mrjazzman

are you on some kind of ego trip because your name appears on the back of a cd, who gives a crap about your tastes, I have 1500 jazz cd's and you didn't buy any of them for me so i could care less about your taste, its all about my taste, thas what counts when im on half.com, amazon.com or go into amoeba or rhasputin........the ignorant jerk

chuck and you say Im in the attacking mood, check your own comments, im not going to continue to remain calm with comments like "ignorant", "looking for a fight", "too confrontational" "jerk award", if its a fight you want i'll give you the fight of your life. sid's comments add absolutly NOTHING to the music. as a matter of fact they distract from the music. and at least you agree with me re: mulligan, brookmeyer and pepper, this is why i don't visit the site much let alone post, the nerve of you, i havent attacked anyone, im responding to attacks on me although mark said he was having fun. not at some elses expense i hope.............the ignorant jerk

if you knew me you'd know that im quite capable of a fight on this forum, that was not my intent with this thread

chuck nessa if you've read all the posts you'll see that im the one under attack for rendering what is obviously an unpopular opinion. but thats ok, i knew i'd catch hell for this. since you're here, if i had my way all of symphony sids comments would be edited/removed from any and all recordings he is on.........mrjazzman

dave james, not exactly sure what you mean by post-bop but how could you not consider the likes of Sonny Stitt, Sonny Criss, Cannonball Adderley and Jackie McLean.........mrjazzman

Ok, how's this.......who are your favorite artists, alive or deceased? Good enough? m- ← deceased, the obvious. on alto parker, adderley, stitt, criss, and benny carter, ernie henry, john jenkins, sonny red, eddie cleanhead vinson, earl anderza, maybe a few other i can't think of right now living, mclean(don't think he's active), vincent herring, lou donaldson(don't think he's active), frank strozier shorter list for baritone sax: adams(my favorite) ronnie cuber, leo parker, charles davis?, serge chaloff trombone, the greatest j.j. johnson, steve turre, al grey, bennie green, robert trowers

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