[Sun Ra album cover art book]

3 hours ago, Niko said:

Sun Ra's Chicago by William Sites mentions Dangerfield briefly but doesn't say anything about what happened to him... I just looked around a bit and came up with the following basic info: Claude Ruben Dangerfield, born 15 September 1931 as son of Claude Dangerfield Sr and Anna Gamble in Chicago. Married Barbara Joyce Cotledge on 8 December 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi. Died 6 November 1988 in Los Angeles. Final address 2118 West El Segundo Apt 6 in Gardena CA 90249, survived by his wife Barbara.

 

 

Art Pepper was born in Gardena.

Incidentally, just days ago received this book, but haven't opened it yet. 

[Cigars International deal]

I quit cigarettes cold turkey 11 years ago, after many years of smoking. Feel wonderful, but gained 10 kilos, which are never coming off. Would probably like to have a nice cigar to accompany an appropriate beverage, but am afraid to relapse into cigarettes. So no stogies for me. Enjoy!

[Another Mosaic Armstrong to come out this August.]

This set is now on LAST CHANCE .

[Now reading...]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Reading in English is great for me as long as it is album cover text or musical biography. For other materia my vocabulary is too limited, so most books from anglo-american authors I read in translated version.

 

Here "Jocuri de putere" which means "Power Plays" written by Danielle Steel. We have ton´s of translated books on romanian books-online stores they are my favourite non jazz lectura. 

This is about a female director executiv and a male director executiv, and their different characters. 

The male is always braggin´ about his position and is a womanizer, the woman doesn´t want to share her success with the public....., very good insight into the business world. 

I hadn't realized you are Romanian. Were you born there?

On 5/2/2023 at 7:33 PM, Larry Kart said:

I find Vanessa to be a more attractive figure than her sister Virginia (Woolf).

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I learned about the Bloomsbury Group and Formalism in the Art Criticism course I just finished. Clive Bell's Art was one of the books we discussed.

On 5/2/2023 at 4:24 PM, JSngry said:

Still does... 

Nice quip. Well put!

[Henry Threadgill Autobiography]

Speaking of the Threadgill ephemera, I have recently come into possession of this important object: a compact disc of the Henry Threadgill Zooid - THIS BRINGS US TO Volume 1, with a handwritten note on the cover. 

The text is as follows:

To FRANK
Thanx's For
Your Place

I am assuming that Frank had provided a very important service for the person who gifted him this CD. Am I right to assume that the person who chose to remain anonymous is Henry Threadgill? Are there any HT handwriting experts in the group?

 

 

[Women and Mosaic Records]

32 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Maybe change it to "Prosaic," with minimal costs involved in changing the logo.

Cut the "i", and all will be good.

[LF: Graham Collier Septet - Deep Dark Blue Centre]

Received my Disconforme CD and played it. It's in mono, and the last track, at least, in probably an LP dub; maybe the whole thing is. Will play it again tomorrow.

[Women and Mosaic Records]

Even the seemingly inclusive company name will not protect Mosaic Records. The new commissars are coming for it...

[Women and Mosaic Records]

 

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.

 

[Weird News Tonight (or Today!!!!!)]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/us-professor-breaks-record-longest-time-living-underwater

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.

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

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. 

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

 

 

[Coltrane collaborators still alive.]

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?

 

[Women and Mosaic Records]

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...).

[Women and Mosaic Records]

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.

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. 

[Women and Mosaic Records]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Thanks but this is something I am not going to do. 

Neither will I. I don't see the point of it.

[BFT 230 is live!]

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.

 

 

[Catesta?]

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".

[Jazz Times -- no white writers admitted now? per Nate Chinen]

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. 

[Thomas M. Bresnahan - RIP]

Stay strong! All those good memories will be your reward. You are lucky to have such a large family.

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

What about those hand-painted Sun Ra Arkestra LP covers?

I am buying this book to find out more.

https://rappcats.com/products/sun-ra-art-on-saturn

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

2 hours ago, bresna said:

How is this? I've had this CD in my hands and in various carts over the years and never followed through with it.

I am surprised you don't have it. Wonderful record.

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

In her later years, Jutta Hipp made a living selling her pictures on the streets of NYC. I have a couple of her watercolors.

 

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

Tal Farlow was a sign-painter.

 

And to further drive the point...

 

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

 

[Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.]

1 hour ago, Simon8 said:

Gil Mellé

      


 

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.