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Dan Tepfer-p, Matt Wilson-d Lee did take it in stride. Plus as you stated, retention of audiences, the club was just about half filled last night. So this could have been why she was so quick to jump up and tell the band to get back up on the stage. The audience was asked to stay for the second set for just a additional $10.

Lee is pushing 83, if not already there. For Lorraine to do what you say she did, sounds pretty harsh. Man played for nearly an hour, what's wrong with that? How many sets on a weekday night? Marty, she did. It was so so rude, but she has done similar acts in the past. Lee is 82 or 83. He even sat on a chair for part of the set. When I saw Cecil Taylor at the Vanguard I believe in December 2008, the first set was about 50 minutes long. As Cecil and Tony Oxley walked off, she said if you want to play here again, you better longer sets. The second set was a little longer, more like 60 minutes. Cecil should have played a two hour set. That might have pissed her off in another way.

Lee is pushing 83, if not already there. For Lorraine to do what you say she did, sounds pretty harsh. Man played for nearly an hour, what's wrong with that? How many sets on a weekday night? Marty, she did. It was so so rude, but she has done similar acts in the past. Lee is 82 or 83. He even sat on a chair for part of the set. When I saw Cecil Taylor at the Vanguard I believe in December 2008, the first set was about 50 minutes long. As Cecil and Tony Oxley walked off, she said if you want to play here again, you better do longer sets. The second set was a little longer, more like 60 minutes. Cecil hasn't played there since. But it makes me wonder if what she said has been why Cecil hasn't played there again.

Last night, January 19th, I went to the Vanguard to catch Lee Konitz's trio. Lee was wonderful. Around 55 minutes into the set, Lee said that was all for the set. As the band walked off the stage, Lorraine, jumped up and yelled, "you owe me 15 minutes. Get back up there and play! I don't pay you to sit in the back." Lee and the band returned to the stage and played another number. When the band finished that tune, Lee asked Lorraine if that was good enough. She didn't answer him, so Lee started to play one more number, "Sweet Lorraine." Lorraine, can be a ball buster, but this is all part of the allure of the Village Vanguard. One note, when Lee started to play "Sweet Lorraine" the pianist sat out because he didn't know the changes. That is such a common standard, how could you not know the changes to that tune?

Ah. That makes sense.

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Is there any truth that Michael Jackson recorded something by Lester Bowie? I only question this because it is on the allmusic.com web page for Lester Bowie- Songs performed by, it list Michael Jackson. All I can imagine is Michael Jackson may have sampled a piece of a Bowie tune. Anyone know if this is true?

Yeah, I looked myself and didn't see anything about it.

Thanks everyone.

Monday Nights with WBGO Freddie Redd Sextet: The Jazz Connection This looks very interesting. Anyone planning on catching this show? Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

Damn, another one leaves this world. RIP Ed. And thanks for what you've left us.

I really miss his playing. But he left a ton of music behind. Happy birthday Joe.

I am sure the club is long gone. When I do a search I don't see much information on the club, mainly the 3 Stooges film by the same name. Most likely the club took the name of the 3 Stooges film.

That would be nice. I am going in 1 1/2 weeks to catch Lee Konitz. If I see Lorraine I will ask her. She'll probably tell me to be quite.

One of, if not the greatest jazz club turns 75 years old. What a privilege it is living in NY and getting to go to this club so often. The list of recording alone done at the Vanguard top 100. Not to mention just about every jazz great has graced its stage at some point. article It is the sacred ground of cool—no, the sacred underground, the essence of bohemian intelligence and taste embodied in place. Why would Barbra Streisand, a pop phenomenon who could sell out just about any concert hall in the world, insist on booking the Village Vanguard last fall as a rebranding strategy? Because to be granted the stage of this dark little basement in Greenwich Village is to be sanctified as something more than a pop star—an artist serious and smart and adventurous enough to be worthy of association with the most innovative musicians in jazz history. Opened 75 years ago next month—on the site of a former speakeasy, not long after the end of Prohibition—the Vanguard remains virtually unchanged today, a miracle of acoustics and high standards, a hostel of arty coziness. From the start, it has been an outlet for performers in the vanguard of the Village sensibility—at first, pre-Beat poets and literary renegades; then comedians (such as Lenny Bruce, who, much to the puzzlement of the Vanguard’s publicity-savvy founder, Max Gordon, got busted for obscenity at a competing club, Café Au Go Go) and folksingers (such as Woody Guthrie’s group, the Almanac Singers, who were voguish in the era of radical proto-chic); and, eventually, the jazz artists (Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Pepper, Max Roach, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, and countless others, including the giants depicted at left), who have been the club’s main attractions since the late 50s. Says the Vanguard’s Medici-esque matriarch, Lorraine Gordon, now 87, “I have no idea why the hell we’re still here and everyone else from 1935 is dead.” Those memebers that have been to the Vanguard, or played at the club, who was the artist(s) you have seen or worked with? Here are some I have seen, and I know there are others. Barry Harris Bobby Hutcherson Cecil Taylor Cedar Walton Charles Tolliver Clark Terry Dr. Lonnie Smith Frank Wess George Coleman Greg Osby Heath Brothers( all 3) Jackie McLean James Moody Jim Hall Jimmy Heath Joe Henderson Joe Lovano Johnny Griffin Kenny Barron Lee Konitz Lou Donaldson McCoy Tyner Michael Weiss Roy Hargrove Slide Hampton Sphere (with Gary Bartz) Tony Oxly

I have this one on a laser disc. It is great.

This one may depict a stereo type, but I wonder how many can be found. here is one

That's what caught my eye. Is there a recording without Miles where Coltrane performs this tune? I'm sure Montgomery would have been able to hang with the band, but it would be fascinating to listen to. I am hoping there is a recording despite the sound quality. I too would really want to hear it. For the sake of sharing some of the greatest musicians in jazz history, the Coltrane family should release them and forgo the concern of $$$. If the sound is really that poor, hopefully technology can help to improve the sound somehow.

Without a doubt. Wes was the all time master on the guitar. I can't imagine him having any problems keeping up with the band.

I bought a DVD player that plays PAL and NTSC. The cost was 29 dollars at Best Buy. The brand was COBY. There no LCD with deck but it worked just fine until it fell.

Could this person really posses this concert with Trane, Wes and Dolphy? I have in the past sent emails but I never received a reply from this person. It is like the mythical Bigfoot. There are those that believe and then the are those of us that are sane. Also, who really was the top bill, Coltrane or Wes? , web site John Coltrane 09/22/61 My Favourite Things Naima So What? > Impressions John Coltrane- tenor sax, soprano sax McCoy Tyner- piano Reggie Workman- bass Elvin Jones- drums Eric Dolphy- clarinet, bass clarinet Wes Montgomety- guitar

Thanks. I am ordering the CD.

I came across this CD called "Radio Nights" by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. It is on Hyena Records. Is this a legit release or bootleg? If Hyena is a legit label I will buy this CD. Anyone know? CD review

My condolences in the loss of your mother.

What a simple statement that is all so true.