Niko

I have no clou in any narrow sense of the word, but given that we are talking about a double LP. and that there's a second soundtrack album by Duke Jordan (no less) used in the film, the film would take forever if it used all the Monk music - and the vast majority of films are too long but they don't take forever

I just remembered that there exists an excellent online discography of Bennett: http://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Bennett/index.php It's a bit outdated (2011) but certainly better than going by the information on Spotify and iTunes

The Beatles are not easy at all btw... the question whether Magical Mystery Tour is an album or a double EP that was later reissued in corrupted form is arguably the most contested question in discography (see e.g. an extremely long thread on the Hoffman forum)

ina.fr is actually as easy to use as youtube or google (there's a search window at the top, you put in a name, press enter... some videos (beige symbol) are behind a paywall but you can see the beginning... for instance, a search for Art Blakey may lead you here http://www.ina.fr/video/I09286002/art-blakey-et-les-jazz-messengers-whisper-not-video.html at the top you can switch between audio and video (when both are available)... a search for grant green just leads to some strange item which has 21 seconds, doesn't play on my computer and says Stan Getz on the frontpage - so it's probably not essential...

:-) one very simple reason for his earlier works being more popular in Germany than the later ones is that the lyrics are in German rather than in English (and they're good)... we did sing Mack the Knife in school with some regularity (which means the composer clearly isn't forgotten), but when we sang stuff in English (which didn't happen often), it usually was Lennon/McCartney rather than Weill. So I would say: The later works are comparatively low profile in Germany, but this is partly due the fact that the early works are high profile. I'd be surprised if September Song was as well-known to the general US population as Mack the Knife is to the German one (today).

just to answer Big Beat Steve's question: The Hank de Mano album in question is not the one you posted but rather this one, The album you linked to (from 1963) was just reissued on a Fresh Sound twofer with another de Mano (or deMano) album from 1966.

And a follow-up question... would anybody know whether one of the trumpeters in the third picture is Cal Massey?

medjuck wrote that 13 years ago... the Coltrane reference confirms what he wrote (Cannonball missing due to illness, being replaced by Coltrane on alto), citing Downbeat as a source, apparently Adderley was ill for about 8 weeks ca mid-February to mid-April 1959

Not exactly on topic, but I just stumbled across three new-to me photographs of Coltrane on alto here. Comparing with the Coltrane Reference, this is the Joe Webb Big Band with Big Maybelle in the second half of 1946 including Coltrane, Webb (leader), Rudolph Pitts (drums) and (up to some point on this tour) Cal Massey. The article says that the pictures were taking at Joe's Playhouse in Jackson Miss., saxophonists are from left to right Emmit Patterson, Criss Williams, Coltrane and Louie Judge (Muhameed Habeeballah).

Can't really check it out right now but it seems that same channel has a few unissued Grant Green tracks, even though not with Gene Harris https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcWXaSyAKQKT5k9IoB_nhQ/search?query=grant+green

Don't want to rush anybody, but the first review is out... http://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=3592 (in Dutch, roughly, it seems to say that the first session (with the Jacobs brothers, including Summertime) is great, that the second one is ok, and that Mobley is unfocused on the third session except in the first and last track, and that sound quality is excellent in the first two sessions and a bit worse in the third)

Jacques Crepineau it is http://www.radioscope.fr/grilles/inter/inter1978.htm http://www.regietheatrale.com/index/index/donateurs/jacques-crepineau.html

"[Mr. Brainwash] was a proprietor of a used clothing store, where he began as a security guard, and amateur videographer who [...] "evolved" into an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash The wikipedia entry makes it sound like "Airbrushing over a photograph - 1 hour, paints, beer and tools - $100." is a more accurate description of the education Mr Brainwash went through to become an artist who can occasionally sell stuff above 100000...

there's not only the Monk... http://www.johannadenzinger.com/gallery_coolcats.html

