Hardbopjazz

Wow, what a great photo. Where did you dig it up?

That reminds me a joke when I was studying music. Pretty bad. There were two grave diggers walking through an old cemetery in Austria. One of them trips on a rectangle stone. When he gets up, the two of them look at the stone almost completely buried in the soil. On it, it has the letters, W.A.M. They look at each other and say, “my God, Mozart’s grave.” They run back to tell the news to their boss. He in turn calls all these music scholars and other historians and journalists. When they dig up the area, a coffin is found. This only heightens the anticipation. They bring the coffin inside. But when they open it Mozart is lying there erasing music from music scores. The music scholars yell out, “Mozart, what are you doing? You are supposed to be dead for the past 215 years.” Mozart looks at them and says, “I’m decomposing”.

These poor vocalists no wonder why we don’t talk about them too much here, we would all go to sleep.

This is a get box. Some great photos too.

I think I have this album. I have to listen to it again. Is this the album with a woman lying on the floor and a man sitting by a fireplace looking at her? It's been a real long time since I took this one out for a listen.

Then it wouldn't be any fun.

I agree 100%. I even dig his vocals on those Horace Silver CD's from the mid 70's and on. I like that CD Tuesday's in Chinatown. It just makes me real relaxed, that's all. I can't think of another CD that did that to me. Tom.

This evening I was listening to "Tuesday's in Chinatown" and it made me fall asleep. I like Andy Bey's voice and singing, infact, I've seen him live, but this CD made me sleepy. If you're on any sleep aids, stop them and pick up that CD. At least there's no side affects.

Cool, Thanks.

This wouldn't be a quintet with tenor sax and trombone, by any chance? Yes it is.

Maybe I can zip or convert the show to flac and send it to someone via www.yousendit.com. Any takers?

Someone sent me this show. He wanted to know if I could figure out the musicians are. I got all the titles down but I have no idea who they are. No names are ever mentioned. The shows swings its ass off. I would want to think the leader is the drummer. He takes solos in 4 of the 5 tunes. You have to lead a band as a drummer to solo in most tunes I would think.

Yes, in fact the title is given before they paly it.

Anyone here who wrote this tune? I can't even tell you who is playing it.

All the best Ray. I saw him live on a double bill. He was playing the Blue Note with Horace Silver. He was great. Get well soon.

Thanks. I will check those sessions out.

This morning I heard a tenor player on my radio while on my way to work. It was Arnett Cobb. I don't know much about him. I liked what I heard. Where is a good place to start?

It couldn't have come from my plane because we changed in Atlanta. And trust me Hardbopjazz ( Tom?), I'm from Rochester and nobody walks in the parks in the middle of January! But then again, your friend seems more than a little strange. I wonder if you know him. His first was Ron, and last name started with S.

The same goes for me. Man, to be that rich.

Here it is. http://www.horacesilver.com/fanfeast/forum/index.php Fuck! That doesn't work either. I'll have to try from home. Must be something funky going on here on my office network... No, we're just f'en with you.

The one thing the site has is a jazz forum. I guess he wants to give this place a run for its money.

I know. So how many did you buy?

For a extra chagre, you can get an autographed copy of his autobiography. The site doesn't tell how much more it will cost. He's gotta make that buck.

Betty Carter rules. I love her warm tone of her voice. She can hit that real low note that not many other woman singers can.

How many of you are self taught? Can you read and write music?