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Ruby Braff's discography lists: * Paris (La Salle Pleyel) on October 2, while George Bonifacio's research and Jordi Pujol's book confirm it was October 1. * Milano on September 29 or 30, while George Bonifacio's research and review on Musica Jazz confirm it was October 10. More research to be done on possible concerts by RRK Quartet in London, following the tour in the continent. I have already found some mentions, but no primary sources yet. The Ruby Braff discography lists one gig at the Marquee Club (recording of Jazz 625 program for BBC telecast) on October 11.

Some additional (and to some extent contradictory) info contained in Ruby Braff's discography: https://books.google.es/books?id=Xv4wRvu2qT0C&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=newport+in+europe+tour+1964+roland+kirk&source=bl&ots=C_6TGZ7Wvv&sig=H5UczEgAXlvsUv8MlPPSVRC3zP0&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitiYun9rfRAhWBcRQKHWikAuQQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=newport%20in%20europe%20tour%201964%20roland%20kirk&f=false

Up again! Hot Ptah: did you finally manage to run that search on Tete Montoliu? Thanks in advance!

Up for some wintry air!

Here's a bunch of additional gigs in which Tete Montoliu played with Joe Henderson: Date: December 24-26, 1976 Location: Jazz Cava, Terrassa, Spain Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (ldr, p), Eric Peter (b), Peer Wyboris (d) December 24, night set. December 25, evening and night set. December 26, evening set. According to El País (January 2 & February 6, 1977), a Catalonian tour with Joe Henderson was scheduled for the last days of December and for January 1977, but this (and several concerts in Madrid clubs) was cancelled due to an engagement at the Ronnie Scott's in London and some appearances in the Belgian, Dutch and Danish televisions. Cancelled engagement of the Tete Montoliu Trio at the Balboa Jazz club in Madrid, originally scheduled to start in January 18, included concerts with Slide Hampton, Pony Poindexter and Johnny Griffin Date: January 26, 1981 Location: Vienna, Austria Label: [radio broadcast] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) a. 01 Relaxin' At Camarillo - 17:03(Charlie Parker) b. 02 I Want To Talk About You(Billy Eckstine) c. 02 Giant Steps - 9:21(John Coltrane) d. 03 Recorda Me [aka No Me Esqueça](Joe Henderson) e. 04 'Round Midnight - 27:17(Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams) b, c; d, e performed as medleys. Joe Henderson (ts) on a, d-e. e. is incomplete on only known source. Date: January 30, 1981 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) Date: February 9, 1981 Location: JazzClub (Gaede Hoersaal), Karlsruhe, Germany Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) Date: February 15, 1981 Location: Sinkkasten Club, Frankfurt, Germany Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) Group listed as Joe Henderson Quartet featuring Tete Montoliu. Date: February 17, 1981 Location: Mensa, Düsseldorf, Germany Label: [private recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) a. 01 So What - 16:46(Miles Davis) b. 02 Good Morning Heartache - 16:45(Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham, Dan Fisher) c. 03 Relaxin' At Camarillo - 10:55(Charlie Parker) d. 04 Power To The People - 21:31(Joe Henderson) e. 05 Invitation(Paul Francis Webster, Bronislau Kaper) f. 06 Recorda Me [aka No Me Esqueça] - 23:19(Joe Henderson) b, c; e, f performed as medleys. Date: October 23, 1981 Location: Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany Label: [radio broadcast] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) a. Relaxin' At Camarillo - 18:06(Charlie Parker) b. Recorda Me [aka No Me Esqueça] - 27:02(Joe Henderson) c. Tenor Madness [aka Royal Roost; aka Rue Chaptal; aka Sportin' Crowd] - 23:35(Sonny Rollins, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley) d. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - 10:07(Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) Tape exists. Date needs confirmation. This concert may be from the early 1981 European tour. Date: May 14, 1984 Location: Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (ldr, p), John Heard (b), Sherman Ferguson (d) Concert started at 20:00 Date: December 23-26, 1994 Location: Cicle Nadal, Nova Jazz Cava, Terrassa, Spain Label: [no known recording] Joe Henderson (ldr, ts), Tete Montoliu (ldr, p), Pierre Boussaguet (b), Gregory Hutchinson (d) Concerts billed as Cicle Nadal. November 23 & 24 starting at 23:00; November 25, two sets at 19:30 & 23:00; November 26 starting at 19:30. Group listed as Joe Henderson & Tete Montoliu Trio . More to come soon!

