Pete C

Hahn will be reunited with the John Handy 1965 quintet this summer. They have a week scheduled in NY at Iridium. I wonder if they'll also be on the festival circuit.

Rosenwinkel & Shepik can be heard together on several recordings by Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band.

Ben Webster: My Romance, Someone to Watch Over Me Johnny Hodges: All of Me Clifford Brown: Once in a While Lee Konitz: Too Marvelous for Words (Konitz Meets Mulligan) Gene Ammons: Angel Eyes (of course Sinatra has it vocally) Art Tatum: You Took Advantage of Me

First concert (with older brother) - Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Steel Pier, Atlantic City, ca. 1965/66. First concert unescorted by family: Mountain, Fillmore East, 1970 FIrst Jazz Concert: Mingus & Friends, Philharmonic Hall, 1972.

I saw an excellent young guitarist recently, Mike Moreno, playing in a band led by drummer Rodney Green and featuring Ravi Coltrane. Joe Morris isn't really "new," but he's an often compelling, original voice.

I for one am glad that Jack does not feel as mikeweil does. I think Bruce is one of the truly great voices of rock. Carla Bley & Michael Mantler used that voice in interesting ways too.

I always find that intelligence gets much better results than intellectualism.

Of course Oscar Peterson for Granz in the '50s. An Hank was Oscar's predecessor with Granz.

Mal Waldron & Art Taylor were very busy at Prestige in the '50s.

I think the Four Freshman are a ball. I even saw the current version a couple of years ago.

Those young guys in his current quartet are really wonderful too.

It rhymes with Parrot.

William Parker introduced him as Gray-shun when Moncur was part of a Parker ensemble a year or two ago.

He's going to be performing with the Art Ensemble in NY.

Have you ever tried to say street names in New Orleans using proper French pronunciation and gotten blank stares from locals?

Neither. I'm pretty sure that. spelling notwithstanding, it is pronounced Kwinn-uh-SHAY, Monsieur Storaire.

Yes, it rhymes with Linus. James Williams named his concert production organization Finas Sounds in honor of the proper pronunciation of his mentor's name.

I don't think 30-second sound clips that one can find on Amazon, etc. is any sign of an iminent pay site. If they did become a pay site I'd hope they'd pay their reviewers.

Seems a reasonable guess.

Have you ever been to the Monterey festival? There's a guy named Pat DuVal who's there every year selling KILLER ribs.

If anybody else did play their compositions--Grachan Moncur III & Henry Threadgill. Booker Little too. How come nobody ever does those Moncur tunes?

An aside--Mingus did an interesting arrangement of B&S for the Hampton band in the 40's that exists as an aircheck. The same chart also appears in Epitaph, and I think the Town Hall concert. I don't remember offhand whether the reharmonization of the piano solo is related to that version.

I always wondered about Barre Phillips until I heard him pronounce it: Bar, plain and simple.

Yeah, John Hebert is definetly an up-and-comer. I first saw him in several gigs with Kenny Wheeler & Andrew Rathburn, then with Hill. I think all may have been last year, and I hadn't heard of him before then. I wonder if Colley going off to work with Hancock led Hill to find Hebert.

Tom Rainey is amazingly active in NY. There are times I've seen him with three different groups in a week in NY. There are a cluster of venues that "downtown" types play regularly--now that Kintting Factory is dead as a jazz venue, the spots are Tonic, Cornelia Street Cafe, 55 Bar, Barbes, and the Sunday night series at CBGB's lounge. The bass player's name is John Hebert. I just saw him on Sunday at CBGB's in a quartet with Sam Bardfield, Michael Attias & George Schuller. I've also seen Hebert with Kenny Wheeler on several occasions.