JSngry

A very nice piece, with a little more "personal information" than I've seen elsewhere.

But...the show was from his Columbia years! Which makes it a lot easeier - you only got two albums, and one of the is the George Russell thing he mentions (Living Time), which is as close to Mr. Evans' Wild Ride as we're ever gonna get... The other is The Bill Evans Album, which is actually...Another Bill Evans Album. That's it, investigation over. Wham, bam, thank you mam, as the old folks used to say. There could/should have been more, but The Great Columbia Purge of 197? is infamous in jazzland to this day...

Well, sure. But why bother if you don't hope to get something out of it? More coverage = more demand = more work, right?

I see your point and take it well, but make no mistake - a lead player -of any section - of Bailey's strength of personality (and there have been very few, all things considered) definitely melds "interpretation" with "telling one's own story". You got Bailey, Marshall Royal, Snooky Young, and...not too many others. Maybe some of the Kenton lead trombonists. But still, yeah, that is over a section, not all the way naked. I hear ya'.

Well what's weird is that Bailey was one hellaceous lead player. No timidity or ambiguity there!

Wow...that's kinda weird...

Yeah, that's another mystifying response! Freddy Robinson (now Abu Talib) http://www.wirz.de/music/talibdsc.htm

Interesting...how did this manifest itself?

I find the image of Frank Lowe getting enthusiastically & bluntly accosted by "a plump, ordinary-looking woman approaching middle age" nothing short of priceless...

Yeah, in the Olden Daze, cats like Grant didn't necessarily listen to a lot of records to learn how to play. They didn't have to - there was all they needed to hear out in the(ir) streets and stuff. So playing records for a BFT to somebody like Grant is kinda like administering a written standardized test to somebody whose learning was mostly experiential.

Interesting in retrospect is the "up to the minute" career updates of the participants. Now that so many of them are dead (and many of their newer fans not born while they were alive!) it's easy to look at their lives "all at once" w/o always realizing that those roads were often full of twists and turns that at the time had no definitive outcome in sight.

...into the musical climate of the times as far as one "musical demographic". This is the scene about which a bunch of today's "crate diggers" are going nuts over, and frm which many DJs are sampling profusely. It's easy to hear the appeal now, but maybe it's interesting to look at how it was for this stuff then, when it was still somewhat nascent. The words are brief, but the insight lingers on. Down Beat 2-1-73

"Ibrahim" is simply a variant of "Abraham". What they mean by that, I don't know.

I think so. don't think he started recording again until late 1974.

One of the many perks of the O-Board Community, the BFTs are.

From what I hear, Johnny Pate is now living in McKinney, Tx, about 20 miles north of where I live. He's in his 80s now!