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Harold Mabern a few weeks ago at the Vanguard said, those who don't know Newborn are deprived. He was a genius.

John Coltrane died on 17 July 1967 having given more to jazz in his 40 years than many who live a much longer life. His music has been an inspiration to many rock musicians as well as younger jazz musicians and his album, A Love Supreme, is one of the acknowledged masterpieces in the jazz canon. Read more here. http://www.udiscovermusic.com/man-called-trane

No one carried the Mohawk off better the Sonny.

I don't see Mark Soskin being mentioned yet. To spend several years in the 1970's and 1980's with Sonny Rollins you have to be good.

We all know Michael Weiss. He should be recorded more for sure.

Pleased he's still active. Saw him a looong time ago - with Max Roach in the 60s and Woody Shaw in the 70s. I'm jealous - have never seen him. I REALLY would have liked to see the Strata East reunion in London earlier this year! STRATA EAST LIVE SOUNDS SUBLIME AT BARBICAN It was very good and great to see Cowell in the flesh Stanley Cowell just played a week at the Village Vanguard. Along with his new CD, he has a book he was selling. He only brought a few copies and I wasn't able to get a copy.

Happy Birthday.

Another that just came to mind. Jack Wilson. I have his three Blue Note recordings, which are all fine. Outside of those, I don't recall anything else, but he was a fine player0

Dailey's "The Day After the Dawn" I tried to track down. It's unavailable from Amazon and few other sites I checked. I do have Daily on Art Farmer's "The Time and the Place." I bought mainly because I thought it was the album from 1967 with Jimmy Heath on the recording. It turned out to be a completely different recording. It is the Mosaic single. I am glad it was not the one I thought. It is real good.

Freddie Redd released an album on Steeplechase this year, which I recommend: It's available as a download on Amazon, but for some reason Amazon lists the CD release date as October 2nd. I recently received it from importcds. I will try importcds.

Freddie Redd released an album on Steeplechase this year, which I recommend: It's available as a download on Amazon, but for some reason Amazon lists the CD release date as October 2nd. I recently received it from importcds. I didn't know this. He is playing tomorrow night at the Jazz Gallery. I hope I can make it to the first set.

Maybe the mods can merge mine thread with the original thread. No need for two threads on the same topic, Another one, is Freddie Redd. He is still playing but not recorded. He should be.

When I bring up these two, neither ring a bell to friends of mine that listen to jazz.

