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  1. Charlie Rouse

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    I just want to put in a word for a sentimental favorite, Rouse's "Upper Manhattan Jazz Society" on Enja. Great tunes, great blowing. He's almost overshadowed by Benny Bailey and Albert Dailey, but that's OK with me.

    There's some worthwhile sideman Rouse on Benny Bailey's "Grand Slam" on Storyville. Interesting tunes, too.

  7. Daryl White- In the Fullness of time?

    in Musician's Forum

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    Got to admit, I like the writing better than I like the solos. But the record haunts me anyway.

    After a little digging, I found this piece on Darryl, published in The Kansas City Star on July 24 last year:

    By JOE KLOPUS

    The Kansas City Star

    You don’t think of Lincoln, Neb., as a haven for a jazz man.

    But it's been good to Darryl White, a forward-thinking trumpet player who says he’s playing more now than when he lived in Chicago.

    White, who’s recording a live CD at the Blue Room next week, gets to play jazz now and then at clubs, parties and conferences around Lincoln and Omaha. And he gets plenty of opportunities to play classical music, too.

    Both jobs suit him fine, since he teaches classical trumpet at the University of Nebraska.

    “I don’t want regular gigs anymore,” White says. “I don’t like being away from home.”

    The 40-year-old has had quite a few homes and carries strong connections to each: the Cleveland area, where he grew up; Chicago, where he studied classical trumpet and jammed; Grand Junction, Colo., where he met his wife and learned to ski and mountain bike; Denver, where he played in a classical brass quintet and jazz groups; and now Lincoln.

    White has been playing the trumpet since he was 10.

    “I could get a good sound on it right away, but I didn’t know what I was doing,” he says. He admits to having been a slow learner of scales and music theory, but his big tone carried him through while he filled those gaps in his knowledge.

    The Cleveland scene was a wonderful place to learn jazz, he says. He was listening to one of today’s saxophone titans, Joe Lovano. And he learned from giants such as Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard and even Louis Armstrong via records.

    White headed for Chicago for grad school, studying with a former Chicago Symphony trumpeter, Vincent Cichowicz. But there was a major setback along the way: White’s roommate’s dog went nuts and attacked him.

    “He only took one bite, but he took half my lip with him,” White said.

    Plastic surgeons put his lip back together — but White had to relearn his instrument.

    “When Cichowicz saw me with my lip messed up he said, ‘This could be an opportunity.’ … It was a chance to break somebody down and start from the beginning, like in the Marines. It was a blessing in disguise,” White says.

    But it’s also a worry anytime he gets some little twinge in his lip.

    “Don’t think I don’t think about it,” he says.

    White’s recording at the Blue Room will be his third jazz album. He also has a classical CD in the works, with pieces by Art Lande, a Denver composer who’s also active as a jazz pianist. (These guys who work both sides of the street hang out together.)

    There’s a guest on the Blue Room dates: alto saxophonist Bobby Watson, whom White remembers from a clinic Watson gave at his college years ago.

    “I doubt he remembers it,” White says. “But it’s fun to play with some of your musical heroes.”

    Friends from Denver and Kansas City will make up the rest of the band: pianist Jeff Jenkins, bassist Kenny Walker and drummer Matt Houston from Denver, plus sax man Gerald Dunn from 18th and Vine. Kansas City drummer Mike Warren will also play on some of the tunes, White says.

    “We’ll play mostly originals and probably do some of Jeff Jenkins’ music. We’re planning on doing one or two of Bobby’s pieces. And there’ll be a few standards sprinkled in somewhere.”

  11. Coleman Hawkins - Standards and Warhorses

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Not as memorable a date as it should have been given the chemistry of Hawk and Red. But the CD is long OOP and not likely to resurface. A collector's item.

    Musically, it's overshadowed by Red Allen's date with Hawk on RCA from about the same time. Can't remember the LP title, but it was reissued on CD as "World on a String." That's the stuff.

  20. CD wish list

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by Spontooneous

    Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra Music (1976)

    Is it true that it has never been out on CD?

    It was on one of those RCA/Bluebird CDs of the late '80s, about the same time as the George Russell/Rod Levitt disc.

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