paul secor

Happy Birthday to one Paul from another!

My thanks to everyone for all of the good thoughts and wishes. This is a great community, and I'm glad that I'm a part of it.

I read this review a couple of Sundays ago, and couldn't understand why anyone with any intelligence would care what Philip Larkin thought about John Coltrane's music. Judging from the review, it doesn't seem that the reviewer has any familiarity with Coltrane's music - at least he doesn't offer any opinions/ideas of his own, preferring to parrot Larkin and Ratliff - and used Larkin's opinions as an easy way to open and close his review. One would think that The Times could have done better, but, these days, that's obviously not the case. It seems that book review sections and newspapers themselves are dying. That's a sad thing - at least to my mind - but it appears that it's suicidal, in addition to the other factors involved.

Ray Charles was born in Georgia, but his family moved to Florida when he was an infant, and he got his earliest musical training at a school for the blind in St. Augustine, Fl. An arrangement of an early Ray tune might be a nice change up and fit in with more jazz oriented material.

Daniele - All the the very best to you on Your Day!

A Happy Birthday post for "each" of you.

Yeah, sign me up as a douche bag as well. What a fuckwad... Dan and I agree on something. The guy's just a jerk.

Great to see that that Henry Grimes is playing a full schedule of gigs at age 72!

Sonny Rollins at Music Inn/Teddy Edwards at Falcon's Lair (Metrojazz/Japan)

Clark Terry's Duke with a Difference was recorded in stereo for Riverside in July and September, 1957. I used to have a mono copy of that record - one of the first jazz records I bought - and wore it out on a bad turntable in college. I picked up a stereo copy years later, and, interestingly, the stereo version omits one track - Marian Bruce's version of "Come Sunday".

Two that come to mind right now: A Buck Clayton Jam Session 1975 Joe Venuti & Earl Hines: Hot Sonatas

Happy Birthday!

Nice coupon. Too bad that my local Borders has so little worth buying.

Listened to the reunion recording today. Sounded very fine to me, especially considering that - at least as I remember - they didn't have a lot of time together before recording. For want of a better term, there's an organic flow among the musicians (including Tchicai). Zorn might fit in, but Tchicai sounds fine to me - no need for Zorn - imo.

Her singing isn't to my taste - I'd never heard her before, and will probably never listen to her again - but at least she had a somewhat unique vocal style - more than can be said for many singers.

Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy Studio Sessions - Miles Davis All Stars - 8/14/47 - Milestones, Little Willie Leaps, Half Nelson, Sippin' at Bells

not too many years wasnt it made in 2000? Yes, but strangely enough, that's just a hair less than a quarter of my life (yikes!) ... As I understand it - and this may be total bullshit - a wedge was driven into the original lineup when Zorn replaced Tchicai on some gigs, and that another reunion is unlikely. Maybe it's just me, but Zorn seems like a strange fit for that band.

Yeah! Everyone's still around and still playing well - Why not? Have to play the DIW again. It's probably been 4 or 5 years.

Happy Birthdays!

I'd read those Thanks for both compliments. I have to admit that I feel that I'm a mediocre writer on my best days. I've enjoyed brownie's writings here, and would buy and read a collection of his life in the jazz world and his forays into other realms. Another book that I'd buy and read, should it ever exist, would be The Nessa Chronicles. The few times that Chuck has stretched out on Organissimo have been special moments. He's a true writer, and as much as I enjoy his everyday pithy comments, I hope that he'll do more stretching out some day.

This afternoon: Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions - Sept. 18, 1948 - Barbados, Ah-Leu-Cha, Constellation, Parker's Mood

Besides the playing of the two leaders, there's also some very good Charlie Haden on that record.

All the best, and many more, sir!

This morning: Charlie Parker: May 8, 1947 session - Donna Lee, Chasin' the Bird, Cheryl, Buzzy