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Donation on the way ASAP.
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Herbie? (Hancock, not Nichols)
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Even better -- for Lady Q and overall -- is "For Basie." Shad Collins! And Walter Page! Was this Page's final recording? Could have been. Page passed on Dec. 20, 1957; "For Basie" was recorded on Oct. 18, 1957.
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That's what I was told.
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I'm told that Paul has left Organissimo over the clash that Jim mentions above.
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Lou Carter, one of the three Soft Winds (with Herb Ellis and Johnny Frigo) and composer of "If I Had a Nose Full of Nickels" https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=Zy7YXMf-CITmsAXjrrzgAQ&q=if+i+had+a+nose+full+of+nickels&oq=if+i+had+a+nose&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l2j0i22i30l8.1897.4949..11346...0.0..0.516.2370.7j7j0j1j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..35i39j0i131.1IFe2tKeiL0 and co-composer, with Ellis and Frigo, of "Detour Ahead"
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Chris Albertson, R.I.P.
Larry Kart replied to Stereojack's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Chris was a teenager in Nazi-occupied Denmark. -
Chris Albertson, R.I.P.
Larry Kart replied to Stereojack's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
To make a perhaps meaningless distinction, IIRC it was that Chris was very much pro-Palestinian, thought that the outcome of 1948 war (indeed, the whole Zionist enterprise going back to the Balfour Declaration and beyond) set in place one of the greatest moral-political injustices imaginable, that everything that flowed from it on the part of Israel (regardless of which regime was in power there) amounted to criminality, and that every act of retribution from the Palestinian side (car bombs, rockets, etc., the various post-1948 wars) was wholly justified. Again IIRC, he was fond of using the word Nazis to describe Israelis who engaged in acts of repression (or worse) against the Palestinians -- in part I think because Chris knew how readily that gets the goat of some, in part I would guess because he actually lived under Nazi rule in occupied Europe as an adolescent, which gave him a template he never abandoned or that perhaps never abandoned him. In any case, despite the Israelis = Nazis business and related name calling, Chris wasn't really anti-Semitic by my reckoning. -
Another good one from the same period: Clifford Jordan Quartet Clifford Jordan, tenor sax; Cedar Walton, piano; Sam Jones, bass; Billy Higgins, drums. Paris, France, March 26, 1975 John Coltrane Muse MR 5076 Highest Mountain - Blue Monk - Midnight Waltz - One For Amos - * Muse MR 5076 Clifford Jordan Quartet - Night Of The Mark VII = Muse MCD 5445 Clifford Jordan - Highest Mountain = 32 Jazz 32118 Clifford Jordan - Night Of The Mark VII
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What does someone who's knowledgable on the subject think of the Latin percussion on this piece (Jack Costanzo and members of the trumpet section)? Sound pretty authentic to me.
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The Max Roach Trio Featuring The Legendary Hasaan (LP)
Larry Kart replied to mjzee's topic in Re-issues
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As good as any Brit-based espionage fiction I know (and that includes LeCarre) is Mick Herron's series of Slough House novels: "Slow Horses," "Dead Lions," "Real Tigers," "Spook Street," and "London Rules." And there's another after that "Joe Country," which I have yet to see on a library shelf. Finished "Spook Street" last night -- superb. Grim when grimness is called for, with bouts of urgent action/tension and surprises, Herron's novels also can be acidly funny but without undercutting the grimness and tension -- quite a feat. From an interview with Herron: 1. Mr. Herron ... your new thriller, DEAD LIONS, comes out on May 7, 2013. Tell us a bit more about this book. It’s the second in a series, the first book being SLOW HORSES. The so-called slow horses are failed spies; spooks who’ve messed up important assignments and been banished from the centre of operations to Slough House, a building in a fairly seedy corner of London, where they’re given humdrum tasks meant to bore them into resigning. But – twice so far – they’ve found themselves at the centre of major events. In DEAD LIONS, this takes the form of the reappearance of a Soviet-era bogeyman; a Moscow Centre agent who never really existed, but who was dreamed up in order to get the Western intelligence services chasing their tails. When a former spy who once claimed to have encountered the mythical Alexander Popov in the flesh is found dead on a bus in Oxfordshire, it begins to seem as if Popov might not have been a legend after all. 2. Who is Jackson Lamb and how did you go about creating his character? Lamb, head spook at Slough House, is a former Cold War operative gone to seed. Unlike the others [in Slough House], he has no desire to return to where the action is – his experiences have left him with a jaundiced view of the way the intelligence services operate, and he prefers the lazy life: tormenting his underlings, drinking too much, and eating Chinese takeaways. He’s overweight, grubby, has appalling personal habits, and spends most of his life in a darkened room. Much of the time, his character is determined by my wondering, “What’s the worst possible thing anyone could say in this situation?”, and then having him say it. But I wouldn’t try putting anything over him. He’s quicker, and more cunning, than he looks.
