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11. Carinhoso ( Pixinguinha) / from OBRIGADO BRAZIL by Yo-Yo Ma ( 2003) Yo-Yo Ma; cello / Paquito D’Rivera clarinet ( Romero Lubambo guitar, Cyro Baptista percussion) Recorded New York City, August 2002 A great record, although I agree that Yo-Yo Ma is not a jazz musician which makes it too perfect - too "classical" as Seeline suggests, but I was surprised to find this great album played by Yo-Yo Ma, who played cello, together with Itzhak Perlman and Anthony Mcgill, at the festivities on the 20th of January this year at the Obama Inauguration, dedicated to the neglected Brazilian Choro-music - a music style that has a lot of relations with early jazz. If you love to learn more about Choro music you're invited to visit the Choro Music blog from my Danish friend Jo - a unique informative site. He wrote about the Pixinguinha composition Carinhoso of course - a traditional in Choro. Yo-Yo Ma and Paquito D'Rivera: two great musicians. Keep Swinging Durium

??? That is Carinhoso, although who the clarinetist is... not sure. Is that Jaques Morelenbaum on cello? It's Yo Yo Ma on cello, I think - too classical-sounding not to be. Your suggestions that this tune should be Carinhoso was RIGHT Seeline and Harold_Z . Sorry 'bout that. I had intended to use the tune Salvador but uploaded Carinhoso instead. You were correct. Sorry Seeline :blush2: Sorry Harold_Z :blush2: It's a great tune too, although it thwarts my motto Keep Swinging Durium :blush2: :blush2:

6. Sure - the title isn't the most worst part of this track: I Got Rhythm. But who's the tenor player. you're right - not Golson nor Wardell. 7. You're right - it's not Barney Kessel. 8. Well - you're right about the composer - Hoyt Curtain. I'm sure most of you will recognize the title. But who is playing it? 9. No, it isn't Francois Rabbath and ........ is it a bass you hear? :blush2: 10. Mind your heart ........... You'll know it within a few weeks? Well - tomorow the rest ................ Keep Swinging Durium

Thanks Thom being the first one with a lenghtly commend on all tracks. Great - You did a good job, although I can't go in depth to some of your remarks. 1. So do I - a great bass player ................ 2. I was surprised too by this trumpet player ( you're right - he's younger then most of us ........ ) when I heard him for the very first times. 3. You'll be surprised ........... 4. Well you are saying a lot of wise words, but I don't want to go in details now. It has a lot of common with the Sun Ra experiments, and so you're "hot' - let me help you a bit - it was recorded ca. 1970 and he had made some really great recordings before. ................... 5. No, not Ron Carter. Thanks for the first five. The rest will follow later this evening .............. or tomorrow !! Keep Swinging Durium

Thanks Harold_Z for your first suggestions. Your thougts about Slam and Don are correct - Let's keep the track number secret for some days, but of course you're invited to give it in a next posting. I understand that it is difficult to make notes, while driving a car ( It is even forbidden here in Holland ) So - give the track number later. The suggestion that one of the tunes should be Carinhoso is wrong and the name Paulo Mauro is not on this selection too. Keep Swinging Durium

Thanks Hot Ptah for slamming the first ball into the net. Good to read that you enjoyed the selection. Your suggestion about track one is wrong. Sorry 'bout that. Keep Swinging Durium

You're right - if you make a small error in your links ( psot instead of spot), these guys love to inform you about their passion .......... I've checked it !! Thanks for warning! I'll forward you the link sending you a pm. Keep swinging Durium

It seems that more participants don't have received a link. Please send me a PM so I can help you. Keep Swinging Durium

The dancefloor has been opened .................... Good luck ............... Keep swinging Durium

GRAEME BELL My age is 90, I have a fairly good long and short memory and can remember that short 7 day tour like it was yesterday. Thanks for you efforts to link me up with Graeme after so many years. As one gets older we tend to look back at the good old times. It was back in the 50's when I was very fortunate to be asked to drive the great Graeme Bell "Aussie" Jazz Band for a 7 day Tour of the UK. I wonder if you remember, Graeme, when we stopped in Carlisle and you had visited an army surplus store and purchased a suit of camouflage fatigues and came back to the coach wearing same. Later at a meal stop, you stayed in the coach, took off the cam suit, stuffed it with cushions etc; until it looked like some old tramp, so that when we returned it looked like some stranger had got in the coach, as it had a hat on and even a smokers pipe in it's mouth, at the time very funny to all of us. Bill Usher ( Canada) Bill Usher: I drove the Graeme Bell coach (1952) Keep swinging Durium

