background, was it Phil's idea to get Phil Woods to take the solo on "Just the Way You Are"? (it is Woods isn't it?).
Yeah, that was completely Phil Ramone's idea. They had the tracks recorded already, and Phil called Phil W. up and asked him to drop by the studio to play a solo on JTWYA, and Phil nailed it on the first try.
BJ never met Phil Woods or even heard of him. I think he knew Phil from Julliard, where PR was studying the violin and PW was studying the clarinet. It's sad that another recording guy who actually knew something about music has passed, but we all know some genius homeperson with a keyboard is gonna keep the shit alive.
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As to whether RRK had ever been in a fight, Andrew Hill was working with him in Rochester at the time of the church bombings in Alabama, and RRK said some things in a club that caused the police to meet them at their hotel. Andrew recalled:
"The next thing I knew the police were there with attack dogs, trying to take us off to jail. RRK fought with them. He could handle himself anywhere. He gave them a few "bright moments" to remember... just about broke one cop's neck!
They took us all off to jail, even those of us who weren't participating. He kept sayin', ' They won't put a blind person in jail!"
The next chapter goes on to tell the story of how he was arrested at Cleveland'sHopkins International Airport for plotting to hijack an airplane! They caught him going on to an airplane with a tear gas pistol and a knife, and held him in jail for two days.
It wound up they dismissed all the charges, and gave him some hush money.
Sonny Redd or Sonny Red
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In the Roland Kirk bio Kruth lists it as Sonny Red Kyner. He tells the story of RRK sitting in with SRK and taking it over to the extent that Sonny got so mad, he packed up his alto and went home in the middle of the gig. RRK finished Sonny Red's gig!