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Glancing through Michael Sparke's "Stan Kenton, This Is an Orchestra!" (U. of North Texas Press), I noticed FWIW that the above mentioned concert, with the Kenton orchestra as the sole attraction, drew 15,000 and grossed $26,000 -- roughly $280,000 in today's dollars. Further, if those sums suggest that tickets for that concert were less than $2 each, tickets for a Hollywood Bowl concert in 2019, depending on the act, can range from $20 to $160 each. Thus the dollar equivalent in 2019 to the Kenton take in 1948 might need to be adjust upwards significantly.
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IIRC, the engagement that Clifford, Richie Powell et al. were driving to was at Chicago's Modern Jazz Room. I was all het up to go -- that required some planning because I was underage and an adult (probably my Dad) would have to accompany me -- but then came the news.
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My recently arrived reissue of "Vibrations" was coupled with Milt's "Statements," an Impulse quartet date from 1960 IIRC, with Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, and Connie Kay. Very good, and with some of the loosest and most inspired Jones I've ever heard -- inspired by Bags's presence I'd guess.
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What Classical Music Are You Listening To?
Larry Kart replied to StarThrower's topic in Classical Discussion
Got the whole Barbirolli set and like it a lot, but I wouldn't say it's the last word. Haven't listened to all of Berglund's set with the Helsinki orchestra, but so far it's a contender and as different from Barbirolli as chalk from cheese -- sharper edges, less romantic. -
The Max Roach Trio Featuring The Legendary Hasaan (LP)
Larry Kart replied to mjzee's topic in Re-issues
Then, of course, there's the legendary (unissued, then the tapes were lost in the Atlantic warehouse fire) Hasaan record with Max and Odeon Pope. I asked Max and Odeon about it in the 1980s, and they confirmed that it was made. -
Thanks for the tip. Missed it back when, ordered it now.
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https://www.amazon.com/Leos-Janacek-Kreutzer-Intimate-Kayahara/dp/B000005W15/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=janacek+quartet&qid=1556157412&s=music&sr=1-4 https://www.amazon.com/Janacek-String-Quartets-Nos-Leos/dp/B00005NU9S/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=janacek+quartet+skampa&qid=1556157854&s=music&sr=1-1-spell are the best I know.
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Roscoe Mitchell - Littlefield Concert Hall
Larry Kart replied to Chuck Nessa's topic in New Releases
They have to be orchestrations for at least two reasons -- the improvisations they were orchestrated from were the work of a piano/drums/reeds trio, not the album's largish ensembles; and if this album is at all similar to "Ride the Wind," the orchestral pieces are a good deal longer than the trio pieces from which they were orchestrated. How that orchestration process worked, I have no clue, although the results are stunning. -
Michael Brecker In Late-1960s Bloomington, Indiana
Larry Kart replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
And Mike's combo bandmate at Bloomington was Randy Sandke. Mike appears on Randy's excellent first album. https://www.amazon.com/Randy-Sandke-New-York-Stories/dp/B00XPX7R8M/ref=sr_1_43?keywords=randy+sandke&qid=1556059018&s=music&sr=1-43 -
Return Of The Film Corner Thread
Larry Kart replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Don't miss Powell and Pressburger's magical "I Know Where I'm Going" (1945), with Wendy Hiller. -
Roscoe Mitchell - Littlefield Concert Hall
Larry Kart replied to Chuck Nessa's topic in New Releases
I'll go for the Littlefield. -
Return Of The Film Corner Thread
Larry Kart replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
LOVE that movie. Was fortunate enough to see it in the age of innocence, before I knew that movies were "art." It plucked my little heartstrings and still does every time. -
Roscoe Mitchell - Littlefield Concert Hall
Larry Kart replied to Chuck Nessa's topic in New Releases
I was stunned and delighted by "Ride the Wind" but found "Discussions"(with Mills College personnel by and large) to be worthwhile but somewhat less successful; I assumed that was because most of the orchestrations on "Ride the Wind" were done by Roscoe while all the the orchestrations on "Discussions" were done by others. Who did the orchestrations for the Littlefield Concert Hall album?