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I would be impressed if they were real old stained GLASS.

I'd like to know who is playing clarinet and who is playing cornet on 'Brickyard Blues', please.

I Googled on 'article originally published in Jazz Now Magazine in 1992'. Didn't help much. There are/were contributors from the east and west coast.

Maybe Vince Wallace (Bop City, San Francisco)

1970 San Francisco

Oops. George Morrow. Yes, Los Angeles & San Francisco. I knew Benny in San Francisco 1966-1970. Slightly interesting story. I was walking down the street with Benny trying to keep him from drinking and we see a newspaper headline. Louis Armstrong has died. Benny starts crying and I knew he was going to drink and I did not try to stop him. He told me when he was a very young kid Louis was on a horse in the New Orleans mardi gras and somehow they were introduced and shook hands, if I remember correctly. Benny wrote songs till the end and tried to sell them. Allen Eager came through SF about 1970 and was talking about putting a big band together. He said he was going to use me. He was impressed that a young person could play softly :-) He decided no one was good enough for him and left town. Probably there is more to that story but I don't have details :-) I should look for that Levine record. Smiley in on a Norman Williams record, a Bert Wilson record, maybe a Sonny Simmons record, and his own. I'm sure Goggle would find other recordings. Yes, a hell of a guy! Hey! This is a nice read: http://www.crouchingphotographer.com/Smiley%20Winters.htm

ditto

Some people who were VERY nice to me when I was 17-20: George Marrow, Allan Praskin, Steve Bohannon, Bill Pitman (the black bassist), Benny Harris, Norman Williams, Ollie Mitchell, Don Raffell, Ross Pollack, Albert Stinson, Smiley Winters. There were others. Some names are hard to recall just now.

Cool I have the transcribed solos that were posted in the very old Downbeat mags.

Jim R, you do follow me. You are confused by the same things I was. I myself don't express my thoughts well in print. Some famous jazz musicians have been less than kind to me but I don't wish to post about it in public. I would talk about it in private :-)

Stupid article completely ignores the role played by the dog. "I was dragged..." You have to imagine what he is talking about. Jimmy Olson would have filed a better report on his first assignment.

Moderator - Can we please change the title of this thread? Perhaps to: Sean Bergin (1948-2012) Edit: Thank you, powers that be (for changing the title).

He is in hospital and being kept asleep. http://www.facebook.com/sean.bergin3?ref=ts

Nope. Only Rollins. Not so funny really.

This is like an April Fool's joke. I guess his music and influence is now....I can't even finish the sentence. F&*K Downbeat! (is this really true?) Ok. You got me :-)

Thanks for the post. I think I've seen this on You-Tube before but in pieces about a year ago.

So...not to be confused with James Henry "Jimmy" Jones (December 30, 1918, Memphis, Tennessee – April 29, 1982, Burbank, Los Angeles) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.

Mr. Bagley plays on my favorite Pete Fountain album, "Pete Fountain Day".

I have one of Mr. G's albums I found on the Net just so I can say I don't like his music.

Kenny G

It amazes me how little respect music receives in movies & TV. Only big names (occasionally) get credit. Why the musician's union allows this is a mystery to me. Can someone inform me why this is so? It seems every crew member gets a mention but a trumpet might be featured over and over during the movie but will receive no mention in the credits. There are exceptions but almost always it will be a small "independent" movie. I understand it may be impractical to list all the musicians for every movie but in many cases this would not be so.

Good question. Reelection Blues?

Look what I did :-)

The Rita Reys LP has just been featured in a jazz blog. It's at a host site. Rita Reys - The Cool Voice Of Rita Reys 1956 01 It's All Right With Me 02 Gone With The Wind 03 My Funny Valentine 04 But Not For Me 05 I Should Care 06 There Will Never Be Another You 07 I Cried For You 08 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home With Me 09 My One And Only Love 10 That Old Black Magic 11 Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year 12 Taking A Chance On Love Vocals - Rita Reys (tracks: All) Bass - Chris Bender (tracks: 03) , Dick Bezemer (tracks: 01, 02, 04, 05, 06) Doug Watkins (tracks: 07, 08, 10, 12) , Wilbur Ware (tracks: 09, 11) Drums - Art Blakey (tracks: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12) , Wes Ilcken (tracks: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06) Piano - Horace Silver (tracks: 07, 08, 10, 12) , Jerry Van Rooyen (tracks: 03) , Kenny Drew (tracks: 09, 11) Rob Madna (tracks: 01, 02, 04, 05, 06) Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley (tracks: 07, 08, 10, 12) , Ira Sullivan (tracks: 09, 11) , Jerry Van Rooyen (tracks: 01, 02, 04) , Toon van Vliet (tracks: 03, 05, 06) Trumpet - Donald Byrd (tracks: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12) , Herman Schoonderwalt (tracks: 01, 02, 03, 04) Jerry Van Rooyen (tracks: 05, 06) Producer - George Avakian

Thank you, gentlemen (I presume) :-)