Joe

IIRC, Guernsey's (the auction house in question) has promised to make digital reproductions of all of the sheet music, manuscripts, letters, etc. available to scholars (and, one presumes, institutions) on a request basis. They did, after all, make an extensive photographic record of this collection for the purposes of posting items on Ebay and assembling their catalog (still available for purchase). I believe I heard this information in the NPR reports on this event. Promises made and promises fulfilled, of course, are very different. And a digital object is not quite the same thing as an object you can hold. But the information has been preserved. Finally, in retrospect I find this to be an embarrassing piece, but you all are, if so inlcined, welcome to peruse it for further information: http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/000778.html

Fairly interesting stuff. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4554495

Nice to see this on CD. But I think I'll hang onto my original vinyl nonetheless. Really dig the Macero and Charles arrangments on this one. Ciao, Joe

My favorites among his output. Great trumpet work by Paul Smoker on the Soul Note date... but why never a Vol. 2? The OPPOSITE VOLTAGE date is hard to track down, but worth it -- add drummer (and occasional pianist Richard Poole) to the group; it is a trio date. I believe Cadence still carries this disc if anyone is interested. Ciao, Joe

Spoken for. Thanks, Joe

Free to the first person to PM me... Red Garland, KEYSTONES! (Xanadu) This -- OOP, I believe -- CD contains live perforamnces by the trio of Garland, Leroy Vinnegar (b) and Philly Joe Jones (d) from the Keystone Corner, May 12, 1977. Be forewarned; the recording quality is pretty rough. The release is drawn from recordings Vinnegar himself made using a "portable cassette machine" (in annotator Mark Gardner's words). But the music is very special, with considerable stretching out by all involved. The program consists of: 1) Autumn Leaves (10:13) 2) It's Impossible (6:01) 3) Daahoud / New York Theme (11:45) 4) It's All Right With Me (13:40) 5) On Green Dolphin Street (15:50) Don't thank me. Thank Don Schlitten. Ciao, Joe Milazzo

COmpletely under my radar. So, we have this release to add to the material on this one: http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/2038.htm So, what's the story with these "Pio's tapes"?

INNERVISIONS all the way. And I say that knowing that, with that choice, I give up "Maybe Your Baby", "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)", "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away", "Love's In Need Of Love Today", "All Day Sucker"...

For good? As in, he never played with Mingus again? Seems to jibe with my memory of the Mingus' post-1959 bands. As, if so, Mingus firing the guy was seems in retrospect to have been a death sentence.

Could this be a reference to the old Atlantic 2-LP set PASSIONS OF A MAN? Track listing... -- Pithecanthropus erectus (10:41) -- Profile of Jackie (3:07) -- Reincarnation of a lovebird (8:31) -- Haitian fight song (11:57) -- Wednesday night prayer meeting (5:30) -- Cryin' blues (4:58) -- Devil woman (9:38) -- Wham bam thank you ma'am (4:41) -- Passions of a man (4:52) -- Tonight at noon (5:58) -- Passions of a woman loved (9:43) -- Duke Ellington's sound of love (12:04) -- Better git hit in your soul (4:35) -- Sue's changes (17:04) -- Canon (5:30) -- Free Cell Block F, 'tis Nazi U.S.A. (6:52) -- Goodbye, porkpie hat (7:00) -- Mingus on Mingus : a brief set of casual spoken reflections (3:30). I've never heard or seen said release, but it could be that the "spoken interludes" were culled from the interview (w/ Neshui Ertegun) that was appended to the big COMPLETE ATLANTIC RECORDINGS box.

Thanks so much for this info. Sounds like he has kept his dignity despite it all, which is perhaps the most important thing.

Thanks for the recs, all.

Jack Sheldon, wasn't it? SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK is another good example. Sheldon, Bob Dorough, Grady Tate. Plus, if you flash on over to the recent Eric Kloss threads, Kloss used to appear semi-regularly on MR. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD...

Great and important label. I believe it was started or at least trun for a long time by bassist Harry Miller. And the box set of Miller recordings currently available fomr this label is a must-have, IMO. Solos, duets, and some hard-hitting but joyous small-band playing, featuring Mike Osborne, Sean Bergin, Marc Charig, Willem Breuker, Trevor Watts, Keith Tippett, and others. But I still love this record perhaps most of all -- For more info, see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/elabels.html#ogun

Some of you may recall some discussion on the old BNBB, begun by JSngry, regarding RUSTY IN ORCHESTRAVILLE... http://www.wecollect2.com/Rusty%20In%20Orchestraville.htm which, despite appearing to be terminally cute, features musicla arrangements by Billy May. Really unusual and intriguing arrangements by Billy May. It was a record I myself listened to many a time as I child, all the while not suspecting that, years later, it would throw some light on Frank Sinatra's musical universe. Similarly, this past weekend, I was browsing the used CD bins and came across an RCA / Camden Special Products CD reissues of Dr. Seuss' FOX IN SOCKS / GREEN EGS AND HAM, as read by actor Marvin Miller. Again, records I had bled white as a kid. But, looking at the credit, I was surprised to see that, for GREEN EGS AND HAM, one Shelly Manne was credited with "musical direction". And that gives me a whole new appreciation for this. (Yep, the reading of GREEN EGGS AND HAM is a lot stranger than I remembered...) All of which makes me wonder about other artists who made interesting / valuable music that is easy to overlook becuase it was originally intended for a certain audience, was giving candy-coated packaging, and was not meant to be serious or lasting, but diverting / to give idel hands (and hears) something to occupt them. I'll leave you with this: http://www.kiddierecords.com/ It's not just about nostalgia, IMO.

FWIW, contemporary "free" or "non-idiomatic" improviser John Russell plays a 1936 steel-bodied Zenith, partially in homage both to Oscar Aleman and to Django Reinhardt. His work is worth checking out. the vocabulary he employs owes a lot to Derke Bailey, but he also uses rock / McLaughlin-style dynamics. Or I would say so based on his playing on THREE PLANETS. http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/musician/mrussell.html

The steel-bodied or metal resonator guitar also provided amplification without electrification, IIRC. Seems as if the guitar has always had to struggle a bit to be heard. http://www.provide.net/~cfh/national.html

Wait, I think I've misunderstood the point of this thread, sorry... Rhoda Scott at the organ...

I'll contribute.

Woke up to this on the radio. Was sure I was still dreaming! Fascinating stuff.

As someone who grew up with a father who was "physically handicapped" (a paraplegic; polio survivor), something about the laurels bestowed on MILLION DOLLAR BABY and THE SEA INSIDE just rankles. Rankles bad, in fact.

Pretty interesting interview with Ladd in the February WIRE (the one with Anthony Braxton on the cover -- another fascinating conversation, BTW).

There have been a few occasions when I did not really enjoy Jack Sheldon's playing. The Art Pepper date in question ain't one of them. Besides, anyone who can hang with Joe Maini -- musically as well as "socially" -- earns my respect.