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I'd be very curious to hear if it turned out to be Page - who spelled his name "Nathen", though there are just as many (if not even more!) on-line references under "Nathan" with an 'a' (so you gotta always search on both). And, FWI, I'm looking at my copy of "PAGE-ing NATHEN" at this very moment, to be sure how it's spelled. Everything I've ever seen seems to indicate Page only played with Smith from about 1965-70 (or late 60's, if those years are too precise). Page is a real favorite of mine (I have most of his sideman dates, plus three or four of his leader-dates), and if he did play with Jimmy in the 80's - I'd love to hear if anything they did managed to get recorded. Do many/any 80's Jimmy Smith dates circulate?? And for those who haven't ever heard him, here's Nathen playing Footprints. What I like best about his playing is his really 'tart' tone -- a fair bit like Jimmy Ponder on the earlier "Grass Roots" session by Andrew Hill (the one that only ever came out on CD), and also Ponder's playing on that one Big John Patton BN date I can't remember the name of at the moment. (Those are the two best comparisons I can think of right off.) Page played in some kind of unique way, something about a finger-pick on his thumb? (or maybe was it a thumb-pick on his finger?) - something like that. In any case, he had a real 'homemade' playing style that was kinda quirky, and maybe even a bit awkward-sounding at times -- but I just love it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EgOQo8clOw

Interview with Clark starts at 3:25.

Sounds like a song title to me... "Rats on Cocaine dig Miles"

Coachella 2013 just announced...

What a sight to have seen this morning! Had no idea they were going to do four separate fly-overs. I was down on the mall, about half-a-block east of the Washington Monument. Got a few pictures, none of which were particularly great -- but it was incredible to see for myself, with my own eyes.

I'm planning to be down on the Mall, or more probably on the Memorial Bridge or the backside of the Lincoln Memorial. Should be exciting!

Played "Speak Like a Child" late last night, and found it every bit as amazing as ever. And upon taking it off the shelf, I remembered that when I saw Herbie the first time, I had him sign my copies of 1) Speak Like a Child, and 2) The Plugged Nickel. And it was only the second time I saw Herbie (a good 8 years later), that I had him sign my copies of 3) The Prisoner, and maybe something else (but I can't find anything else, so maybe not). In any case, "Speak Like a Child" is da bomb, and ever will be - in my book. BTW, Herbie's playing on "The Trainwreck" is outrageously interesting - recorded in August '68 (about half-way between Speak Like a Child, and The Prisoner). And when Tyrone lays out, it's a frickin' "free"-ish piano-trio date!! - and FWIW, Herbie's playing mirrors his contributions to "All Seeing Eye" and "Contours" (only even a touch more free).

Amazing that it took until '74 to catch anything of him, footage-wise, in concert or in a club. I mean, if Bernstein and the like were checking him out in was it '59 and '60, and the stir he caused -- you'd think somebody would have had the sense to try and capture some of that.

Normally I'm all about energy and pace (fast!) in the jazz I like best. But for many years I used to cite "Speak Like a Child" as my favorite Herbie leader-date (though I've changed that to "The Prisoner" in the last 5 or 6 years). In any case, "Speak Like a Child" is such a damn beautiful date -- and those of you who know my tastes, "beauty" is rarely the quality I'm most drawn to in music. Gonna put it on tonight in a bit. Especially love the horn-less solo-piano version (alternate) of one of the tunes, which may have first surfaced on the domestic RVG (or perhaps the complete Herbie BN box) - in any case, I've always pined for more of Herbie's "Gil Evans"-esque type material.

What of Herbie's "Gil Evans" period? Practically all of "Speak Like a Child", most (maybe even all?) of "The Prisoner", plus a handful of tracks from "Fat Albert Rotunda" (at the very least "Tell Me a Bedtime Story"), and maybe "Joanna's Theme" from the "Death Wish" soundtrack. Any crime in that?

My lord -- Billy Harper blowing on "Free For All"?? Hot damn!!!

Jason Moran.

And tracklisting? Can't wait!!

And most of them were jigsaw puzzles, in a way. As I understand it, the vast majority of what Kinkade's galleries sold were reproductions (of his own original paintings) that were hand-painted by trained artist 'replicators' (not sure what else to call them) -- and then he would personally sign each one, and literally add a couple brush-strokes of his own to the reproduction. Nothing seemed weirder to me (and I mean it, downright creepy) than knowing dozens of 'trained replicator' artists spent years turning out hundreds (or thousands?) of copies of his paintings every year. My wife's mother has at least a couple of his paintings hanging in their house, and my wife and I lived in fear every year at Christmas that she might have decided to give us one as a gift, which we would then have to hang in our home (gack). Fortunately that never happened, but there was a couple years there 10 years back when we were seriously concerned. EDIT: My wife just reminded me that her mom had a specific painting all picked out and ready to purchase, and that she (my wife) had to politely but very firmly telegraph that we really were just fine in the art department -- and that we really (really) didn't need any paintings, thank you much. (I'd forgotten it had ever gotten so close to an actual gift, but I guess it did.)

The single most disappointing thing I've ever heard with either Lee Morgan or Billy Harper. Iirc, weren't all of Humphrey's parts (including solos) fully written-out? Yeah, I think this is the only time this has appeared on CD. Applause issues of Blue Note titles are among the very worst sounding things ever. I've seen 6 or 7 different titles over the years, and they always sounded like 5th generation cassette dubs using a cassette deck badly in need of having its head's cleaned.

Yeah, but specifically 1) the "Medina/Spiral"-era of Harold (i.e. the Harold of 1968) -- with 2) the "Miles Smiles"-era of Miles (i.e. the Miles of 1966). That, or else specifically the "when he was with Carmell Jones"-era of Harold (early 60's) -- with the "Four & More, Live in '64"-era of Miles.

FWIW, the rehearsal takes of Herbie's own "I Have A Dream" and "Speak Like A Child" from the 65-68 box are fascinating (as is our own David Weiss' recent take on Miles' take on "I Have A Dream). I would about kill to hear any other let's call them 'Miles-influenced' interpretations (real, or even imagined) of other Wayne and Herbie tunes from that era -- meaning compositions that Wayne and Herbie only recorded by them under their own leadership. And an absolute 'holy grail' for me would be the entire "Speak Like A Child" album done "2nd Quintet"-style. Yes, thinking about rewriting history is a perverse hobby of mine, but one can dream, can't they?

15 minute interview with Joe on PBS (Charlie Rose), from November 1997... CLICK Edit: Gack, listening to the interview, I'm reminded how little I listen to Charlie Rose interviews (and with good reason, to put it politely). At least Joe and Sco play, starting around the 9:20 mark, which is worth a listen.

Seems as good a place as any to post this, Bobby Hutcherson speaking at a tribute to Joe, at Yoshi's in July of 2001.

Was Joe ever in any version of the Jazz Messengers? I would have thought 'no', but he was for at least this one night...

And a full 50 minutes of INTERVIEW...

two clips, with Don Grolnick!!

two different clips (though performances of the same tune), both with the George Gruntz Big Band...

Here's parts 2 & 3 -- with part 1 up above -- comes to a total of 45 minutes.

A full 40(!) minutes of... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmicYq2MlE8