Niko

no, margaret was not really responding to anything, i mean, she's his wife (?) and thus the last person to be a fair judge in comparing Henry Grimes now and Henry Grimes in the 60s... it's her job not to be that...; put differently, imho you can't really blame her for not being objective or reasonable in this discussion (you can blame her for entering though... )

"... personally what little I've heard of Grimes' playing seems interesting but strangely random at times; more the memory of a great bassist than great playing. A reasonable response to his current life..." and you can't blame his current life for taking that kinda personal... seems like margaret and allen disagree, nothing wrong with that...

same here, but it's my only gold cd and i've always liked it :-)

without knowing anything specific about Waldron's: Music Minus One records are like those Aebersolod practice discs - you just have the rhythm section and can add melody and solos at home while the LP is playing... iirc some of these had someone like Jerome Richardson play these things on one side of the LP while the other side was rhythm only

in this well-researched-looking DeArango discography i don't see anything that might fit the bill... http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g51092/DeArango.html really puzzled by this thing, the line-up is fairly unusual (tp/g/p/b, no drums) and the theme sounds like someone with "big ideas"... i'd have thought this already reduces the number of possibilities sufficiently...

Bill Heine quotes King's ex-husband Tony Fruscella: "The poets took over, and their energy drew over those guys with the funny haircuts, the B-E-A-T-L-E-S, and Tony Fruscella started to pull his hair out of his head and said, “Man, this is the end,” and it was. " (link)

Franz Koglmann? but he's too young, or?

Pharoah Sanders!

Byard Lancaster Allen Blairman Sonny Simmons Jacques Coursil Arthur Doyle

in our corner of the world, there's also this one

not quite a cdr but Massey's son Taru presents podcasts along these and other lines here: http://www.digitalpodcast.com/detail.php?id=9936 iirc from a similar question, Zane Massey directs a houseband somewhere in Asia (say, Hong Kong)

could well be that i found or posted this link somewhere here earlier (Stephenson's text about bass player Jimmy Stevenson) but i like it a lot (including the discussion at the bottom, and there's also some more Sonny Clark in there)

too lazy to read again, but when i read the passage i also had thoughts along these lines, and then decided that probably he knew a bit about Clark, had maybe heard an album or two, but did not really get him until he heard the Green/Clark CD at the coffee house - which i find not so unlikely; with many of those hard bop heros (Green, Clark, Mobley...), people seem to need time until suddenly they discover their greatness (their music doesn't hurt anyone, but it's easy to miss the point... for instance, i'm still waiting for Mobley to really hit me, Clark didn't happen to me until a few months ago, with Green i still remember those moments a few years ago vivdly; and i've known all those names for many years and have read quite a bit)

wie bitte? dachte, wenn du schon Musiker ausprobieren willst, die irgendwo gelobt werden, ohne ihre Musik gehört zu haben, warum dann nicht welche, die ich gut finde (aber ich verfolge neuen Jazz fast nicht, ist insofern sehr unrepräsentativ)

some more Dupree Bolton links, he was apparently with Buddy Johnson again between October 1950 and November 1951, click and click, guess someone must have found this before but i don't remember reading anything about Bolton in the early fifties... (did he record with Buddy Johnson then?), edit: strangely though the line-up in these reports is a subset of Johnson's 1945 line-up, so either this is a spoof or the band was remarkably stable... (or both) (Buddy Johnson - Walk 'Em (bj vcl) November 7, 1945 Frank Brown, Dupree Bolton, Johnny Wilson, Willis Nelson (tp) Bernard Archer, Leonard Briggs, Jonas Walker (tb) Joe O'Laughlin, Al Robinson (as) David Van Dyke, Jimmy Stanford (ts) Teddy "Cherokee" Conyers (bar) Buddy Johnson (p,vcl,arr) Jerome Darr (g) Leon Spann (b) Teddy Stewart (d) Ella Johnson, Arthur Prysock (vcl) ) comparing with the line-up of the Classics CD of the musicians mentioned in both articles Arthur Prysock, David van Dyke, Willis Nelson did indeed stay with Johnson so long, Bolton is mentioned in both articles as well, one of them adds Teddy Stewart and Jerome Darr (which seem less likely to have stayed i guess) and this shows that he did not always go by a false name in the forties... (report about Bolton leaving the Johnson band in 1946) here is Art Pepper expressing the hope that some day he might play like Bolton if he stays clean (which is quite a compliment i guess)

this link suggests that a David Murray set will be next (nothing to see except for the top line of your browser window which says DAVID MURRAY:DAVID MURRAY which is parallel to what you see for the other sets, e.g. this one... but obviously, this information should not be taken too seriously... (strangely, the David Murray BSSN recordings have long been up on some of the streaming sites unlike the rest of their catalogue - always took that as an indication that they have a slightly different legal status...)

if you're drifting anyway, why not try mike reed's people places and things, or the jamie saft trio album in john zorn's book of angels series instead?

Happy Birthday!

I have changed my mind. I am now in favor of the death penalty - maybe public hanging. Not that it would surprise anyone, but Pat Metheny has a more relaxed opinion on the subject...

more than ever, from my better half an order from porcy Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker Billy Bauer - Plectrist Grant Green - Standards Grant Green - First Sessions plus (she added something more decent) Joy Division BBC Sessions Mando Diao - Bring 'Em In (she said she found it barely ok (like most of the better music i listen to) and thought i'd probably like it more than her (which is indeed the case)) from my brother Keith Jolie - City so cold (he said ten years ago i recommended it to him, had completely forgotten i'd ever known anything about this) and from my mother the Bill Dixon BSSN set... finally some books: from my sister Barney Hoyskins - Hotel California (just finished and it's pretty good) from my mother Valerie Willmer - As Serious As Your Life George Lewis - the AACM book (but the last two are still in the mail)

thank you for finding this!

Happy Birthday, Jim!

my package arrived in great shape - thank you very much! (the delivery guy damaged the post box when putting it in though - but that clearly isn't your fault...)

what's the "first"? with the Cinderella CD it looks like a small flaw in the page, the page for the album was removed, so it's probably gone for one reason or another, but it's still in the database...

please tell me, if you find out more! always interesting to see recordings by people like gers yowell whose previous discography consists (e.g./in this case) of a few notes on a Charlie Parker bootleg... apparently the cd was available from cdbaby under this address http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cinderella but it isn't anymore... one of the drummers, Doug Yowell, has a webpage, but he doesn't list it in his discography (apparently he does studio work with people like eros ramazotti and suzanne vega (huge difference, of course) otherwise... so not a big chance he is selling it... but maybe he knows someone who does, and since this may be the best document of his dad's playing...