Larry Kart

Al Francis!

I must be wrong about Ventura, but I thought I saw a moustache. I was going by that more than any aural evidence. Eddie Shu? As for Prez-like figures, Flip had his share, and, as Allen says, the time, the overall assertiveness, the compactness of tone, etc. say Flip to me. Clearly the relation between what we see and hear on this clip is very random.

I know you were asking about those arrangers, but FWIW here's a Donahue bio: http://www.hepjazz.com/bios/samdon.html The Hep Donahue collections are definitely worth hearing. Some felt that Donahue's remolded version of the Shaw Orchestra was the best of the service bands.

This is not an area where I have previous experience as a moderator, but my instincts are that if you bought it from Mosaic at a reduced price, there you are. I'll ask for guidance.

I'm pretty sure that, despite the images, all the tenor saxophone work on the YouTube clip is by Flip Phillips (except for the brief bit of Charlie Ventura with Krupa).

Just to be clear, my "walking STD" remarks were not a reference to Spalding but to what I said (JSngry has a good memory) a few weeks ago about a red-haired TV actress (don't recall her name) whose photo Bright Moments placed at the bottom of his posts at that time.

YMMV, but I'd say not better -- provided (in the case of that particular walking STD) you're forewarned, take precautions, and disguise your identity (to me, she looked potentially vengeful/dangerous if crossed).

She looks like one of the Jackson 5 in a dress.

Listened to a few samples, and based on my memories of many other Tatum recordings, especially the well-recorded late solo Granz albums and the fantastic stuff recorded at a party at Ray Heindorf's house, the note-to-note relationships sound "off" in terms of time and attack -- too raw, abrupt, and clattery, lacking in shading/nuance.

Done. Thanks for the nudges.

"Beautiful Love" on "In the Red" by the D.S.M. Big Band (D.S.M. refers to Des Moines, Iowa -- who knew that a city of that size and locale could have a band this good?) Dick Oatts is the featured guest soloist, his brother trumpeter Jim Oatts (seemingly the band's de facto leader) is one heck of a scary-impressive player. So far (two tracks in), I'm also very impressed by tenorman Wayne Page. In any case, kudos to Free For All and the D.S.M. people. Again, who knew?

BTW, I was just listening to that bootleg DVD (shame on me) of two 1967 concerts (Stockholm and Karlsruhe) from Miles' European tour. Herbie sounds terrific on the Karlsruhe tracks, in part because he's playing a fabulous-sounding piano (a Bechstein).

Great minds can predict the future.

Great minds think alike. In a two-star review in the Oct. 17, 1968 issue of Down Beat, I wrote among other things that "Hancock's 'bluesy' playing on First Trip sounds like updated Billy Taylor. On the two ballad-like pieces, Speak like a Child and Goodbye to Childhood ... the playing anticipates the Muzak of the 1970s."

That's not what Doug Ramsey's authoritative Desmond biography "Take Five" says. Desmond did for a while believe that was Jewish on his father's side of his family, but he was wrong. The Brubeck Quartet IIRC did have to play without Desmond on a tour that took them to Saudi Arabia because it was thought that Desmond was Jewish, but Desmond's father, Emil Breitenfeld was of German ancestry.

Fine work -- lots of heart, no b.s.

"Barney Miller" theme bassist was Chuck Berghofer. Story is that what was written wasn't coming off, and Berghofer said, "Let me try something" and supplied that introductory lick, which made the theme and for which Berghofer got thanks but no further coin. P.S. Some sources credit Jim Hughart, not Berghofer, but I know that Berghofer claimed to have done it as described above, and I have no reason to disbelieve him.

Some impressive videos on Asherie's website: http://www.ehudasherie.com/

Pianist Ehud Asherie, born in Israel, long resident in NYC: http://www.posi-tone.com/ehud.html Chicago-area cornetist Josh Berman Both are something else.

10:00 PM at Elastic, 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl, 773.772.3616 Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens, with Aram Shelton, Josh Berman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly

Etudes Tableux, Ovchinikov: http://www.amazon.com/Etudes-Tableaux-Rach...6769&sr=1-3 There also this one from him on Olympia, but I suspect they're different performances (the first is from EMI): http://www.amazon.com/Rachmaninov-Etudes-t...6949&sr=1-1

"He plans on retiring to Canada," pursued by angry music-lovers.

Funny, he don't look Jewish. Not everyone named Goldberg is. Likewise, not everyone named Cohn (e.g. trumpeter Sonny Cohn).

Scroll down here and you'll see an image of Ann-Margret doing her "Heat Wave" number: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DG

Please define "immensely decorative", and feel free to linger over each detail. Ann-Margret, in a skin-tight, slit-up-one-side red dress (a la Rita Hayworth), sang a breathy, wiggly "Heat Wave" in the school's annual variety show, "Lagniappe," in her senior year. The administration tried to bar subsequent performances, but the school's prestigous veteran theater guru, Dr. William Peterman, refused to go along, insisting that the number's immense sexiness was also knowingly parodistic (specifically of Hayworth doing "Put the Blame on Mame" in Gilda"). He was right and prevailed, much to the delight of many fathers in the next two nights' audiences. I've never seen a teenaged girl who looked more grown up than she did.