Niko

Actually, it's a fairly common name for German women born around 1970 (here's a chart which shows it's rank among the most popular female names, it made the top 20 from 1964 to 1975), it's pronounced Sill-ke where the "ke" is pronounced a bit like the first syllable of "kernel"

it's a sequence of clips and jsngry meant the one starting around 1:13:00. If OP's rhythm section is indeed Sam Jones / Louis Hayes as indicated, that would make it 66/67...

confused me, too... but the album cover is with us...

another old Newspaper article about an early (1952) arrest of Hadley Caliman (Heroin jails daughter of police man, link)

:-) just got home and looked through the Anderza chapter in the SQJB book - most of what I found (except for the childhood girlfriends) is in there. Briancon talked to some of Anderza's family, to his friend Ron Clark (who founded a drug rehabilitation program (Rap Inc))... he also had access to a long interview with Bobby Bradford (from Steven Isoardi's files), Bradford knew Anderza in the early 50s... Briancon's specialty are, of course, all the details from the legal files... my French really isn't good enough to get all the details but apparently Anderza was behind bars for most of 1960-1975, then went through Clark's program (in Washington, where he also jammed with Rollins at Howard University), and taught at Malcolm X College in Chicago in his final years

In 1952, Earl Anderza married Leonabelle Huven. They had a son Thomas Earl Anderza (*1954), a daughter Erlinda Anderza (*1955), a daughter Sheri D Anderza in 1965, possibly also a son named earl born in 1960. The marriage ended in divorce in 1967. Peter Anderza had married Earl's mother Helen B. Langford in 1931, spelling his name "Andarza" on that occasion. On the marriage license he gives his job is listed as "printer". He is divorced. (Possibly, the first marriage was to one Geneva Wright in 1925. And possibly, he was the Peter Anderza who is listed as a married inmate on the 1930 census). It's amazing how much you can "find by Googling"...

Small progress, columnist Barbara "Bobbie" Jean Anderza (*(8/8/1932) was the older sister of Peter Earl Anderza - so I guess they really lived at that address (their parents were Peter and Helen Anderza, the third daughter was Leona June Anderza --- I guess this is all information that's also in the SQJB book). Peter Anderza had been a columnist for the California Eagle himself in the early 30s ("Ask me another", he answered trivia questions). He was shot in a "justfiable homicide" in 1936 at the age of 30 when trying to enter the home of one George Freer at 10621 Croesus Street. Apparently, Anderza was "under the influence of liquor" and most likely just tried to get home (ref). In the 1949 eagle there's also an ad from the younger "Peter Anderza" offering "SAXAPHONE lessons, beginners or advanced." Some further research could probably provide a complete list of all the girls Anderza went out with before ca 1952) another bit of information from the early days of the San Quentin Jazz Band: CA Eagle 11/4/1948 "Nat Meeks, popular young trumpet star, is organizing a small Be-Bop combo complete with bongo drums. Meeks, a local boy who plays terrific trumpet, has Clyde Dunn, Eric Dolphy, Hadley Caliman, Morris Edwards, Joe Harrison, Johnny Lawson, and Leroy McCray lined up as personnel."

just tried to dig up some more, can't say that any of it is really interesting but since so little is known... (no guarantee that it's him, of course, but the city (LA) and age check with what we know (1933-1982), and the name should be fairly rare) From the "Pen Pal's Corner" of "The California Eagle" (12/15/49) comes a piece of 66 year old gossip: "The Saturday nite hoot owls spotted on the Pasadena speedway was after leaving the home of sweet, litle Miss Rebecca Wright, were Earl Anderza, who is said to be head over heels in love with her." Even older is this one: (9/29/1949): "What's this I hear about Earl Anderza escorting Leodloos Morney home Friday from Jeffs sports nite" Another September 1949 edition gives us his then current address (as a reference for prospective pen pals) 691 East 52nd Place, L.A. Calif. (he was 16 years old then) Interestingly, it says at the end of the list of people: "Please address all news and pen pals names to 691 East 52nd Place, L.A. Calif." so the whole thing was run either by him or a neighbor... (columns were written by one Barbara Jean) (that's what it looks like today) Slightly more interesting is that one of the other kids that frequently visited the same birthday parties was Roy Milton's son Roy Milton Jr. From a later edition of that newspaper, we even learn that "Earl Anderza and his Combo" had a gig at the Elbow Bend in early 1954, While I'm at it here's a 1962 photograph of Horace Tapscott at the piano...

