Peter Friedman

Fine Arts Quartet -Schumann - String Quartet No.3, Op.41 & Richter - Schubert - Piano Sonata D.664

Schubert - String Quintet in C major

The point is that the film is a mixture of aspects of the lives of Bud, Prez, and Dexter.

Haydn - Op.76/5 & Brahms - Piano Trio No.2, Op.87 - Pennario, Heifetz, Piatigorsky

A memory regarding Buddy Tate. I was spending a few days in Toronto at the home of my close friend John Norris. Buddy Tate and Jay McShann were among John's favorite musicians as well as his friends. John and recorded them both a number of times on his Sackville label. Both Buddy and Jay were playing in Toronto so John and his wife Sandy invited them to lunch at his house one day. We had a great afternoon with good food and much interesting conversation with Buddy and Jay.

Pennario, Heifetz, Piatigorsky - Schubert - Piano Trio No.2, D.929 & Ries - Symphony No.8, WoO 30

Mark, thanks for sharing that clip from the movie. Loved it.

Back in the early to mid 1950's I was just in the very early stages of becoming a jazz fan. JATP came to Detroit (at least) twice during that period and performed at the Broadway Capitol Theatre. Along with a couple of friends I attended those concerts. There were 2 concerts each evening, one an early one and the other a late concert. The crowd was very raucous and at points when the music became especially exciting, members of the audience began dancing in the aisles. What stands out in my memory were these things. There was a trumpet battle between Roy Eldridge and Charle Shavers. A tenors saxophone battle between Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips, and a drum battle between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. When Norman Grantz announced a ballad set, the audience booed. Many were there for the extremely exciting medium and up tempo numbers and had little patience for ballads. As one of my earliest introductions to live jazz, those JATP concerts did a lot to help form me into becoming a lifelong jazz fan.

Haydn - Cello Concerto in C Major & Brahms - Violin Sonata No.2, Op.100