Hardbopjazz

Happy Birthday, and many more.

It seems over the years Monk gets most of the credit for writing Round Midnight, when it was co-written with Cootie Williams. How much input did Williams have on the writing of Jazz's greatest known tune?

Have a good one.

Happy Birthday from all of us. We miss your art work.

Damn, I wish I could make his one.

I built a small room in my basement where I have CD's and stereo and a nice chair. Does anyone else have a private listening room?

Not familiar with Cool Summer or tade. Can you 'splain? Cool Summer: Dexter Gordon & McCoy Tyner (2002) From a online review: When Dexter Gordon takes the stage, he deflects the audience's applause to his horn, but there's a bit of false modesty there, I'd guess. The disc gets right to it, and he sounds great. His performance is intercut with backstage interview footage of him; he doesn't have anything especially revealing to say, and the clips only impede the sense of flow, as they're spliced into the first song in his set. You never really get the feeling of what it's like to be on stage, or even in the audience, but man, Gordon can blow that horn. Unfortunately, we get only a truncated little set, running less than half an hour, of three songs—they are: Cheesecake Skylark Backstage at the Village Skylark is probably the best of these, a plaintive sax rendition of a torch song standard. I remember seeing this when it was broadcast on TV (the series was called Harvest Jazz, from 1982 ) and was not very impressed. The other portion has McCoy Tyner with Bobby Hutcherson, that I have not seen. The "Cool Summer" DVD of separate sets of Dexter & McCoy is available now on eBay, little time left, for $11.96 + $4.50 for domestic shipping. The fact that there is a cutaway from a performance in order to interview is a turnoff to me but perhaps not to others. Here. The cut away is a big issue with me. Let the tune finish, then cut away for the interview.

Do you have any other web sites you visit regarding jazz?

On the subject of Dexter, how bad is the "Cool Summer" DVD? It could have been a tad longer with some more information. Has anyone here seen the "Cool Summer" DVD?

I have to add Henry Grimes too.

Elvin was June 2004.

How could I forget Benny Bailey.

For me, it was James Carter. I really dig his playing. I went and saw him live and he was amazed, great soul jazz and straight ahead playing from him.

The list could be quite long. But we should remember those that left us in the area of jazz. Without searching this board, here are those that come to mind. Jimmy Smith. Percy Heath Shirley Horn Lucky Thompson

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I compared the RVG and Japanese "Blue Note Works" TOCJs a long time ago; I hated the RVG and sold it, and loved (still love) the TOCJs. yes, but do your volumes 2 and 3 of the "TOCJs" have reverb or some sort of slight echo? I always wondered why the echo?

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This is such great news. Finally, the "Holy Grail" has been discovered.

You can never get enough Dexter. You may want to check out... http://www.dextergordon.com or http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Dexter_Gordon/

She's cool.

We need an exterminator to get rid of the trolls. Or could they just be Santa's Elfs? I nominate my avatar to get rid of the troll(s). Please no more Kenny G.

No, those are not the ones. I already have the ones with Big Bird Gregory Hines.

Has this ever surfaced and made it to CD? In an old thread from last year it was mentioned that this most likely exists in some record company vault. If so, why hasn't this been dug out yet?

Kenny G's music recently has been banned from Iran's airways. Well, so has almost all western music.

Thanks couw, that worked.