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For years I had Carla’s appearance on Night Music, on a VHS I’d taped — and I always got a kick out of this collaboration with Bootsy Collins, among others. Opening is an interview with Bootsy, then the music starts around 3:30…

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206659408/carla-bley-obituary Last paragraph is particularly nice… "I'm trying to stretch my harmonic palette to a few notes that don't belong," Bley said. "In the piece I wrote for Charlie Haden, there's one note that's really wrong. That's the wrongest note I ever wrote. And I made it right."

Lovely to see — especially nice to also see Karen. The tone and tenor of the whole thing is pure Carla (and those closest to her in perfect sympathy, but of course). Really enjoyed that clip.

Saw her but once, here in DC in early 2019 — with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard. Steve did a long Q&A afternoon the concert (just him), but I happened to hang around long enough to get her to autograph my EOTH CD liners, which — oddly — was somehow(?) one of the first 100 jazz CD’s I ever owned (I think on my uncle’s recommendation). Escalator grew on me a lot while I was in college, even if none of it ever made any sense — but my ears took to it in just a couple months and a dozen spins. A jazz visionary, for sure. RIP.

Ditto. I’ve only ever given PayPal my credit card, and that’s it. The idea of linking my bank account number to it gives me the willies — always has, and always will.

I haven’t been following any of this very closely, but here are some recent developments I just ran across on Reddit… Better source: https://www.vulture.com/article/epic-games-bandcamp-sale-layoffs.html Reddit post where I saw it (with about 90 comments of discussion): https://reddit.com/r/BandCamp/s/VyrhagB7pa And from another Reddit post:

About halfway thru this new doc, and appreciative of what amounts to a mini-doc on Clifford Brown for a good almost 15 minutes — and Abby Lincoln too for that matter (for another solid 10-12 minutes, or what sure seems like it). Great, and exceeding expectations so far.

Missed this entire thread before — is anyone else able to get the MP3’s to play on this blog page? I’m just trying on my iPhone (with no luck), and haven’t tried from a PC yet (but have my doubts they’d work from there either).

I’m probably the only person here who just doesn’t connect with Wes at all — and I mean hardly in the slightest. The fault is mine own, but I have nothing but a lot of respect for him, and I can’t think of any specific criticisms I have of his playing or approach. He’s just never clicked with me is all, I guess.

I actually file that Freddie Hubbard CD with Joanne Brackeen's CD's, because "Heidi B" is the best thing on that album -- a good album, certainly -- but that tune is **SO** frickin' good, and I think that may be the definitive version of it too (at least of those I've heard).

I just bought this ($12 used from a brick-n-morter!). And third time through I'm finally warming to it, which is to say it didn't bowl me over the first time. Joe Cinderella (guitar) is the strongest thing about it, if you ask me. Still, the whole thing is sort of growing on me. The US domestic CD of this includes Melle's Quardrama album too, which is very similar (same instrumentation, both dates with Cinderella, thankfully) -- but I'm glad it was included, bumping the disc up to ~68 minutes. Some of it is a little sleepy though -- but the hotter tracks are nice (almost entirely cuz of Joe). Here's the original cover of the second bonus date..

I tried to resist the 2cd release of solo piano stuff too — and I did for about 4-5 months, iirc — but I ultimately gave in, and once I heard it, I couldn’t believe I waited that long. (It turned out to be just shy of incredible, and exceeded my expectations quite a bit — and my expectations weren’t especially low before I got it either.)

I don’t know how I can resist.

Is McCann even on these extra(?) recordings? Surely yes, but the way this is written, it almost makes it sound like an entirely different group. (Or what am I missing elsewhere in the lengthy Facebook post, that would clarify.)

I was thinking along the same lines.

