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Did he record with Bird in Montreal? I'm not at home but I think he's on an Uptown cd of Bird playing on the CBC and in a club.

I just got a Naxos release of excerpts from Kurt Weil's music for The Eternal Road. I believe that none of this music has ever been recorded before. And as i rmember it, it cost less than $10 Canadian.

So I dug up my Frankie Newton cd to hear some Pete Brown. I admit it: I would never have guessed he was an influence on Desmond. On the other hand I was just listening to some Miles Davis with Konitz from 1948. Konitz is (or was then) much more of a bopper than Desmond but their tones sure sound similar to me. What's the earliest Desmond anyone's heard?

Instead of editing the old post this time I'll add some names here. I somehow forgot nearly everyones I'd seen after moving to LA. That would include ARt pepper, Bill Perkins, Ella Fitzgerald (what I think was her last concert-- at Hollywood Bowl) Benny Carter and Stan Getz. Stevie Wonder sat in with Getz and a friend of mine compalined that he'd come to see Stan Getz not Stevie Wonder!

Miles's 2nd Quintet, Coltrane Quartet, Mingus with Adams and Pullen (but I can't remember who the 2nd horn was-- I think Charles McPherson), Dizzy w. Moody, Cannonball, Duke, Basie, Ellington, Herman, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Blakey, Charles Loyd w, Jarrett, Archie Shepp, Braxton, Lonnie Johnson,Mulligan, Brubeck w. Desmond, Oscar Peterson, Errol Garner, Sun Ra, Monk, Fatha Hines, Wingy Manone(!), a double bill of Wes Montgomery and Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Art Farmer. Ahh... keep hitting the edit button as I remember more: MJQ, Jimmy Witherspoon, Mose Allison, Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy, Annie Ross, Kenny Burrell. People I missed: Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Pee Wee Russell and Ornette Coleman. Oh well I guess there's still a chance to see Ornette. I almost saw him once in Toronto but they wouldn't let me in because I was wearing jeans!

I saw the Ellington band twice in 1964 and around the same time saw the Woody Herman band-- I think at the same club in Montreal. Stranger venues were: The Gil Evans Band in a church in Paris, Count Basie at Disneyland and Sun Ra at The Horseshoe, a country and Western club in Toronto. Saw some local toronto bands at the El Mocambo where you could actually dance to them. That was fun. In concert have seen various bands recently ( recent in my case being anything that's happend since the Beatles broke up). That's not the same as hearing them in a club but never-the-less really enjoyed the Mingus Big Band at Wadsworth Theater in LA. John Handy was with them!

I was lucky. I'd never really heard of Thompson but was taken by a friend to see Richard and Linda on the Shoot Out the Lights tour in the early 80's. I became a fan of them both. (Their marriage had already ended and they stopped performing together after that tour.) Shoot out the Lights is still my favorite of their albums though I have several others by each of them as well as all the ones the did together. Last year I was offered a ticket at the very last minute to see him solo at an 800 seat hall in Santa Barbara. Turned out the seat was in the first row. Came away thinking that he might be the greatest living guitar player but I didn't care much for his personality. Seemed pretty condescending to me. A few months ago I went to a sort of benefit concert at the same place. Each performer only did a couple of numbers. Started with Jackson Brown ended with Dave Alvin with Thompsin and a few others in between. At the end Brown came out a did a couple of songs accompanied by Thompson! Then everyone else joined them for a guitar filled finale.

That's the cd from which I got this information. Actually I got it on line so so it just had the listings and not the notes. I was looking because the supposedly complete 1929- set on Affinty has no notes. I think this session is also on a Classics Hawkins disc. Sure sounds like Hawkins to me but John Chilton doesn't mention this session in his bio of Bean.

I'm trying to verify the discographical information for the sides Coleman Hawkins cut wth Jack Purvis in (I think) 1930. I finally found this information on a Purvis listing: Jack Purvis (t,v), J.C. Higginbotham (tb,v), Castor McCord (ts), Adrian Rollini (bsx), Frank Froeba (p), Will Johnson (gtr,v), Charles Kegley (d). New York, April 3, 1930 Huh!! Is Castor McCord a psuedonym for Hawk?

I just saw Frissel with his quartet in concert. I loved it but I'm not sure it was jazz, so I can understand someone who was first attracted to him as a jazz artist "losing" him. Though I had a couple of jazz cds with him as a sideman, I first really became a fan when I heard "Good Dog Happy Man". With Frisell you never know what you're going to get. This was basically the "Good Dog Happy Man" Frissell: Guitar, dobro or steel pedal, stand up bass, drums. He ended the concert with a blistering version of Masters of War, followed by Hard Rain followed by a song of his called "That Was Then" which sounds like a variation of Knockin' on Heaven's Door. His encore was "I'm so Lonsome I Could Cry". Does that sound like a jazz concert?