I am pretty sure that the album title comes from a card Hank Mobley wrote in Holland. In that radio show I linked to earlier in this thread (see above), Frank Jochemsen tells about finding the tapes, and the way I understand it (my Dutch is almost non-existent), the radio show was deleted by the radio station, but he found a copy of the tape together with a card from Hank with the text from the album cover on it in the private archives of the club owner

here's a two-part interview with MG published last November. To me, it doesn't read like the book is near completion... http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/4429-memories-of-dexter-maxine-gordon-talks-to-sjf-about-her-jazz-legend-husband-whos-the-subject-of-her-forthcoming-biography.html http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/4463-midnight-musings-maxine-gordon-interview-part-two-.html

Recently noticed that the "official" Dexter Gordon homepage run by Moontrane Media (aka Woody III I guess) is the most corporate looking homepage I've seen in a long time - the usual stuff like a discography, sound samples, videos ... seem to be missing - instead one can buy shirts, watches, mugs, phone cases... and donate money... https://dextergordon.com/ DEXTERGORDON.COM is the official business website representing the legacy of late tenor saxophone legend, composer, and Academy Award nominated actor Dexter Gordon™ (1923-1990). DEXTERGORDON.COM is the exclusive property of DEX MUSIC LLC.

I really liked the book by Tommy James mentioned in the last paragraph - certainly light reading (and the music I still don't get) but many more details on Levy

I linked to that concert review from Groningen somewhere above where the reviewer seemed rather unhappy about Pim Jacobs and claimed that the music finally clicked in the one set where de Graaff played behind Mobley (at least that's what I extracted from the Dutch text - that Dutch newspaper archive is amazing! and "Ruud Jacobs was de enige die niveau had" seems hard to misunderstand)

I didn't think it was shown at the same time, I was only saying that (very much like Jack Dieval in France) Jacobs was the one pianist who over a few decades had the chance of jamming with dozens travelling jazz stars on TV?

slightly different band but still the same TV show, right? (stuff I learned when catching up on Dutch jazz in the last few days, after Wessel Ilcken, the drummer/leader/husband of Rita Reys died, pianist Pim Jacobs married Rita but the drummers in the band kept fluctuating - but at least he had his own TV show). The online catalogue of the Dutch Jazz Archive only lists a CD-R with the session coming from an audiotape (KO121) that also contains sessions with Maynard Ferguson in Mobley's/Montgomery's place, and a recording of Art Farmer/Jimmy Heath/Mal Waldron/Jimmy Woode/Steve McCall http://catalogusmcn.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=ko121 find of the day was this collection of photographs though, among many others, watch out for Dexter Gordon in the lower right corner of #27 https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/inventaris/30785.nl.html#

after reading a bit more here and there (finally practising my dutch a little) it seems fairly clear that the first session with the Jacobs brothers is indeed extracted from the same TV show that gave us the Montgomery video.

here is a photograph of Hank Mobley with the leaders of the Hobby Orkest (if you scroll a bit to the upper left), the text mentions a broadcast by "Nederlandse Radio Unie" which I take to be radio - but who knows. (For the Rotterdam session, the guy from the jazz archive mentions in that radio interview how lucky he was to stumble upon the tape in the archives of the B14 club - so in this case I wouldn't be optimistic). Without Mobley, the Hobby Orkest was filmed, and it sounds pretty good (a full tune is heard at 5:40).

Thanks! Can't find the full line-ups for Amsterdam and Hilversum, but I would expect different rhythm sections - the one in Rotterdam seemed to be a one-off (even though pianist Rob Agerbeck claims he was scheduled to appear on The Flip), and on all other dates I could find, the pianist was indeed Pim Jacobs (except for this report from Groningen which claims that the music got so much better when Rein de Graaf sat in for a set). Both clips are great imho so there's definitely something to look forward to

as I wrote above, it seems like the CD will be from a different concert with a different band - not the one from the youtube clip in the first post (unless several concerts are combined on one CD, of course). Hank Mobley was apparently quite active in the Netherlands in March and April 1968, as can be seen here.