Niko

btw, the Smalls Live Archive is a great place to check out most of these guys... just listening to Richardson here http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=3525 this DiRubbo concert has been a favorite for quite some time now http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=2616 (mostly due to the contributions of Monte Croft though)

yeah, but then most of our dads didn't get the recognition they truly deserved... that said, I am looking forward to the box and am very grateful for the bits of information that shawoody brought to us...

I bet one of the albums in the box is named after shawoody...

take a look here: http://excellencerecords.com/about.html the instrument is his trademark Braithophone and the drummer is Marvin Bugalo Smith

there's also Miles in Berlin

Happy Birthday!

did she blame anyone but herself?

the complete version of the promo sheet is linked to by aurelio above...

the track lists on amazon do indeed match Antwerp (Disc 1): http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=671028 Copenhagen (Disc 2, 1-5): http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=671102 Paris (Disc 3): http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=671106 haven't seen the track list for Rotterdam though; Disc 2 ends with versions of Agitation and Footsteps which could be the beginning of the Paris concert (which apparently was missing those two tracks in previous bootleg issues, see link)

Happy Birthday!

no problem, sorry for digging out silly stuff all the time, but believe me you wouldn't want my job at least for the next few weeks....

just looked it up, the word does exist and it roughly means what i meant, (and i wouldn't have posted the link if i hadn't remembered jsngrgy's scientology post)

the sound of remorse...

Mary Vonnie interview on jazzwax: http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/07/interview-mary-vonnie.html

there are some fairly weird sounds in the background between 1:20 and 1:30 on "I'm Beginning to See the Light"... obviously, this is the type of thing you'd try to get rid off over the years - so maybe we can say if it's the real Gene Harris, it must more or less be an early recording? plus: this whole Kaltman/Stereo... thing seems to have targeted primarily a white audience with white musicians? again doesn't mean anything and I don't have proof but this would make THE Gene Harris a bit unlikely... what do we know about the other white Gene Harris who allegedly recorded this second Jubilee Gene Harris LP?

apparently it's an early 60s label from Philadeplhia run by one Fred Miles, formerly the doorman at Bill Kretchmer's jam session is all the bio I've seen so far... this page looks interesting

little bit more (still trying to use these other artists to date anything, hasn't worked out yet) here is the label of another Janus release http://cgi.ebay.com/CONCERT-STEREO-CARMEN-SUITE-JANUS-FST-1001-LP-/280394360152 and it says Frank L Kaltman Enterprises Newark NJ and Kaltman is someone who is a bit less obscure, mainly associated with a label named Folkraft, will keep digging... this seems relevant, Janus was founded in 1958, Kaltman bought these tapes including Lenny Herman records from a company named Livingston Audio Products, Essex NJ...

thank you Dan, and please add what you found jazztrain (as a more or less Gene Harris outsider: this grumbling (doesn't deserve being called singing along) by one of the musicians, presumably the piano player - characteristic of Gene Harris? some more Stereo Gems (they should have made a concept album out of those): BLAIR-SMYTHE SOCIETY ORCHESTRA: STEREO - GEMS 101 Moonlight Becomes You | Stairway To The Stars STEREO - GEMS 102 Moon Over Miami | Stareyes STEREO - GEMS 104 Moonlight in Vermont | Stardust STEREO - GEMS 106 Orchids in the moonlight | How high the moon edit: indeed this concept album by the Blair Smythe Society Orchestra exists: Moon Music on Janus Records, no idea whether its the same music link

Amazing photo! thank you

fwiw these are the other five stereo gems releases i could find Stereo Gems # 107-110: Lenny Herman (Singin' In The Rain / Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Tico-Tico / Misirlou, Say It With Music / Crazy Rhythm, Once in a while/New world theme) Stereo Gems # 115 7 LEMONS ON THE ROCK - CONFESSIN / ROYAL GARDEN BLUES

both Clemons and Benko have recently played with Freddie Redd... don't really know why, but i really hear some ghost of bird in there (as opposed to ghost of berklee school of music), the quintet is in the archive with over a hundred shows by now, i also like the trio of their pianist Sacha Perry a lot...

Must give that one a try! they are my favorite current Bebop band!

Dwayne Clemons Quintet at Small's on Friday 2nd May 2008 Dwayne Clemons - Trumpet Josh Benko - Alto Sax Sacha Perry - Piano Ari Roland - Bass Jimmy Wormworth - Drums http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=531

weird, i can click it... should lead to Anthony Braxton 5 Pieces 1975 anyway

was too lazy to look up another version just wanted to make the link visible - didn't work?