Niko

Horace Tapscott = Herbie Nichols?

here's more evidence of Baltimore trumpet player John Burks

we are talking about "Let me tell you 'bout it", actually, and afaik (might be wrong) it's John Burks there, which is right in the middle between Birks and Burkes - so if all those guys I haven't heard of come from Baltimore, and if there apparently is a Baltimore trumpet player named Burkes who even played with Bill Swindell, that makes me tend to think it's Baltimore John Burkes/Burks on the Leo Parker record (plus: that Left Bank Listing has many small typos) (btw wikipedia is wrong here and attributes both Parker BN albums to Dave Burns)

Actually though I sometimes think it is, the consensus here is that it is not (though this is in discussion of "John Birks" on "Let Me Tell You About It"). haven't looked into the booklets recently so it might well be in there, too, but going through the Left Bank Performance Listings http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/leftbank.html I got the impression that most of the lesser known names on the Leo Parker BNs are local players from Baltimore, Bill Swindell, Purnell Rice, John Burkes, Yusef Salim all pop up there...

Happy Birthday, Allen!

@freelancer: some clues on live gigs can be found in the listings of Left Bank Concerts: http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/leftbank.html e.g. McCOY TYNER, piano; JOE HENDERSON, tenor sax; JACK DEJOHNETTE, drums; HERBERT LEWIS, bass HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax; McCOY TYNER, piano; JACK DEJOHNETTE, drums; EDDIE MARSHALL, bass GRANT GREENE, guitar; HAROLD VICK, tenor sax; JOHN PATTON, organ; HUGH WALKER, drums

would like to say Teo Macero was older than Frankenstein, but it wouldn't be true

a compilation from a festival with one band featuring Chris McGregor, one featuring Dudu Pukwana (and Nick Mokaye), one featuring Kippie Moeketsi, one featuring Louis Moholo, one featuring Mongezi Feza... looks like an "important catalyst" http://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=119

RIP

was in a rush when i posted that link above, note that there are two interviews, one in the main post and another in the comments...

Walt Dickerson said: "Excellent pianist! Last I heard, Austin was in New York, playing classical music. Again, the scene, as it was then…Austin came from a very religious background also, so the scene did a lot to drive many great musicians away. He had a couple of things with Philly Joe Jones, and he came back and told me, "Never again, never again.” He was stranded in the Midwest, played two weeks of engagement and no way to get home. Some people can’t take those kinds of experiences, so I heard he was playing classical piano. I understood. He would say, "Any time you call me, I’ll be there.” As a matter of fact, years later, when he heard Shades Of Love, he told me, "I remember, Walt, how you used to turn your instrument in reverse and practice for hours.” It’s a challenge, something different. Yes, Austin, a wonderful pianist, a wonderful person…" from here: http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.de/2007/06/in-full-1-walt-dickerson.html

played the stream three times in a row, thanks for the heads-up, love it! edit to add: it's already available at amazon as a download http://www.amazon.com/Nuestro-Camino/dp/B00B5O6496

i really don't want to interrupt this discussion, but looking through Wild's additions I found this item, http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/jcr_1965.htm in particular the quote "Over the years, in liners, books and lists, Don Garrett has been attributed with playing bass clarinet. This is wrong. The man only played bass and clarinet (the small and straight horn, that is). [...]" and the request to delete bcl after Donald Garrett for Live in Seattle... So I'm wondering: Who is playing bass clarinet on the first track of Kulu Se Mama (sounds very very much like a bass clarinet to me...)? [ie why is there no request to make a correction there, too]

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Christopher Lowell Clarke began playing trumpet in elementary school, and attended The College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati on a jazz scholarship. Majoring in jazz and studio music Clarke played with guest artists Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Bobby Shew, and Byron Stripling. Four years with Carnival Cruise Lines orchestras followed, before Chris relocated to the Bay Area. He has performed at the Monterey, Umbria, Stanford, Mt Hood, and Fillmore Street jazz festivals, and toured Italy with the Johnny Nocturne Band. Since his move to San Francisco, Clarke has shared the stage with George Coleman, Sonny Simmons, and Bishop Norman Williams, and recorded with Dewayne Oakley. http://www.chezhanny.com/eddie_marshall.html

his record label spells his name without the final "e" most of the time, here's one more video and here is the label's page for The Swooper (including a stream of the album but no text...)

