Niko

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!!

i use google (with site:organissimo.org in the query)... like this morning i was looking for gene ammons threads and the more meaningful ones didn't come up because the name is mentioned too often here ;-) if one could get at least the second 200, third 200 etc :-)

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...