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  2. Ronnie Singer, jazz guitarist

    in Artists

    Posted

    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."

    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!

  3. Ronnie Singer, jazz guitarist

    in Artists

    Posted

    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."

    I am dying to hear this version of "Shine" ! Has it worked for anyone???

  4. Jazz Icons 4

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by Jim Alfredson

    (Larry Kart @ Dec 6 2009, 06:50 PM) Sorry if this duplicates an existing thread (I couldn't find one), but how about these? The Jimmy Smith, Art Farmer, Garner, and Coleman Hawkins seemed quite good or better from samples, and I ordered them. The Blakey is highly touted, but somehow I'm not in the mood for Freddie Hubbard at his most virtuosic on a 20-minute version of "Crisis" right now.

    I bought the Art Farmer and Blakey ones--The Farmer is fantastic with Jim Hall, Steve Swallow and Pete LaRoca! Really great set full of variety--and LaRoca/ Swallow are tippin!

    The Blakey is cool, but did not blow me away like I'd expect from 65' Freddie...but still very cool to see/hear Jaki Byard with these guys!

  7. Are Kool and the Gang live records REALLY live?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I never considered these were "live" recordings.

    Thank you, Mr. Nessa--Much appreciated!

    Not sure about Michael Ray solos, but those 3 early records have Robert "Spike" Mickens on trumpet. He sounds good and gets a feature on Jimmy Webb's "Witchita Lineman"! He sounds a bit like Randy Brecker of the time :)

    Funny how much jazz influenced Kool and the Gang, as well as my fave The Ohio Players :)

    Now purchased "Wild and Peaceful' which might be their best? Nonetheless, Robert "Spike" Mickens gets more solo space on this with very nice solos on the title track as well as "Heaven At Once". Alto player, Dennis Thomas impresses as well. I've yet to hear Mickens' solo feature on "Blowin With The Wind" on "Music Is The Message" Lp...

    Still no Michael Ray solos, but he joins Kool & the Gang later, in a less jazzy phase...

  9. bobby hackett's dixieland music

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    Posted

    One essential recommendation and one eccentric one:

    Essential: That Da Da Strain - A collection of small-group and big band sides from 1938 and 1939. The stuff with Pee Wee Russell is especially nice. It's been on various CBS labels over the years - I've got it on a Portrait LP.

    Eccentric: Hello Louis - A mid-60's album of Bobby playing Louis Armstrong compositions, common and obscure. It's a strange quasi-dixieland band, with Steve Lacy(!) on soprano sax. I like it a lot, but it certainly shouldn't be at the top of anyone's must-have Hackett list. It looks like it's out on a Collectibles CD, paired with one of his mood music albums.

    And one of my dirty little secrets is that I like Bobby Hackett's mood music albums.

    i love them, too, especially the duo one with glenn osser on pipe organ, and the gleason stuff, of course.

    i've played the tony bennet "the very thought of you'' easily a million times, mainly for the mindblowing hackett solo. the tension he builds in that solo is nearly unbearable.

    Can someone tell me what are the Gleason records--how many are there? Yesterday I bought "Music, Martinis and Memories" :)Also found "Bobby Hackett-The Most Beautiful Horn in the World" on Columbia which is excellent as well as "Enoch Light presents The Bobby Hackett Quartet plus Vic Dickerson"...I collect Hackett records like kids collect baseball cards :)

    Also which Tony Bennett LP has Hackett on it?

  10. Are Kool and the Gang live records REALLY live?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I never considered these were "live" recordings.

    Thank you, Mr. Nessa--Much appreciated!

