Hardbopjazz

It was a discussion today at work.

Which do you fit into?

Which do you fit into?

I stopped playing and seeing them sitting there got me depressed. So on ebay they went. Lefty models too. The X-500 blond one I sold to someone that is playing it backwards. Restringed the guitar for a righty. Go figure. The Aartist Award model was the best sounding guitar I ever heard. It sang when you played it. The tone was so wonderful. That's really weird, a righty playing a left-handed guitar upside now. Now I've seen it all. Do you plan on getting back into guitar, Tom? I still have a Fender Tele. I kept saying I am going to play it. But if I get back into it, I would buy a Heritage. They sound real nice, and the price is good. I also had a Gibson Charlie Christian model, the one with the 3 screws on the body. It was a good 52 years old when I sold it. It was so beat up from me playing it, as well as the prior owner and the owner before the prior owner and the owner before that. I really believe the sound gets better from years of constant playing. I don't know if there is any truth to that with guitars, but I once spoke to a violinist that said this about volins. I found an image of one, except for the pickup and this one having a pick guard it looks exactly the same.

I stopped playing and seeing them sitting there got me depressed. So on ebay they went. Lefty models too. The X-500 blond one I sold to someone that is playing it backwards. Restringed the guitar for a righty. Go figure. The Aartist Award model was the best sounding guitar I ever heard. It sang when you played it. The tone was so wonderful.

The building I use to work in about 8 years ago.

Yeah, I can't wait till it gets warmer.

And this one. I had both, but sold them.

This was my favorite guitar.

If you could zoom in, you would see it is blood and not a dot.

Since didn't see Pangaea as a selection, I said Norht America. In fact right here by that red dot.

up!

Tower Records has it as an import. I ordered it, but don't know if I'll end up getting it.

Same here.

Great to hear that the recordings exist. JP: So what are you currently working on along these lines? DP: Well, I may be doing a job for the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers - the WNEW broadcast recordings of jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, from 1945. The job would be to archive the original 16" discs (lacquer on glass) to CD-R. Also, I'm the engineer who was chosen by the late Boris Rose to transfer his legendary collection of broadcast recordings, and I will be working on more of that material in the coming months. Final Note: The story of the late Boris Rose is a good one – in fact, it is still developing, as Doug plans to meet with his daughter soon to discuss what to do with all the valuable broadcast performances that were recorded by Mr. Rose from 1945 into the ‘60s. A few months down the road, I will devote a column to this story, so stay tuned. As for next month, I’ll be writing about a few unsung jazz greats and also introducing a new live music review column, which will be written by committee. Should be fun!

Yeah, he was pretty much done by then. Sad but true.

Who is she? I came across a Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers session with her on vocals. I have never heard of her before.

How good is this? Is it worth picking up?

I think the late Bill Miner once told me that he had a list, or more properly, a looseleaf book on every broadcast tape that Boris Rose had. How he got that from Rose I don't know. I would easily say that if any broadcast emanated from 'Birdland' and perhaps several other clubs e.g., the 'Royal Roost', 'Cafe Bohemia', etc., from the late '40s through the mid '50s, Rose was quite likely to have it. So while I can't just cough up the names of artists at will, many of the great names as well as lesser ones are represented in those tapes. Hopefully they don't belong to the ages and one day they will surface on some lable.

Yup, shades of Hendrix.

Marty, what else did he have besides Mingus?

Horace Silver at the Blue Note, May 5th 2004. That band cooked.

That one sold for $400? Wow, I have 3, I should sell 2 of them.

I came across this photo of 'The Crocodile Hunter' holding his baby under his arm while teasing a crocodile. It's just as stupid as Michael Jackson holding is baby over a balcony. Has anyone seen this before?

Man, I only figured out 3 of these from disc 1, 13, 15, and 16.