Dmitry

Wasn't the tone Poet series supposed to be "un-limited"? Look at these prices. Are these titles out of print? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=tone+poet&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16

I've been using CATraxx for about 20 years. It's an amazing program by a Norwegian programmer Fredrik Nordbakke. He is no longer active, but it may still be available. https://www.fnprg.com/ I tried toying with the Collectorz, but wasn't impressed. The only upside to it, is that it's available as a phone app.

Well, this makes me feel OK, I guess. I don't even know some of the names in this BFT, let alone their music.

Dick Gibson's jazz parties were discussed here some years back. I'll watch the film this week. Good work! How did you come to this?

Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Eldridge at the Hamburg airport, February 15, 1954. (AP Photo / Brueggeman)

Lads, can you copy-past the obituary here? I get the NYT pop-up, blocking the article. Thanks! FWIW, the seller is located in Oak Park, Illinois. NB: Got it! Dick Gibson, Jazz Producer And Fan, 72By Peter Watrous June 20, 1998 Dick Gibson, a longtime jazz aficionado and the producer of what he called an annual jazz party in Colorado, died at the Red Rocks Health Center hospice in Denver on Wednesday. He was 72 and lived in Denver. The cause was complications from diabetes, said his son Robey. Mr. Gibson ran his jazz party for some 30 years, starting in 1963, and usually during the Labor Day weekend. Each year, he took musicians he liked to towns in Colorado, including Vail, Aspen, Colorado Springs and Denver, along with critics and fans, and for three days different formations of musicians played. Those events pulled together musicians who had not seen one another in years, and the spontaneous nature of the festivities created a casual sort of brilliance, where the musicians were playing for themselves and friends. The parties were also important because they were held during a period in which jazz had fallen out of favor in American culture. While Mr. Gibson strove to break even, bringing in up to 500 paying guests at a time, they were in a sense underground events, where the overlooked idiom of mainstream jazz had its yearly reunion in front of its fans. And out of each party inevitably came other parties, along with recording and club dates. Mr. Gibson had a widely varied career. An expert on Oriental rugs and cloisonne, he also wrote fiction, worked as an investment banker and made a fortune by forming the Water Pik company, which he sold in 1967. He was also a jazz entrepreneur, having formed the World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1968. It included Bob Haggart on bass, Yank Lawson on trumpet, Bob Wilber on reeds, Ralph Sutton on piano and Gus Johnson on drums. On Tuesday evening at the Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College, 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues, Mr. Gibson is to be celebrated by the JVC Jazz Festival, which will present ''The First Ever New York City Jazz Party: A Salute to Dick Gibson.'' In addition to his son Robey, he is survived by his wife, Maddie; two other sons, Richard Jr. and Joshua, and a daughter, Molly. A version of this article appears in print on June 20, 1998, Section D, Page 16 of the National edition with the headline: Dick Gibson, Jazz Producer And Fan, 72.

Surely, DIck could've been solely a fan. I don't see any inscriptions that are too personal, like "Dick, thank you for the great plumbing job", "Dick, best wishes with your hernia operation", or "Dick, let's get together and blow". Was it a custom for musicians to carry their photographs to gigs? Red ink on the majority of the photos could mean that Dick carried a red marker or a red pen to get autographs. The seller says he doesn't know Dick's identity. In other words, he doesn't know Dick.

A sizeable collection of promotional photographs of jazz musicians and vocalists is being sold on eBay. All are signed to someone named DICK, but without the last name on all of the ones I cared to check. I am surmising that Dick didn't want his last name to be written on photos. Many are signed in red ink. The oldest photos date to the late 1940s, for instance Mel Torme on Musicraft. Some are from the 1960s, but the majority are from the 1970s, a few the late 1980s, and one or two from the 1990s. One of the latest is Lou Donaldson, dated 10-27-1997. These are the ones that sold. I bought one, with what I think is a rather tongue in cheek dedication. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=02806-4833&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=ridellgrove13&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1 Here are the current offerings. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw&_sacat=0&_udlo&_udhi&_samilow&_samihi&_sadis=15&_stpos=02806-4833&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=ridellgrove13&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684 Who was Dick? An agent, an entertainment lawyer? I contacted the seller via eBay, but he does not appear to want to disclose the identity of the old Dick.

This looks very interesting. I've never seen this title.

Gabriel Faure Songs Ninon Vallin, soprano Maurice Faure, piano Pathe-Marconi VOX, PTL 1730, 10", 1951

You don't have her record with Clifford Brown?!

If Sonny Rollins ever publishes an autobiography, I wonder how many pages the last 50 years of his life's work will occupy.

New England colleagues , do you want to meet at the Side Door on Friday or Saturday in late May? May 2022 May 6 Lew Tabackin Trio New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA May 27 - 28 Lew Tabackin Trio The Side Door 85 Lyme Street Old Lyme, CT June 2022 June 17 Lew Tabackin Trio Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY July 2022 July 31 Lew Tabackin Trio Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

I'd say I'm more sporadic, than regular. I perused the website when google-browsing a couple of weeks ago, when you mentioned him in your BFT. Page comes up on Google, along with Percy, a town in France. Is there a connection between his name and the town? I had a tough time reading the text on my phone; his white sports jacket is in the way. Just some feedback, no criticism. Keep doing the great work!

Dan, https://www.percyfrance.info/ is your website?

Kevin, what your was the NYC meeting? My memory is that it was in the Summer of 1999, BN's 60th anniversary. Who else from the BNBB was there? I think it was you, Rob aka jazzshrink, bertrand, and we also met Hardbop(?). The concert with Jackie Mclean, who else was in that band? I remember Billy Higgins . Was that at Columbia U.? My memory is unfortunately not as strong as it used to be. I believe Phil Schaap MC'ed that night.

I was pretty upset that his concerts at the Side Door scheduled for January 14 and 15, was postponed, with no apparent replacement date as of yet. I was sent a refund for our tickets. Hoping to see him this year! I like Lew's style. How many of you would look good in a turquoise dress shirt? He did!

The original cover is somewhat generic, too mid-1960s Prestige-like for me. The IC cover is a statement: just TABACKIN, and that's how we want you to have it. No inhibiting titles, sidemen, location, etc.; nothing distractive in the background, just the sharp, high /f-stop photo of the man and his axe. I like the turquoise-green dress shirt, which is matched by the same-colored title, and the record label logo. It gels. Also, note the clever fonts they used for the title lettering; and another subtle touch, the back cover vignette incorporates the IC logo into itself.

This is a fantastic album, and a case where the reissue cover is better than the original. Rather scarce Japanese original press, 1975. US pressing on the Inner City, 1977. Much better! I don't think this was ever put on CD, was it? Shame it isn't. That's prime Lew.

It would've been ironic had it been the Demasiado Caliente album.

Pat Martino - BAIYINA Is that so? I will look for it. I became an instant fan. What a tone on the instrument! Fluid sound!

I see...so you wouldn't cook the squirrel on your own. Neither would you catch one, and instead rely on the hand-outs from relatives and others.

You can buy a used refrigerator, and a used tv. You can't buy a used loaf of bread.

The shortages are back! Some shelves i our local supermarket are empty again. On our town's community's FB group, the one-percenter "major contributors" are screaming bloody murder.