Peter Friedman

Back in the 50's I had a Bird LP on Dial with a great album cover. Sold it long ago.

I saw Lew at The Paradise Valley Jazz Party a couple of years ago.He played well.

Which titles? These are the ones I have ordered. If I like them as much as I hope I do, I will probably order some more. Monk, Vol1 Monk Vol.2 Art Blakey - Free For All JJ Johnson Vol.1 Sonny Clark My Conceptiopn Tina Brooks True Blue Ike Quebec Easy Living Hank Mobley Roll Call Sonny Rollins Vol.2 Jackie McLean Quintet Larry Young Unity

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It depends on how long you microwave it. The math is the important element !

I have not posted to this thread, but have been following it for some time. Finally decided to place an order yesterday for a bunch of Blue Note SHM-CDs from CD Japan.

What a treat! I bought J.R.'s Blue Note LP when it first came out and became an instant fan. After that I sought out the various other recordings with him as a sideman and then later as leader. I dug his Blue Note album so much, was disappointed that he only recorded that one as leader on that label.

Last evening attended a concert by the Auryn Quartet. They played Beethoven's Op.18/5 in the first half ot the program. following the intermission they played Beethoven's Op.130 and Op.133. They were at their very best in Op.130. The small Louis Rich Theatre was completely filled, and extra chairs were added on both sides of the stage to allow more people to attend. The audience response was highly enthusiastic and the Auryn Quartet responded with an encore of an Andante from a Quartet by Haydn. I was unable to hear which specific Haydn quartet it was from. This was another fine concert in the series put on by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.

Here is my list of many of the jazz books I have enjoyed. I am certain to have forgotten some others. Jazz On Record : A Critical Guide To The First Fifty Years - McCarthy, Morgan, Oliver, Harrison The Essential Jazz Recordings : Vol.2 Modernism to Postmodernism - Harrison, Thacker, Nicho;son Bill Evans : How My Heart Sings - Pettinger Loose Shoes : The Story of Ralph Sutton - Shacter Take Five : The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond - Ramsey Before Motown : A History of Jazz in Detroit 1920-1960 - Bjorn with Gallert Ten Modern Jazzmen - M. James Jazz Masters of The Forties - Gitler Swing To Bop - Gitler Jazz Masters of the Fifties - Goldberg Rat Race Blues : The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce - Cohen & Fitzgerald An Unsung Cat : The Life and Music of Warne Marsh - Chamberlain The Jazz Tradition - Williams Where's The Melody - Williams Jazz Panorama - Williams Thelonious Monk : The Life and Times of an American Genius - Kelley Norman Granz : The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice - Hershorn Drummin' Men : The Heartbeat of Jazz : The bebop Years - Korall The Song of the Hawk - Chilton Roy Eldridge : Little Jazz Giant - Chilton Pee Wee Russell : The Life of a Jazzman - Hilbert Too Marvelous For Words - The Life & genius of Art Tatum - Lester Good Vibes : A Life in Jazz - Terry Gibbs with Ginell Raise Up Off me - Hawes

Thanks T.D.

This may have been clarified before? I am interested if John Meyers who is listed as the pianist on 3 tracks on Jackie Mclean's - Strange Blues - album is the same person as pianist Jon Mayer ?

We have lost another important link to the past. One of the very few to have spent time in both the Basie and Ellington Band. He will be missed. R.I.P.

I do tend to hear a closer relationship to jazz small groups in chamber music as compared to large symphony orchestras. For me personally, the intimate setting of a small venue for both jazz and classical music is very important. I much prefer to be close to the musicians and that way feel more directly involved in the music when attending a live performance. I do not, with only very very rare exceptions attend jazz concerts in large halls or go to huge festivals. I prefer clubs or the Jazz Party experience where the room and size of the audience is usually no more than two to three hundred and fifty people. I don't care to listen to a symphony concert in a hall that hold 2 to 3 thousand people. The chamber music series I attend typically has an audience of about 4 hundred people and is in a very nice small auditorium. Music by symphony orchestras is something I prefer to hear at home with my good quality sound system with me sitting about 10 feet away from the speakers. I usually have a cup pf coffee at my side.

