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Carlos Garnett said he got the job via Woody Shaw - so it seems natural to speculate that Tyrone Washington came via Shaw as well, they'd collaborated quite a bit by that time... Why it didn't last longer is a good one... In the months afterwards, Downbeat listed quite a few leader gigs for Washington... So maybe he decided his sideman years were over ...

The Coda article was written after the fact, my snippet does not have the full sentence but it's mentioned that the place "played host to Art Blakey with Tyrone Washington, Woody Shaw, George Cables and Scotty Holt".

the Rutgers gig is actually on youtube by now in that case, the unknown tune is at 28:45 in the first video...

I could now see a snippet of that CODA article on google books. The line-up with Washington is reported there for the Montreal gig - however, unfortunately, without a precise date... but that date could be found... the 23 February 1969 edition of a newspaper named La Patrie mentions that Blakey would be at the Black Bottom in Montreal from 10 to 15 March 1969. So together with the Coda article, that confirms Washington with Blakey in mid-March.

Guess my question is how many tapes there are in total... There's a scenario where everything is a subset of this 2cd set of music which comes, most likely, from Rutgers https://www.discogs.com/release/7082752-Art-Blakey-The-Jazz-Messengers-Rutgers-University-NJ-April-15th-1969 But there are also scenarios where there are separate tapes of either the March or April NYU gigs or both... What they all seem to have in common is a 20+ minute version of A Night in Tunisia

Is the tape the same as this bootleg cd? https://www.discogs.com/release/12482240-Woody-Shaw-Quintet-Featuring-Art-Blakey-Jersey-Blues?srsltid=AfmBOooEW1nKbRQwm8Lyzv9iOpcLq3TlspvPSXg6RsNu7RtxQ1gWsnxC Read the relevant passage in Carlos Garnett's autobiography and he mentions playing a "burning solo" in A Night in Tunisia on a live tape from New Jersey... But he doesn't mention whom he replaced, only that Woody Shaw recommended him to Blakey

you mean 3/20/69 p.15, right? That I have, there's no information about the lineup on that page btw, here's the link to Michael Fitzgerald's page https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/

Pretty sure it's the only label where I've sold off everything I ever bought (Homeward by Ack van R and that Eef Albers / Darryl Thompson Album come to mind, but there may have been more), and I did love Zweitausendeins (which was the only distributor?) as much as the next person .... or more

Had the same the last time I was in Gent... Antwerp used to be much better but they lost quite a few good stores in recent years... That said: I love used record stores, pretty much all of them, still agree that this is the best way of discovering a city - they are often in nice neighborhoods, too... But if things are at least sorted by genre, that's a big plus... I also still like the small differences between places/countries...

RIP, saw and heard him frequently in the 90s when we overlapped in Cologne, especially in the weekly Friday evening radio show on WDR 5 which featured mostly concerts/projects by the WDR big band...

18+ years between registering and the first post... Welcome + sounds like you have loads of stories I'd like to read!

Mine as well, the Enjoy Jazz festival, the lineup was remarkable that day, a two tenor frontline of Yusef Lateef and Shepp, accompanied by Mulgrew Miller, Reggie Workman and Hamid Drake but the concert didn't quite live up to that...

I saw Shepp in an even more depressing German city, Ludwigshafen ...

Antenna by David Virelles is the first one that comes to my mind it's many things but it's certainly not introspective autmn jazz

https://en.everybodywiki.com/James_Johnson_Jr._(jazz_drummer) I would not put too much trust into every detail of this article (especially not the discography which seems to mix things and the birth date), but: it suggests that the Duke Ellington JJ was from Philly, that he did studio work in NY in the 60s and maybe later and, most likely, was still alive in 2018 when someone who new him made this website (which was then likely rejected by the proper wikipedia for lack of relevance...) what do we know about the one who died in 1979?