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I think it's wonderful that he hooked up (musically) with Marilyn Crispell. That's a testament!

The drummer was Charlie Smith: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smith_(drummer) The bassist was Sandy Block: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Block Neither were remotely "famous", but they were both highly capable pros who did get gigs when there were plenty of gigs for anybody who could play. Otoh, Dick Hyman released this record in 1969: That's 1969.

Dick Hyman plays a mean calliope!

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Yeah, I went out and grabbed that Mariano CD. Thanks for shining the light on that one!

#8 is Joe Harriot, I have it on Jazzland, but I know that's not the original British source.

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Back home, (mostly) unpacked, and here's what we saw/heard: FRIDAY NIGHT There was a severe thunderstorm watch in the area, and there had in fact been severe storms over the last nights, so out of an abundance of caution, the decision was made to cancel the outdoor performances and move them indoors to the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University, which houses a main hall designed specifically for jazz performance and a club-style venue.created by an endowment by the late Gretchen C. Valade of both Carhartt (I am a loyal customer of their suspenders) and Mack Avenue Records (I have bought some of their CDs). This new facility can accommodate livestreaming technology, and that is what Opening Night ended up being - a livestream. There was a delay getting started but once up, it ran quite well. Two sets: TRANSLINEAR LIGHT – The Music of Alice Coltrane featuring Ravi Coltrane with special guests Brandee Younger, Reggie Workman, and the Detroit Jazz Festival Chamber Orchestra A very nice show, very effective arrangements by Ravi, Brandy Younger was for real, and oh my, Reggie Workman, a realty blessing that he's still out there doing it full strength. He walks with a cane, but he plays full strength standing. Apparently this is going to be a touring presentation, so if it comes your way, carpe diem. 2024 Artist-In-Residence Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band I was a little disappointed in this, only because literally every piece sounded the same, down to certain harmonic movements. But otherwise, it was an excellent band, and it a pleasure to pick up again on altoist Myron Walden, who I liked from the beginning but was one of many players I just lost track of. He played beautifully, both technically, emotionally, and creatively. Same for Brain Blade. Too bad the material was so....redundant. Excellent, but redundant. But oh well.... And btw, there were no storms at all. But that's ok. SATURDAY Wendell Harrison and Tribe "Tribe" is what he calls his bands these days, so if this group doesn't resemble the now-classic records of last century, BFS. Wendell Harrison in now 81 and is still playing and presenting strong community music with a strong local band. Stuff like this is to be treasured. The repertoire was varied, something for every taste, but all of it played with power and positivity, and a guitar/bass/drum/percussion trio that drove it all in a way that remind be of the Cranshaw/Lee/Mtume trio that baked Sonny back then. We left full of good vibes and went to buy festival merch. A possible connection? LOL!!! Harmolodics This was a local trio of electronic trumpet, electric bass, and drumms. The were excellent, individually and collectively, but didn't have one damn thing to do with Harmolodics. More like a trip version of Eddie Henderson's Capricorn sides, maybe? Not at all what I was expecting, but not at all bad on its own terms. But I'm kinda like, if you put a ketchup label on a bottle of mustard. that don't make it yellow ketchup. Right? Especially if you got good mustard. The Bad Plus Now (since 2021, actually) with Chris Speed and Ben Monder and without Ethan Iverson. A damn good band, if a bit on the emo side (I don't think Monder looked up once during or between songs!!!) Speed plays the fweedle-deedle-altissimo style tenor that is all the rage these last few decades, but it fits the material and it fits the music. Monder was physically moribund but musically burning. This guy can play (DUH!). Not the type of thing I would pay big concert dollars to see (necessarily) but a free 75-minute festival set? Hell Yeah, no question! Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet Perhaps the biggest surprise of the festival. this and the next one we went to as "becuaswe they're there" type placeholders in the day, but - Thompson played VERY energetically and percussivley,. Very little of the glibness I had feared, and a LOT of left hand that was equal parts Horace Silver and McCoy Tyner. The originals were Silver-like without being imitative, and the few covers boyj were ballads and kept short. Tenor Player Julian Lee had never impressed me before, but here, he was looking through a Joe Henderson lens, not so much in terms of imitating, but moreso in terms of speaking straight, direct, and to the point. Know what you have come to say and then say it, no fweedle-deedle-altissimo, just say your piece and leave nothing to guesswork. I really enjoyed this set! Mimi Fox Organ Trio So ok, I'm not tuned-in to the current way of life for pretty much anything and I had never heard of Mimi Fox. Apparently she's been around a long time and is pretty well known. Her set was very professional in every regard and made for pleasant ambient bebop as the sun went down. I enjoyed that. Christian McBride & Inside Straight Planned on catching this in person, but last minute surprises mandated a return home. Fortunately the livestream was all the way on and we checked it out all the way home on the phone (audio and video). The name of the group says it all - inside and straight. The band didn't use that as an excuse for cliche though, and dug in in an inside and straight pocket, nop coasting, no bullshit. Stellar was Warren Wolf, somebody I lese I knew about a while back but then lost interest in. He's continued to deepen is his chosen idiom, and he was the star sooist here, although Jaleel Shaw & Carl Allen both kept it up and kept it real. Another excellent festival-type set. SUNDAY James “Blood” Ulmer Music Revelation Ensemble Calvin Weston & Amin Ali, with Blood mostly singing blues and playing Harmolodic guitar, you know what to expect and you got it, but good lord....pretty much everything else here this weekend you could do by just working hard or harder or hardest, but the only way to get to Blood Ulmer is by being Blood Ulmer. Stuff like this is becoming increasing rare as our collective mind becomes increasingly digital, so savor it while it's here. I know I sure did, and to my great surprise, my wife dug it. "Blues is my favorite" she always says, and she said it here. So hey hey hey! Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) Killer band, killer set and killer between songs patter by Chief. He's totally upfornt about his need to "reevaluate" pretty much everything about his music, and the music was uncompromisingly Afrocentric, electric, and most importanly, grooving like a motherfucker. This was another band that had a guitar/bass/drums/percussion core that was the epitome of "rock solid". Inspite of the "reevaluated" concept, the repertoire was varied in tempo, groove, and texture. Interesting enough, the only variant was a surprise(?) sitting in by Chief's old drummer of 11 years, for which the call was "The Eye Of The Hurricane" and almost immediately the whole vibe transferred back to WyntonEraYoungLionsing - the energy dropped and respectfully sitting there became the order of the day. And then it was over and we were back to today (or this version of it). My daughter dug the set so much that she is streaming it on Spotify and is buying the CD her next payday. I say that Chief is doing all kind of things right, and if the occasional EWI(?) solos took on an aura of 70s fusion synth, I'll also say that at some point, that will be reevaluated as well. This dude ain't going back! Joshua Redman Group ft. Gabrielle Cavassa ‘where are we’ tour I had oped to do a quick-change between venues to catch THREE VISITORS featuring Edward Simon, Scott Colley, Brian Blade and special guest Becca Stevens and The Detroit Jazz Festival String Octet but my knees/legs were acting gimpy and crowds were pretty busy, so we decided to stay put in the one venue all night, figuring that, ok, Joshua Redman's a good player and I like singers, so it should be ok. Well, see above....I will say that Gabrielle Cavassa is certainly an intiguing vocalist of very high skill. I would like for Ran Blake to get hold of her (musically) and see what happens there. She sounds like a high-potential talent, but to "the industry", that won't likely mean what I think it does. Despite my misgivings, it was a good (enough) set, but by it's end I was cursing the accomodation to my mobility that I thought I needed to make. Fortunately, redemtion was soon to come... Ghost-Note - Ok, this will not be for everybody's taste, but I spent more than a few years (and had more than a few life-shaping experiences) playing this type of music, so I felt a deep personal resonance with the whole thing. The band has a slight pedigree from Snarky Puppy (who I dislike with fervor) but the opening musical premise seems to be Prince's Sign O' The Times concert (one of the baddest concert films ever, imo) and then do the whole "deconstruct/reconstruct thing - all the while keeping i funky like a motherfucker. This shit was both smart and real, for the mind, the feet, and that most important midway point, the ass. I mean, for real, there was this old black man sitting in front of who was repeatedly moved to get up out of his wheelchair to dance as hard as he could as long as he could before having to sit back down - but he kept doing it. That is the power of The Funk as I have known it. This was very a very"smart" show, but dammit, you can't fake the funk, and this was in no way fake, not even a little. Plus, genius move - an all-Eb horn section - alto and bari. and when you put that bari in there as a power horn (this goes all the way back to Ellington, c'mon) , you better bring it for real. It got brought. Whatever these guys put out there at any goven moment, it got brought. If they come to your town and if like the real funk, go see them, don't think twice. MONDAY Family logistics necessitated doing an all-livestream final day, but that ended up working out really well. Multiple businesses got tended to and everybody was happy. Zig Zag Power Trio: Vernon Reid – Melvin Gibbs – Will Calhoun Yep, those guys doing that thing, and doing it excellently. Too loud? Not on the livestream!!!!! Billy Childs Quartet, Special Guest Sean Jones Yep, those guys doing that thing, and doing it excellently, albeith with a lot less energy than the power trio. Why? You'd have to ask them. 2023 Artist-In-Residence Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band with the Detroit Jazz Festival Jazz Orchestra arranged by Jim McNeely and conducted by Dennis Mackrell Maybe I was preparing to be underwhelmed after the opening night set, but...orchestration can change everything, and in this case it did. The repertoire was still very similar, but McNeely's charts added shifting colors and densities and pushed everything along the was that a good big band does. Brian Blade is a beautiful drummer. This was a beautiful set, and again, Myron Walden was a delight. But the whole thing was. A perfect way to end a really wonderful festival. And wonderful it really was. The programming definitely skews "bebop-ish", but it takes in enough of the outer limits (on either side) of bebop to where if you want an all "inside straight" festival, you can get it, but if you don't, you don't have to. If you want other modern music that is not jazz, look elsewhere. This is definitely a "jzz" festival, and this is Detroit. Detroit don't pretend to be something it's not, and neither does their jazz festival. It's free, it's fun, it's 3 days and four nights of quality music, and I got family here so I don't need a hotel or an Uber. Look for me next year, god willing. WHEW!!!!!

Maxine Gregg was with Woody Shaw immediately prior to moving to Dexter. As for the Greggs. this will not resolve the issue, but there is this: https://www.discogs.com/artist/416578-Gunter-Hampel-Group

Spent a wonderful afternoon here: https://mocadetroit.org/

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I keep forgetting he's alive... he's played with a LOT of people.

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