medjuck

Thanks for the update. I just looked at that DEMS link again and was happy to see that they're including 8 tracks from the 1943 Hurricane broadcasts. I have a tree of much of the '43 Hurricane material but would love to see an official release of all of it at some point. There is a Storyville release (I guess that's official) of 3 Hurricane broadcasts from '43 including one "Pastel Period" broadcast. "At the Hurricane" Storyville 101 8359.

Is "his orchestra" with Pops the usual '50s line-up? It sounds like an interesting set of songs?

Is "Soundcloud" Sony? And what is Soundcloud? They have lost of samples from the set posted.

Wow. Got to try to find a way for my father-in-law to see this. He always talks about going to hear Feldman when he (Feldman) was a child. (I on the other hand lived a couple of blocks from a club where Feldman used to play late in his life and I foolishly never went.)

medjuck, I have read on another forum that two of its members thought that this album reminded them of Henry Threadgill. What do you think of that? Don't know Henry Threadgill's work at all. If that's the case I should probably check him out. Reminded me of Ornette Coleman and Muddy Waters.

This is one great record! (Actually it's 3 great cds.)

I have a recording of them at Newport that summer. (I know it's not in Europe but it is the same group.)

One of the jams "Farewell Blues" with Bird and Bechet is available from Amazon as a download. It's on Bird's Eye Vol. 12.

The DVD looks like it's the same as a European DVD I bought which has the Stockholm and some of the Karlsruhe concert. (The full concert took up more than one cd.)

Browsing through both Amazon and ITunes I noticed that some rare Bird is available for download: Uptown and Philology releases. Don't know if they're exactly bargains but they're a lot cheaper than the hard copies i've been able to find.

I've watched them all over the past couple of months. The combo of Red Mitchell, Red Norvo Shelly Mann, Barney Kessell and Pete Candoli and Johnny (Star Wars) Williams is only in the first episode. The 2nd has Candoli, Williams,Mitchell Bob Bain and Mel Lewis. After that it's usually actors pretending to play instruments, though Fred Katz and Paul Horn show up in one of the later episodes. (BTW on the record release, Norvo is replaced by Larry Bunker.) The show is really interesting. It seems to have changed it's name from Staccato to Johnny Staccato about half way through the season. The end credits say it was shot in Hollywood but every episode has at least one scene showing Cassavetes walking through the streets of Manhattan doing something specific to that episode. Some of episodes are generic and pretty bad but many are very good. One excellent one directed by Cassavetes, has a very film noir look, and stars Elisha Cook Jr. and a glamorous Cloris Leachman L

Thanks guys. I have a vague memory of a picture of the Englewood Cliffs studio showing a chimney like sky-light. Am I hallucinating again?

My son has been working in a recording studio recently, so I began to tell him about Rudy Van Gelder. I wanted to show him some photos of his studio (especially his parents' place in Hackensack because my some had done some recording in our living room). I'm sure I've seen some but I can't find them on-line. Anyone know where I might look?

Happy B'day and many more!!!

Thanks Chuck. Must admit I've never listened to these before. Put them on my nano and listened to them a the Y while working out. I love the way he accompanies himself while he talks. Does he often sing on commercially released records? Drove to San FRancisco last weekend and listened for four hours or so. (My wife put her iPod on shuffle on the way back-- not that she didn't enjoy the Morton.) Wonderful stuff. One question: what's the percussive sound that accompanies many of the songs, his foot tapping?

To get more insight on the German take on 'proper' music, CA 1930s-40s, read Josef Skvoreky's preface to his novella The Bass Saxophone (the point of which is to give the background against which he and both his real-life Czech friends and the story's fictional characters rebelled with swing dancing, playing jazz etc.). He cites strict Nazi-era rules re 'correct' dance tempos (which I believe even specified metronome markings) to be strictly adhered to by German dance band musicians. Any feeling at these tempos remotely evocative of swing is to be, of course, avoided. For musicians to disregard such directives or otherwise veer towards jazz/swing was to draw dangerously close to indulging in 'JudeoNegro Music' and, if memory serves, 'JudeoNegro caterwauling'. March tempos for military and other official bands are similarly delineated as to the permissible and the verboten. And I'm only remembering the tip of the iceberg, the list goes on and on and gets nuttier and funnier by the sentence. It really makes remarkable reading. Do yourselves a favor and pick up a copy. I also heartily recommend the novella itself. It's Skvoreky's finest hour IMO. At one point I owned this book. I'm not sure if it is in storage or I let it slip in one of my moves. I'll try to track it down again... I myself bought it at least twice, and would again in a heartbeat if it's not in storage. Aside from the great satirical nailing of petty officials in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Skvorecky writes quite poetically and accurately about what music does and musicians do. Very amusing and potent general imagery also. He's well translated in English, and not speaking his native language I can only guess as to whether he's as good a writer in his native tongue as anyone ever was. I'm a reader, not a literary critic, but my instincts say 'yes'. After reading The Bass Saxophone I read everything available by him, starting with short stories which were thinly disguised accounts of growing up with his jazz-playing teen friends. I next progressed to a detective mystery of the type he was compelled to write under a pseudonym to survive after getting in trouble with the Czech government for writing The Heroes. The Heroes, naturally my next read, got him in hot water for his temerity in portraying the Soviet army liberators of WWII concentration camps as humans with human frailties, not the gods the Party was officially letting on about. He eventually emigrated to Canada, where he wrote as he wished and also enjoyed a career as a professor. I've heard of health problems in the past few years at what must be an advanced age. We can only all wish Josef Skvorecky the best for a lifetime of service as artist and conscience who spoke for many. Glad to see the reference to The Bass Saxophone. Josef is an old friend and I'm proud to say the English translation of the novella is dedicated to me. Unfortunately he has been ill recently.

And one of the many collections from the Blanton -Webster version of the band.

Thanks Chuck. Must admit I've never listened to these before. Put them on my nano and listened to them a the Y while working out. I love the way he accompanies himself while he talks. Does he often sing on commercially released records?

Garner played harpsichord on two cuts of each volume of a 2 volume Columbia release entitled Paris Impressions.

And Duke and the band Love You Madly!

OK this is what I tried to post.

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Great shot - of Laurie. Yeh, but Louie's cute too. And what am I: chopped liver?

Me, Laurie and Louie.

I have several of the '67 concerts and this should be at least 5 cds. (Maybe with a DVD too?)