maren

Happy birthday's-eve !!! It's still Feb 26 in NYC, so I'll just get to work on the cake...

Uh, sir... this is a prank call gone terribly wrong...

couw, that Tyfa font looks so-o-o-o cool! Great sleuthing!!!

Aric, take another look at her list. It also includes Aretha's hit version of R-E-S-P-E-C-T

The Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's presents The 21st Annual Lester Young Memorial Celebration To Prez With Love, 2005 Music, Memories & Reflections Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. SAINT PETER'S CHURCH 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street) New York, NY 10022-4610 Telephone: (212) 935-2200 FAX: (212) 355-3423 www.saintpeters.org This is an annual benefit for The Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's. Suggested donation: $15 It features a star-studded array of jazz luminaries from the elder statesmen to the young burners, all paying tribute to the President of the tenor saxophone, Lester Young. Participants include: Don Byron George Colligan ”Sweet Papa” Lou Donaldson Junior Mance Richard Wyands Benny Powell Earl May Bill Easley Connie Crothers Quartet Rolando Briceno's Afro-Venezuelan Jazz Ensemble Phil Schaap Art Baron Ron Blake Dick Katz Bootsie Barnes Sarah McLawler Quartet (w/Carol Sudhalter) Lisle Atkinson Judi Silvano Wade Barnes & The Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble Lewis Porter Gene Bertoncini Giacomo Gates Ocarou Lovelace Rudy Lawless Eve Zanni Michael Wilner John Ellis Lawrence Stillman Bill Saxton Paul Knopf Michael Hashim and many surprises! Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. SAINT PETER'S CHURCH New York City Saint Peter's is on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and 54th Street. (Take E & V trains to Lexington Avenue station; 6 train to 51st Street station.) The Rev. Dale R. Lind, Assistant Pastor for Jazz Ministry Ike Sturm, Assistant Director of Music for the Jazz Ministry Saint Peter's Church 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street) New York, NY 10022-4610 Telephone: (212) 935-2200 FAX: (212) 355-3423 www.saintpeters.org Administrator@saintpeters.org

Interesting aside -- The author of the song later adopted the Rosenberg's children after their execution. Yes--didn't he also co-write "The House I Live In?" (For those unfamiliar, a great anti-racism song from the 1940s recorded by Sinatra as well as Paul Robeson.) For an interesting book about the song, its origin, and its impact, check out David Margolick's book Strange Fruit. Yes, "Lewis Allen" (pen name of Abel Meeropol), wrote "Strange Fruit" and "The House I Live In" -- and adopted Robby and Michael Meeropol (sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). And as I always say when his name comes up, there's a great documentary by Joel Katz, also called "Strange Fruit." (If you click on that link, it will take you to a PBS page about the film, with filmmaker Q&A, and a topic called "Protest Music Overview")

Me too.

Gyorgy Ligeti died? When???

In other words -- you're not a huge Sonny Sharrock fan, eh?

Happy birthday!!!

Pat may have mentioned him and it may have not made it into the final edit. And as for the Wayne-Shorter-for-George-Coleman substitution -- I don't think Pat mentioned Wayne, his name only appears in the "Ratliff" text -- which could be Ratliff's or a copy editor's mistake...

David, congratulations!

I missed this thread the first time around. Just wanted to say how much I was awed by Jerry Hunt the two times I saw/heard him in a live performance, and that the wealth, depth and breadth of creative experience among Organissimo posters never ceases to amaze me. I mean, "rostasi" is Rod Stasick! Wow!

Could that have been: Also to be found at: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/jazzb.html Three blind mice. PERFORMERS: Art Blakey, drums, with Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Curtis Fuller,trombone ; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone ; Cedar Walton, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass. DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX10940 v.1+ .2 I also recall James Blood Ulmer playing with the tune on "Are You Glad to Be in America?" -- that fits your "rough" description, but not "obviously a very old recording."

We all love maren! Aw, shucks!

Jazzmoose, Jazzmoose... -_-

Wow!!!

...and James Reece Europe's military band?

Vince Guaraldi and Peanuts is a starting point shared by lots of us! Did you come to Benny Goodman and MJQ on your own, through your parents or grandparents, friends, radio, school, the Web, somebody mentioning them in a book???

Oh.... Io lo no conosco...

I had the same question. And it extends to R&B/Motown/rock/rap...

Although, in this case, couw just posted the little magician (conductor?) on the welcome mat... so I thought I was just taking up the slack in retelling couw's own story...

So did you get into jazz by discovering this list, through your parents or some other way? Che. Couw only started buying in the CD era: his first album was supposed to be Out to Lunch, but the shop didn't have it so he got Out There. He bought Out to Lunch a little later. He wanted to buy Out to Lunch because he had read about it in The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play (a book on Zappa). Also because Straight Up and Down was featured as the opening tune to a television series he liked to watch. My question to couw is -- what was that television series???

Che, I think that doing a board search and resurrecting existing threads on a topic (like the four provided in links by Jazzbo) for further discussion also enhances "the development of the board" -- maybe to an even greater extent than starting a new thread and asking everyone to post their story all over again without having bothered to check out their previous efforts. Just to give you an example of the kind of story you seem to be seeking, but that has already been posted, I will take the liberty of copying this generous revelation that Wesbed posted recently (December 2004) on one of the threads that Jazzbo suggested to you: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...opic=6545&st=30