    Not sure about Michael Ray solos, but those 3 early records have Robert "Spike" Mickens on trumpet. He sounds good and gets a feature on Jimmy Webb's "Witchita Lineman"! He sounds a bit like Randy Brecker of the time :)

    Funny how much jazz influenced Kool and the Gang, as well as my fave The Ohio Players :)

  11. Are Kool and the Gang live records REALLY live?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Their first album, virtually all instrumentals, is great testimony to the jazzy, soulful dance music of the period.

    koolthegang_koolthega_101b.jpg

    Hi Tom--Yeah, I bought their 1st album and those 2 live ones in a batch(vinyl reissues-are these from LP's or Cd's?) and found them all jazzy & instrumentals...Good stuff! My guess is that these might have been "live" but have overdubs and fixes...though the club noise is definitely suspect :) Could be bogus...Its a good way to "re-use" material from earlier LP's. I know one CD on Blue Note that was treated in this manner-to present old material again...

  13. The electric Miles legacy

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Chuck Findley, iirc. A Californian.

    Which to a New Yorker probably is foreign! :g

    I hate to say it, not being competitive`or wanting to play each 'individual snowflake' off the next, but he embarrassed the formerly great Miles Davis on that recording. Just great ideas, sound, chops. He made Miles sound like an old man who stopped practicing. The CD with the rapper was even worse, and that's really big-time embarrassing.

    There have only been two musicians, to my knowledge, that got out and did something else at the top of their games: Artie Shaw and Johnny Smith. (Isham Jones too, I guess). I respect that, it takes a lot of a lot of things to do that. I know why people keep playing, it's therapeutic and keeps you young, they don't know anything else to do, etc. But it's painful to hear Miles play like this.

    In case anyone misunderstands: there are right now musicians in their 80s and 90s playing brilliantly. Clark Terry, Dr. Billy, Benny Golson, 'kiddies' Phil Woods and Barry Harris. Miles didn't end up in that category, sorry to say. He didn't need to embarrass himself, he's an all-time great. Just not on Dingo, Decoy, etc.

    I disagree--Decoy is a great record--sorry!

    Don't love you ranking Chuck Findley's playing on Dingo as better than Miles' either, but its a free country :) Artistry?

    Also--easy to dis' DooBop as well, but Miles is truly playing great lines--very chromatic and rap like...Miles didn't lose his chops or technique to me...his artistry is always there, even if you don't like who he's playing with.

  14. The electric Miles legacy

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    It was when I heard "The Man With The Horn": "He's the man, he's the man, he's the man, he's the man with the horrrrrrnnn..." that I went "uh oh."
    That last period was not his finest hour. Lotta editing required, I think. But it's cause his chops were in the shitter.

    Branford Marsalis was trash-talking Miles from that period on his old wild-and-crazy website and I got bugged and called him on it b/c I felt it was disrespectful to a guy that helped launch him early on. (just like Miles himself calling Bird a greedly MF---it's just not classy to me) 'He didn't want cats to hear him", he said, meaning he was hiding behind the Harmon, etc. I gotta admit in retrospect Bran was right. Miles just was weak, musically and chops-wise. Trumpet is brutal after a layoff.

    I thought Star People was the strongest. It's a good blues record. He definitely got it together for that one.

    Enough dissin late Miles! :)

    OK--Please listen to the track, Ursula, from that record "The Man With The Horn" and tell me Miles wasn't still with some of his charms...

  15. Tony Fruscella

    in Artists

    Posted

    Yeah but who's got it?

    I heard Ira Gitler.

    That Fred Stoll tape...I heard Loren Shoenberg(?)has it...

    C'mon--share these gems!Don't take em with you!

    Fred Stoll is a drummer, right? Wow, haven't heard that name in years. We were in a college program for a minute, if it's the same guy. Kinda blonde, good player.

    Two very underrated trumpet players still around----and I can verify this having player with both----John Eckert and Don Hahn. I played with Eckert especially, and know what he can do----anything and with maturity, ideas, blues, swing, can take it out.......Ask Lazaro, he knows. Don is a very melodic lyrical bebop trumpet player in the context I heard him, a loose jam session, with a more-or-less set group, led by Ari Roland that I make sometimes. Probably he can do a lot of other things, too. I know he played with Maynard for years and Maynard supposedly loved him....