imo you can find a lot by googling (including previous discussion here)! There's the quartet album, the two tracks with Dupree Bolton which you find most easily on the Bolton Uptown CD (alternatively on the O. Matthews Select)... he was an early (high school) associate of Horace Tapscott and is mentioned in passing in Isoardi's books; there's chapter on Anderza in the San Quentin Jazz band book which I guess is as comprehensive as it gets in Anderza's case... IIRC the most noteworthy additional thing in there was that he resurfaced very briefly at some point in the 70s, don't have the book here but it was a story like "he jammed with Sonny Rollins in Chicago in 1976"

"he never played amplified again" this clearly contradicts what i have read (and hear)... here is a discography of his final years which differentiates between electric and acoustic guitars and claims that the 1950 Rome broadcasts and all recordings from 1952/53 are on electric guitar

If this is her, you can easily find a bit more: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2014/04/lynx_quicksilver_life_story.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_%28horn-rock_band%29 There are also recordings of this (Mary) Lynn Sheffield under her later name Lynx Quicksilver, e.g. this one: but they are, well, much late

Thank you!! that link didn't work for me, this one does...

IIRC Fantasy never reissued Contemporary or HiFiJazz albums inthe Acid Jazz series, only Prestige dates. But I agree they slept on this one. there's at least the Sonny Stitt Jazzland album with Patterson and Weeden...

Here, why not take this test and post the results: http://www.free-test-online.com/middle/8th_grade_algebra1.htm 10/10 so I did better than the 26/30... given that I could hardly read English in 8th grade I probably improved in both (while my latin has almost vanished)... the algebra test looks fairly reasonable to me while the history was just a bunch of facts most of which nobody needs to know

there's also a rather unusual spelling of Bora Rokovic on the cover of the first LP (plus: it should, of course be "schlägt" and "Walzer"), if you read the original liner notes, #50 here , the impression of cluelessness and bad editing is confirmed...

definitely the same person, a bit of googling (eg this biography) suggests that "Carl Drewo" is the most common spelling, followed by "Karl Drewo" while "Carl Drevo" is rarer... (how he managed to achieve multiple spellings of his name I couldn't find out)

Choices were Jamestown, Queen Anne, Charleston, Plymouth, three of which looked reasonable to me - but if you know a little more about the US than I do, you can, of course, exclude more... (a little googling made Queen Anne more reasonable than I thought btw) what I found most irritating as an exchange student in the US was that exams in history and related subjects really took the form of these quizzes instead of essays and the like... (in particular, you can perform extremely well with a little effort and common sense but without really "getting a feeling" for the topic)

26/30

according to the discography I linked to above, it was arranged by Willie "Face" Smith who also arranged and composed parts of Joe Lovano's 52nd Street Themes albums, see also here: http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2009/12/willie_smith_played_composed_a.html

here's the Webster radio show by our own Ghost of Miles, http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/the-man-before-miles-freddie-webster/ and here is a more detailed list: http://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/mario/frwe.pdf

I know what you mean and agree... nevertheless, there's a nice contrast between the image of DeArango conveyed by your post and the 1973 trio live date which can be streamed on the page medjuck liked to... here is another discography btw which looks better on first sight: https://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/~g51092/DeArango.html

This one's for me: 11/04 Lokal Harmonie, Harmoniestr. 41, Ruhrort, 47119 Duisburg, (DE)

A requiem from wired, never owned one amd can't really connect with all the sadness, but the text is pretty good...

just like any other board, it's not quite as active as it used to be, but it has been my "main forum" in recent years, not the deep jazz knowledge you have here, but still excellent discussions, and the politics section, discussion of record stores... and similar stuff are - obviously - closer to home...

it's not much, but, from Ira Gitlers liner notes for Babs Gonzalez - Weird Lullaby "The first New York session is notable as Sonny Rollins' recording debut. The rest of the line-up is Jordan Fordin on alto, but only in the ensemble (Fordin, another Newarker, played organ on some Joe Holiday Prestige sessions in the early '50s)" (typed and posted by ubu on another board)