Big Al can offer you a link or you can send me a pm ( for a link or a copy). Durum

As BFT # 69 seems to be finished ( Thanks Hot Ptah) I'm ready to start BFT # 70. It's my third BFT ( previous ones were # 44 (Keep Swinging) and # 61 (Something Old Something New )) and I've tried to give this one a motto too - although it won't be easy to find it. I'm sure you can find some record tunes and soloists, but the major goal is to let you enjoy some good music. I won't interupt the discussion during the first week to give you all the possibility to shoot at the 15 tracks - I'll post my first commends during the weekend. Good luck ............... Keep swinging Durium

THELONIOUS MONK You haven't heard Monk until you've seen him playing..... The 1966 Scandinavian concerts are well known, but some less known fragments exist from concerts in Paris and Warshaw from that same trip The Paris fragments are from a French broadcast, which makes the quality rather poor, but the shots are great. The Thelonious Monk Quartet featured Monk at the piano, Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums. The shots from the Paris concert were made from the very beginnings, behind the curtains, and include some preparations before the concerts starts, which gives it that special feeling as if you are part of the performance. Thelonious Monk Live Recorded on film (1966) Keep swinging Durium

Dear friends, BFT # 70 will be the next test to get your teeth into. Big Al will organize the download version later, but if you love to have a CDR send out, send me a personal message - as it takes some times to reach your post box. The BFT #70 contains one CDR. Keep swinging Durium

Well - I just received the second set of BFT # 69 and of course I played the selection right away while driving to Rotterdam this morning. I love to congratulate HotPtah with this selection, because it's very diverge in jazz styles, but also in time. Great to hear a great Charlie Johnson traditional beside Sun Ra and that kind of stuff. Well - I recognized the older stuff like the great Django Reinhardt track ( BTW: Django should have celebrated his 100th birthday next year - a great moment to remember his music) and, of course James P. Johnson 's stride piano. For me it was an eye opener to learn that James P. was a great composer of suites too, like Yamekraw. Each time when I start to listen to a BFT I learn how limited my knowledge is in recognizing certain soloists and tune titles. Well - I don't have to feel inferior about that, beause I know that a lot of jazz fans have the same experiences. So, back at home I wrote down what I recognized, like Django, and James P. and tunes like Crepuscule with Nellie and learned that most tracks were already identified. I'm anxious to learn what names are behind the other tracks, so ................. please !! Thanks for these great diverge selections. Next BFT # 70 ( December 2009) will be compiled by me - I'm waiting for Big Al to start the sign in as he will do the online downloads, but I guess I could open the sign in for those who want a CDR send out. it's only one CDR and I hope it will surprise and amuse you ................ Keep swinging Durium

Horace Silver "Sterling Silver" Blue Note BN-LA945 Keep swinging Durium

MED FLORY Med's charts and the charts he motivated others to write for him are like pure rocket fuel. They take off and don't stop. Part of Med's gift was a knack for assembling just the right swingers. Like a kid who keeps tinkering with hot rods to get them to go faster, louder and cooler, Med routinely assembled groups that out-did the last ones. Musicians impressed into duty (often in the same band) included Al Cohn, Johnny Bello, Doug Mettome, Hal McKusick, Billy Byers, Urbie Green and so many others. Med's leadership dates bring new meaning to his "dream bands. ( Marc Myers Jazz Wax blog ) Enjoy the second part of Med Flory's career during the 1950s: Med Flory: His Dream Bands Keep swinging Durium

MED FLORY The introduction to Med Flory must have been somewhere during the 1960s or 1970s, as I was an admirer of the Bonanza TV-series that was on Dutch television, broadcasted by the KRO ( 1963 - 1972 ). Med Flory was to be seen in just four episodes, so I really don't remember him. Last month I was introduced to a complete other side of this actor - his biggest love - music - as a bandleader, jazz saxophone player and, above all, a great composer. Med Flory: Go West Young Med Med Flory is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Supersax, the commercially successful reed ensemble started in 1972 that plays transcriptions of Charlie Parker's solos. But before Supersax, Med was one of the most dynamic alto saxophonists, arrangers and bandleaders on the New York and Los Angeles scenes in the 1950s. If you listen to his leadership recordings from the mid- and late-1950s or his work with Terry Gibbs and Dave Pell, you'll be taken aback. I certainly was. ( Marc Myers in zijn Jazz Wax blog ) Keep swinging Durium