Thanks a million, Steve and Flurin! Really useful and interesting info that I will start working with. Besides resuming and finishing (wishful thinking) my Tete Montoliu Chronology this year, commemorating the 20th anniversary of his passing, I am also setting up a blog with more detailed information for certain gigs, tours... with reviews, unpublished photos and additional memorabilia (ads, posters, concert tickets...).

Diggin' up this topic

Franz Hoffman included a 12:45 excerpt in one of his early jazz DVD's: DVD-04 1940 Paradise In Harlem; 34 Belle Of The Nineties; added clips from: 1929 Mamie Smith; 1933 Mae West 9.- 12:45 excerpt from 73min (complete only on Harddisc), 1933, "EMPEROR JONES", Astoria, L.I., Paul Robeson, studio orch.of Jame P.Johnson plus contingent from Fletcher Henderson incl Red Allen (reported by himself 1966); J.Rosamund Johnson, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Rex Ingram, Jimmy Mordechal, Dudley Digges, Ruby Elzy, Harold Nicholas, The Hall Johnson Choir , Billie Holiday appeared as an extra in a crowd scene, James P. Johnson (p) prominently featured in a Harlem night club sequence; 1:50 Opening chants: Voodoo & Spritual -Hall-Johnson Choir, drums, hand-cl. / 1:15 Let Me Fly (breaks off) -Paul Robeson & ch., v,studio-band / 0:24 Same Train -Hall-Johnson Choir / 0:37 St.Louis Blues (breaks off) -girls choir w. J.P. Johnson on dial / 0:55 St.Louis Blues (fast tempo) –J.P.Johnson-p behind dial / 1:20 St.Louis Blues (medium tempo) -pJ.P. P.Johnson behind dial / 1:01 unident.tune (closing) - mixed orch. incl. Red Allen;-dH.Nicholas / 0:35 Casa Loma Stomp (ending fades) - same band / 0:30 unident. slow instrumental -same band behind dial into / 2:50+0:25+0:35 unident. blues number -v Ruby Elzy?/ 1:43 John Henry & Water Boy -P.Robeson & Hall-Johnson Choir (also on DVD-42) You can try to get a copy by contacting him at hoff-franz@t-online.de

James Manzello James (band) James (of Real Madrid fame)

Sweet Jane Jane Mansfield Evander Holyfield

Landed at my nest yesterday. On heavy rotation now! BTW: superb liner notes by Scott E. Brown who hopefully will have his expanded and updated James P. Johnson biography published at some point in time within the next years...

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Yes, I've got 90 to 95% of it, but anyway... pre-ordered!

All of those available at FOPP for £3 each, for anyone in London.. Bought them for 5 euros at the Corte Inglés in Oviedo over the past weekend.

Lars Gullin - Lars Gullin Swings (East-West) Tony Fruscella - Tony Fruscella (Atlantic) Phineas Newborn - Here is (Atlantic)

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I am trying to sort out the detailed itinerary of the Roland Kirk Quartet (Kirk, Tete Montoliu, Tommy Potter and Kenny Clarke), as part of the European Tour of the Newport Jazz Festival, starting in late September 1964 and ending in mid October that year. These are the dates I have so far: -September 26: Philharmonic, Berlin. Jimmy Woode instead of Tommy Potter. -September 27: Pralaten Schoenberg, Berlin. -October 1: Victoria Hall, Geneve. Jimmy Woode instead of Tommy Potter. -October 2: La Salle Pleyel, Paris. -October 3: Johanneshov Ice Stadium, Stockholm. -October 4 : KB Hallen, Copenhagen. RRK Quartet did not play, and it was just Tete Montoliu who joined the In Memoriam Charlie Parker group for the first tune, "Now's The Time". -October 5: Mässhallen, Gothenburg. -October 6: Messuhalli, Helsinki. -October 8: Stadthalle, Sindelfingen. -October 9: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. -October 10: Teatro Dell'Arte, Milano. -October 11: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussel. Additional suggested concerts include: -Frankfurt -Cologne -Basel -Zurich -Hamburg -Paris (again) -Lyon -Marseille -London Any additional information is most welcome.

