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I guess this is the thread for Frank Strozier.

Knepper might, MIGHT, be my most favorite post-Swing trombonist. The guy had both roots and chops out the wazzoo, to say nothing of a totally sunny disposition, which is accurately reflected in this album's cover photo. LOVE that cover photo.

DIANNE!!!!!

Sincerest condolences.

Who's that w/Marty Feldman?

This is the most revealing picture of Joe Maini that I know of. Look at those eyes, all three of 'em...

Just saw this on one of those off-brand cable channels (True-E, I think it was, something like that...) Copyright 2003, 90 minutes, Executive Producer Celia Mingus Zaentz, plenty of footage and photos, Bob Koester, Hubert Sumlin, Hubert Sumlin's "longtime wife", Wolf's daughters, Marshall Chess, Sam Lay's home movies of a night at the club, the list goes on... If this has been discussed here previously, sorry, but how was this originally released? Don't recall any theatrical release, but I don't live in the civilized world... Don't know how it "rates" as a piece of documentary and/or filmmaking, but it was a helluva nice way to pass an hournadahaff.

No it's not. But clue me in as to why you think it is. It's not a very revealing picture.

Great lineup indeed, and a repository of great tunes ("Idol Of The Flies" is a freakin' JEWEL of a tune!!!) as well as some familiar (and not so familiar - where the hell find Knepper find the lovely & sentimental "Close As Pages In A Book"?) items given arrangements with a lot more (and higly rewarding) care and detail than one might think they'd warrant taken at tempos that reveal a love of dancing (or at least playing for dancers), which at this point in time wasn't exactly fashionable (but Knepper being the Birdhound that I take it that he was surely saw Bird play more than one dance...). And Bill Evans in his best pre-LaFaro-era "I'm not exactly sure if I want to really be exactly here or not, so I'm not going to say too much about what's going on, but dammit, I just GOTTA say this about that" form. And the cuts w/Gene Roland are a gas as well. Well worth a seekout.

First name that popped into my mind as well, but outside the intent of the topic as originally stated. But you know, Lee's such a heavy cat that to think of him as a "white alto player" just ain't right. Even though he is that... But not in the way that Phillandquill and the others mentioned as possibilities are.

Temporrarily out-of-stock on a pricy Japanese import here: http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...22&issearch=yes I've got the 70s LP reissue, but, hey, this is one time where I can fully recommend dropping the J-Bucks to get something that pays back in value recieved with a nice return to boot. An EX-cellent album.

Can't speak for everybody, but I was still in grade school... Discovered Strozier throuh Don Ellis & Oliver Nelson sides ca.1973 or so, then some Keno Duke Starta-East sides, and took it from there... Funny thing is, Leonard Feather consistently used Stozier as a poster boy for his "Crow Jim" crap, an example of a fully able white cat who wasn't getting gigs because of his race. Believe that he even posed the Strozier question to Max Roach, who took it at face value. Later on, I remember Strozier claiming that he had "African ancestors", or something like that, maybe in a DB article about Oliver NElson's early 70s African tour, where Strozier's ethnicity apparently caused a lot of specualtion amongst the spectators. Nelson was coy about the whole thing. This thread, though, is the first time I've read confident claims that Strozier wasn't "white", or even "mixed", but outright "black". After all these years! (and opportunities) Life gets wierder every damn day...

The pity about White dying so young is that he ran out of time to come to a truly personal awareness of how harmful his "controversial" remarks truly were. I have to feel that if his heart was truly a loving one, he'd have to eventually come to terms with that and deal with straightening it out (pun fully unintentional) as publicly as he messed it up.. And if it wasn't, and if he never did, well, then he'd be S.O.L. even if he lived to be 100.

It does. I'm just not at all into the "cabaret" vibe, or at least the trappings of it. If I could hear Short outside of that, I might dig his thing more. But maybe that's like wanting to hear Gene Ammons w/o the neighborhood bar vibe. Problems, problems, problems...

NOT a Phil Woods fan, btw, at least not of his post-return to America work, which mostly strikes me as being first and foremost just plain silly. The stuff before that, though, including his ERM work, does just fine for me, however, usually, if not always. Now, Jimmy Ford - THAT'S an interesting cat....

Discovering Strozier's ethnicity eliminates my choice.

Words for the tombstone!

I'll wave the flag and say a prayer in your honor!

Thanks, Dan. Glad (if you can call it that...) to hear that it wasn't sleep apnea alone that killed him.