RALPH SUTTON Possibly no one in popular music had a more infectious personality than the late Fats Waller. Enjoyment bubbled out of everything he did. Whether pounding a piano with a curious sort of elephantine delicacy or impishly tinkering around with the console of an organ, he effused an enthusiasm and likeability that has rarely been equalled. Sutton's playing is characterized by a robust but tastefully controlled technique, an impeccably precise sense of rhythm, and an ebullient dancing quality. Ralph Sutton plays the music of Fats Waller Keep swinging Durium

DUANE TATRO His eleven compositions here are redolent of several of the "futuristic" trends in West Coast jazz of the period. The octet scores are full of striking textures, sounds and directions - jazz may not have gone this way, but it's still fascinating to listen back to what might have happened (cover text). This record from the 1950s is the only record as a jazz composer. Duane Tatro, who would become a famous composer for TV and film soundtracks, is rather unknown as a jazz composer. Duane Tatro's Jazz For Moderns Keep swinging Durium

CHARLES McPHERSON Charles McPherson toured and performed with Mingus for more then 10 years ( eleven years .... a great time: Charles corrected me.). Charles Mingus, as we know, was not the most easy man to live with, but Charles McPherson was in high favor with him. One day, when Charles Mingus wanted to play with his group at a benefit concert for his friend Kenneth Patchen, who was paralyzed and needed medical aid, he couldn't offer the members of his band a fee. "Then after the set he started doling out five dollar bills: "This ( = Kenneth Patchen - the man) is my friend, but let me give you a little carfare or beer money". He was touched they'd done it. He was more touched when McPherson told him to put his five back in the kitty. His eyes actually watered. From then on, McPherson could be late, but he never got yelled at. Charles McPherson toured with the Rein De Graaff Trio along several Dutch venues. Enjoy a review! Charles McPherson performs with the Rein De Graaff Trio Keep swinging Durium

CONRAD HERWIG Happy birthday, Conrad !! Conrad Herwig: a fifty years young veteran Keep swinging Durium

LOUIS ARMSTRONG ALL-STARS in Blokker (The Netherlands) - May 1965. A few months ago I posted a topic Louis Armstrong - 1959 about a legendary concert by Louis Armstrong then 50 years ago, May 1959 in the Blokker auction hall. It was a great success and Louis had liked it very much - he promised to come back. And he did so .......... six years after this concert Louis returned to Blokker, a small village between Enhuizen and Hoorn in, what we call, de kop van Noord-Holland, the northwestern part of The Netherlands. Henri Hoogewoud, now living in Spain, joined that concert with his camera. Henri made a lot of pictures and loves to share his remembrances and a selection of his photos in A unique report: Louis Armstrong in Blokker - 1965 Keep swinging Durium

Can someone tell me when it's my turn? December? January? Durium

CLAUDIO RODITI KLAUS IGNATZEK JEAN-LOUIS RASSINFOSSE Some concerts will be remembered - one of these was a performance by the Roditi, Ignatzek, Rassinfosse Trio - a three man group that impressed me in 2004 at the Dutch Porgy en Bess Jazz Club in Terneuzen. So it was great news to learn that these men would return exactly 5 years and one day later. The concert at the Porgy en Bess Jazz Club, the 18th of October, 2009, by the Roditi-Ignatzek-Rassinfosse Trio was part of their European tour 2009 - a one month tour, with 22 concerts (!) in eight different countries. These three friends, gathering each year for a short tour, enjoyed playing together and loved to share their passion for jazz with the audience. Nobody's Perfect, seems to be Roditi's motto - but this trio proved in Porgy en Bess that they could serve an almost perfect performance. Thanks for that! Another memorable concert in the more then 50 years history of Porgy en Bess. Roditi - Ignatzek - Rassinfosse Trio: Nobody's Perfect Keep swinging Durium