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    1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Just a friendly reminder:  If you participate in a conversation, you may be exposed to opinions that you don't agree with. 

    People get increasingly upset with that inconvenient fact. That's when the name-calling starts. Has been like that since the first argument documented in history of arguments.

     

  2. 1 hour ago, BillF said:

    I don't have anything against the Guardian, but this is another lazy article. The world record for staying submerged belongs to the crew of HMS Warspite. It's 111 days. The writer really ought to have mentioned that in the article. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(S103)#:~:text=A total of 111 days,with the Third Submarine Squadron.

  3. On 5/11/2023 at 5:01 PM, adh1907 said:

    Wow, interesting. Where in NYC was she selling them and how did you come across her?  I assume the paintings were not expensive. 
     

    Anthony 

    London

    Good question. I'm just repeating what I've read. A biography of Jutta Hipp has recently came out in Germany...in German.

    https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31395846292&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Djutta%2Bhipp&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

    Here's my favorite of the three pictures of hers that I have. It's the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park, NYC. 

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    Interestingly, in the summer months, the site hosted many music acts, including jazz. 

     Program notes and ads in the New York Times showed “Jazz Under the Stars” at the Wollman Memorial Theatre in Central Park for fifteen consecutive days, from July 28 through August 11, 1957, with such stars as Billie Holiday, Chris Connor, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Maynard Ferguson, with commentary by Jean Shepherd and Al “Jazzbo” Collins. 
    https://shepquest.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/jean-shepherd-chart-and-all-that-jazz/

    Some of her artworks? including portraits of jazz greats, are held in the collection of the Institute for Jazz Studies at  Rutgers University.
    https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/6/resources/194

     

     

  4. I was browsing Coltrane's discography, https://www.jazzdisco.org/john-coltrane/discography/ , and started thinking of who of the many dozens that had played with him, even once, are among the living? 

    Sonny Rollins
    Some cat called Steve Knoblauch, who Trane let solo on alto sax during his Temple University concert
    https://thepenngazette.com/jamming-with-trane/

    Who else is still around?



     

  5. 10 minutes ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

    You don't actually have to do too much labeling - the track titles and artists and other information is derived from online databases when you import a cd.  Nevertheless there is a considerable amount of curating required to keep it all organized and so on.  Hence not for everybody.

    I applaud your effort! I've ripped a couple of LPs, and realised this is not for me. Just too much work involved (not that I'd rather spend my allocated lifetime creating something worthwhile instead. Far from it...).

  6. Just now, Teasing the Korean said:

    A couple of points:

    1. Create physical space

    2. Make money off of the physical object.

    While keeping the music.

    Now I see two points. :D

    I should have said: "For me it's not applicable." Were I faced with a choice of losing my cds and records (which may happen), I'd rather listen to internet radio than spend time ripping, labeling, saving, etc. Or just ask Stompin at the Savoy really nicely to make me a copy of his flash card. 

  7. I'll edit my post as I go along.

    1. Amazing Grace, I imagine It's either a prologue or an epilogue to some conceptual project, because it did absolutely nothing to me as just a piece of music. Maybe by one of avant-garde groups?

    2. This is a big name tenor player and the group, not a current imitator. I'd say it's from mid 1970s-1980s. Very competent tenor and piano.

    3. Someone to Watch over Me, valve trombone. Must be Brookmeyer. Excellent sympho-jazz arrangement. Love it.

     

     

  8. 4 hours ago, Matthew said:

    Crazy is right! Some members would only/mostly post in the political section. If I remember, there was one, Johnny Z? would knew a ton about jazz, in fact was a jazz musician if I'm correct, but only posted in politics. 

    Johnny E from Seattle. A really gentle way of describing his persona would be "mercurial".

  9. 3 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

    I'm more of a Night Music fan myself. That was some shit. I was a little young to understand jazz but thought the eclecticism of the program was very interesting.

    You'd need to go to England to have programs like this on national TV. The American tv-watching public's intellect level has taken a deep dive in the last 30 years. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Simon8 said:

    Gil Mellé

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    Great call! How could I've forgotten! He was a true Renaissance man. I think he was also a President of the American antique microscope collectors society, or something equally esoteric. 

    This begs for an addendum: let's see the album covers featuring paintings, drawings, or sculpture (let's throw in the architecture also. After all it is one of the Great Arts) by jazz musicians.

  11. Let's add to the list.

    The two that come to mind immediately:

    Miles Davis - painting (I think he started in later years of his life).

    Tony Bennett - painting (not a fan of his pictures, but the man does who he wants)

    Roscoe Mitchell also paints. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-jazz-icon-roscoe-mitchell-painter-20230201-blplkdtp7nedzp2xlbqzvk6uia-story.html

    https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/roscoe-mitchells-kaleidoscopic-artwork/

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  12. After a move to Maine in 1996, there was a period of what Lowe describes as an “involuntary musical retirement.” He did pick up the guitar again (important to America: The Rough Cut) along with writing a series of books on music history, including American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo...

    I hope it's a Stratocaster.

  13. 31 minutes ago, Face of the Bass said:

    You want women in a pre-defined gender role, as the voice at the front of a band backed by male musicians. Yes, that is sexist. Congratulations.

    Sequential thinking isn't your strongest characteristic, but I'll try one more time. We are talking about a label that reissued performances from many decades past. I like Anita O'Day, and sold the Four Freshmen set.  If Anita O'Day were backed by a band of binary fission-replicating Martians, and they swung, I'd buy that set in a heartbeat. 

     

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