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On 4/20/2024 at 6:26 PM, J.A.W. said:
Just heard the terrible news that Michael Cuscuna has died - Joe Harley posted this: Michael Cuscuna RIP
Can't measure what we all owe him.
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Woody Herman's "Jackpot!" (Capitol) with the eight-piece band Woody had in Vegas in the summer of 1955. (Dick Collins, Johnny Coppola , Richie Kamuca, Cy Touff, Norm Pockrandt, Monty Budwig, Chuck Flores. Sublime Kamuca, and the best Touff I know.
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2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:
Delightfully loose album.
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Yes we are, technically I suppose,we're not sharing the same dwelling, but and she still says warm caring things to me. My shrink and my lawyer both say how can you ever trust her again? Then there are heavy duty financial considerations. --- a prenuptial agreement that would take a large chunk out of my assets, divorce maybe less so, but I stlll care for her, don't want to hurt her. I don't think of her as a venal person, but she does have a lawyer and who knows?
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She said "This is the best place for you," and because dementia is a progressive disease all I could conclude was that she thought I should stay there until I died. But I was only 81, and my dad, though there are no guarantees, made it to 95. Also, when I talked to my friends on the phone, they all said I sounded like myself, and I thought I did too -- though the was then cited was then cited as evidence a la Catch 22 of my continuing deterioration (as in "what would a demented person think"). My lawyer said it was the most amazing situation he had ever encountered. And my wife's role/motivation remains a mystery to me. My shrink's verdict: "second marriage."
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I somehow still have warm feelings for my wife but don't understand what she was thinking when she put me in there and lied to me in order to do so. All she will say about it is "I can't go back" (presumably in time). And she came to visit me only three times in those six months.
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"Buster Williams Quartet Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1999" (TOB) with Steve Nelson and Carl Allen.
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The NE JW was a jazz pianist per see and a damn good one; I believe that he
and Horace Silver crossed paths in NE their formative years. John Towner Williams is the film composer.
Horace silver v good one who came a film combo;we the WC JW was nst pe v v
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The NE JW was a jazz pianist per see and a damn good one; I believe that he
and Horace Silver crossed paths in NE their formative years. John Towner Williams is the film composer.
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21 hours ago, JSngry said:
Which one was John Towner?
Westcoast based, kinda bland. The NE JW was akin to Horace Silver and a gas. A Getz sideman.
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attorney for healthcare tosign me in there and there I remained for six months until I could scar
drooler in wheelchairs re a lawyer to spring me out.it wasn't easy. I had been dignosed with a mild form of dementia, BUT IN THt joint I learned what dementia was reLLY LIKE.droolers sin wheelechairs and guys ahouting obscenitiea.s As several members of the staff said t0 me, "Larry, why are you here?"
but with THt power oF thorny in force, I couldnt get out until it was finally revoked.
Sorry, my typing skills have yet to recovery.
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On 1/24/2024 at 10:28 AM, rostasi said:
Yes, I had to deal with caregiving concerns
for a mother-in-law for twelve years and agree
with a lot of what is being said here … and, yes,
it’s nice to kind of have Larry back, but it’s also
important to remember that we’re only getting
one side of the story here (somewhat) so I think
we should just stay low and welcome him back
and look forward to whatever music related
discussion he wants to become involved in
and pretty much keep it at that.To be more specific, my wife lied to get me in there. She told me thart her sister was having surgery in NYC (she wasn'O) and the she had to go there to take care od her (she didn't go). Then she SAID THT she couldn't leave met at home with ac
.......acarergiver, tookmeto amnassissred living joint without any discussion with me. used hgerpowwr of
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not ill but confined to an assisted care living facility from which I've now escaped to home after six months. I do have have a mild form of dementia (so it seems to me and others) but my wife used it as an excuse to put me in the slammer
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23 hours ago, Brad said:
Hope you’re getting better. Sounds like someone placed you in a facility against your will.
My wife. It is a long crazy misterioius story to which I may never know all the answers.
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I'm back after a six months unfairly enforced absence in an assisted care living facility. Maybe I'll tell you the whole story after enough time has passed, but it's a strange one.
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12 hours ago, JSngry said:
He plays very well on that Live at The House Of Tribes from a while back.
But...he got what he wanted, which was obviously not to be a serious contender as a serious long-game jazz trumpet player.
His "thematic" solo on "Green Chimneys" from that album is annoyingly mindless B.S. IMO.
1 hour ago, John L said:I have always really admired Wynton for not backing down from the challenge when some people were proclaiming him as a teenager to be the savior of jazz and the next coming of Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington. To his credit, Wynton worked very hard to give it his best with increasingly ambitious projects. In the end, I agree with what seems the majority opinion here - his lasting legacy will probably end up being a collection of fine trumpet solos made in a small group context.
He didn't back down from that "challenge,"; he embraced it and then produced pompous musical B.S.