Continuing... I’ve always been fascinated by the German big band date on 18-Dec-1957 in Stuttgart, with the Erwin Lehn Orchestra — which has FOOTAGE!! What else is known about it? — the circumstances of how it came about, and really anything else about it — ??? Clips have been used in one or two Miles documentaries over the years, and I remember first seeing maybe a minute of this footage back in collage around 1992. Here’s the session details: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx?s=571218 First, here’s video of the full-length cut of “Walkin” (which at 3:30 total, is more than a minute longer than what’s listed on Peter Losin’s site) — but I’m not sure if video of any of the other tunes are available online anywhere (but not on YouTube, far as I can tell). As I said, I think the first time I ever saw any footage from this, was a part of a French(?) Miles documentary I got a 3rd or 4th generation VHS dub of back in around ‘92. Not sure this is it, but the footage is sure close in any case. And I just found this next one too -- AUDIO ONLY -- which appears to have more/most(?) of “Yesterdays” and a wonderful “Round Midnight”. Maybe this is the entire thing, come to think of it -- I haven't had the chance to listen all the way through, but skipping around and looking at the individual track times, this might be everything: And just googling around some more, and the complete session seems to possibly be as follows… https://themidnightcafe.org/2022/07/14/miles-davis-stuttgart-germany-12-18-57/ I'll cut-n-paste all that here too, just for posterity... Miles Davis – Stuttgart, Germany (12/18/57) Posted on July 14, 2022 by Mat Brewster Erwin Lehn Orchestra with Miles Davis December 18, 1957 (6 items; TT = 13:27) Beethovensaal, Stuttgart (Germany) S¸ddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) TV broadcast (B-) Miles Davis (tpt); Horst Jankowski (p); Peter Witte (b); Hermann Mutschler (d) 1 Yesterdays (J. Kern-O. Harbach) 2:36 Splice in Davis solo at 0:50 2 ‘Round Midnight (B. Hanighen-C. Williams-T. Monk) 4:45 3 Walkin’ (rehearsal) (R. Carpenter) 0:55 With voiceover: Unknown announcer (0:06-0:21), RenÈ Urtreger’s wife talking about Davis’s 1957 visit to Europe (0:21-0:55) 4 Walkin’ (fragment) (R. Carpenter) 1:56 With voiceover: Mrs. Urtreger continues (1:35-1:56) 5 Walkin’ (fragment) (R. Carpenter) 0:58 With voiceover: Unknown announcer (0:53-0:58) 6 Walkin’ (incomplete) (R. Carpenter) 2:17 Present here are 1,2 and 6 1 Yesterdays CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467 2 ‘Round Midnight CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467 3 Walkin’ (rehearsal) Video: Treffpunkt Jazz 4 Walkin’ (fragment) Video: Treffpunkt Jazz 5 Walkin’ (fragment) Video: Treffpunkt Jazz 6 Walkin’ (incomplete) CD: Jazz Unlimited JUCD 2050, Storyville STA 130467 This concert was scheduled at the end of Davis’s European sojourn. It was broadcast on SDR-TV’s Treffpunkt Jazz. There is a lot of overlap among the fragments of “Walkin'” listed above. None is close to complete, and even when pieced together we have just an opening chorus and some of Davis’s solo. Listed in the SWR Stuttgart archives are the following titles: Probe (rehearsal) (Davis, Jankowski + Erwin Lehn Orchestra) (5:55) Tune Up (Davis + Jankowski Trio) (3:35) But Not for Me (Davis + Jankowski Trio) (3:00) Yesterdays (Davis + Jankowski Trio) (2:30) Bags’ Groove (Davis + Jankowski Trio) (3:15) ‘Round Midnight (Davis + Orchestra) (4:41) Walkin’ (Davis + Orchestra) (2:53) My Funny Valentine (Davis + Orchestra) (2:45) Several of these titles are lost. Additional titles were performed by the S¸dfunk-Tanzorchester conducted by Erwin Lehn, and the Johannes Rediske Quintet with Ingrid Werner (voc). Davis returned to the U.S. in late December, and a sextet with Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Garland, Chambers, and Jones began a two-week engagement at Birdland (January 2-15, 1958). Thanks to Alexander Keth for the details of what’s in the Stuttgart archive.

