Niko

I had the same problem of redirection to phony websites around the same time. I don't use bookmarks and definitely have a different internet service provider than jsngry. So wherever the problem was, it's unlikely that is was on our end

I think this could be the site you mean: http://www.ipl.org/div/detjazz/ and here is a thirteen year old thread about the Jazz Before Motown CD ... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/16502-jazz-before-motown-cd/

what's notable about the line-ups is that the drummer of the new Slide Hampton Octet is Charles Ruggiero who uploaded the above videos because his dad plays on those. (It's an interesting youtube channel anyway, with a selection of Vinnie Ruggiero - and Charlie's own efforts that range from bop to hard rock)

Classical music has had this problem that nobody remembers what it used to be all about for 150 years now... on the minus side, that is disturbing, on the plus side, it's quite amazing [and a sure sign of greatness] that it still finds young blood [loads of it, actually].

Jack Sels - The complete Jack Sels Vol 1

a day of traveling (home from christmas) and changing trains means a day of passing by records stores I hadn't visited in a while... just in: Marocco/Pizzi - The Trio [the mild irony is that the third trio member, Joey Baron, is by far the biggest name at this point in human history] Al Hood - Hein van de Geijn - Steve Clover - Spheres [Seattle visits the Southern Netherlands]

My own Lee Konitz story happened around 1999 when I was about 18 so my brother was 13... new neighbors had moved in and we heard saxophone playing from their apartment - my brother said "they play so much better than you" ... turned out that Lee Konitz had visited them and practised a little [which doesn't mean that it takes Lee Konitz to play better than me - still, this was the only time it happened in my own house]. Wishing him the best, too.

found this spotify... no clue how it got there (probably someone just uploaded the tape and designed a cover) - but: trying to figure out what's behind this recording, it turned out that Teddy Edwards seems to be the featured soloist on this recording (see here but it's also audible on e.g. the third and fourth track)

read this thread yesterday and couldn't leave that open question end it... It looks like the altoist Larry heard in the early 70s was a man named Joe Marillo. This fits the "Joe + Italian Surname" pattern Larry remembered, the story about coming to San Diego via Las Vegas is confirmed in his obit here and the self-produced album may well have been this one: https://www.discogs.com/Joe-Marillo-Quartet-Lady-Caroline/master/458932 The way I found out is quite funny btw: I bought Joe Romano's FreshSound Album yesterday and then read the .org threads on Romano (including this one). Stumbled across Marillo when I checked out the discography of bassist John Leftwich who plays both on Romano's album and on this one...

Eddy House [Edilbert Huys] Quintet - Live at the Acoustic Club Hard Bop from the late 70s .... it's a great album but it doesn't beat its own cover photograph

Ohm Sextet - J&M among others the recording debut of Ab Baars... rescued from a stack of mostly Herb Alpert records only yesterday... analysis of the address on the back reveals that the label (which produced only two other LPs) had its "headquarters" 300 meters from where I live - so I almost literally brought the record home...

here is the full list of oral histories in their archive http://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/collections-and-archives/smithsonian-jazz-oral-history-program including many more, some with interesting interviewer/interviewee pairs like Steve Coleman and Von Freeman or Bill Kirchner and Lee Konitz

A bit more, here's a long interview with Jackie McLean where remembers playing in the Big Band on Rikers Island alongside Ike Quebec and "Freddie Douglas, a great alto player from the Bronx" http://amhistory.si.edu/jazz/Mclean-Jackie/McLean_Jackie_Interview_Transcription.pdf

it was not recorded in prison but apparently briefly after PJJ and Hope were released from Riker's island... I just looked into this dissertation on PJJ https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40418/ where the author claims he couldn't find definite proof that PJJ was in there but that this seemed plausible. (For Hope, the situation seems a bit clearer.) Going by Nat Hentoff's liner notes, this session was a joined project of producer Sid Frey and of Walt Dickerson who wanted to highlight these problems and give some exposure to musicians that had fallen through the cracks... from the liner notes, it is unclear whether everybody who plays on the album had been through drug problems and incarceration (Gilmore? Boykins?). A few of the musicians had not been heard of much since the late 40s so they are likely candidates: Earl Coleman, the scat vocalist Marcel Daniels (who recorded with Gene Ammons in the 40s just like Coleman), and sax player Freddie Douglas (who played with Hope and PJJ in Joe Morris band)

