Hardbopjazz

That was great Dan. Thanks for this post.

Thanks for keeping the beat. I enjoyed your playing. I think I'll spin some Horace Silver now and listen to your druming.

I think in Frank Morgan's case, was he spent a number of years in prision for drug possession.

For someone at 75 to continue to play tenor like he does is testament to how great a musician he is. It takes a lot of air to play the tenor. Especially the swirling sounds he makes.

Has anyone esle here check it out yet? Clark Terry

All the best and many more.

As long as it's clean beaver.

RIP.

Just how cold does it get by January?

Sad to hear this.

I may squeeze this in tomorrow.

Time to get out while you can.

A cat will work fine. I live in a rural area on Long Island, my cat bring my wife and I dead mice as presents all the time. She goes out in the yard and comes back with what she thinks is a gift. I am the one that ends up picking it up to throw away. The hungrier the cat, the faster the mouse will be history.

Do any of you listen to music to relieve stress? If so, what music do you listen to? My new gig is a high stress environment. By day's end, I am spent. The only thing that re-charges me right now is listening to Bach. Everything else seems not to work.

Have a good one and many more to come too.

This is nice to see.

This feels like Sophie's Choice. I can't pick between the two.

This is a real nice fine. The first thing someone want to do when they make a discovery like this, is to sell it. I'm not sure if I would want to sell it. It should be in a museum. NEW YORK (AFP) - A handwritten, working manuscript of one of Beethoven's most revolutionary works had been rediscovered after 115 years by a librarian in Pennsylvania, triggering fevered excitement among music historians. Sotheby's auction house, which will offer "Grosse Fuge" for sale in London in December, said Thursday that the 80-page score was "the longest and most important manuscript to have appeared on the market in living memory." Sotheby's experts have put an estimate on the lot of between 1.7 million and 2.6 million dollars. "This is an amazing find," said Stephen Roe, Head of Sotheby's Manuscript Department. "The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars," Roe said. "Its rediscovery will allow a complete reassessment of this extraordinary music," he added. The manuscript was uncovered in July by Heather Carbo, a librarian who was nearing the end of a huge inventory project in the archives of a theological seminary in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Carbo found the score in the very last cabinet she inspected in the basement of the library. "It was just sitting on that shelf. I was in a state of shock," Carbo told the New York Times. Written in brown and black ink, sometimes over pencil and with later annotations in red crayon, the manuscript shows the extent of Beethoven's working and reworking with some corrections so deep that the paper is rubbed right through. "The passion and struggle of Beethoven's working can be seen graphically," Sotheby's said, highlighting how the notes were written larger as the music intensified. "What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands," said Richard Kramer, a musicologist at the University of New York. Among Beethoven's last works from the period when he was deaf, "Grosse Fuge" was originally composed as the finale for a string quartet. The rediscovered manuscript is a transcribed version of the same piece for a piano duet. The manuscript was last seen at an 1890 auction in Berlin. The buyer was believed to have been William Howard Doane, a Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist who loved composing hymns. In 1952, Doane's daughter made a gift to the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia to establish a chapel. The gift included music manuscripts including Mozart's Fantasia in C minor and Sonata in C minor, a major find 15 years later which together with other manuscripts fetched 1.7 million dollars. The manuscript was put on display at the seminary Thursday for just one afternoon. It was then scheduled to be exhibited at Sotheby's showrooms in New York and London before the auction on December 1.

Any plans on playing in NYC?

Back in the 1960's bands and artists would be booked to long engagements. Sometimes hopping from one club to another and then back again. Today, that had gone the way of the dodo. Any idea when this stopped happening?

quite poignant that his widow just passed away about a week ago. ← Valerie, who's wife just passed? I'm not sure I understood it from you post. Thanls

Happy birthday to two of the greatest drummers. Thanks for keeping the beat.

For all the musicians here, excluding gigs, how many hours a day do you devote to praticing? When I played, it varied. I tried to pratice at least 2 hours a day.

Question, are you the pianist Michael Weiss? Just asking.

Wow Mike, as the first sentense says, "This is gold". 3000 hours of reel-to-reel recordings and 40,000 photos.