Miles played with Urtreger’s quartet a handful of times, mostly in France, but at least once in the Netherlands too. These are just the dates for which recorded excerpts exist (perhaps there were one or two other appearances? — couldn't be many, given the short window of possible dates). November 30, 1957 Olympia Theatre - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis December 1957 Unknown venue - Unknown city, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis December 4-5, 1957 Le Poste Parisien Studio - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis December 7, 1957 Buttes Chaumont Studio - Paris, France René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis December 8, 1957 Concertgebouw - Amsterdam, The Netherlands René Urtreger Quartet with Miles Davis December 18, 1957 Beethovensaal - Stuttgart, Germany Erwin Lehn Orchestra Then less than two weeks later, he also appeared in Stuttgart with the Erwin Lehn Orchestra (big band) — and that’s included that in my cut-n-past above. This is all from Peter Losin’s wonderful site (select the 1950’s from the drop-down list at the link below to see the entire decade, with links to each session/live-entry). http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Sessions.aspx NOTE: The blue color of the links didn’t come over, but that grid right above does have clickable URL’s for each live date — the underlined locations in the second column.

Samples of every track, all in one video…

This seems(?) to be all that circulated previously, iirc. About 37 minutes:

I just tried to Google “Santana Trans” — got that far typing, and it suggested these as the top search matches… Check out Santana Transmissions! https://yelp.to/fBouLedRYk https://www.zoominfo.com/c/santana-transmission/1141659779 https://www.groupon.com/biz/orlando/santana-transmissions etc…

Knew about ‘Jazz’ — but sure never heard of ‘Booty’. Jazz: https://www.discogs.com/release/4866277-Harold-Land-Bobby-Hutcherson-Blue-Mitchell-Joe-Sample-Stanley-Clarke-Freddy-Robinson-Hadley-Caliman- Booty: https://www.discogs.com/release/2769483-Blue-Mitchell-Roy-Haynes-Charles-Kynard-Charles-Williams-Booty

This isn’t quite on topic, but close… I very recently picked up the two Land/Hutcherson 1971 Mainstream dates, New Shade of Blue and Chroma (Burn) — and I have to say they are both just marvelous. AND, the CD of New Shade even had a 9-minute bonus track (a Mainstream date over 50 minutes long? — unprecedented!!). In fact, I was really blown away by both these dates — which I found both to be FAR superior to Land’s one other Mainstream date, Damisi — which didn’t include Hutcherson. I first heard Damisi 15+ years ago, wasn’t impressed — so I never pursued the other two. But I’m damn glad I finally picked them up just a couple months ago. Back on topic, I don’t have Peace Maker — but have streamed it a number of times over the years. It’s ‘nice’ — but I remember it being (mostly?) more placid than almost all the other Land/Hutcherson collaborations. I probably would have snagged one years ago if I’d ever had the chance for $10 or $12 — but I’ve only ever seen it for $25 or more, which for a disc that’s less than 35 minutes (and a kinda sleepier one at that), I just couldn’t bring myself to pay top dollar for.

Heard the Jayhawks last night here in DC (Alexandria, VA) in a basic, old-school sort of dinner club (which makes it sound ‘nicer’ than it was, but it was table seating in a good-size room, with very decent if not at all fancy food) — and it was a lovely night. We’d go back and hear them again in a year or two, for sure. Good stuff! Our first time ever hearing them live, by the way, though my wife’s been a fan for 35 years.

I was (but only recently) aware of the Satriani/Tristano connection — but until just now, I had no idea he’d studied with Billie Bauer too. Some good info here, on both… https://www.jazzweekly.com/2020/04/joe-satriani-interview/

https://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?cat=jazz&incl_cs=1&no_incl_in=1&sort_order=release_date&format=cd