Niko

so, after some searching i got the now broken links to the files (google and archive didn't have them but bing had cached the site...) anybody got an idea how to get the files from here on? archive doesn't work... http://lemerle.fr/ronniesinger/01%20Tea%20For%20Two.mp3 http://lemerle.fr/ronniesinger/02%20Donna%20Lee.mp3 http://lemerle.fr/ronniesinger/03%20Shine.mp3 also found another bit from a gourley (?) interview (jazz forum 80-81, guess there are one or two more sentences "Ronnie went to new York after Jimmy [Raney] did. He worked with Artie Shaw a bit. But he was terribly strung out. Couldn't get off it. A nice guy, man. Beautiful guy. He finally married a chick who was using and they committedd suicide."

can't access them but apparently he's mentioned in these two New York Times articles from around 1980 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E12F83B5413718DDDA90994D9405B8084F1D3 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40E13FB3C5F12728DDDA90B94DA415B898BF1D3 this woman should know (Patricia Myers): http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contrib.php?id=2031 and here's a gorgeous photo of the nadine jansen quintet, just to make sure it's the right john daley: from this page: http://www.nuancemusic.org/gallery.html

here: http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2005.html John Daley - Died 5-22-2005 - Heart complications ( Jazz ) He was 74 years old - Bass player - Worked with Joel Robin he's on this cd (Live on Letterman) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9fpxqujldae he plays on an album by Nadine Jansen ("A little taste") http://www.8-track-shack.com/nadine-jansen-a-little-taste-p-41228.html apparently lived in Phoenix Arizona at the end

apparently the ronnie singer tape was available for download for some time but not anymore? (or does this link work for anybody else: http://lemerle.fr/ronniesinger/ for me the whole site lemerle.fr , website of dominique lemerle and his son félix is down) did anybody manage to get it and could help me out? thank you! besides, one tune can still be heard in this great Gourley tribute radio show (by Félix Lemerle) http://www.radiocampusparis.org/?p=5196 around 1:09 and it sounds great! anybody got an idea who the trumpet player might be? thought i'd also quote this post by larry kart, about the largest chunk of singer information on the web:

Dancer Teddy Hale takes the lie detector test (concerning Wardell Gray's death)

articles about Thomas Glover (?) from Ebony (1960) and Jet (1963)... most surprising part is that Freddie Webster reading the bible was the start of it... The Jazz Musician who became a monk A monk returns to life

funny, that last link i gave has a bigger line-up (more similar to but not quite the same as on the other Brom session) and most notably adds Edmond Hall on clarinet on the three tracks...

here's the whole tour... (everything too far for me i guess, except maybe Munster; Esslingen is closest to Zurich I guess...) February 18th, 2010 Amsterdam (NL) February 19th, 2010 Berlin (D) February 20th, 2009 Gdansk (PL) February 21st, 2010 Krakow (PL) February 23rd, 2010 Paris (F) February 24th, 2010 Bruxelles (B) February 25th, 2010 Munster (D) February 26th, 2010 Vienna (A) February 27th, 2010 Neuburg a.d. Donau (D) February 28th, 2010 Esslingen (D) March 1st, 2010 Graz (A) March 3rd, 2010 Zaporozhye (UKR)

hard to find anything definitive... apparently: Gustav Brom is on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Brom Yancy Körössy is on it: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C5%91r%C3%B6ssy there it says: Diversi muzicieni: Karel Krautgartner, Gustav Brom, Karel Vlach here's a track list: http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4058469536 Semaphor Blues auf der Haltestelle In memoriam Oscar Pettifords Concertion für Alt-sax & Jazz-Orchester Vindobona Der Herr mit dem Zylinder Fullhand Ein Segelboot Der alte blues Der zweite Versuch and it says: artist: Studio 5 Group (feat: Ianci Körössy), Orchestra Gustav Brom, Jazz Studio Prag, Karel Krautgartner Orchester, Metronom Combo and: modern-piano-jazz album, featuring: GUSTAV BROM, IANCY KÖRÖSSY, JARMILA VESELA, KAREL RUZICKA, KAREL KRAUTGARTNER, KAREL VELEBNY and here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34532&mode=threaded&pid=658111 couw gave the details to one track: here is a scan of the track list with (I guess) composer names http://i.ebayimg.com/08/!BddUlQ!Bmk~$(KGrHqUH-DEErQMhy7+dBK5FeQhul!~~_12.JPG finally, this site is dreadful to read but it seems to have the complete (edit: not quite complete compared with couws information, but still...)discography for the album http://www.dismarc.org/index.php?form=display&db=0&oaiid=KKA/MED000053089%20