    Yes--Fred Stoll the drummer(Staten Island?)--If you know him, get the tape!!! :)

    Just was listening to John Eckert yesterday on Lee Konitz-"Yes Yes Nonet" and he was really kinda impressive and soulful in an interesting old school+ modern touches way--granted 30 years ago! Tom Harrell is also in the group and plays scary good on the record.

    Don Hahn I have yet to hear :) New York Mary fame and taught Jazz at Columbia in the early 80's, I believe.

  16. Tony Fruscella

    in Artists

    Posted

    found a new toy ( http://news.google.com/newspapers most stuff is subscription only but not all)

    and it got me this 1964 tony fruscella article (bob reisner, village voice)

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6m8QA...=tony+fruscella

    also check out the concert ads in the lower left corner... those were the days

    In the above article it refers to Tony's fave trumpeter, Don Joseph, as another of the goof all-stars. Ouch! Interesting he felt so passionately about not being influenced by bop...Did he not consider himself a bopper? What would he call his playing? He must have been a tough dude.

  19. Trumpeter Ted Daniel?

    in Artists

    Posted

    Have recently rediscovered trumpeter Ted Daniel on the great Dewey Redman's "The Ear Of The Behearer". I really find this style of trumpeting fascinating; a kinship, for me, to Norman Howard, Donald Ayler,Alan Shorter...Now I find myself wanting to hear other records of Ted Daniel. He is still alive? What would you recommend to hear next? They mention in the liners about his record on the Ujamaa Records from the early 70's...

    Thanks in advance! :)

  20. Rare Blue Notes

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Besides Bob Belden's "Turandot" there is "Prince Jazz" by Bob Belden's Manhattan Rhythm Club; recorded just after "Turandot" in 1993. With many players, playing jazzy Prince songs, including Wallace Roney, Kenny Garrett, Mike Stern, Tim Hagans, Marc Copland, Joey Calderazzo, Kevin Hays, Larry Goldings, Jacky Terrason, Billy Kilson...TOCJ-5565--Good Record!!! Not to be confused w/ a Belden's " Prince" US release(much less jazzy)!

  21. Henry Threadgill

    in Artists

    Posted

    Great idea. Henry has definitely created his own musical world. Not much valuable "pre-Air" but I recommend Muhal's Young At Heart/Wise In Time. Search out the About Time dates. They are all fine. Then buy the rest. :)

    I've been sleeping on Mr.Threadgill! But just received "When Was That" on About Time Records--Amazing record!!! The owner of "About Time Records" gave me the vinyl :) He still has 3 Threadgill records/CD in stock in his basement, if anyone is interested :)

    I'll be searching more out for sure!

  23. *** John Scofield ***

    in Artists

    Posted

    New Sco album coming out on 18 September, on Emarcy (he's no longer on Verve), titled "This Meets That". It's a trio album (Swallow, Stewart), augmented by horns (Roger Rosenberg - baritone sax and bass clarinet, Jim Pugh - trombone, Lawrence Feldman - tenor sax and flutes, and John Swana - trumpet and flugelhorn). Also Bill Frisell guests on one track.

    (IMO) He's played well on the 3 of his more recent recordings (Shades of Jade, Trio Beyond, and Out Louder), so hopefully this follows suit.

    Cover_This-Meet_200.jpg

    1 The Low Road 4:57

    2 Down D 5:35

    3 Strangeness In The Night 7:15

    4 Heck Of A Job 7:24

    5 Behind Closed Doors 5:30

    6 The House Of The Rising Sun 7:26

    7 Shoe Dog 8:12

    8 Memorette 6:35

    9 Trio Blues 4:16

    10 Pretty Out 4:30

    11 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:13

    Nice tour in the fall behind the CD too! ;)

  25. Bennie Maupin

    in Artists

    Posted

    Ed, thank you very much for all that!!! Much appreciated!

    You are right! The cut marked as "Exhibition" on my CD is truly Mephistopheles"--I listened to Wayne's "All seeing eye" to compare. I'm diggin' Alan Shorter!! He sounds a bit like Norman Howard's brother ;)

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