Niko

fooled around with the Social Security Death Index a bit (no Valdo Williams in there it seems btw) and stumbled across this entry: WILBUR O HARDEN 24 Sep 1916 28 Sep 1997 (V) 36080 (Titus, Elmore, AL) (none specified) 421-01-2198 Alabama now the birthdate is the one given for our Wilbur Harden, and Alabama is plausible in so far as he was born then... but how does this go together with the death date of June 1969 given usually? "(V) " is for verified

(not my doings but) the Ronnie Singer tape now found a new home here: http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieSingerLiveInNewYorkEarly1950s

scored 23 although I was born in 1981 so I am an older member of the millenial generation; guess i should be worried :-)

thank you jsngry! haven't found anything more (sarah boatner had some "serious" jazz gigs in the 70s with the likes of Bill Saxton, Rene McLean, Jaki Byard, Gregory Herbert... ) didn't help here but this blues and jazz filmography by david meeker is still a worthy download http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/warehouse/jots/200028017/0001.pdf

will google more thoroughly tommorrow if necessary... for the moment: Liederhalle? http://books.google.de/books?q=%22art+pepper%22+stuttgart&lr=&sa=N&start=0

I have explored these 'Piano Parade' shows earlier. Very interesting broadcasts. I was disappointed with the absence of one of my piano hero Bernard Peiffer on those parades! No parades indeed, but - just in case - did you see the stuff they filed under Bernard Pfeiffer?

Django with Hubert Fol http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/audio/PHD85017108/au-club-saint-germain-avec-django-reinhardt.fr.html Sonny Stitt (sounding great) with Martial Solal, too brief though http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/audio/PHD94003915/le-saxophoniste-de-jazz-sonny-stitt-en-france.fr.html Jean Luc Ponty with Eddy Louiss and Daniel Humair http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD99276171/concert-de-jazz-au-studio-105-le-trio-jean-luc-ponty.fr.html

had paid relatively little attention to the audio material so far... besides an hour of the AEC live in 1974 I just discovered a sequence of shows named "piano parade" from the mid fifties, such as this one: http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD99268047/piano-parade-du-30-novembre-1955.fr.html (check out the beautiful Rene Thomas tune starting around minute 7 or 8) "Les meilleurs jazzmen de la scène française se sont donnés rendez vous pour ce Piano parade qui présente les prestations en studio de Stéphane GRAPPELLI, SADI, Pierre FRANZINO, Raymond FOL, René THOMAS, Marcel AZZOLA, Henri RENAUD. Ils interprètent : - Stéphane GRAPPELLI et René THOMAS : "Honeysuckle Rose" - SADI : "Les Etoiles et vos yeux" - Pierre FRANZINO : "Encore" - Raymond FOL : "Le Rag de la rue sans loi" - René THOMAS : "Rien dans les mains" - Marcel AZZOLA : "Et bailler et dormir" - Henri RENAUD : "Tentation" - Stéphane GRAPPELLI et Pierre FRANZINO : "Les Petites choses"" there are more of these shows with Bobby Jaspar and others... some of these can even be streamed in their entirety here's a link to an overview of the shows, http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?search=piano+parade&vue=Audio Bill Coleman and Don Byas in 1949 http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD86040645/troisieme-jam-session-publique-avec-bill-coleman-et-don-byas.fr.html has all this been mentioned before?

in the LOC copyright files there's only Tricrotism

Residing in . thanks! but what did he do there... (given that he was active on the Chicago Jazz Scene before and after...)[a look at the map made it plausible...]

Saxophonists Gene Easton and McKinley Easton (could be easy but is confused by things like the second one being called Gene "McKinley" Easton... in places and by the fact that they apparently (ie according to most discographies) alternated in Gene Ammons working band for a time in the mid-fifties; they're not particularly related it seems) and actually a question to americans and those in the know: when it says "Eugene O. Easton, 27, of Dayton, Ohio" in a "serious" newspaper article (this one) - is that supposed to mean "born in Dayton" or residing in Dayton" or is it unclear? (interesting part about the article is the anonymous phone call, actually...)

Guérin would pronounce - very approximately - as Gaerhiiiyn this day will be remembered as the day when Brownie was mistaken for me

I like it too. That is Ajaramu. what i hadn't known until a few minutes ago that it was also Ajaramu aka Joe Shelton, the drummer on the Sonny Stitt album with Buster and Johnny Board... I didn't know that, either. Didn't know about Ajaramu Shelton, either. MG in George Lewis AACM book it says that Gene Ammons advised Joe Shelton to utilize the more show-biz like Jerol Donavon which later became Ajaramu for afro-related resons i guess... here's a pretty interesting interview (also by Lewis) with Amina Claudine Myers partly about her time with Ammons ("I hated those jam sessions at McKie’s in Chicago"...) http://bombsite.com/issues/97/articles/2857

I like it too. That is Ajaramu. what i hadn't known until a few minutes ago that it was also Ajaramu aka Joe Shelton, the drummer on the Sonny Stitt album with Buster and Johnny Board...

here are sound samples of the four Oreil albums... purists better play those before buying (or go for Carrement...?) http://www.oreil.net/catalogue.php i like at least a good deal of the tracks...

(from here)

" I had tried to bring the New York Art Quartet to Scandinavia in the fall of 1965, but it ended up only Rudd and I getting over there. So we asked Moholo and a Danish bassist named Finn von Eyben to play with us. " http://www.johntchicai.com/rub_tchicai/page_inter.html and if you want some basic genetic information about Finn von Eyben: http://www.voneyben.dk/

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