Jim, though my experience is very different than yours, and I am one of the "Traditionalists" you mentioned, one point you made is one I can identify with very well. One reason I "stayed away" from classical music for many years was my frustration that classical music received so much institutional support in a variety of ways, while jazz was ignored by the political and economic power groups. Though you did not mention this, the formality of sitting stiffly with a suit on in a very large concert hall was a turn off. I found sitting in a smoke filled jazz club, dressed more casually with a drink on the table far more pleasant. When I returned to classical music in the mid 80's and began to attend concerts I found chamber music especially more to my taste. Not only did I really like the string quartets, piano trios, etc., but the much much smaller venues provided an intimacy that was more in line with the way I preferred to listen to jazz.

Just came across this version of Airegin. It comes from this CD. Stan Getz Quartet - Live In Paris - Dreyfus Jazz with Jim McNeely, Marc Johnson, Victor Lewis Recorded in 1982 This is terrific, I much prefer it to the 1961Getz version that Mark posted.

Very sorry to hear this bad news. Have long enjoyed Keith's playing on a large number of recordings in my collection.

There was no classical music in my home. However, my parents did subscribe to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra series. The Detroit Public Schools had a program where they took elementary school classes to some afternoon concerts to introduce them to classical music. I attended a number of those concerts, but for the most part wasn't crazy about them. As a young child my mother made me take piano lessons. I hated to practice so the lessons didn't last long, and I never really learned to play the piano. My actual serious entrance to classical music was when I attended Michigan State University and my roommate had an interest in classical music. He brought classical records to college and I brought jazz records. He learned to like jazz and i learned to appreciate classical music. I recall that among the very first of his records that I truly liked was music by Rachmaninoff, Greig and Tchaikovsky. But my interest in jazz was so dominant that I gradually lost any serious interest in classical music for many many years. A peculiar situation was responsible for reawakening my focus on classical music. In 1984 I bought my first CD player. There were very limited options of jazz CDs available at that time. The classical selection of CDs was much more extensive. So as I wanted new CDs to listen to on my new player, after buying the few jazz CDs of interest that were available I began to buy classical CDs. I soon became very interested in many of the classical CDs I had purchased. I have the collector gene, so it was"natural" for me to add collecting classical CDs to my lifelong collecting of jazz records/CDs. From that point on my interest continued to grow and my classical CD collection grew and grew. While jazz has always been and continues to be my first love, classical music became also a very important part of my life.

There have been many really good versions of Airegin. But I especially like the first 2 recordings by Miles Davis, both on Prestige. The first from 1954 with Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke. The second from 1956 with Coltrane, Red garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones.

Darn That Dream by Art Pepper, George Cables, Tony Dumas, John Dentz From the CD titled - Darn That Dream - Joe Farrell with Art Pepper on the Drive label. Recorded in 1982 Pepper and Cables both play excellent ballad solos.

Niki Harris has been leading a Sunday morning gospel session at the Labor Day weekend Vail Jazz Party for the past 3 or 4 years. A gospel choir comes in from Denver and 3 or 4 jazz musicians appearing at the Jazz Party also participate. The outdoor tent fills up and the music is uplifting and thrilling. Niki does an excellent job leading the event, and her singing fits in very well.

It would require some careful listening for me to select my one favorite Art Pepper album. Just listened to the quartet on Tampa/ Fresh Sound and it is certainly a very good one. By coincidence I had just played the CD - "South American Cookin'" by the Curtis Fuller Quintet with Zoot Sims, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Merritt and Dave Bailey. I mention this because the tune "Besame Mucho' is on this CD as well as on the Art Pepper CD. Both versions are damn nice, but I prefer the one by the Curtis Fuller quintet. Zoot plays a wonderful solo and Fuller is at his best.In fact the entire Fuller CD is top notch.

Larry said it well when he referred to Braden as "adept but rather generic". I have quite a few examples of Braden's playing, primarily as a sideman with a variety of different musicians. More often than not, his solos fail to do much for me. Though every so often I hear something interesting from him. The CD "Organic" that Larry mentioned is certainly one of the best things I have heard by Don. Not too long before Art Farmer died, I saw his quintet live with Dan Braden sharing the front line. Braden's playing was rather disappointing to me.

Paul, I am in complete agreement with you.

Dan, we agree on this one!