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BFT - Mingus after listening to Schildkraut on George Handy's "Crazy Lady": "That could be Bird on alto..." F PS There's a story of Stan Getz being horribly late to a concert with Dizzy in Vitoria, Spain. Dizzy was fuming, apparently Getz was late because he had pulled somewhere in France (Hendaye or Bayonne)... he must have been in his mid-50s

Mr Eko (from Lost) for Monk? F

Email sent RE: Ellington and Goodmans (I already have the Dexter Gordon ) F

... and yet, this is out: TONY SCOTT - A Jazz Life (Kind of Blue 10015) A review tony scott - clarinet, piano and vocals shane endsley - trumpet ben wendel - tenor saxophone adam benjamin - acoustic piano and rhodes kaveh rastegar - acoustic bass nate wood - drums It carries a 30-min DVD with interviews and footage of the sessions. Liner notes by Nat Hentoff. Recorded in February 2006 RIP F

Clark Terry's Porgy and Bess (A440 Music) Released in 2004 (?), haven't listened to it lately, but IIRC it has a gorgeous sound. F

If any of you can read Spanish, our own EKE BBB is working on a guide to the Ellington recordings here This is the intro, and this the first part, 1924-31. More soon, F

Cedar Walton and Larry Ridley are still with us, right? Why not ask them? You never know. F

EKE BBB mentioned that one a while ago F

My favourite clip (and why BBC don't release their Jazz 625 on DVD I don't know). I love three things: he's all wrists, moves his arms very little; the loud and soft drum-roll; and when seen from the front, how he seems to be completely still, yet you can hear the drums. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19gsn_caravan-jo-jones F PS Rest of personnel are Hawk, Harry Edison, Sir Charles Thompson and Jimmy Woode.

I'll fifth it. Twas Chuck who put me onto it too (big thank you, Chuck )... The name is Xitel Inport... and it'd be interesting to see how many of us got it because of Chuck. F

Any idea on how many Mosaics are sold outside the US? FOR MOSAIC! F

Off the top of my head, I'd say the Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Gene Krupa in 1937. However, and I can't remember whether it was for musical or "chromatic" reasons, while Goodman had Charlie Christian in the small group, he normally used a different, and white, guitarist with the big band (Arnold Covarrubias and then Mike Bryan, although the former was most probably of hispanic origin). I can't watch it now and wouldn't like to speculate, but IIRC the drummer is always kept off-camera, and that does seem a bit weird (being such a visual part of a band). F

I'd agree. As for the guitarist, after Christian died he was replaced by either Mike Bryan or Tom Morgan. Bryan he isn't (there's a LoC picture by Gottlieb - I think Bryan was playing rhythm with the orchestra while CC played electric with the sextette in 1941), but Morgan did play electric guitar as part of the Goodman sextette. I have no pictures of Morgan, so I can't tell for sure. Can't find my copy of "BG on the record" F

By the look of it, I'd say this clip is wrongly dated. Not 37 (where are Krupa, Vido Musso, Art Rollini, HARRY JAMES...?). Pianist is almost definitely Mel Powell, and whoever is the guitar player, and it could well be Barbour (like Larry said), he's doing an imitation of Charlie Christian. I'd say circa 1942. My two cents. F

Wouldn't want to derail this, but has anyone A/B-ed these early-90s reissues with the newer ones (early 00s- another underpublicised series IMHO)? "Jazz for playboys", for one, carries one bonus track. F

Is this it? The Anniversary Quartet - You'll See! F

Funnily enough, I wasn't there at all, but a group called Last Exit (not the famous one) took part in the band contest in the 1975 Jazz Festival in San Sebastian. Bass player was Sting and according to a local critic "he was mediocre and was constantly breaking up the rhythm". He's not marrying Norah, is he? :rsmile: F

Chuck's right. From Leo Valdés's site: Apart from that, CC used to turned down the volume of his guitar when he played rhythm. If you listen to "Way Down Yonder From New Orleans" (from the Spirituals To Swing concert) he misses his cue to his solo and you can listen how he turns up the volume before he starts picking. F PS One of those tunes ("Celestial Express", IIRC) is a boogie, and it's quite interesting to hear Lux Lewis on celeste, because it's easier to hear each hand independently than on piano.

If you're referring to T-Bone Walker: I Want A Little Girl It was originally a Black&Blue recording made in France. It has Hal Singer on tenor and George Arvanitas on piano and organ. In the French reissue (Feelin' The Blues) there are a few extra tracks with Jay McShann and Eddie Cleanhad Vinson. This one I like a lot. T-Bone also plays piano on one tune. F

Rest of personnel, according to McKusick: Phil Olivella, clarinet Bernie Privin, trumpet Frank Rehak, trombone HM on tenor... Most likely Hank Jones on piano, Specs Powell, drums, Sam Shoobe or Trigger Alpert on bass. F

Nice Charleston video here. Hal McKusick is on tenor. F [Edit to add that the rest of musicians are, according to McKusick: Phil Olivella, clarinet Bernie Privin, trumpet Frank Rehak, trombone HM on tenor... Most likely Hank Jones on piano, Specs Powell, drums, Sam Shoobe or Trigger Alpert on bass.]

Although it's a bit blurry, McKusick can be seen playing tenor here F

Personally, I'll wait and see. Allen Lowe mentioned in the Stanley Crouch thread that he'd seen some of his research and that it needed publishing. Let's hope that there'll be a lot of factual info and very little of Crouch's agenda. Bird may have been an avant-gardist (not so sure about that...), but he was black, a helluva blues player and swang like mad, so I think we've got that covered. And Wynton was born a few years after Bird's death. Unlikely that he'll appear in the book. Or will he? F

Crouch's project (started in 1981, IIRC, read it in a 1986 interview with Wynton he had been working on it for 5 years) is coming to an end, apparently. In an interview he did last September for jerryjazzmusician, he says Elsewhere in these forums there are comments about this bio. Something to look forward to, I guess. F

Sometime in 98-99 I saw Spike Robinson at the Bull's Head, a pub in Barnes (London) by the river, incidentally, not too far from where Alan Bates, the current owner of Candid, lives. Conte Candoli was on trumpet, Martin Drew on drums and Dave Newton on piano (can't remember who was on bass). Robinson was great throwing around a lot of quotes in his solos (while Candoli was apparently stuck on Fascinatin' Rhythm). Swinging and having a hell of a time indeed! F PS Incidentally, again, Howard Rumsey was in the audience.