07/09/15 Christian McBride To the 88-year-old alto saxophone sage Lou Donaldson, the current scene—with its tourist-friendly, high-cover clubs featuring clean-living, overeducated musicians—is pretty sterile and uninspired. Considering the jazz environment he cut his teeth in, full of soulful, entertainment-minded players, corner-bar venues and an audience that may or may not be packing heat, how could it be anything else? In this live interview, conducted by bassist and fellow swing-defender Christian McBride as part of the Portland Jazz Festival in February, the soul-jazz trailblazer takes a sidesplitting trip down memory lane. I call Lou Donaldson the Don Rickles of jazz because nobody’s safe around him. I love how he’s very judicious and fair with all of his “complimentary insults,” as I call them. You tell a great story about when Redd Foxx came to sit in with you at Count Basie’s club. Would you mind telling that story? He came to the club and when I saw him I said, “No, don’t come up here,” because he agitates. Any time he sees a musician, he’s in trouble. The manager came over and said, “Now, look, people want to see Redd sing a song. You have to let him sing.” I said, “Well, what does he want to sing?” Redd said, “I want to sing ‘I Can’t Get Started With You.’” I said, “We don’t know that.” I had Larry Young, the organ player, and he really didn’t know it. Redd started to sing it, and it was the worst singing you ever heard. Larry Young, about 23 years old at that time, was 6-foot-4 and weighed about 250, without a pound of fat anywhere. Redd was my size, so he was looking down at Redd and I thought he was gonna hit Redd. Redd had a split in his pants and he could go down to his knees, and he pulled a razor out and hid it. So that made him about three feet away from where Larry Young and I were sitting. He put it around [Young’s] throat and said, “That’s the reason I can talk like that.” You don’t see that in jazz anymore. But I got it worse than that. I was working at the Five Spot and they brought in Ornette Coleman. Uh oh… …and Redd came down to hear him. Everybody was standing on their feet, commenting about this new saxophone player with the new style. Redd came up and someone said, “Well, Redd, what do you think of Ornette Coleman?” Redd said, “Well, they tell me he plays the music of tomorrow, and that’s when I want to hear it: tomorrow.” He said, “Today I want to hear some music of today.” [both laugh] That’s a new one; I never heard that one before. And he was right! [more laughs] Ornette told me one time, he said, “Lou, you need to play some of this free music.” I said, “Uh-uh, I don’t do that. I like to get paid.” Yeah, but it’s interesting. There’s a new thing in jazz now. You play free and you can win a half-million-dollar grant. You want to play free now? Oh, no. Not me. I told David Murray one night, “David, I just had a pretty good record. I think I’m gonna buy a club and you’re gonna be my first attraction. And I’m gonna let all the people in free and I’ll put Mike Tyson on the door and make everybody pay to get out.” [laughs] Ornette Coleman, check. David Murray, check. [laughs] I want to ask you about a legendary record you played on: the classic A Night at Birdland with Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, yourself, Horace Silver, Curly Russell. You’ve told me many times that you were actually the catalyst that put that band together. Art Blakey wasn’t even originally on that gig. He wasn’t even in New York! Art Blakey was stranded in California. The president of the company [Blue Note Records], Alfred Lion, sent Art money two or three times, and Art would call back each time with a different answer. The worst one he ever had was that he was on his way to the airport and a guy mugged him and took the tickets. [laughs] To read the rest of this story, purchase the issue in print or from the Apple Newsstand. Print and digital subscriptions are also available. http://jazztimes.com/articles/162710-back-in-them-days-the-lou-donaldson-interview

There are two that come to mind for me that have drifted into oblivion, and one day when their names are mention, most might remember them. Both I feel were real fine players who need to get more respect. Herman Foster Albert Dailey Lou Donaldson's "Blues Walk" and "Light Foot", Foster's playing is so good. There not much of Foster as a leader available. I've found these two recordings offered in one package. Explosive Piano of Herman / Have You Heard Herman. Albert Dailey died way too young. Plus he didn't have that much output as a leader, but he was an amazing player. He plays so nice on Stan Getz's album "Lover Man" and Freddie Hubbard's "Backlash." From these two albums I started to hunt down recordings with him. Dailey was also in Sonny Rollins' band in the early 70's, but I don't believe he recorded with Sonny. Any recordings with either of these two that come to mind? Can anyone think of other pianists that for one reason or another don't hit the radar but you think should? I did manage to get a copy of Piano Jazz with Albert Dailey. He is brilliant.

01. Don’t know who this is, but I like it and will look to buy it once I find out who it is. 02. Blues in 5/4. Sounds a bit like the Mission Impossible Theme. I should have this I am sure if it is George Coleman. 03. No clue, is this band we should know? 04. Another in 5/4. Don’t know who this is. 05. Nice clarinet playing. Whomever this is, I need to pick up a copy of this recording. The drummer, his use of brushes are wonderful. It start to pick up at 4 minutes into the tune. Muted trumpet. Damn this is good. 06. No clue. 07. Is it Joe Zawinul on keyboards? I am completely guessing. 08. Sounds somewhat like Chuck Mangione’s “Children of Sanchez” at first to me, then I hear some Chick Corea. 09. It reminds me of Carlos Santana would have recorded, but I know it isn’t. No clue. I do like the guitarist. 10. On Green Dolphin Street. I listened to 40 different recording on allmusic trying to get who this is. 11. Nice. I like the tenor and trumpet lines during the head. I feel as if I should know this. 12. Don’t know. 13. Flute and ¾ time. Once again no clue. 14. Up tempo. I like this. Don’t have any guesses. 15. Finally one I know. John Handy. Mosaic Select 35. Debonair

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Happy Birthday.

I must have missed what you posted in the original thread.

Randy Weston played on the 11th of July.