I have that but I was disappointed to see that despite being called " Coleman Hawkins: The Complete Recordings 1929-1941" it's missing all of his work with Fletcher Henderson from those years. There may be some explaanatin but since the box comes with no notes I don't know what it is. I've been putting together my own discography for this set but I've still got a few holes. Anyone know who played on the 1930 Jack Purvis date ("Dismal Dan", Poor Richard" and "Down Georgia Way") or "I'm in the Mood for Love" from 1936?

So about 8 months ago my wife bought tickets for a series put on by UCSB that included a performance by Joshua Redmon. By the time the date arrived it was the SF jazz Collective with Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blades, Renee Rosnes, Miguel Zenón on alto, and Robert Hurst on bass. Talk about an all-star band. The first half of the program was all Ornette Coleman compositions and the 2nd half originals by band members. Their encore was a Coleman blues. Great stuff though I found the emphasis on compostion made it a bit constrained. I would have liked to have have heard them stretch out some more. Ironically I think the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra just played here and featured Ornette compositions also. ( Ironic in that it's doubtful one could have heard as much Coleman over the last 2 decades as one could over the last few months.)

Thanks. I did some research in a bio of Gershwin but it wasn't clear about the original production. From your research I take it that even the original production was done with dialogue not recitative.

Who's Pete Brown?

Condolences to you and your family.

Was it originally performed with the recitative ? I know it's been performed that way for a couple of decades but for some reason I'm under the impression that although Gershwin wrote it that way it was originally perfomred with spoken dialogue between the songs. Maybe I think that because an opera troupe in the 70's made a big deal about using the recitative. Surely the Cab Calloway production that toured in the 50's (60's?) didn't include it. Or did it?

Uhhh. I was going to say none. The question asks for "apostrophe f" if you read the quotation marks correctly. As is often the case nowadays there should be no apostrophe in this question. But enough pedantry. I still counted 3 the first time I read it. Great test.

Speaking of Davenport Blues: one of my favorite versions is Gil Evans's. He playes the last refrain first-- as does Gerry Mulligan, who I presume had heard the Evans version. (Ooops I should check out the chronology-- I'm not sure Gil's version was earlier than Gerry's.) Regarding that refrain-- which begins about 1 monute before the end of Bix's version-- I've heard it on many other numbers from the era and later (usually as a coda). Did it actually originate with Bix? I don't think I've heard it on any thing recorded earlier.

Wow. does that include all the Paul Whiteman appearances? Even if he doesn't solo? How many cds does that make?

Does anyone remember a version with Ray Charles and Cleo Lane?

Thanks Chuck. If I can display my ignorance: what or who is Bruyninckx?

Gotta go with Monk. As to my many gil Evans-- he didn't actually compose very much. And he had enough influence that there are some new arrangers who can sound a bit like him.

Is there a Coleman Hawkins discography out there somewhere? I'm reading the John Chilton bio and he claims Bean's first recording was Mamie Smith's Mean Daddy Blues from April 1922 supposedly recorded shortly after he joined her band. But I just got a Mamie Smith cd that lists several earlier recording dates with Hawkins starting in in October 1921.

I heard the San Francisco Symphony perform that in Prague last year. Do you know if it's available on cd? And BTW I think the only 2 "with strings" jazz reocdings I really like are Focus and Chet Baker with Strings. I also like the strings side of The Genius of Ray Charles if that counts as jazz.

Duke: About 150 cd's including those in box sets Miles about 50 plus all the box sets (Prestige and Columbia) Gil Evans: Less than 50 and I'm an Evans completist. (Yes I've got the Johnny Mathis but I'm still looking for the Billy Butterfield "Singing the Blues".) Dylan: About 50 Van Morrison: 30 Lady Day: The Decca, Columbia and Verve Box sets plus about 5 single cds Colrane: All the Impulse and Atlantic but not the Prestige box . Bird: Verve and 2 Savoy boxes plus a lot of live material. Can 't wait for the new Uptown release. Another interesting question would be "What single cut do you have the most duplicates of?" With me it's probably Hawkin's "Body & Soul". I think I have it on 5 different cds. After that would come the Django/Carter/Hawkins sessions from which I think I have at least some numbers on 4 different cds.