Larry Kart

I've always thought that Burke was to some degree inspired by Oscar Pettiford.

Good music for the overall mood/situation: Mahler 9, Giulini CSO

Nick and Jack are really locked in, plus some really top notch Kenny Barron Also the Cedille label recording of Elliott Carter's Sonata for Flute, Harpsichord, and Cello

No, but I sure do miss Ira. What a great guy to spend time with, wonderful sense of humor. Hey, he named his son Fitz. Gave my book a delightfully sincere blurb: "Larry Kart writes about jazz with a focus and clarity that makes me want to read on even when I disagree with him."

My doctor called Apple Support and the problem, which seems to have been at his end (I don't know any details yet), seems to have been solved. He called to check in with me, smoking a big cigar and looking a great deal like Ira Gitler.

I have a doctor whom I see regularly who is no longer, because of COVID, seeing patients in person but only via Facetime. That ap was new to me, but I cranked it up and discovered that, though we both have IMacs, my doc couldn't hook up with me via Facetime nor could I with him. Meanwhile he was able to hook up with all his other patients via Facetime just fine. And I could hook up with my wife via Facetime and she with me. I talked to Apple support about this for hours yesterday and today. At first we thought we had an answer; my Facetime notification was turned off, even though I'd never used Facetime before. But when it was turned back on, same problems as before; my doc couldn't reach me via Facetime nor I him; my wife could reach me via Facetime and I could reach her. Anyone have any thoughts of what's amiss here and how to solve it? P.S. I'm running High Sierra 10.13.6 on a 2010 IMac.

Just to be super-safe in these difficult, dangerous times, Dan, I'm removing your post. All it takes is one too swift reading by a momentarily careless person.

As others have remarked elsewhere, the images often didn't match up with the music being heard or talked about (e.g. "Kind of Blue" heard with a still of Miles and Bobby Jaspar or the sound of muted Miles being paired with an image him playing open horn). This speaks of a certain carelessness; no reason such things couldn't have been gotten right if someone was paying sufficient attention. Also, there's the upfront statement that the words actor Carl Lumbley is speaking are Miles.' Yes, they're from Miles autobiography, but as has been known to many for some time (chapter and verse on this is in Masaya Yamaguchi's authoritative recent book on Miles, "Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis & His Circle," available on Kindle) Miles' collaborator Quincy Troupe fiddled a good deal with what Miles actually said in his interviews with Troupe. Also the relatively unversed people that Troupe hired to transcribe the interviews made many errors in transcription that were not corrected in the text Troupe worked from or in the book itself (the interview tapes are available at the Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, and Yamaguchi went over those tapes very carefully). Nonetheless, it's an entertaining valuable film IMO.

Several years ago I heard a very good live performance with then Chicagoan James Falzone on clarinet. http://allosmusica.org/calendar/2013/9/21/olivier-messiaens-quartet-for-the-end-of-time

The right collection of NY studio cats of that era on the right day could really do it. Esprit de corps.

Many good things on this 14-CD set of broadcasts -- most often well-recorded but sadly Giulini's concert performance of "Falstaff" is not. Listened last night to Theo Bruins' superb performance of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto (by far the best I know -- Bruins, a worthy composer himself, really feels the work; it's very well conducted by one Gustav Konig). Among the other conductors present are Monteux (Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Ravel), Rosbaud (Schubert, Berg, Dallapiccola), Boulez (Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, Nono), and Maderna (Schubert, Mendelssohn, Varese, Berg, Webern, Lutoslawski).

Anyone have a recording of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time they particularly favor? I have the common No. 1 choice, Tashi (in its remastered form) but I don't particularly like it, in part because Richard Stoltzman's clarinet playing gives me the creeps -- also, even re-mastered, the recording lacks clarity at times. I much prefer the other QFEOT I have, the New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble from 1972, the first American recording of the work. Originally on Candide, I have it on a 2-CD Vox Box, ""Music for Winds."

My stepson's school, Denison University in Granville, Ohio, has extended spring break from March 16 to April 3 ("at the least") and may opt for "remote learning" for the rest of the semester. My wife is driving out there Friday to pick him up; earlier he'd paid for a plane ticket ( non-refundable) from Columbus to Chicago, but we'll eat that.