His "ambitious" projects likewise.
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9 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:
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Yes, Chambers certainly was the victim in the case of Miles' autobiography. But I'd point the finger at "collaborator" Quincy Troupe. As you may know, Dan Morgenstern asked Miles what he thought of the autobiography now that it had been published, and Miles said, ":I don't know -- I haven't read it."
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That Pulitzer win was a put-up job (i.e. the fix was in). I have chapter and verse on that.
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Having met several bone-fried bopsters in my life, I love the term. As for it being a piece of deliberate Zieffian wordplay, all I can think of, if so, is that it would refer to someone who exists totally within the more or less cliched bop lifestyle. But I think we've exhausted the topic.
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12 hours ago, sgcim said:
Yeah Larry, you've said this about three times already, but this time you're correct (as opposed to the "bone-fried bopper- the guy's a linguist for God's sake).
Twardzik was the heavyweight pianist in Boston at that time, but his two attempts at playing outside of Boston, in Mexico City and Florida, were complete disasters.
It was two years after Chaloff returned to Boston that he became Bird's favorite pianist (at least in Boston) and they bonded over their love of heroin and Bartok. What Chambers either meant to say or did say was that Chaloff and Twardzik were on equal footing in the jazz community of Boston; definitely NOT outside of Boston. I'll look for the passage.
One criticism of Twardzik seems to be valid. Johnny Williams said that he didn't know how to comp in a rhythm section to make a band swing. You can hear the difference in the Chaloff album where Russ Freeman plays on half of the cuts, and Twardzik plays on the other half. The band is fine with Freeman, but it dies when Twardzik takes over. As Joe Dixon used to tell me, "Pianists are assassins; that's why I use guitarists."
So far it seems like Chambers was overly critical of Chaloff's behavior. Chaloff seemed to be a model citizen until he got hooked on heroin in the Georgie Auld band, and he just seemed to be using heroin to cope with the inhuman schedule of one night stands that he played with various bands.
Up to the Second Herd, he never missed a date, or even showed up late, and there's no mention of him even getting involved with any women. He was only 22, but was able to hang with musicians twice his age.
You need to be a linguist to tell the difference between "bona fide" and "bone fried"? Also, IIRC you seem to think that Bob Zieff actually used the phrase "bone fried bopper" in an interview, which seems highly unlikely. No, Zieff said "bona fide bopper" (the context makes that clear) and Chambers, or someone who was transcribing or transferring the Zieff interview for him typed "bone fried bopper", and no one caught it. It does it rank high on the list of. the funniest typos ever.
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Can't find my copy of the Twardzik book to nail this down but there was a passage early on about Chaloff and Dick that stated/implied that when Serge came back to Boston he and Dick were on equal footing in the jazz community. What nonsense. Serge was a poll-winning headliner and Dick was a talented novice who was jiust getting started.That Chambers could put the two men on the same plane meant to me that his overall grasp of the jazz world of that time was fairly dim and/or that he was so focused on Dick that his view dangerously distorted.
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1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:
Over 20 years ago I received a call from Dick Collins' grandson. I was still doing production work for Uptown and Charles "Baron" Mingus West Coast 1945-49 was a recent release. He was calling to inform me his grandfather was one of the unidentified trumpet players on the Rex Hollywood session. He said his grandfather often mentioned the date and was proud to have participated.
Nice memory.
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Returned for the fist time in a long while to trumpeter Dick Collins' album "King Richard the Swing Hearted" (RCA, 1954), with a a cutdown version of the Woody Herman band of the time, in which Collins was a featured soloist. A lovely lyrical player with an unusually mellow tone. Arranmgements by Nat Pierce and Al Cohn. There was a previous album, "Horn of Plenty," which I used to have. Collins became a music librarian. Both albums are packaged as one on Fresh Sound.
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A terrific Junior Cook Muse LP date, "Good Cookin'" from circa (40!) years ago that sounds fresh minted thanks in good part to RVG. The two-CD 32 Jazz reissue, coupling "Good Cookin'" with a with a similar date of the same vintage, "Senior Cookin'" is damn pricey ($59) but can be got used for much less.
Damn, Junior was so good. With Bill Hardman, Slide Hampton arrangements and trb., Albert Dailey, Walter Booker, Mariano Rivera, and Leroy Williams. Just pulled this off the shelf and wow.
Standards were high in those days. In the notes Hampton mentions his time with an edition of the Jazz Messengers with Hardman, Billy Harper, McCoy Tyner, Junie Booth and Blakey. "It was Very intense, heavy company to be in," Slide says, "Hardman and rest of the cats ran me ragged."
Best Live Boxed Set?
in Mosaic and other box sets...
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Best outburst of applause on a claasical album. At the end of Horenstein's live recording of the Mahler 7th (BBC).Sudden,fierce, spontaneous.