That would be very helpful! Thanks a million!

FWIW, here is the list of Tete Montoliu performances from that 1958 Cannes Jazz Festival: ------------------------------ Date: July 11, 1958 Location: Cannes Jazz Festival, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France Label: [television broadcast] Tete Montoliu (ldr, p), Doug Watkins (b), Arthur Taylor (d) a. Pennies From Heaven (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) b. Blues - 3:34 (Tete Montoliu) INA CD: IMV 082 — Jazz Sur La Croisette: Cannes 1958 (2009) c. Fine And Dandy (Paul James, Kay Swift) Recorded by RTF. Tape exists. According to JP, this set was not part of the official festival, but an informal jam session. Doug Watkins and Art Taylor were part of the Donald Byrd Quintet with Bobby Jaspar. ------------------------------ Date: July 12, 1958 Location: Cannes Jazz Festival, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France Label: [television broadcast] Tete Montoliu (ldr, p), Ricardo Galeazzi (b), Ditto Edwards (d) a. Somebody Loves Me - 5:20 (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald) b. Lover Man - 6:58 (Roger 'Ram' Ramirez, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman) c. Back Home Again In Indiana - 3:35 (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) Recorded by RTF. Tape exists. RTF archives and announcer incorrectly mention Datto Edwards. According to JP, this concert was on July 11. ------------------------------ Date: July 13, 1958 Location: Cannes Jazz Festival, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France Label: [television broadcast] Yvonne Blanc, Claude Bolling, Tete Montoliu, Sammy Price, Henri Renaud, Joe Turner (p) a. Boogie Woogie Blues Probably part of the mamooth jam session in the last day of the festival. The six pianists played three four-handed pianos. Recorded by RTF. Tape exists.

What I have been able to document so far is: -Boston, Alfred Morse Auditorium (March 17) -NY, Village Gate (probably March 20-22). On March 22 --> recording for SteepleChase with Hank Mobley -Hermosa Beach, Lighthouse (April 1-6) -San Francisco, Keystone Korner (April 8-13) -El Granada, CA, Bach Dancing Dynamite Society (April 13) -Santa Cruz, CA, Kuumba Jazz Center (April 14) -Seattle, Parnell's (April 24) Reportedly, these are additional dates in the US, Mexico and Canada: -Kansas City -Baltimore -Washington DC -Oregon -Canada (Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary) -Mexico (1 week) Thanks for your reply. So not any reference in the club listings?

After several years of intermittent research, still strugglin' to complete the itinerary of Montoliu's stay in the US in 1980. Any help is much appreciated.

