Niko

from 1973, thanks for pointing out that magazine, more issues here, that particular band went on to great things, or, at least, one of the members did (Modern Talking, 11 years later)... and if you hired them, they'd come in a VW bus with two roadies carrying a Hohner piano and other good stuff... the magazine was founded by a former roadie and focused exactly on the types of things that roadies care about, the heavy objects, the cars...

Thanks!! Roadies were apparently quite an issue in that world...

Heinz, Klaus, Rüdiger, Werner... That generation of German males had some quite distinctive names ... (Andreas, Oliver and Lutz still exist among people my age, so what's now below 50, even though I guess the names have by now died out as well). You don't happen to have the entire page, it looks like a fascinating piece of history overall? do you know the year? just from the names and how it reads, it feels like late 70s or even 80s to me. those numbers indicate postcode areas btw, 1000 means Berlin, 2000 Hamburg, 3000 Hannover, 4000 Düsseldorf (even though the 0221 places Irmin in 5000 Cologne where he belongs... I would have been annoyed)

I've used AI twice, both times for work... translating code from one programming language to another worked really well, no complaints, huge efficiency gain - it's a pity I only need to do something like this every few years.... then again, maybe I should be happy. The second was to find the most suitable experts on a given topic ("convex analysis" iirc) in a list of 50 names. That's a task AI should be good at, much more efficient than a human, but the thing we were using (ChatGPT iirc) did an incredibly poor job, confusing one person with someone with a similar last name and generally not looking further than the first handful of names... One annoying feature I noticed is that if it gets names in the form "A. Smith, B. Miller" it will just talk about "Alfred Smith" and "Ben Miller" as if those were these people's first names... but in fact the few names that I knew were all wrong, so - it does look up the correct biography of "A. Smith" but then plugs in a random but plausible first name... Of course, with further pushing the quality of all these replies could be improved and the system will apologize excessively while correcting it's errors...You have to really like working with interns to enjoy this... I can easily how someone who doesn't actually care about the quality of the result will be quite happy with the AI system... For the majority of tasks, my feeling is that the biggest gains are for people who found google too abstract to really benefit from it... But with google, you were lead to a website and then could decide for yourself whether to trust it or not... Now many people may indeed no longer leave the AI and get all information filtered and possibly randomly altered through that system... which is pretty worrying

It probably already helps to read a translation... I heard that with Kant (who is easier to read than Hegel I guess) some educational programs in Germany give their students English translations to read because those are smoother ...

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...