Pete C

There are some amazing full programs here: http://www.thirteen.org/soul/

No news yet about a next Jazz Icons series. In the past the first press release came in April...

Do you remember who was in Shepp's band? Maybe Shepp's band in '68 was the same band he had on "The Way Ahead"? Did Miles play with GM III, Dave Burrell and Beaver Harris? Now that would've been something! I think back-up meant opening act in this context...

Pat Priest Minister Louis Farrakhan Eddie Cantor

Desdemona Mona McCluskey Juliet Prowse

Sorrowful Jones Happy Rockefeller Megan Marshak

Eddie Lockjaw Davis Jawaharlal Nehru Indira Gandhi

Curtis Knight Lonnie Youngblood Jesse Colin Young

Shepp's version of Hipnosis on A Sea of Faces is one of my favorite post-Impulse tracks, but the rest of the album is pretty much a throwaway. Of his free work, I think my favorite is Life [sic] at the Donaueschingen Jazz Festival, which also has some of Jimmy Garrison's most amazing playing.

Dog the Bounty Hunter Catfish Hunter DuBose Heyward

From Gene Ludwig bio (emphasis mine): "Gene grooved harder than the others... I really do love everybody that sits at that bench... no matter who they are or what kind of music they play... but somehow, those who reach the audience quicker and with the most passion, leave me with the more lasting impression. It didn't take me long to figure out what Gene did to that crowd that night to get the response that he got and win over so many new fans: HE PLAYED THE BLUES... That's what those folks came to hear. They wanted to be taken back in time to the old days of the 'Organ Rooms' where every club had a B-3 on the stage and smokey, inner city soul jazz was the gravy of life. When Gene kicked off with Jimmy Smith's 'The Sermon', he was telling that crowd that there's still truth in this music... it hasn't left us and never will... and more importantly, he wasn't afraid to play Jimmy's sound. As an admitted disciple, he was reminding us just how important this is to us all. Gene Ludwig has always been that kind of a player. He knows where he came from and how he got where he is... no frills, nothing pretentious... just SOLID ORGAN GROOVE... That's Gene Ludwig." http://www.geneludwig.com/pages/bio.html

Abel Meeropol Billie Holiday Joe Christmas

Stiv Bators Sid Vicious Richard Hell

Hey at Jazz Corner it has to be real people. I'm cool with fictional characters here, but "If I Had a Hammer"? Tardo Hammer The Late George Apley Eary Wynn

Patience Higgins Billy Higgins Billy Hart

Lennie Tristano Sad Sam Jones Sam Jones

The Bar-Kays Kaye Starr Thomas Starr King

Loren Schoenberg August Belmont Winston Churchill

Edie Falco Edie Adams Ernie Kovacs

Larry "Bozo" Harmon Larry Harlow Jean Harlow

Jan Hammer Don Sickler Don Ho (JS: The Stinky Cheese Man is an old friend of mine. I just saw him yesterday,_

For me the Rivbea trio had a groove going that distinguished it from most '60s free jazz and also anticipates the groove of later trios like DKV and Romano-Sclavis-Texier. But it comes largely, I think, from the Ornette-Izenson-Moffett trio too.

Phil Wilson Bill Watrous Jim Pugh

Busby Berkeley Simon Oakland Dannie Richmond

He has apologized for ripping off Traditional for "St. Thomas."