Niko

Never heard this one, but it appears so. I've also seen a cover for a 10" record under Guerin's name. Didn't Guerin also play alto horn? Guerin plays alto or tenor horn or euphonium or something... on (most of?) the Bernard Peiffer half of the Modern Jazz in St Germain des Pres cd from the Jazz in Paris series. This is one of my favorite JiP cds, Guerin is on both halfs... i clearly prefer his trumpet playing though...

nobody was mistaken for Kenny Dorham in our BFTs more often than him... i've bought quite a few records because he was on them and have never been misled... (did he make albums as a leader, actually?) RIP

Smalls Archive has some of his shows: http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?itemcategory=30817&personDetailId=65

That is one DAMN FINE player! Thanks Niko. I must get that CD. I've never heard the tune before, so far as I can recall, and I've got most of Jug's recordings. MG thanks! had hoped you'd chime in and i'm glad you liked it! strange... this is not the type of story someone makes up - and if Brown heard it on the radio, it can't have been that obscure...

while researching the Gene Ammons - AACM connection :-) i stumbled across the following statement by Ari Brown: "The next number, "Richard's Tune" was written by Ari in the 70s and was once recorded by the late Chicago Sax man , Gene Ammons. Ari shared the story that he heard this tune on the radio under a different title and needless to say had to legally remedy the situation. " Brown's recording can be heard here: http://www.lastfm.de/music/Ari+Brown/_/Richard%27s+Tune?autostart can any Gene Ammons expert here (or anyone else) tell me where Ammons recorded it? i did some searching - it doesn't look like Ammons redorded it under this title; maybe it's in the liner notes to Brown's cd (Live at the Green Mill) or Don Moye's Jam for your Life (which also has a recording of it) thank you!

here are two lengthy Griffin interviews (among others), transcriprion is so-so i have made some suggestions for a character key below http://www.umich.edu/~afroammu/standifer.html 10/9/82 Jimmy Rustler = Jimmy Rushing?? Count Bassey = Count Basie Denny Goodman = Benny Goodman Lionel Hamilton = Lionel Hampton Ham = Lionel Hampton Ernie Cobb = Arnett Cobb Lou Buckner = Milt Buckner? Herby Steals = Herbie Fields? Sippy Wallace = ? Dina Washington = Dinah Washington Bill Brower = Bill Grauer Oren Keeton = Orrin Keepnews Archie Chef = Archie Shepp Jackie McClain = Jackie McLean Ben Rowdy = Ben Riley? Larry Gibb = Larry Gales? Cot Terry = Clark Terry Coleman Harper = Coleman Hawkins Shaky Pay = Chat qui Peche Charlie Parlor = Charlie Parker Louie Armstrong = Louis Armstrong Shaky Panks = Chat qui peche Rocky Orwell = ? Joe? [any idea] Robb L Gray - Wardell Gray Carnage Hall = Carnegie Hall Charlie Bird = Charlie Parker Artie Sharp = Artie Shaw Roy Aldrich = Roy Eldridge Roland's Hurt = Roland Kirk Montello = Manzello Billy Joe Jones = Philly Joe Jones Paul Chaney = Paul Chambers Art Blakely = Art Blakey Oscar Predator = Oscar Peterson ? Albert's Connoted = ??? Kenny Clark = Kenny Clarke ____________ Ham = Lionel Hampton Mel Butler = Milt Buckner T-Bone Walk = T-Bone Walker Rum Porgy = Rhumboogie Errol Brado = ?? Persian Ballroom = Pershing Ballroom? Jimmie Lundsford = Jimmy Lunceford Amhad Jamal = Ahmad Jamal Arnet Carlson = Arnett Cobb ?? Matt Green = Matthew Gee ?? Dizzy Gillepsie = Dizzy Gillespie Harriman's Special = Airmail Special Joe Morrison = Joe Morris Matthew G. = Matthew Gee Jimmy Ryan = ?? Gene Allis = Gene Ammons King Colax = King Kolax Tineakly = ?? Mack Schroats = Max Roach E. G. Sumamon = = Idrees Sulieman (thanks to King Ubu) Shahib Shahaab = Sahib Shihab Leroy Wright = Leo Wright Neal _____, Kenny Peterson = Nils Henning Orsted Petersen Sonny Rowlings = Sonny Rollins Andre Previne = Andre Previn Lou Smith = Louis Smith Gene Hammis = Gene Ammons

but isn't Canyon Lady in the second half? I also like the album with Alice Coltrane a lot... these might be my favorite albums besides Power to the People, Tetragon and In Japan

wikipedia has some more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_contrafacts

a small discographical question... who was Mac Kac, why is he called a wild man, why is his real name sometimes given as "Andre Reilles" and sometimes as "Jean Baptiste Reilles" (have also seen Baptiste, Andre Baptiste...) - are these all the same person? the same guy who made rock'n'roll records and appears on these Paris jazz sessions? thank you!

