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...probably doing everything with it he can!

..and one more.

Here's a shot of Mel that I made a couple hours ago... m~

I've seen him perform with both Terence and Herbie.....liked him a lot with Terence....not so much with Herbie...not because of his playing...more the setting I guess. Spoke to him for a few minutes after the Terence show a few years ago....friendly guy. Have not heard the new cd. m

New Bobby Broom Live CD...out on 4/22.... "The Way I Play (Live in Chicago)," Set for April 22 Release on Origin Label, Is First Live CD from Guitarist Bobby Broom & His Working Trio CD Features Dennis Carroll, Bass, & Kobie Watkins, Drums March 25, 2008 As a major jazz guitarist, Bobby Broom has for many years been hiding in plain sight. Following his Carnegie Hall debut at age 16 with Sonny Rollins, and his first album as a leader at 20, Broom recorded and toured steadily as a valued sideman with artists such as Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Dr. John, Charles Earland, and Rollins (whom he rejoined in 2005). Since the mid-1990s, however, Broom has been focusing much more on his own music, recording a series of critically acclaimed CDs for Criss Cross, Delmark, Premonition, and Origin. His new Origin disc, The Way I Play (Live in Chicago), which will be released April 22, captures Broom and his working trio live at their longtime weekly gig, which the Chicago Tribune calls "one of the best ongoing engagements" in the Chicago area. "It's flat-out, crazy blowing," says the guitarist of the results. "And it really is a record of how I approach my instrument, of what's important to me musically, of where I stand in the jazz order of things." The Harlem native, now 47, has been exploring the trio format to rewarding effect not only in his last two CDs, but every Wednesday night for the last ten years at Pete Miller's Steakhouse in Evanston -- the place Broom describes as his "laboratory." On The Way I Play, he delves into a program of jazz standards and American songbook classics -- by Charlie Parker, Richard Rodgers, Sonny Rollins, the Gershwins, McCoy Tyner -- with trio-mates Dennis Carroll, on bass, and drummer Kobie Watkins (below). "We play these kinds of things every week," Broom says of the tunes, "and I have for my whole life as a jazz guitar player. Now I have both an individual and a group identity to use as a means to approach this music -- and all of the music that we play." Live in Chicago (& Everywhere) Bobby Broom, Chicago-based since 1984, has another long-standing trio affiliation in the Deep Blue Organ Trio, which one reviewer has deemed "Hammond B3-guitar-drums jazz of the highest order." Together with organist Chris Foreman and drummer Greg Rockingham, Broom and Deep Blue have to date recorded three albums (and one DVD). Earlier this year, their 2007 Origin disc, Folk Music, received a Chicago Music Award as Best Jazz CD. It also burned up the Jazzweek airplay charts, holding at the #2 position for four consecutive weeks (and remaining in the Top 5 for two straight months). Broom's own Song and Dance CD (Origin) ranked among Jazzweek's Top 50 airplay records for 2007. Still a member of Sonny Rollins's band, Broom will be traveling with Rollins this year to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, and Brazil, as well as making U.S. dates in California, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island, and close to home in Chicago. He's also featured in Rollins's forthcoming Doxy DVD Live in Vienne, recorded in concert at a French festival in 2006. But Bobby's solo career has never looked or sounded better. His appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz will air in conjunction with the release of The Way I Play (feed date April 22). He's the May cover story for Just Jazz Guitar magazine. And he'll be part of a Jazz at Lincoln Center event celebrating the legacy of Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. The Rose Theater concerts on May 2 and 3 will feature Broom alongside Jim Hall, Russell Malone, and Bireli Lagrene, with Lewis Nash driving the rhythm section. "Guitar gets ignored all too often in the jazz pantheon," says Broom. "Perhaps it was the last instrument to lead the jazz band historically, but it has not been without its share of innovative players who have contributed to the art improvisationally, compositionally, and in terms of being influential figures at the forefront of the music's progression. Hopefully, when I play I can speak from the point of view of a beneficiary of the great jazz and jazz guitar work that has come before me."

Mel's a great guy...I see him at least once a week. I did a zillion photos during the recording of the cd....lots of fun. I've know all the guys in the band for years. The video was shot at the Jazz Kitchen. I'll see him tomorrow evening....I'll let him know he still has some fans out there....I'm sure he'll just say "cool"! m~

Man, those were the days.....over the last few weeks of it's existance...toxic sludge coming down the walls . I really loved the old place but glad the new Velvet is in place and doing well! As someone said to me about the new location....it's nice, they just need to rub a litte dirt on it! m~

...and one other. m~

...one of the last photos I took of Fred at the "old" Velvet before the demolition! ..........playing with Hamid and Harrison. m

Here is one of Terence that I made this past Friday night. m~

That is a Shamisen. http://www.itchu.com/e/e_shamisen_sound.html I often play this until I fall asleep! m~

Joe Bourne is a jazz radio guy in Bloomington with Ghost of Miles....not sure if they are related? m

...not yet.

