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I was surprised to find the Eddie Costa Quintet LP now listed under either Art Farmer or Phil Woods' name.
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I grew up with the TS in HIFI LP. One side was a live recording where they play their asses off, but the sound was bad.
Still, there's primo blowing by TS, Dick Katz, Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson.Katz plays a very swinging chorus on "Yesterdays" using as few notes as possible.
The other side was an excellent studio session, with Scott doing his Ben Webster thing on ballads ("Waterfront", "Goodbye")., and that 'liquid' sound he got on legato passages.
He and Katz were a perfect match. TS was at his peak back then. It was all downhill after that...
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Oops, I was off by a decade. RIP EM...
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As a result of that lameass NYPL record sale a few weeks ago (well, I did score an Ellie Seigmeister Flute and Clarinet Concerto LP for a buck), I wound up getting a NYPL card, and scored a slew of Jazz Icon DVDs that are incredible.
Among them was Jimmy Smith Live in '69 with Eddie McFadden on guitar.
Sadly, I learned that EM passed in 2002 at age 65 in Philly.
Did he ever get a chance to make any records as a leader?
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OK, I thought you didn't respect her.
How could you not respect a woman whose very name mentioned (AG) would cause Frankie Dunlop to exclaim, "The golden showers- the golden showers!
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Interminable yakking between tunes. I've been waiting here at least 15 minutes to hear a song. And it's not Phil Shaap!
Phil trains these guys to yap just like him, but it's never as deadly as when Phil goes on one of his 40 minute jags...
Still, I've got tons of Cedar and Wayne on tape now...
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Besides being a great pianist/composer/radio host, she was an extraordinarily kind woman. My uncle worked at the same bank she used in LI, and gave her a tape I made of some of my tunes back in the 70s. She not only listened to it, but also wrote a very complimentary letter (that I still have), and offered to recommend me to Choice Records. I stupidly didn't take advantage of it, because I had a Jimmy Raney LP on Choice, and the sound was very bad, but will always remember her words of encouragement.
RIP Marian. Thanks for the great music and interviews on Piano Jazz...
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Thanks for the heads up- I nailed a good 14 hours of Cedar on cassette tape. The only stuff I didn't like was the shit with Abbey Lincoln...
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Truly sad news. I remember catching him live at an outdoor concert in NY, and coming away with the impression that he was a very cool person, in addition to being a great pianist/composer. RIP,Cedar. Another of the few greats left, gone...
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Looks like mostly the same old stuff.
There are some interesting Bethlehem titles that never seem to get reissued, such as the Dick Wetmore, the Milt Hinton, the Sam Most and Aaron Sachs albums, and the two albums by the Six to name a few, although it's possible that Fresh Sound may have covered some of these.
The Hank D'Amico on Bethlehem seems to be out at last in Japan.
Some of the listed titles look like they may be downloads only.
Aaron gave me a burned copy of the Bethlehem LP he made with Jimmy Raney and Hall Overton, so Fresh Sound probably put that one out.
That sounds like the LP on the RAMA label ("Clarinet & Co."), not the Bethlehem LP which had Urbie Green, Danny Bank, Barry Galbraith, Clyde Lombardi and Osie Johnson.
And yes - the RAMA LP was reissued by Fresh sound both on vinyl and CD.
Otherwise, I agree with jazztrsin. Lots of obvious items there that have already been reissued a couple of times whereas others seem to be overlooked constantly.
I never saw the vinyl, but you're probably right, because it was called "Clarinet & Co."
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Looks like mostly the same old stuff.
There are some interesting Bethlehem titles that never seem to get reissued, such as the Dick Wetmore, the Milt Hinton, the Sam Most and Aaron Sachs albums, and the two albums by the Six to name a few, although it's possible that Fresh Sound may have covered some of these.
The Hank D'Amico on Bethlehem seems to be out at last in Japan.
Some of the listed titles look like they may be downloads only.
Aaron gave me a burned copy of the Bethlehem LP he made with Jimmy Raney and Hall Overton, so Fresh Sound probably put that one out.
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75% of staff, including entire news department and most of the on-air talent, laid off effective Monday:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/08/wbai_pacifica_r.php
What happens now?
Some history and further speculation here, although from the general tone I'd say the author has an ax to grind:
http://observer.com/2013/08/the-excruciating-demise-of-wbai/
The NY Observer was founded by a wealthy Wall St. person, as a rag for fellow Wall Streeters. To say that they are overjoyed by the recent events at BAI would be the understatement of the millenium. The fact that one of their own has been running NYC for the last 12 years has made them happy beyond belief.
Ex-Organissimo member Christern was station manager at BAI in the 60s, and posts a lot on their Listeners' Forum recently.
