mrjazzman

I didn't say you were ignorant, just the statement! I'm sure you're a perfectly fine individual! m- ← the statement, as stated, was an opinion not a representation of a fact, and to say the statement is ignorant and not the person making it makes no sense to me since people make statements

mark, there you go again, more sarcasm "misguided". hey, if you like those three thats cool. this is america, you get to like or dislike whomever. can't get to the meat of your question because of the sarcastic tone of your comments..........

mark you're trying my patience. now we get sarcasm from mark "wasted". starting to sound like you were offended by my comments. are you related to any of the three, maybe father, uncle or maybe 2nd cousin? sarcasm begets sarcasm

mark wanted a list of my favorites. would that be live or deceased?

live or dead?

ok sheldonm, my feelings have been repaired(smile)

ok jazzbo, i can accept that. thats what i call respectfully disagreeing...........

arogant........probably, ignorant..........definitly not. read what webster has to say about ignorant........mrjazzman

as i said, i knew i'd catch some flack but sorry sheldomn ignorant does not apply to me and why go on the personal attack.

they don't deserve the attention they've got in the past, no real point to be made. its just that i don't like these guys for the above stated reasons and was curios as to who agrees or disagrees............mrjazzman

i know im going to catch some flak but i wouldn't give you a plug nickel for either of them. i know you're going to ask why and i would just say they're too lightweight for me, they seem to just skim the surface of things. im black so i've been told its a racial thing. WRONG. Pepper Adams is my all time favorite baritone sax sophonist and i like Steve Turre a lot. of course, this is just my opinion

Thank you all. I'll share one more with you. I used to live in a three flat bldg. at 2145 Grove St. in San Francisco. Mr. & Mrs. Velez lived next door. Turns out that he and Miles were friends. I was about 15 and had just got hooked on jazz after listening to The Promise and Afro Blue from Trane's Live At Birdland set and was facinated by Miles, the music and the persona. Miles', with arguably his best quintet: Shorter, Hancock, Williams, and Carter, was appearing at Basin Street West on Broadway street in S.F. and he asked me if I wanted to go. I was FLABERGASTED, SPEECHLESS, I almost fainted. Of course I said yes. Seeing Miles in person at such a young impressionable age was facinating. I thought it was so cool the way he would at the end of his solo walk off the stage and start mingling in the audience then come back on stage just in time to re-state the head. After the show Mr. Velez and I went back to Miles' hotel room where his BEAUTIFUL wife Francis was waiting. She was drop dead gorgeous, had on what was for that period a very provacative, almost see through chifon dress. It was like I was frozen in time, I couldn't believe I was experiencing this. Of course I heard Miles speak for the first time in that famous raspy voice. My father had sent me a trumpet and I was playing second trumpet in the Ben Franklin Jr High School band in S.F. and I asked him about practicing and I never will forget him telling me 'man, I never practice, don't have time for that shit'. One of the greatest nights in my life. sorry if this was to long......................mrjazzman

spoke to him on the phone june '04, lives in new jersey, he was born on 3-5-'24. he led to sessions for vanguard, Warming Up and Dave Burns.............

for me its tenor madness, saxophone colossus, alfie, sonny side up, sonny rollins + four, sonny rollins plays bird...............

the following are two excerpts from a May, 1939 Metronome article by William Costello about my Grandfather Lamar Wright Sr. titled Lammar Wright Hailed As Cab's 'Iron Man' I have often sat and listened to Wright hitting notes ranging from F above high _C to B-flat above high _C. I have heard him end various numbers on F above high F If you are interested in securing some records on which Lammar Wright plays some high notes, I would suggest that you hear Shout Shout; Three Swings And Out; When You're Smiling. Each record is a Decca, and on Shout Shout, Lammar hits a B-flat above high C.

he worked with earl bostic and buddy rich. he did a lot of local stuff and was pretty tight with stanley turrentine and milt jackson. my mother has said that sarah vaughan used to bounce me off her knee. last june while in new york, i visited joe gayles and while in his apartment spoke to dave burns on the phone. joe gayles is in his 80's and doing well. there is a brief bio of my dad at allmusic.com. the last gig i remember him having was in the house band of a female impersonator joint in the village. by the 70's he was out of music and working for the nyc sanitation dept. i believe one of his last recordings was a big band date with milt jackson. i am unaware of any recorded solos by him, if there are any out there, please let me know........mrjazzman

My Dad Elmon Wright, Raymond Orr, Dave Burns, Willie Cook, Matthew McKay and of course Diz made up the SCREAMING trumpet section(I don't think they were all together from beginning to end)of what was without question the best bop/afro-cuban big band there ever was. Of the group, only diz and burns were soloists. Check Dave Burns out on Warming Up and Dave Burns. At one point in time, Cab Calloway's trumpet section consisted of my Grandfather Lamar Wright Sr, Dizzy Gillespie and Mario Bauza. My uncle Lammar Wright Jr. played with Charlie Barnet. I'm sure everyone knows about the spitball story where diz threw a spitball from the bandstand that hit Cab in the head as he sat in the audience, he swore until his death that it was my Grandfather who threw that spitball. I had a huge laugh with him about that at the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival of many years ago.........mrjazzman

Boltz has some fine expandable cd storage units, but way to expensive. Anyone know of any alternatives????????

if you had asked me in '65 i probably could have given you an answer, or if you had included '63 or '64. imo the avant-garde section of his discography does not hold up today(although I got hooked on jazz by the promise and afro blue from "Live AT Birdland"). Today I prefer Blue Trane, A Love Supreme, Crescent, Giant Steps and The Bethlehem Years and his sideman work with miles over the avant garde stuff.............mrjazzman

Elmon Wright(tp), that was my dad. Thank you very much Chuck Nessa...........mrjazzman

what did chuck say about one of my favorites booker ervin?

Can anyone give me the personnell on this Dizzy Gillespie date, "Live At The Downbeat Club, Summer 1947 on JazzGuild. Is it his big band or a small group. Thanks........mrjazzman

my favorite slide playing/writing is on "A Day In Copenhagen", of course you get the added bonus of having my favorite ts player Dexter Gordon.........mrjazzman

Anybody have the 2-cd set "The Complete Sarah Vaughan, Live In Japan" on Mobile Fidelity, originally on Mainstream?..........mrjazzman

the trial version is free but the number of cd's you can input is limited. the full version is very affordable(don't remember the exact price, sorry)and worth every penny. i had tried a couple other programs and imo cd trustee is by far the best program for my limited needs. someone should do a side by side comparison and see if they agree with me go to base40.com................mrjazzman