Just got an email that Chicago's Hot House is going to re-open in the near future......great news....I was sad when it closed! m~

For a second I thought you were backing out! I left you a voice mail last night...check your cell phone!!!

Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary show in Indy on Thursday night.....SF Jazz Collective in Chicago on Friday night and then on to the Velvet Lounge afterwards.

Hope you had a good one!!!

i'm definitely a fan of this band, especially from the early '70s. in fact, i missed a performance the other night at a local L.A. club where the latest incarnation of this group played. Who's in the latest incarnation of the group? Lanny Morgan still there? I saw them this past October...Lanny is still there and of course....Med Flory. Here is a shot of Med from that show....nice guy...and funny! m~

http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/...m?article=11371

His gravesite head stone here in Indy says 1923. m~

...photo from that show. m~

http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/b...sp?book_id=4104 Playing the Changes Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, Holly Maxson Foreword by Clint Eastwood $75.00 January 2008 isbn: 978-0-8265-1574-2 binding: Cloth w/ CD illustrations: 260 pages: 384 dimensions: 11 x 9.5 Legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) tells his compelling life story and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs, exquisitely reproduced in this collectors' edition. Hinton's stories--witnessing a lynching as a child in Mississippi, working for Al Capone, breaking the color line in the recording studio--are equal to his celebrated photographs: capturing life on the road with Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday at her last recording date, and personal and professional views of icons such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Barbra Streisand. Playing the Changes draws from Hinton and Berger's earlier Bass Line, but differs significantly from that 1988 classic. Milt's narrative takes up where the earlier story left off, and more than 140 new photographs augment 115 of his best-known images. It also boasts a CD of Milt telling stories and performing music, as well as a discography and filmography. Photographs from Playing the Changes Herb Fleming and Sonny Greer, Beefsteak Charlie’s, New York City, 1954 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, and Ella Fitzgerald, rehearsal, television studio, Pasadena, 1979 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Sam Cooke and Ernie Wilkins, recording studio, New York City, 1960 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Thelonious Monk, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and Count Basie, rehearsal, television studio, “Sound of Jazz” rehearsal, New York City, 1957 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Kenny Davern, Ricky Ford, and Dick Hyman, Sarasota, Florida, 1986 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Milt Hinton, Chicago, c. 1930 Unknown photographer, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Author Bio In 1955, when he was fourteen, David G. Berger asked Milt Hinton for bass lessons--thus beginning a friendship and professional partnership that would last more than forty years. Berger, though, did not follow in his friend's footsteps to become a professional musician; instead he completed a doctorate in sociology and taught at Temple University for thirty years. In 1979, Holly Maxson began organizing Milt's photographs for the first book. Maxson and Berger co-direct the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, and in 2002 they completed their award-winning documentary about Milt's life, Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton. (Photo c The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection) Reviews “Playing the Changes is a permanent vividly multi-dimensional contribution to jazz history by “The Judge” Milt Hinton - a singular creator of that history.” --Nat Hentoff, January 2007 “The bass is always the foundation of a jazz group and for fifteen years Milt Hinton provided that for Cab Calloway's band and later for many legendary musicians of the 20th Century. Playing the Changes reveals the foundations of both music and American life. It's essential reading for anyone who really wants to be hip.” --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, January 2007 “Milt Hinton's story is a fascinating journey told by a person who lived and worked in jazz for more than seventy years. Regardless of where he was - backstage, on the road, or in the studio - he captured in his photographs unguarded moments from the world he knew so well.” --Helen Levitt, January 2007 “When I look at Milt Hinton's great photographs in Playing the Changes, it is like viewing a grand retrospective of the musicians I have known all my life. His fascinating stories add special meaning to these extraordinary photographs. The book confirms why Milt was everybody's favorite and one of the finest gentlemen and musicians I have ever known.” --Dave Brubeck, January 2007

...I didn't post it but would have no idea that is where the image came from? How did you know? I'm sure JS meant no harm! m~ I didn't even know until they said something. You can look at the image properties and see the url. Win XP users right click on the image and select properties. I'm sure this is the case but knowing JS as I do, he didn't go to a "distasters in ny" website to use this photo....it's a thread about horrible concerts we've seen. I don't thing the average user is digging through the properties to see the origin of the photo. I don't need to defend JS; he's a big boy.... but as I said, I know he didn't mean anthing by it and most likley no one would have known or questioned the origin of it until now. m

...I didn't post it but would have no idea that is where the image came from? How did you know? I'm sure JS meant no harm! m~

I used to shoot for a rock promoter so I saw lots of R&R. Saw Triumph as well....thought they were kinda good back in the day . m~