Trumpet Guy

Check out on youtube---Hans Groiner!! You won't be sorry

Funny--just yesterday was listening to Don Cherry and Albert Ayler(CopenhagenTapes 64') and thought Don Cherry had influenced Bill Dixon! Don here was playing short lines--1, 2 or 3 notes--just letting them speak for themselves, rather than creating a "melodic line"--that took me to those 80's dates Bill Dixon did for Soul Note. I would not say Dixon was uninfluenced by Cherry.But Dixon did go his OWN way!

Can I add Ornette's Crisis too?

Damn--you're bitter! You are interesting & provacative, but...

Pm sent Adam(I hope!) re: Jacques Coursil-Way Ahead

Maybe Jaleel Shaw on alto? Suede Shoes? Written by Cal Massey?

Thanks to you both! I checked Amazon now...$25 & up for used or new! I guess that answers my question about its ease of availablity... Not an ebay fella...CD Universe--huh!

Jackie McLean--New & Old Gospel... How hard to find? Any cheaper leads? Thank you for your help!

It was a very enjoyable show! Rava was excellent--beautiful tone & approach. These 2 were a crack up--quite a comedy routine! I dug it! Lots of variety of material--many Rava tunes, The Man I love,Cheek To Cheek...Great duo performance! Both showed thier knowledge of jazz styles--stride,bop,modal,romantic,classical... I'd love to hang with Rava, I think. Turnout was a bit disappointing--probably 70 people Welcome to the U.S.

Thank you 7/4!

Here in Cambridge,MA tonight, I get to see for the 1st time in the flesh, Enrico Rava in a duo setting w/ pianist Stefano Bollani! I'm obviously psyched to get to hear, in person, someone I've enjoyed a long time.Cat's been recording for ECM for almost 30 years...certainly been recording for 30 years easy! Any one else going tonight or caught them elsewhere?

Lage Lund and Lionel Loueke seem to have a buzz about them in some places...

Thank you Chuck! I'm honored! I was in San Diego recently-heard trumpet "legend" Don Ferrara lives there. Got a phone # now--I wanna' call him next visit out.True dat Don Ferrara is out there? For those that don't know--that tune Chuck checked out, "Sunflower", was composed by Don Ferrara on the record by Lee Konitz, "Very Cool".

Just wanted to add that I now have a page at: www.myspace.com/philgrenadier features a few unreleased tracks as well as the title tracks from my 2 CDs. Thank you!

Thanks everyone for the well-wishes! Much appreciated by me!

Yeah I just bought "High Energy"(on vinyl for $1) and was pleasantly surprised by the excellent playing and tunes.This is another record in that Herbie/ Mwandishi vibe/zone. Freddie even uses the echoplex or something from that time on his trumpet. George Cables plays great! Yeah I think Superblue is a great recording! Bundle Of Joy has that great trumpet ballad tune--"A Portrait Of Jenny"--Freddie and harp! But the rest of the album was pretty funny... I actually saw Freddie live for the first time about the time High Energy came out. George Cables was in the band on electric piano (a quintet), Henry Frankin on bass guitar, I don't recall the tenor player but it wasn't Junior Cook. He didn't use any electronic effects on his trumpet. I suspect Freddie was having a good time back stage because he made us wait a really long time for the second set, which was late and short, but he played Spirits of Trane, which made the wait worth it. Ha! I first saw Freddie a little later-like 1980 or so. That band was Hadley Caliman,Billy Childs,Bassist--Kline(?),Carl Burnett. I was hooked!

Yeah I just bought "High Energy"(on vinyl for $1) and was pleasantly surprised by the excellent playing and tunes.This is another record in that Herbie/ Mwandishi vibe/zone. Freddie even uses the echoplex or something from that time on his trumpet. George Cables plays great! Yeah I think Superblue is a great recording! Bundle Of Joy has that great trumpet ballad tune--"A Portrait Of Jenny"--Freddie and harp! But the rest of the album was pretty funny...

Yeah Fantastic! I realize its not complete, but I have a record from the SF Bay Area--"Gettin' Together" that Woody's on from the mid 70's. I will have to check that title when I get back to SF next week... I've never heard/seen that Carlos Ward-Lito from late 80's! Would love to hear/see those Mt. Fuji dates from 86'! Never crossed my path...DVD too? Thank you!

Freddie Hubbard on Billy Joel's "52nd St." Brad Mehldau on some Willie Nelson record... Miles Davis--besides w/ Cameo(also w/ Kenny Garrett),Scritti Politti, Toto! Larry Grenadier on D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar"? Yeah that Ornette solo on "Scar" kills!!!

So...how is it? Is it live? Very cool find!

I'm a huge fan of Hino's. I put him up with Eddie Henderson at the tip- top level "mainstream" players still alive. Like Eddie Henderson, Hino comes out of Miles, Freddie, etc. Like Eddie he can play bop,changes,funk and(more than Eddie) free. He can do it all. Great sound and soulful! Hino's been out there a long time now. Those 60's records are cool--one w/ Johnny Harman is cool. Lots of free records in the 70's, then funk, then return to standards. Some of my faves: May Dance--w/Sco,Ron Carter, Tony Williams Hal Galper--Now Hear This(see above) Elvin Jones--Earth Jones(w/ Liebman,Kirkland,Mraz) Sam Jones--Visitation(w/Bob Berg,R.Mathews,Al Foster) Terumasa Hino--Trans Blue( w/ strings,K.Kirkland,Jim Hall,Eddie Gomez,G.Tate) Terumasa Hino--Unforgettable(w/Cedar Walton) I bought a recent Japanese Something Else CD recently in SF, but it wouldn't play on a CD player, computer, etc so I took it back It looked fantastic(and similar to that great "Unforgettable CD) except it had Sir Roland Hanna on it in a quartet.Anyone have/heard this??? Hino is the real deal!

Hell yeah! Just bought the vinyl of "Music From the Spheres" and am really enjoying the music. Barbara Donald does sound fantastic playing this style. Some solos really remind me of Booker Little, or where he might have gone if he lived a few more years after 61'. This music was recorded in 1966. Boy, she sounds great--free but with technique! Her and Sonny Simmons play beautifully together! Is she still alive? I wanna get those records she did for Cadence--good stuff? ← Answering some of my own questions: It appears Barbara Donald passed away--according to ESP promotion for this reissue. Just bought Barbara Donald's 2 Cadence Lp's from the early 80's-- The liner notes(interview) speaks of her influences---Benny Harris was her teacher! He introduced her to Sonny Simmons--came to San Diego. "You have to go inside before you can even attempt to go outside and Sonny was already inside and was going outside. I was inside and he taught me to go outside. So I stayed down there 3 or 4 months, we just played everyday and he had me listening to Booker Little and I think he really influenced my playing..." "Listening to Booker Little and Eric Dolphy turned me all around".

I love Lester Bowie too--Had to listen to "The Great Pretender" on Holloween(as I always do--that Ghosts tune)--reminded how heavy Lester was...again! Recently was given a great Lester Bowie interview from WKCR's 1979 Miles Davis Festival. Lester speaks of his great love of Miles' music--he also says he has 3 main influences. Kenny Dorham "threw water on Lester's head" to wake him up to a softer slick approach to trumpet. Then Freddie Hubbard "punched him in the face" by saying you have to deal with the instrument-playing all that trumpet. Then Miles "kicked him in the ass"! Lester talks of a few weeks before being in Miles neighborhood and just ringing his doorbell--to tell him how much he loved Miles. Miles had him up and they did their thing...

Sure wish he was coming to my town!