Hardbopjazz

Happy Birthday Clark. Hope you're feeling better.

Wow, sad to see this post. RIP.

Bud will always be one of my favorite jazz musicians. The website below just got a makeover. The site is maintained by Carl Smith. http://budpowell.com/

Hopefully no more will be added to this list, but we did have some losses in jazz this year. The last two that I am aware of that left this world. Dave Brubeck Pete La Roca Sims

Haven't read the responses yet, 01. Jon Hendericks. (I've seen him live at least 12 times. I couldn't miss this one) 02. Rare Silk 03. Marlena Shaw 04. no idea. 05. no idea. Someone playing Al Jolson 06. Nat King Cole 07. no idea 08. no idea 09. Ray charles and Aretha Franklyn. ( a give away) 10. Gene Ammons 11. no idea 12. no idea 13. no idea 14. Les McCann and Eddie Harris.

The Jazz club is going to shut their doors for good. NEW YORK (AP) — The Lenox Lounge, a cabaret in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with a supercool, Art Deco style that made it a favorite of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, is closing its doors on New Year's Eve. Longtime owner Alvin Reed says that with rents rising, he can no longer afford the lease on the jazz landmark. It opened in 1942. He says the landlord wanted $20,000 per month. The space is set to be taken over in the new year by Richard Notar, a managing partner at Nobu Restaurants. Notar tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/UMwETJ ) he hopes to keep the bar as "an old watering hole" with live music, but he hasn't worked out a deal with Reed yet to use the Lenox Lounge name.

Thanks for the great music Dave. RIP.

I am trying to figure out who this is singing with the Stan Getz Quartet. It is a radio broadcast. The radio announcer is speaking French, and I understand the names of the members of the quartet when told, but this female singer, I don't have a clue who she could be. Anyone care to listen and see if you can figure out who she is? The link is below. http://www.sendspace.com/file/gm7v07

Just about every artists has one, but I don't think Cecil does. Am I wrong?

Whatever happen to Ralph Moore? Did he stop playing? It's been several years since I've seen him play in New York, or even see he is on someone's recording. I really enjoyed his sound.

Thursday night I went and saw Mary Stallings & The Eric Reed Trio at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. Eric opened the set with the trio. He started out mentioning that a big time jazz artists just had a stroke that day, but he didn't say who it was because the news wasn't made public. Anyone have an insight to who this may have been?

How did the Ku Klux Klan play an indirect role in financing the early popularity of some legendary black jazz musicians? Money from the racist group helped keep an independent record company in business in the 1920s that played a role in the growth of jazz music. Klan members in the 1920s. The Gennett record label was a big independent record company in the early Jazz Age. Owned by the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana, Gennett would record anyone, including early black jazz, country, and blues musicians. http://news.yahoo.com/klan-indirect-role-fostering-jazz-age-100215753.html

I'll go with 20

R.I.P. Pete.

Wow, nearly 10k for a box of Twinkies. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hostess-Twinkies-Cream-Filled-Snack-Cakes-10-Count-Box-Delicious-Tasty-Sweet-/261130989424?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccc9eaf70

Download for me, please.

I caught the first set for this concert tonight. What a stella band. It was sad seeing Bobby Hutcherson walk around with an oxygen tank. He really didn't have that much strength. He sad down a lot while playing. Joe Henderson's 75th Birthday Lincoln Center, Allen Room, NYC 2012-11-16 Renee Rosnes- p Bobby Hutcherson- vib Robet Hurst- b Lewis Nash- d Michael Dease- tb hris Potter- ts Jeremy Pelt- tp

Yes I've seen him a number of times. Once with Randy Weston.

I caught the Lou Donaldson Quartet at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. Lou can still play, albeit his set list hasn't changed.

I am listening to the Tadd Dameron Royal Roost Broadcast from 1948 tonight. These shows went on consecutively for a few months. This appeared to be true for a lot of working bands back in the 40s and 50s. Anyone have an idea when these long engagements at clubs stopped? I would believe it would have been in the late 1960s. Of course this was due to the decline of jazz when rock came into existence.

It is still very bad. I am on Long Island, NY. The retaining walls to hold back ocean's tides (a real oxymoron) on the south shore are 11 feet. High tide was 13.5 feet. The highest ever recorded. So many homes have water up to their front doors. I thnk it is time to move to Denver. That city is a mile above sea level. 1. Hurricane 2. Full moon 3. Global Warming. Equals flooding.

download please.

What a sad thread to wake up to in the morning. RIP David.

The Simpsons 24th season has a slew of guest stars already prepared for upcoming episodes, but today the show has added jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins to the cast for a guest appearance. The man is a legend, having played with the late, great Thelonious Monk, among other, and who has several compositions that have become jazz standards. With Lisa’s interest in music—and specifically the saxaphone—you’d think this guest addition couldn’t go better for the character. Unfortunately, with a nod to Tupac’s performance at Coachella this year, that does not seem to be the case. Rollins is set to play himself in The Simpsons, however, he will play a very unreal version of himself. TV Line is reporting the man will appear as a hologram in an episode called “Whiskey Business.” Seeing the hologram as an unfair gimmick, Lisa will take to the cause, fighting the record label that produced such ridiculousness. If this were real life, Dr. Dre would probably not be amused to have to deal with Lisa’s passionate letter-writing campaign. Instead, it’s an episode of The Simpsons, and Dr. Dre seems to be out on this one, although I can’t wait to see what a Jazz man can do in hologram form. We’ll have a while to wait, however, to see Rollins in his guest stint. The episode won’t premiere until sometime this spring. I guess we'll have to sit around and hope that the proposed Elvis hologram will pop up to tide us over in the interim.

Thanks Tom, I found a copy of this book on Amazon and ordered it today.