Harold_Z

It just started here. I think (thankfully) my gig is cancelled for tonight. I dig the gig but the driving in this stuff in awful.

Les Paul and Mary Ford ?

All in all I think this a very good flick and definitely worth seeing. Jamie Foxx is MORE than good and he deserves all the kudos that have come his way (and hopefully continue to come his way.) I agree with Jim that it's Hollywoodized to a certain extent, but heyyy...that's what Hollywood does. Usually movies about musicians tend to really annoy me and this one didn't. The thing to do is see this flick AND the O Genio DVD.

Marlowe Morris is also on some of the Jimmy Rushing Vanguards - playing Hammond Organ.

Hot 5s I have purchased since I went jazz mad (just a couple of years ago). The Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia lps) French CBS EMI late 80s Columbia (the worst - by far) JSP Recent Columbia (Sony) box There may have been something I've forgotten.

Come to think of it...I don't believe thare are any recordings of Pops and Pee Wee together - and that's too bad.

I've had this on vinyl since the 70s. Always liked it (and the companion lp where Monk plays standard such as Tea For Two and Just You, Just Me ). For me the track that always comes first to mind as "yeah - that's what happens when Monk plays Duke....." is It Don't Mean A Thing I like Monk's take on Ellington. It seems clear to me that Ellington had some influence on Monk's playing in general and hearing him do Duke's tunes is interesting and enjoyable for me.

I haven't listened to this in a long time - like Jim I listened to it a few times when I bought it wayyyyback upon it's original issue. Here's the deal with Eric - he was playing a telecaster on that date and he hated Telecasters. He was a Super 400 guy and an L5 guy - he DESPISED playing telecasters and only used them in the studios because it was the "in" guitar in the NYC studios at the time for the kind of dates he was doing and Eric felt he would lose dates if the producers didn't see a Telly. He would use the Telly for most dates and the Gibsons on dates where he was comfortable with the producer. He eventually felt established enough to use first an L5 and then a Super 400....and those are the axes that delivered the sound he wanted. He also started to charge double scale (again - to producers he felt he could) around that time. He felt if he worked half as much he'd make the same bread.

MAN !....That really sounds like the average New Jersey lounge band scene ! I can actually dig gigs like that on the rare occasions when everybody - all the musicians - are on the same page...i.e. appropriately hip and appropriately sardonic. Usually the guy fucking gigs like that up is the leader. Edit to add - ...And when they're bad but there's a couple of hip players - there are definitely big laughs - Sarcasm reigns supreme !

I believe Larry Lucie is still active.

Yeah...this thread STINKS !

hey man, don't be so negative. I was just trying to be observant.

This thread is fulla shit !!

I get it no matter which square I rest the cursor on. Somebody knows......

One google later... Allegheny Jazz Society, 283 Jefferson Street, Meadville, KPA 16335, Joe Boughton. Email: alljz@alltel.net

I think the label is now owned (or at least distributed) by a gentleman (can't remember his name) associated with the Alleghany Jazz Society in Pennsylvania. As Lon mentioned, the new 90s material is excellent. I'm thinking of 3 cds by Keith Ingham's New York Nine that are really good. Marty Grosz, Dan Barrett, Ken Peplowski, etc on board these.

Stride ? Just hunt up all the Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Willie The Lion and Dick Wellstood you can find. When all is said and done Fats is the stride cat for me and a couple of quintessential tracks are Carolina Shout and Handful Of Keys. These shouldn't be hard to find at all.

Funny thing this time - on the way to the gig (about 30 highway miles) people were really driving nuts - tailgating, cutting off, really aggresive. On the way home everybody was very cool.

Yeah...mine was pretty nice too. No hassles. I was thinking lst night that this was 40 years since my first NYE gig ! HOLY SHIT ! I think I worked 35 years straight without missing one. In the past couple of years it's been hit or miss.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL ! I just arrived home after my NYE gig - didn't have a drink all night not wanting to run the gauntlet on the ride home. I'm now sitting down with a nice shot of Jack Daniels and a tall glass of Ice water.....Ahhhh.

Condolences. Unquestionably one of the greats. Any interiviews with him I ever heard, whether on radio, tv, or in print - always impressed me, as did his musicicianship. Another of the greats gone.

What Marty said. Very sad news.

Great album. I've had it since the days of vinyl and it's stayed in rotation regularly. I dig the Jazz/R&B nexus and the R&B tunes being played and blown upon. Sidewinder mentions the Grasella Grass is Greener. It makes an interesting comparison in that there are a couple of the same tunes, but the proof is in the pudding....I play Good Thing a helluva lot more than Grass.

Very sad news. Condolences to all concerned.

Nice sideman appearance on Willis Jackson's "Bar Wars".