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Right, the IAJRC this is "referenced" in Marcello's post & was the source of the original inquiry. Roost was Teddy Reig, right? So, Did Diz have a deal w/Reig, or what? I mean " A label dedicated to the jazz experiments of Dizzy Gillespie", that's got "business venture" written all over it, so...who's business was it? Also...Sahib Shihab!!!!

Didn't Charles Colin do something similar w/Bird?

Thank you, sir! Anything else from that label on this CD, or has this item been reissued anywhere else? Seems like an extreme rarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hStliEngiFI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HM4bjbeICk Manufactured by Roost? So this would now be BN/EMI property? Or not? Who set up this label "dedicated to the jazz experiments of Dizzy Gillespie" & how many - if any - more releases were there? I don't recall ever hearing of this label before & I've read both the autobiography & the Shipton bio. Guess I just forgot? ?

Perhaps that's what triggered the question?

What was the Showcase label? Has this ever been reissued anywhere? Also, I know this group w/Bill Graham, but not w/Sahib. Any other recordings w/this line up? As always, thanks in advance!

No, Norah's Dad is Coltrane Jones.

Astro Larry Dierker Gene Elston

As in Morris Levy, Henry Glover, & ???? That's a pie with some fingers in it...

It think the Steeplechase side w/The Cosmic Brotherhood comes closest in "sound" (musically, that is) to a BN date, if that's what you're looking for. Interesting how that particular nexus played out as far as Steeplechase projects went too - Billy Skinner, Rene, & Carvin all had solo projects. Wonder if that was the direct result of Jackie running interference, or if the label itself ran it that way.

SECURE YOUR SYNODS!

Oh....when I read (just today, I'm late to the thread, sorry) you were going to Milwaukee to pursue greater personal fulfillment, I thought you were gonna go chasing after either bad beer or loose Lutherans. Glad to hear it's something that actually makes sense! Take a survey among musicians & ask them have (or have had) nurses as either wives or girlfriends... LTB was a nurse when I met her. Now she's a project manager. Either way, life with a musician has come in handy... They'd probably have some nasty-ass breath...

Joe Lee Wilson Wilson Pickett The American Pickers

What's hidden about it?

Tonally, not even remotely. Vocabulary-wise...there are "overlaps".

Youth has no point of reference from which to ponder its own obsolescence. That's a big advantage while it lasts....

And that was actually a fairly legitmate claim then, given that the really overt influences didn't begin to be heard/felt until the mid-70s. Truthfully, I still have a problem with Lennie himself overall...too much "theory" is on top of (or sometimes is all there is) too much of his playing (notable exceptions, sure, but...). It's with Lee & Warne that the theory turns into "real music" (imo). Lennie's more a Professor X type to me, a brilliant mind, but ultimately crippled, than a real X-Man. You get Warne & Lee, though, especially Warne, and then that's when that quantum shit starts happening that Lennie (mostly) only conceptualized.

To that end, the overwhelming majority of the "jazz books" that have meant the most to me have not been "histories", but have instead been personal recollections, impressions, interviews, oral histories, etc. Individual stories that one can then weigh against other like (or unlike!) them to decide how it all fits together & what it all "means".

Happy Motoring too!

What Lee might not be interested in breadth, he more than makes up for in depth. We are all pieces of the puzzle. No one person is ever gonna be the whole thing.

I wanna hear Ravi Coltrane doing "Soul Eyes" with Anita Baker on Blue Note.

Any kind of "prime" influence is a reach. As far as the Tristano influence on Braxton, et. al. being the "unwritten history of jazz"....no way. Braxton in particular has given big props to them guys, and has gone out of his way to do so. I really don't understand the need to be concerned with the "written" history anyway...them who have ears to hear will hear, and them who don't won't. Pockets of bliss aside, the written history has never served this music particularly well or particularly accurately. At best, it's made it more packageable and/or inviting and/or approachable. That's important, but only as far as it goes. Then again, that's true of damn near anything - you don't get it by reading about it. You get it by getting it. Then you can write about it, and that's all good. But...if all the "history" books drew the line from Tristano to Braxton, and if all the people who read that believed it...most people would be just as half-aware as they are now, just in a different way.Besides, just as with Herbie, there's a lot of lines that go to Braxton, and anybody who draws them all ain't gonna have a book for the masses, if you know what I mean.

I'm not doing birthdays this year, but that doesn't mean I can't chunk in a big hearty HAPPY MOTORING!!!! (and make the trip more often, please !

You talk about a life...playing in Roy Acuff's live band in the early 1950s...this was no ordinary journey.