Love her accent.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/03/10/coronavirus-iowa-grinnell-college-asks-students-leave-campus/5012500002/ All in-person classes at Grinnell cancelled for rest of year. Students told to go home.

Lots on the list look good to me, but I can particularly recommend these because I own them: 101 David Allyn - Dont Look Back . with Barry Harris 103 Sam Noto - Entrance. with Barry harris 118 Jimmy Heath - Picture of Heath. with barry harris 127 Sam Noto - Act One with Barry Harris and Joe Romano 132 Jimmy Raney - Live in Tokyo, with Sam Jones and leroy Williams 138 Al Cohn's America - with Barry harris and Sam Jones 143 Mickey Tucker - Sojourn . with Ronnie Cuber, Junior Cook and Bill Hardman (not to be missed) 144 Sam Noto - Notes to You 168 Sam Noto- Noto Riety 177 Barry Harris - Tokyo 1976 with Jimmy Raney 179 Al Cohn - No problem with barry harris

On Saturday at a library sale I bought -- guilty as charged -- one of those Real Gone Jazz boxes, "Ray Brown Seven Classic Albums" for $4. Other than Rollins' "Way Out West" all of the compilation was fairly new to me, and most of it was at least OK -- "This Is Ray Brown," "Bass Hit," "Jazz Cello." Even better and no doubt familiar to many here was the first "Poll Winners" album, with Kessel and Manne, but the real surprise for me was "Ray Brown with the All-Star Big Band" from 1962. Cannonball, in terrific form, is the featured soloist, Nat and Lateef, are in fine form too, but what struck me the most was the remarkable zest and precision with which the whole band played these good charts by Al Cohn and Ernie Wilkins. Quite a lineup -- reeds: Budd Johnson, Cannonball, Lateef, Seldon Powell, Earle Warren, Jerome Richardson; trumpets: Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman, Nat; trbs: Britt Woodman, Jimmy Cleveland, Paul Faulise, Melba Liston; Tommy Flanagan, Osie Johnson, and Sam Jones on the tracks where Ray switches to cello. Only NYC-based studio band from this era I know that hits like this one does is the one on Bill Potts' "Porgy and Bess" album. By contrast the final album of the compilation, from the same year and with many of the same people, is absolutely leaden: "Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band with Oscar Peterson." Go figure.

That moderator was me, but I'm innocent this time.

My prayers too.

9:00PM at Constellation, 3111 N Western ($15-$12) Friends & Neighbors : Thomas Johansson, André Roligheten, Oscar Grönberg, Jon Rune Strøm, Tollef Østvang, special guests special guests Josh Berman, Nick Mazzarella

Ran across the 1986 Denon album at Half-Price today. Sidemen looked promising: Joe Henderson, Dave Kikoski. Ron Carter, Al Foster. All Brecker originals in the so-called postbop mode, and he is in good form. This is some of the best Henderson I've ever heard -- relaxed and very adventurous/inventive/quite spikey at times. Kikoski is an asset as a comper (he really stimulates Joe) and soloist, and Carter and Foster are in very good form -- sounds like a real band. Fine James Farber recording. Sometimes you get lucky.

Re-watching the excellent 2011 movie "Margin Call," which in compressed form more or less told the tale of the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers and the resulting dawn of the 2008 Wall St./housing crisis, I was struck anew by the three-part mantra for success under stress that was offered by Jeremy Irons, playing the head of the beleaguered brokerage firm: 1) Be first; 2) Be smarter; 3) Cheat. What Irons and his minions finally decide to do I won't reveal, in case you haven't seen the movie. It's a corker. P.S. Sad to see in a way because Kevin Spacey is so good in this, and when will we ever see him again? Also top notch is Paul Bettany, whose name my wife tells me is pronounced "Bet-TAN-yee." Also, Demi Moore of all people is chillingly good here.

Jim -- Do you know Freedman's composition "On the Other World" (a feature for Charlie Mariano) and his arrangement of it. It's on a Herb Pomeroy Band 1958 album on United Artists, "Band in Boston," which was reissued on Fresh Sound in 2010, coupled with the Pomeroy Band's "Life is a Many Splendored Gig"? It's quite something. That coda!

I began back in the day with the 10" that had "Shuffle Montgomery" and was hooked.