actually, ferrara hit new york in 1928 (when he was born), he became a professional musician in 1945 with Jerry Wald's band apparently... ferrara interview

wish i knew the answer - that's a great compilation... anyway, here are more live bootlegs of vidal, and also check out the other posts on that side, loads of photos and recordings of legendary, half forgotten gypsy guitarists... (haven't tried it yet, just discovered the site) http://www.patrus53.com/2009/09/15/mp3-live-tchan-tchou-jacques-montagne/

had written Steven an email concerning the tapes - apparently he's travelling the world for his Elek Bacsik research :-) (but i briefly herad from him)... miss his contributions, too

Larry, did you get my message? the other two tunes are shorter, 3 or 4 minutes each; my best guess was fagerquist, too, they also both worked with Artie Shaw around that time

I'm sure Chris Sheridan misunderstood Von, got the name wrong and I missed it. and then probably John Corbett used the liner notes as one source for his Extended Play and put a "famous" in front of "McKeefe Fitch" (page 156) http://books.google.de/books?id=KQ2WFvz6GXUC&pg=PA156&dq=%22mckeefe+fitch%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22mckeefe%20fitch%22&f=false thanks!

a brief trivia question in between - the liner notes to "Serenade & Blues" mention a booking agent named McKeefe Fitch - is that the same person as McKie Fitzhugh?

the django tracks are from brussels... Which ones? Just checked with the Jazz in Paris catalogue that says all Django tracks were recorded in Paris. can't find a neat discography right now - iirc all of the place de brouckere JiP disc, the sessions with the bands of Fud Candrix and Stan Brenders (plus the duets with pianist Ivan de Bie)

the django tracks are from brussels...

here, there are two types of fees. one is some sort of tax for public tv and radio. this you have to pay if you own a tv, a radio, or (in the internet age) a computer (because they put content on their websites) - it's more like some sort of tax, but strangely it's not collected by the tax people but by some other semi-independent organization. They have about 15 tv channels, some of them regional... but how many you receive is your problem - once you own the machine you have to pay, for a tv is a bit over 50 euro for three months... (radio and computer are cheaper); if they would at least make the wdr and ndr jazz archives available from that money - but they don't, just read 600 million euro a year go into their websites... and then independently from that there is the question of cable tv... if you sign up with one of those cable companies, you'll have to pay again, don't know how many channels you get then (40? depends), but what they bring to you is a mix of private and public tv (something like 12 public and the rest private, including some foreign channels) i have one of those digital antennas so i don't have to pay a fee in addition to that tax thing, i get like 22 channels, 10 of which are public and 12 private... (the 10 public ones are: the two big ones (left from those days when there were only two stations in all of germany) our regional one (WDR) and three more regional ones from other regions (NDR...) Arte and 3Sat (the "high-brow" tv stations, the first one a french/german cooperations) and two more recent inventions one channel for children which at night sends a steady stream of 25 minute documentaries one strange channel which also has lots of concerts, old tv series... but basically repeats one day of program all week - this is the channel with the best jazz content so i'm not complaining... )

OMG! hope my laptop battery yesterday will not develop into a series like this... what i do have right now is a bunch of crappy bills for stuff that does not give you anything in return (the remainders of last year's heating, laptop battery... and worst of all 200 Euro for less than a year of public television, will take me months until i can watch their crappy program without a bitter taste) ; and i can't say it's not the money :-)

though they didn't listen to Jazz themselves, my parents decided it would be the thing to do for me, so when i was fourteen (hadn't listened to music before) they got me JE Beherendts Jazz history and two best-of cds (bennie goodman and duke ellington); i more or less memorized the book and then started to explore the music; lost interest at 19 (more or less stopped listening to music) and then got started more seriously again at 23... i still like the stories about as much as the music i guess

netz had his first paper i could find in the scandinavian journal of psychology published in 1963 and a steady stream of papers through the sixties - so i guess he must at least have been a pretty advanced student in 1961? http://www.lycaeum.org/research/researchpdfs/1240.pdf

Hadn't heard of him before, Tom, but am playing his Youtube clips now. "School of Eric Alexander", I'd say. loads of grant stewart can also be heard in the smallsjazzclub archive...

I am dying to hear this version of "Shine" ! Has it worked for anyone??? see the link in my first post, i.e. http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=5196 there's a play button at the bottom of the page and Shine is around 1:09 to 1:20 works for me and it's gorgeous - now i really like to hear the rest... (and i'd really be interested in your guess of the trumpet player...) Thank you Niko, but I still am not seeing this "play button"; when I click on "Shine" the page will not load and times out. Is this the page I need to hear it? Thanks VERY much! this is the right page, for me the play button is at the bottom of the page between that charlie parker entry "(batterie)" and "Jimmy Gourley Retrospective"; there you can play the whole show and around 1:09 the ronnie singer track begins

I am dying to hear this version of "Shine" ! Has it worked for anyone??? see the link in my first post, i.e. http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=5196 there's a play button at the bottom of the page and Shine is around 1:09 to 1:20 works for me and it's gorgeous - now i really like to hear the rest... (and i'd really be interested in your guess of the trumpet player...)

thank you!!