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Are you sure about that? To my knowledge, and though they played live together a few times, there's no commercial recording with these two musicians. Check my Tete Montoliu Discography. Best regards, Agustín

NPR program on stride pianist Luther Williams.

The second (and last) part of this Tete Montoliu interview is now available at Tomajazz. It shares cover in the November issue of this on-line magazine with a very thoughtful and profound interview with Spanish pianist and free improviser Agustí Fernández (first of two parts) focused on his "Aurora" CD.

Guess this is that date, right?: And getting back to the "Mingus Quintet meets Cat Anderson" disc, it looks like there's yet another issued Mingus-Anderson performance from the same European tour:

http://www.amazon.com/Mingus-Quintet-Meets...n/dp/B000O75K68

More Tete news... In a few days, Spanish label Contrabaix will release a CD with duo recordings by Tete Montoliu and bass player Javier Colina from August 1995. Their one week engagement at the Café Central led to this recording at the Cine Arte studio, which has remained unissued so far due to hard negotiations. Since Contrabaix has refused to send me an advance copy to write an early review at Tomajazz, I will have to wait like lesser mortals..

For those who can read Spanish.... In Tomajazz, we have re-published a very long and interesting interview with Tete Montoliu conducted by Miquel Jurado and first published in Quàrtica Jazz #1 (April 1981) (of course, with due permission from Jurado). I have added new footnotes with clarifications, additional information, discographical comments and corrections to several data. The first part was published in October, while the second part will be published in a few days. Best regards, Agustín Pérez

A couple of his discs can be found here.

As reported on Doug Ramsey's Rifftides blog, pianist Jack Brownlow passed away a few days ago. R.I.P.

Peggy Lee Discography and Videography hosted at Mike Fitzgerald's Jazz Discography website

I paid about $35.00 plus shipping for a Japanese CD edition of a Tete Montoliu disc (no domestic edition at that time)... to discover that it was reissued a few months later, and that I would have been able to get it for $14.00.

Regarding Chiaroscuro's history.... About us

A few favorites... in the "old-timey" side: -Dill Jones/Claude Hopkins/Eubie Blake - Jazz piano masters. Live at the New School -Dick Hyman - Themes and variations on 'A child is born' -Dick Wellstood - Live at Hanratty's -Mel Powell - The return of Mel Powell

New Orleans old-style clarinet family: Lorenzo Tio, Jr., born in 1893. His father was Lorenzo Tio, Sr., born in 1867; and his uncle, Louis “Papa” Tio, born in 1862. A long line of New Orleans musicians who would become jazz greats took music lessons from the Tio family: Barney Bigard, Omer Simeon, Jimmy Noone and the great Sidney Bechet.

From the Marion Brown on-line discography:

Thanks for all the replies so far. I am looking for a photo of a trumpbone, because this is supposedly one of the instruments that Taylor Ho Bynum used last Friday at the CMU San Juan Evangelista (Madrid) while playing with Braxton's Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, besides trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn. I want to confirm that it was a trumpbone. Definitely, it's not the instrument shown in the link provided by MoGrubb, because what Taylor Ho Bynum used was not intended to rest on his shoulder, and neither is a Firebird Trumpet, because Bynum's artifact only has valves, and not a slide

Now seriously...

Could anybody post or direct me to a picture of a "trumpbone" (hybrid between trumpet and trombone)? A Google search hasn't come out with anything. I know there's also a "slide trumpbone", but I am looking for a "valve trumpbone" picture. Thanks in advance! Agustín

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Guy!

Been reported that Volume 3 is in the works, but there's no definite date yet.

Woody Herman Woody Shaw Woody Guthrie

Alvino Rey Johnny Winter Frankie & Johnny

You remember Errol Flynn at the piano? Now that was chops!

Big Daddy Big Mama Thornton Ma Rainey

This one has been out for a while: BDW 8056 - The Three T’s – “Live” from the Hickory House – 1936