apparently there is a wave of swedish stuff, besides the wickmann there will also be a monica zetterlund 5 cd set some details here: http://www.digjazz.se/Diggat.repris.html#Monicabox

weird... the petrucciani, galliano, lagrene and marcus miller sets are labeled as dreyfus but i can't find them on the dreyfus page; the miller contains the albums The Sun don't lie, Free, M^2, Silver Rain und Tales, most of which don't appear to be dreyfus albums (it says JVC Victor on allmusic)

funny chico comes up now... wondered earlier today about that often read statement, that von freeman never got as famous as his son chico... i am sure this was true some point in the 80s (?)... being young, far outside the jazz world (and hanging out in this vonski-centric place): is this still a valid statement?

they are getting more and more, http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/search?fastsearch=original%20album%20series&pd_orderby=preisdesc&page=1 http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/search?fastsearch=original%20album%20classics&pd_orderby=datedesc some are only three cds though! hadn't been aware of the bireli lagrene and richard galliano box sets; and there's a putte wickmann! [and aztec camera!]

read here, mike reed is his own (and not only his own) booking agent... link

no. but it's interesting to see Art Simmons' enthusiasm for the new music...

from Jet, 8 January 1970 "Another freedom group, L'Art Ensemble performed at the American Students Center here. In the group are musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, Leslie Bowie, Larry Jarman and Grachan Moncur III" (there's a second mention from July 1970, where they're called Art Ensemble of Chicago and all the names a spelled right...) http://books.google.com/books?id=SDkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=%22grachan+moncur%22&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&hl=de&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22grachan%20moncur%22&f=false

french and german amazon still have reasonably priced copies... amazon.fr has many of the americans swinging in paris cds on sale for 9,45 Euro actually... the Lucky Thompson from that series is a big favorite (no overlap with the vogue and jazz in paris cds which are also great, but i like this on best)

This link doesn't work!!!! works for me...

ah, thanks (that's all the translation i wanted...); and if Fridhemmet is as peaceful as i imagine it to be, i hope it's only Netz's work place ...

this looks like a more recent trace... (what does it say? looks like trouble but my swedish is almost non-existent and google translate isn't quite up to the task) http://blogs.myspace.com/popochstropp

LA Times Obit RIP Johnny Griffin's Grab this with Bryant and Joe Pass was my most played album for quite some time...

tried to buy a copy a few months ago but it had already become rather pricey.... http://www.amazon.com/Death-Bebop-Wife-Grange-Rutan/dp/1881993426/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263389302&sr=8-2

don't have time to compare, listen.. right now, but this is one of the tracks from Joe Pass' appearance on Frank Evans' Frankly Jazz show, there are two tracks the audio is at least different and the announcements are still there so maybe Evans mentions the lineup (so far i only heard Gary Peacock on bass metioned - seems like that's all); read somewhere it's from 1962; seems like we need someone with sharp eyes and a good memory here!

seconded, i am really not following German jazz much, but this is a great record!

think i read four jazz books in the past year, Ashley Kahn's books on Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme I found cheap; both perfectly ok, the A Love Supreme a bit better, the Kind of Blue a bit worse... then I read John Szwed's Miles bio, which was great, favorite Miles book so far (i.e. compared to Nisenson, Troupe and Kahn); and then i did my best reading San Quentin Jazz Band although it was in French..., it's a weird book, relying mostly on criminal records; it's basically an endless story of jail, stole a piece of meat at the grocery store while out on parole, back to jail, released, driving without a license while out on parole, back to jail... some more interviews with contemporaries, discussion of records... would have made the picture a great deal more complete... but then, getting a collection of new biographical details for artists like Earl Anderza and Dupree Bolton was great....