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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?

I also read a bit through online reviews and I find it hard to decide whom to blame... yes, some solos by sidemen are to be expected in jazz... but some reviewers complain about ridiculously extensive features for the bassist and the drummer... now, I would actually need to see it myself to judge - but I do agree that there is a line here that can be crossed even from a jazz fan's perspective... good for the bassist and the drummer, but if it's the leaders laziness rather than artistic reasons that motivate those solos... then again, in the reviewed concert she had a pianist and a guitar player with her as well so there should have been enough variation

I read somewhere that Wynton himself thought that James Black was the greatest among all of his dad's sidemen and associates

Without Qualities, yes, sorry, was too lazy to gogle the English name or properly remember the German one... (I do find Qualities a weird translation but Properties wouldn't have done either...)

I sure didn't make it to page 100... Glad I still grew up in a world where Robert Musil's Invisible Man was the book to read... I didn't finish that one either but at least I did enjoy the 600 pages I read ... Regarding Macdonald, what I really love about him is that he can be reread so many times... And the challenges in plotting certainly contribute to that ... Chandler and Hammett wrote far fewer novels, and they're far more memorable - but that also means that you can only read Chandler and Hammett so many times...

accidentally saw the announcement of that show yesterday morning (not following things the way I should) and was surprised to see that there were still tickets available, could hardly believe it... guess I should have gone spontaneously nevertheless...

Haven't played this in years... A school friend's recently deceased journalist dad got a review copy even though he never reviewed jazz... So when he asked around whether anyone in the house wanted three jazz albums (this and twice 90s smooth jazz) I was around accidentally and said yes...

That is one interesting album, not a lost masterpiece but not bad at all either.... A really weird idea to couple Murray with a Hungarian gypsy band - then again, he'd recorded pretty much every obvious idea several times by then + he's good at rhapsodies... And trad jazz veteran trumpeter Kovacs Ferenc is doing perhaps surprisingly well as Murray's frontline partner

a few years later, Dutch Cool Jazz pioneers Frans Elsen and Wim Overgaauw would be back to giving Bebop workshops with Barry Harris, but in 1972 their minds were some place else... (as I said before, what I really like about that generation of European jazz musicians is that they were so willing to adapt... after learning bebop from records, fusion can't really scare you.... and growing your hair a bit longer is the easiest exercise if the music demands it... there was a Dutch Jazz Archive cd with that band recently as well)

Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery from Belgium, not sure if this obscure enough - and it sure is maybe too artrock to qualify... but I like it a lot... even more of a household name are their fellow Belgians from Placebo I just love this video, the visuals show so clearly that this is not a band of hipsters but of seasoned pros another band that I like a lot is Extra Ball from Poland, maybe because of the hints of BNLA that one wouldn't expect to hear from so far east... again, this may not be fusion enough for your question...

That Al Cohn album I've like for many years even though I guess the strings aren't for everyone... Humph in Perspective I got for 1 € a while ago, it's a weird concept, rerecording hits from his Dixieland period 10 years later in Dixieland sound.... "This was a transition record for Lyttleton; he was moving away from trad and towards the swing/jump band sound but hadn't yet recruited Bruce Turner. ". Pretty sure this is wrong, Turner was the first sax player in the band in the early mid 50s, our late member BillF remembered those "go home dirty bopper" signs at concerts in Manchester... By 1958, the clarinet had been replaced by an entire saxophone section and Turner had moved on