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Putting the itinerary online so researchers can share their knowledge and avoid duplicating their efforts was Carl Hällström's idea. Carl persuaded Klaus Götting to let me use his August 2011 print-layout itinerary The Duke: Where and When as a starting point, and Carl nominated various researchers to participate, including Ken Steiner, who has been our most active team member. Klaus agreed to let me use his title for the webpage, and the URL (webpage address) is simply an acronym for The Duke - Where And When. The domain .ca was chosen because I'm Canadian, eh? This "evergreen" project began in 2011 and has been my primary hobby since Ellington 2012. It will never be complete and despite best efforts, will have mistakes and omissions. New information, additional references, corrections and simple reporting of glitches are welcome. While I did the html coding and lots of my own research, this is a team effort. Our chronicle expands upon *Klaus' itinerary which in turn was built on and expanded the earlier itineraries created and/or published by the late Joe Igo, the late Gordon Ewing the late Art Pilkington (see DEMS 08/2-6), the late Frank Dutton, the late Dr. Klaus Stratemann, the late Ken Vail, *Steven Lasker, and *Ken Steiner. Klaus gathered material from a great many other sources, as well as direct and indirect contributions from *Roger Boyes (UK), Jan Bruér (Sweden), the late Jack Chambers (USA), G. Collombé, George Debroe (Belgium), *Agustín Pérez Gasco (Spain), Michael Graff (USA), the late Sjef Hoefsmit (Belgium), Ted Hudson (USA), *Carl A. Hällström (Sweden), *Steven Lasker (USA), Michel MacAire (France), Luciano Massagli (Italy), Joe Mosbrook (USA), Jordi Navis-Ferrer (Spain), Wolfram Knauer (Germany), Arne Neegaard (Norway), Jean Portier (France), Ben Pubols (USA), Ulf Renberg, R Schneider, *Rick Steiger (USA), William E. 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In addition to those whose names are marked with asterisks in the preceding paragraph, as of May 2014 the team included Bjorn Andresen (Israel), Ian Bradley England), Nicholas Fernandez (USA), Marcus Girvan (Scotland), Michael Graff (USA), and Andrew Homzy (Canada), and of course Donna (aka Monika) Stratemann of Germany, who kindly gave me her late husband's research files, and both Patricia Willard (USA) and Roger Boyes (UK) who have provided so much encouragement and help through clarifying many facts and their proper context. I am super grateful to Klaus Götting and to Marcus Girvan, because I have blatantly copied from their documents, saving so much typing time. There are many others who have provided a great deal of help. If I've failed to acknowledge you, it may be because your messages are sitting on my defunct old computer or just because I forgot. If you contributed information used by Mr. Götting or by me and your name has not been mentioned, please accept my apology and let me know so I can credit you on the acknowledgements page. Technical stuff: The hyperlink http://tdwaw.ca takes you to an index page where you will pause for 30 seconds to allow time to consider opening one of the hyperlinks shown on the index page. After 30 seconds, your browser will be redirected to the itinerary. If you don't want to wait 30 seconds, there's a link to jump right away. The itinerary is an html document that uses css. I created it on a PC desktop computer with a flat-screen monitor and it works on my PC and my Windows 7 laptop. I know it works with the Windows-compatible browsers Opera, Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, and Safari, although the appearance changes a little from one to the other and older versions of Firefox might not properly display the background image. Browsers differ so the line thickness and font size/resolution may change a little as you try different browsers. I have not tested the page with Google Chrome, nor have I tested it on Mac computers, but those who have did not report problems. It believe it opens on tablets, but it will be slow and it's probably too big to open on a smartphone. We have 14,000 or so events listed and an additional 3,600 dates marked as undocumented, so the file is over 8 megabytes in size. If you have a slow internet connection or you pay by the minute for data usage, this webpage may not be for you. The itinerary uses 10-column tables: start date, for multi-day events, end dates, city, venue, event description and related information, primary information resources with hyperlinks where possible, New Desor reference numbers for recordings, DEMS references, often hyperlinked, other information (mostly things I haven't checked out) and finally, the date the entry was added or modified. I am still adding weekdays to the first column, the names of states or countries to the third, and expanding the multiday events to show on each day. It's taken a lot longer than I expected because filling in these details sometimes requires additional research, which often opens up new garden paths I love to explore. Navigation is basically by using {up} and {down} arrows and {page up}/{page down} buttons. It's faster to just to go to the Year menu at the top (with your {Home} key), click one to arrive at the beginning of a particular year, and then scroll up or down from the beginning of the target year. A touchpad on a laptop may not be very useful for a file this size, and I don't know how it will work with touchscreens. I usually use the browser's "Find" tool ({Control-F} with Windows browsers) to find particular search strings - the name of a venue, a city, a song title, etc. Searching for a date requires you to use the yyyy mm dd format with spaces. For instance, May 13, 1951 should be keyed as 1951 05 13 (that is, 1951[space]05[space]13) I've mentioned the file is huge, but you needn't reload it every time you want to look something up if your browser caches it. If it does, you might prefer to use the cached copy unless the index page shows a "last update" date after your last visit. I encourage you to participate in our project. Whether you do or not, though, please enjoy the webpage and let me know if you spot mistakes or glitches. David Palmquist"