Here's a list of people that were laid off:
The two hosts of "Wake Up Call, Felipe Luciano and Esther Alma
Hugh Hamilton
Earl Caldwell
Robert Knight
Linda Perry
Sharan Louise Harper
Jose Santiago
rebecca Miles
Cathy Davis
Sidney Smith
Ken Gale
Jenniffer Sindow
Yvonne Singh
Andrea Sears
Gracen Challenger
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My fave symphony is Bernard Herrmann's "Symphony", conducted by the composer himself on Unicorn Records.
It's so under-performed that it wasn't even heard during the composer's centennial recently.
Abravnel and the Utah Symphony Orch. recorded it a few years back, but they only played one or two movements from it.
My own symphony is perhaps the least known symphony in the history of mankind.
I myself forgot that i wrote it until halfway into this post!
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The difference might lie in the ability to improvise.
If the right singer is singing the right song with the right backing and the right arrangements, I could care less whether he or she can improvise or not.
I suppose that some bass players or drummers are better improvisers than others, but I prefer the ones who can groove in a group setting.
Well put. There's endless idiocy by non-musicians in regard to music, but the phrase, "It's the singer, not the song", made me want to kill anyone that used to say that...
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Wow! That was great, especially the octave jumping at the end.
In a perfect world, every woman would look and sing like EG.
Just a few days ago on the way to a gig, either a trumpet plaey or sax player that used to do her and SL's show was telling a story about EG lecturing the band about how to play something, and SL came into the room and told her to shut the fuck up, and get the hell out of there.
RIP EG
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I went to this "sale" today. I was amazed to find only about 200 LPs (22,000? yeah, right...) there, and they were all old classical LPs that were pretty commonplace albums. I asked some stupid chick, "is this all there is?", and she bubbled over that they were going to add at least fifteen more boxes of LPs by noon tomorrow.
Considering that they only had about 10-20 LPs in a box, I just shrugged my shoulders...
Just more Manhattan bullshit hype. I should know by now...
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That story was recounted in the book about Ornette's appearance at the Five Spot in 1959.
I forget the title and author.
There were many negative reactions from prominent jazz musicians to Ornette's music recounted in that book.
Even in "Notes and Tones" by AT, many musicians that were interviewed still had negative opinions about "Freedom music" in the 1970s.
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Curse those album cover threads!
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I'll always remember him for beating the shit out of Ornette Coleman in the kitchen at the Five Spot, because he hated OC's music, and then following OC home, and beating the shit out of him again in front of his apartment.
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WNET played the documentary "Radio Unnameable" last night, concerning radio station WBAI, and the Bob Fass show.
Christern was station manager back when Fass started doing his midnight show in the early 1960s, and commented on WBAI and Fass' career.
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could this be indicative of a growing dissatisfaction with the superficial pop music young people are expected to listen to, a yearning for something a little more fulfilling than Bieberistic noise, or are folks just too far gone?
The pop stuff of today has gotten so bad today because everything is a drum machine or electronic drums. That's my main problem with it.
We just played a big band concert, and as I was walking through the crowd, I heard two guys in their late thirties talking about how the music their kids listen to today is literally making them sick.
They went on and on about how they're afraid they're going to do something violent to their kids if they play it in their houses...
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I listened to her album in 2010 "Saturn Sings", and I couldn't believe anyone would actually put out a record like that.
Maybe someone said something to her, because her recent stuff on youtube is much better.
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highly recommended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8H6abSJnTwg
I still remember sitting in a movie theater when the beautiful theme heard at 3:24 to 4:16 was used in the climax of the movie "Alien".
I wonder if that was Jerry Goldsmith's idea, or someone else's?
A NY radio DJ played the score from "Alien" on the air, and played Hanson's great theme, and said,"Look at what a genius Jerry was, listen to that melody at the climax!"
I called him on the air and said, "Jerry didn't write that beautiful theme- it's from Howard Hanson's Second Symphony. Jerry's a hack- he couldn't write music like that in his best wet dream."
That didn't go over too well with the show's host...
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here's the Bobby Rose interview I was thinking of.
Interviews with overlooked greats abound on this site
That Jake Feinberg does some wild interviews.
I haven't heard the Bob Rose interview (I remember he was doing some shows back in the 70s and 80s when I used to do them), but thanks for the link.
I just spent an hour and 23 minutes listening to the John Wilmeth interview. He was a fellow NYC music teacher until Bloomberg closed his high school TWICE, and then he decided to retire. Here's a guy who played with Mike Nock, Michael Bloomfield, Al Haig, Billy Harper, Woody Shaw, Jerry Garcia, Bobby Hutcherson, and countless others, and they were making him teach three Art classes.
Bloomberg has single-handedly destroyed the NYC school system.It's amazing what happens when you get white people scared enough to re-elect the thirteenth wealthiest man in the world three times.
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I think the world became a far better place when Lou Mecca decided to become a chiropractor and put down his guitar...
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