And I'm sure Kenny Burrell is sitting on his couch - with his feet up - having his warm milk in his cup marked 'world's greatest Soul Jazz grandpa' - and reading this thread...thinking....geez I wish I spent another day on the head arrangement of 'that one'! honestly, i have no trouble at all imagining that KB did try to capture Oliver Nelson's arrangement but didn't have the time - one genius against another, that sgcim's guitar arrangement which - as he said - did take him some time comes closer to ON's intentions - doesn't take a genius for this, just a journeyman with time on his hands. and that KB would agree upon hearing sgcim's version of the tune that this was closer to his intentions than what he himself had worked out on the spot decades ago (even though we can't hear/feel the difference). This has nothing at all to do with diminishing KB as a guitarist or claiming that sgcim is "better". And yes, its "only" about technique, but then so much of our most beloved jazz is, and its part of the art not to let us hear it all the time. It's part of appreciating how much "technique" is actually behind the work of someone like KB to acknowledge that there are thousands of places where someone with the determination and a "normal" above average talent can actually surpass him at what he is trying to achieve. learned this quote today: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

the one jazz blog I'm checking almost daily (nothing new, mostly, but when there is...) is http://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/

Thank you! have you seen the Don Joseph clips on youtube? sounds like you might know a bunch of people in there... (also the other uploads by that guy)

too bad about those troubles since all over the world people are waiting for those stories...

another round of googling for rs revealed that a considerably longer version of the ronnie singer tape was made available by guitarist Axel Hagen (via the tape of Jimmy Stewart [of Gabor Szabo fame]) http://axelhagen.com...the-recordings/

names or it didn't happen

i know what you mean, in the beginning i found it annoying as . that freshsound cds couldn't be linked to anymore while loads of more stupid aspects of our existence had there place. now i tend to find it kind of cute and have accepted this forum as a place where freshsound maybe mentioned but not linked to. i doubt it has anything to do with the "decline" of this forum (i know what you mean), many many things have been discussed already plus there's facebook (not for me)

on the German amazon page there are some more details, apparently it's 20 discs, and apparently they counted the number of 10 inch LPs on those and that gave them 35. 40 page booklet, card board sleeves. 1.Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt 1-3, 2.The Fabulous Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948/Max Roach, 3.Roy Eldridge And His Little Jazz/ Joue pour la danse, 4.Sidney Bechet Souvenirs/On Parade/ Ambiance Bechet, 5.Mary Lou Williams Plays In London/Mary Lou Williams Quartet, 6.Martial Solal Trio/ Martial Vol. 2, 7.Lee Konitz Plays, 8.Lionel Hampton Jazz Time Paris 4, 5 & 6, 9.Gigi Gryce Clifford Brown Sextet/Clifford Brown Quartet, 10.Bobby Jaspar's New Jazz, 11.Jimmy Raney Visits Paris, 12.Henri Renaud All Stars 1-2, 13.Oscar Pettiford Sextet, 14.René Thomas et son Quintette, 15.The GerryMulligan Quartet, 16.Thelonious Monk Piano Solo, 17.Roy Haynes Modern Group/Jimmy Jones Trio, 18.André Hodeir Essais - Musiques de filmsm, 19.Lalo Schifrin Rendez-vous dansant à Copacabana, 20.Barney Wilen Tilt

thank you so much for posting this!!

in case it's needed, here's a recent phone number of (the?) Marvin Cabell http://indymusicians...lforweb2012.pdf