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...from the Spike Jones Show...go figure...

Maybe Gene Ammons - Jammin’ with Gene (1956) Problem is I would not have improved the session :-) I mean, I would have been 8 years old. I didn't even start to play clarinet for another 3 years.

Jazz in Hollywood - Hollywood Saxophone Quartet. Check our website for the Hollywood Sax Project: http://www.saxproject.nl/index.php?l=uk

Akashic Records - Trane, Dolphy, Wes at Monterey 1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records I hear Down Beat gave it 2 1/2 stars. You could dance to it.

Hello Clark Terry, Happy Birthday to you... I've admired your amazing brass playing and jazz ability since 1961 or so. I had the Bob Wilber "Evolution of the Blues" MMO and noticed that you played the tonic of each chord on "one" as you went through the pieces and never sounded contrived! I had the "Festival Session" Ellington record and marveled at your sound and phrasing on Perdido. I was about 13 then. I could listen to you, close my eyes and see a smallish black dog with floppy ears having fun. Go figure...

"In 1996, while he was at his piano playing Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier,” his 3-year-old cat, Ketzel, pounced on the keyboard. The professor grabbed a pencil and inscribed a descending paw pattern from treble to bass. A year later, he entered the score — if one can call it that — in the Paris New Music Review’s One-Minute Competition, open to pieces of no more than 60 seconds. The judges gave Ketzel an honorable mention." Golly. I now don't feel so bad that critics have ignored me :-)

I have it all and it's all worth having. A great band. Even though there are people coming and going it still sounds like a band. All these guys can play. I'm esp. happy that one of my teachers, Don Raffel is on some cuts.

"He can be heard to advantage on Pepper Adams Quintet (VSOP/Mode) with Carl Perkins, Leroy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis." Yes indeed! This is a VERY fine record! It is out on CD now too. There are many highlights, but for drummers, notice how Mel plays under the melody on Baubles, Bangles, & Beads. The arrangement of Unforgettable is great and campy in the way the melody is so "west coast-ish". More Stu can be found on Stan Kenton records. I like his valve trombone playing to. I really think he has his own way of thinking through a solo.

I just found this very hard to find record on a Russian blog. Forum rules probably don't allow me to be specific. The Chico Hamilton Trio intr. Freddie Gambrell 1958 Freddie Gambrell, piano Chico Hamilton, drums Ben Tucker, bass 1 Lullaby of the Leaves 2 Recreation Blues 3 These Foolish Things 4 Ex-Ray's Friends 5 In the Still of the Night 6 You're the Cream in My Coffee 7 Midnight Sun 8 Five Minutes More Freddie Gambrell could be described as an alternative to Cecil Taylor in terms of extending the legacy of Art Tatum into postmodernism, the majority of his peers choosing to cut and run as if a reader confronted with the first half of this sentence. So much more alluring would be the combination of mysterious and mundane details out of which came his relatively brief time in the spotlight, at least by jazz standards. Blinded as a teenager, Gambrell mastered enough instruments to humiliate even a multi-instrumentalist from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He learned violin at 11, later recorded on viola, was "introduced" to the public in the early '50s by maestro Chico Hamilton as a pianist in the "blind genius" category, and also played guitar, bass, and brass instruments from top to bottom. One of the strangest things about Gambrell - which at the very least gives him something in common with Garth Brooks and the suicidal phase of Phil Ochs - was his reinvention of himself as Federico Cervantes, modern jazz trumpet player. Year: 1958 Country:USA, World Pacific Records Quality: APE + cover

Silly tune. Out of tune bari (and sometimes sop). Time is shaky. Their tones are good. Clarinet sounded and played very good!

Boy, he was really something! I saw him live in Amsterdam and other places in Holland in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was still quite a player. But in the old days...wow! What a great technician!

"Did you mean Herbie Steward?" Yes I did. I have great difficulty with spelling. I check by using Google. This time it did not work for me. Actually I thought his name was Stewart. My bad :-) I'd like to include Bob Hardaway (1928) in the list but I'm not sure he played in any of the famous old big bands.

Want some names? Don Rafael Herbie Stuart (correction: Herbie Steward) Harry Klee Jack Nimitz Jay Corre Where to stop?

and many others...

The interview in mp3 form http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/1126/

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Calvin Jackson. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. My parents had an LP of his in the early 1960s. I enjoyed it as I remember. Don't know the music you referred to.

What were you rehearsing for?

"but jack sheldon.... conte candoli.... no contest- right?" Right. It is not a contest. They are/were both fine trumpet players and jazz players with something to say. I love Jack's playing in the 50s-60s. Tiny Tim indeed. Perhaps you could listen to his work with Curtis Counce and Art Pepper.

Not me, but he does seem to do everything else. Probably is a good dancer too.

When Dreams Come True Well I think it is very funny and I hope they made a little money off it. I'm not so sure that Hartman played it for Coltrane to give him an idea of what to aim for. Also funny is that the site gives credit to someone for the audio restoration! At least the pictures were nice.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Jones. I hope you have a big cake with 90 candles.

Joe had seen the gun the day before. It was not loaded then. The owner had not yet bought any bullets. That's why he thought it was not loaded. Perhaps if he was not so drunk he would have checked it first.

Here in Amsterdam, NL I saw this week that Lenco is marketing a USB turntable. It was being sold at the Blocker chain store.