Pete C

One could easily make a compilation of Sarah Vaughan performances of songs detested on Organissimo. She also did Love Story and Rainy Days and Mondays.

Not even Ben Webster? For me, he owns it.

Your first mistake was not going to a trusted professional with a proven track record, someone like Dionne Warwick(e).

I especially like the Hoagy's Children sets with Bob Dorough, Barbara Lea & Dick Sudhalter.

I was there. No recordings have ever surfaced.

Maybe, but then there's Art Tatum.

I love the Groove Holmes version. Mediocre melody, great changes. Awful lyrics. Two great blowing tunes that aren't good singer's tunes due to lousy lyrics: Out of Nowhere, I'll Remember April.

i don't recall hearing a jazz version..... Coltrane on The Stardust Sessions and Charles McPherson on Today's Man to name two, and I like both. Add my name to the Blues March haters club. In a similar vein of hokey is Oliver Nelson's Hoe Down.

I was at home in Brooklyn when the power went out. I was never happier to be unemployed.

Ravi Coltrane Ravi Shankar Albert Shanker

http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/04/weekend-extra-joe-henderson.html

Wick http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xne7mj_wick-finds-the-whiskey-bottle-from-the-lost-weekend-1945_shortfilms Billy Wilder Louis Prima (the wildest)

Bunch is an excellent late swing pianist. I saw him many times at the now defunct Zinno Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village, often in a trio with Jay Leonhardt & Bucky Pizzarelli. I also saw that trio do a freebie at the Umbria festival. I think the first time I saw bunch was at Bradley's in the late '70s. Junior Mance was also a regular at Zinno (Bruno, the Milanese bartender, called him "Juny-or Mahn-say), and now he performs at Cafe Loup, across the street, where Bruno works since the demise of Zinno. I was planning to see Stan Tracey last time I was in London, in 2009, but Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellin let out too late to make it practical. Fire marshals seem to be the enemies of jazz!

Yeah, I know, but there's no point in keeping up the charade. I say do away with nickels too!

I think it was summer of 1975 when I saw Blakey with Schnitter, Shunzu Ohno, Walter Davis, and not sure who on bass at the Top of the Gate. Around 1AM three guys with instrument cases marched through the tables to the stage and you should have seen Bu's face light up with joy and amazement: it was Shorter, Hubbard and Fuller. I think maybe VSOP had played at Wein's NY festival earlier that evening.

There were all those special aggregations for McCoy Tyner at Yoshi's over the years, and I've always wondered whether those gigs were recorded.

I missed Dennis Gonzalez, Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean at Downtown Music Gallery due to the big blackout of 2003. I heard that Hopper borrowed an acoustic guitar for the gig since he couldn't play electric bass.

Hadn't you heard? The legacies of deceased jazz musicians are now available for corporate sponsorship.

In 1991 I went to a Charlie Parker tribute concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Kenny Drew was supposed to be on piano, and I was really looking forward to it, but he didn't make it to the states for some reason, and Stanley Cowell played instead. I never got to see Drew live. I believe it was, however, the only time I saw A.T. Here's a review of the show: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/news/pop-in-review-729591.html

Bad link (double http://) Here's the link again: http://www.jazzdisco.org/fats-navarro/catalog/album-index/

Bird, Bud & Fats all are on fire.

He's got the chops, and he can be the real deal when he wants to be. And Night Music showed that he has big ears.

Jim, do you have an Amazon link for this one? The material has been released in various forms over the years. I found these on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Live-Birdland-Bonus-Tracks/dp/B002689AUA/ http://www.amazon.com/Birdland-1-Charlie-Parker/dp/B00004SD2O/ I think the 4-disc set on Charly is the same set I have on Ember (Complete Birdland Recordings): http://www.amazon.com/Bird-at-Birdland-Charlie-Parker/dp/B000025BS3/ One amusing thing about the date is that for years the singer on Embraceable You was listed as Chubby Newsome, a female vocalist, but it's actually Little Jimmy Scott (confirmed by Scott himself). I don't think it's a radio broadcast, as stated above, but a location recording.

Why the hell are nickels so much bigger than dimes?