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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~

The Herbie Hancock show at Symphony Center in Chicago this past August. Absolutely the worst show I have ever attended...including local/unknown players and any rock show I may have attended in my youth........Horrible with a capital "H". Pretentious banter, mugging for the audience, name dropping all the pop stars he's played with and a bad performance on top of it. I have walked out of one show in my life and this is it.....many had left before me and I left after maybe three tunes. Got the play by play from others that stayed longer than I and the results were the same. m~

I ate at Rossi's last month...it was pretty good. There was some dude playing solo guitar...didn't catch his name. I will there with a group of 25 people. That said, I did pop in to see Roy Hargrove at the Dakota....very good shows. m

When I saw him with Tyner last year, his ride cymbal was hanging vertically. His bass drum pedal got busted, but he kept playing as a techie was fiddling about underneath him. They are just about vertical in my shots above.... I thought he did a great job on this particular show. m

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I wish you hadn't resigned as moderator, JS. Any chance you will reconsider that one? Hell, I didn't even know he was a moderator....oops!

Damn, sorry to hear about this! It appears several on the board have gone through similar situations so you'll probably get some good advice. Oregon sounds like a nice place to re-locate to...plus there are a few board members in the area you could meet in the flesh.......well. maybe not in the flesh . Hang in there dude... these things usually happen for a reason and work out for the best. m~

He's not up to much....he passed away in 1988. m~

He looks like a very happy man there, Mark. Thanks for posting those photos. MG I certainly have different thoughts now after Tom's post...what a crazy story! m

No problem...lucky to be in the vacinity of a few major cities. Wish I were closer to nyc but then I would be further away from the other cities I shoot in...oh well, can't have it all!

...now that's some wild stuff!!!

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Very good player....thanks for posting. Here are a couple shots I made of him this summer...playing with Tyner. m~

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Here are a couple shots from the Mel Rhyne show tonight. Mel had a nasty cold that looked like it was kicking his ass but he played though it! m`

Mel Rhyne!