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glimpses of Rene Thomas, first in half of the tracks here Relaxez-vous avec Jack Dieval and son quartette and then as an unlikely "lead-guitarist" behind a spanish singer-songwriter here

that announcement is kind of cute but ECM was up for streaming in the early days of deezer, spotify etc... they must have stopped that around 2009 or 2010... so "ECM recommences streaming" would be more accurate...

just ordered it, had been on the fence since the beginning and it seemed like it's time... here is a summary of what is known and a sample track https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/04/25/recently-discovered-vintage-chicago-bebop-from-george-davis

Already on the trail... last session mentioned here http://jazzlab.iwarp.com/discographies.htm/shorter.htm/shorter%20discography.htm the movie "Jazz is our religion" by John Jeremy ?!

still playing, and: still playing with the very best younger musicians at 88 ... (at least, that's what I extrapolate from reading the name Lillinger in the line-up)

Rather: ECM is back on Spotify and others after a 10 year commercial break. In the early days of streaming, they were available there just like the rest of the Universal catalogue....

a lot... but it seemed outrageous to live within commuting distance from Utrecht and always missing the famous record fair The Bop Friends - Live at the Mozart (Vogel) Walt Dickerson Trio - Serendipity (Steplechase) Loek Dikker Ensemble - Summer Suite (Daybreak) Joe Diorio - Earth Moon Earth (Nocturne) Jon Eardley / Al Haig - Stablemates (Spotlite) Jon Eardley - Namely Me (Spotlite) Clare Fischer / Gary Foster - Starbright (Discovery) Dexter Gordon - Live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam Vol II (Catfish / Yes to Jazz) Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest - Out 'dere (Grayforrest) Hampton Hawes - Spanish Steps (Black Lion) Louis Hayes - Variety is the Spice (Gryphon) Gijs Hendriks - Dom Rocket (Timeless) Philly Joe Jones - Round' Midnight (Lotus) Paul v. Kemenade / Ron v. Rossum (BVHaast) Jimmy Knepper Sextet - Tell Me (Daybreak/Affinity) Keshavan Maslak Quartet - Big Time (Daybreak/Affinity) Don Menza / Frank Strazzeri - Ballads (Fresh Sound) Hod O'Brien - Bits and Pieces (Uptown) Horace Parlan Quintet - Frank-ly Speaking (Steeplechase) Ray Pizzi Quartet - Expressivo (Discovery) Frank Rosolino / Conte Candoli - Conversation (MPS) Ack van Royen - Homeward (Mood) Jordan Sandke / Jaki Byard - Rhythm is our business (Stash) Saheb Sarbib Sextet - Jancin' at Jazzmania (Jazzmania) Thomas Pelzer Limited (Vogel) Etienne Verschueren - Mr Blue (BRT) Etienne Verschueren - Early Spring (Jazz Cats) Vince Wallace Plays Vince Wallace (AMP)

Here you see his army enlistment details from 1941 when he was in his mid-twenties. He lists "4 years of high school " as his highest educational attainment and musician as occupation... sounds like a GI bill story to me...

Greg Osby on these matters: https://twitter.com/gregosby it should also be kept in mind that this was not just some random interview conducted because he has, say, a new album out. It was an interview discussing how he lost his job due to "sexual misconduct"... He denies neither of the statements - and especially for the one about his girlfriend at the time, I find it extremely hard to even imagine a context where this would be ok.

I looked a bit on familysearch.org, and the dates for Moer given on wikipedia seem plausible (i.e., there was indeed a Paul Moerschbacher with that birth year who was a musician, living in Florida in the 40s, and a Paul Moerschbacher with these dates in his death certificate)