ReminiscingInTempo

Fabio, ti rispondo in italiano! Tempo fa caricai si YouTube una registrazione di un concerto di Ellington a Milano nel 1966 in cui Skeets Marsh suonava in tandem con Elvin Jones... Pochi giorni fa, un canale quasi sicuramente di un italiano, ha caricato parecchi video di jazz, tra cui il filmato dello stesso concerto: Posso aggiungere inoltre queste preziose informazioni: Elvin Jones toured in Europe as Duke's drummer in January 1966. Louie Bellson couldn't make the tour as he was booked for concerts with his wife, singer Pearl Bailey. Duke hired Skeets Marsh for the tour, but as he wasn't pleased with his drumming he asked Elvin to assist him. Needless to say, some elder members of the orchestra didn't enjoy this very much. And Elvin disliked to have to play with another drummer, Skeets Marsh. During the tour, he decided to stay in Paris and Sam Woodyard flew to Europe to continue the tour.

Hi to all! I'm new on this forum! This CD arrived on my mailbox just this morning. I'm disappointed in lack of complete credits and session info, too. One would think that it wouldn't be too hard to tell the difference between Paul Gonsalves and Harold Ashby! Then I read this sentence on liner notes: “Alerado” is a straightforward swing number, it features Wild Bill Davis on the organ, and, most notably, Cat Anderson on the trumpet, who provide a foundation for striking concepts of sonority and solo performance. I'm pretty sure that the soloist is NOT Cat Anderson and that's not a trumpet. Most probably the soloist is Fred Stone at the flugelhorn.