Hardbopjazz

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday

I recalling reading once that Pat Martino forgot how to play the guitar and had to learn to play again basically from scratch.

I like colors and this one has bight ones.

I find this hard to believe, but it is true. In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939-40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted the Boston Symphony and, on one famous occasion, he decided to conduct his own arrangement of the “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which he made out a “desire to do my bit in these grievous times toward fostering and preserving the spirit of patriotism in this country.” The date was January, 1944. And he was, of course, referring to America’s role in World War II. As you might expect, Stravinsky’s version on “The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t entirely conventional, seeing that it added a dominant seventh chord to the arrangement. And the Boston police, not exactly an organization with avant-garde sensibilities, issued Stravinsky a warning, claiming there was a law against tampering with the national anthem. (They were misreading the statute.) Grudgingly, Stravinsky pulled it from the bill. http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html

Hopefully he doesn't read this board, but I went to see Grachan Moncur III at Smalls Friday night. I'm sorry to say he had no chops left. I've seen him before with Jackie McLean and Bobby Hutcherson in 2004 and he was able to play. I also saw Grachan at Vision Fest. I think that was in 2006 and he was able to hold his own. Last night his solos were one or two notes at a time and then long pauses. There were really no upbeat tunes the band played. Anyone else witness a decline of a musician?

Is this this the Norman Granz' JATP recording?

Also done before.

Is that lover's lake?

Does anyone have this one? If so, how is it?

The High Line at night.

The High Line, NYC

Yes it is a cane. Soony will turn 85 is September.

I see it in the sign up thread.

Sorry, but did I miss the download link?

R.I.P. Sam