White Lightning

I don't have kids yet, but here in Israel, parents talk to each other in English or in another foreign language when they don't want their little ones to understand. How do YOU do that? Especially you ignorant Americans who speak only English... B-)

Sonny Stitt. He has many good to excellent albums, but he never made THE album. Another one that comes to mind but in a totally different way is Ronnie Cuber. That dude is awesome live and somehow his albums are much less...

IRONING!!

David Murray's "Flowers around Cleveland", which is a great album, btw, has some very tasty playing by Bobby Few

The CD has a street date of May 10th. Promos are probably around. Anybody heard it yet? I really enjoyed Bang's Vietnam: The aftermath, and the lineup here with John Hicks, James Spaulding, Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris et al seems real good to me. Thanks! WL

Tal Farlow, disc #2

I could never understood what the CellPhone camera is good for. Now I know the answer!!

DSL. Tried it while leaving in DC and got hooked... My provider in Israel is called "Netvision"

One of the greatest singer of all times was born 91 years ago today in Egypt. Any other fans out there? Anyone else is enchanted by her "inta Umri"?

If you refer to the one recorded on Sep. 24-26, 1970, the lineup is: Woody Shaw (tp, fl-hrn); Joe Henderson (ts); George Cables (el-p); Ron McClure (b, el-b); Lenny White (d) and Tony Waters (cga). But that makes it a sextet rather then a quintet, so you may refer to another date.

There's a tune on one of the Zoot Sims-Jimmy Rowles albums called "Brahms... I think"

BTW, it's already May 3rd in Israel...

Today is Gullin's 77th birthday. One of my favorite musicians. A true giant of a Jazz player and composer whose tunes sounded classical the minute they were out. here's what Brian Priestley says about Gullin in JAZZ, the Essential Companion" (Paladin, London 1987): What are your favorite recordings by the great Swede?

Groove Holmes was born 74 years ago today. What an amazing player he was! His PJ, Prestige and Muse albums are so good that I can't understand why they get mentioned here. So let's hear it for Groove a BAD B3 player. Happy birthday!!

Found this:

Ghost, The Goodman's Russian tour DID make it to CD, although with several (2 or 3) tracks missing. It was issued on the Italian pirate label "Giants of Jazz". If interested, let me know and I'll burn you a copy

Happy Birthday!!

Ghost, I just finished listening to "Jazz Goes to the Cold War" program and I REALLY enjoyed it! Thank you very much! btw, wasn't the Benny Goodman 62 tour to the USSR part of those State Department tours?

3 More recorded on April 30th: 1960: Louis Hayes quintet (VeeJay) w/Yusef Lateef, Nat Adderley, Barry Harris & Sam Jones 1985: Hark: Buddy DeFranco Meets The Oscar Peterson Quartet (pablo) 1996: Von Freeman: Live at the Dakota (premonition)

R.I.P. - A terrible month for every Jazz lover.

I attended Arnie's funeral yesterday, here in Jerusalem. Scores were there, many young musicians. Arnie was a true hero of the peace movement as well. He taught both Israeli and Palestinian student in the International Center for Creative Musict in Jerusalem which he founded. Often you'd find him playing with either Israeli musicians or Palestinian musicians or both. A little anecdote that represents the man and his life: A friend of mine saw him in his last days in Hadassa hospital in Jerisalem. He sat in his wheel chair in the IC unit, with his Alto hanging from its handle. Then, out of nowhere, a group of youngsters surrounded him. One could tell they were Ultra-Orthodox Jews by their cloths. The youngsters pull out some musical instruments and began playing for Arnie right in the corridor of the ICU. Arnie himself put the Alto sax to his mouth and joined in. My friend who witnessed that, said that an unusuall quietness emveloped the ICU. A truly magical moment. That was Arnie. He will be missed.

RIP

This set is definitely one my wish list. A long over due reissue, imho.