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Sein dreidt in de kop.

Other award winners of interest: Category 60 Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) * ¡Ahora Sí! Israel López "Cachao" [univision Records] Field 23 — Composing/Arranging Category 82 Best Instrumental Composition (A Composer's Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.) * Merengue Paquito D'Rivera, composer (Yo-Yo Ma) Track from: Obrigado Brazil - Live In Concert [sony Classical] Category 83 Best Instrumental Arrangement (An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.) * Past Present & Future Slide Hampton, arranger (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) Track from: The Way - Music Of Slide Hampton [Planet Arts Recordings]

Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) * Unspeakable Bill Frisell [Nonesuch Records] Category 46 Best Jazz Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) * R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) Nancy Wilson [MCG Jazz] Category 47 Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) * Speak Like A Child Herbie Hancock, soloist Track from: With All My Heart (Harvey Mason) [bluebird] Category 48 Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) * Illuminations McCoy Tyner With Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride & Lewis Nash [Telarc Jazz] Category 49 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album (For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) * Concert In The Garden Maria Schneider Orchestra [ArtistShare] Category 50 Best Latin Jazz Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) * Land Of The Sun Charlie Haden [Verve International]

I've been spinning only organists in the past hour including Jimmy Smith (early classics), Mel Rhyne, Organissimo, and Joey D. Coming up.....Shirley Scott, Joey D, more Jimmy Smith (later works)!!!! Long live the Hammond B3 and RIP Jimmy Smith!!!!

The source is a reliable voice in jazz promotion in NYC, currently working the new Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith CD. She wouldn't blow a false alarm. I must say, I'm surprised that it hasn't hit the wires. Her email arrived around 5 PM eastern. Is that Jana LeSorte?

I just found out while browsing the news on AAJ. This is terrible. I never saw him live but I can imagine the awe of his mastery. R.I.P Jimmy Smith. I will dedicate my broadcast tomorrow morning to him.

already gave my reactions to disc one. working on disc two (having problems with track 11 - I was carrying them around without a case yesterday - so it's my own fault.

Am I the only one who has recieved this disc. I feel so alone here. Somebody post, please!!!!

Cannonball Adderley (a real biography, not a bio-discography). Sarah Vaughn Lee Morgan Harold Land Kenny Kirkland Sam Jones Charlie Rouse Scott LaFaro Thad Jones Mel Lewis Tony Williams John Hammond (more of the story that is related in Mary Lou Williams Autobiography)

As a Jew myself, I had wanted to start this thread for a while but I thought it would encounter backlash as the black opionion thread did. Stan Getz! Lennie Niehaus Flora Purim Harry Connick, Jr. Ben Sidran Add to the young generation: Kurt Rosenwinkel Chris Potter Ben Perowsky (bassist) Fima Ephron Adam Rodgers (brecker's guitarist) Mark Feldman David Fiuczynski Aaron Goldberg both Avishai Cohens (trumpeter and bassist) I think as far as knowledge of yiddishkeit, Don Byron could be a Jew. In fact, in addition to the Mickey Katz record, he played in Hankus Netsky's fabulous Klezmer Conservatory Band when he was a student at NEC. p.s. - I really don't think dave douglas is jewish though I was thinking about it recently.

Ok. So here are my comments/guesses on disc 1: Track 1: This is a really smokin vibes player. I don't know enough about old school vibes players to make a good guess but the level of virtuosity is beyond Terry Gibbs. It might be Lionel Hampton or Victor Feldman because the guy has a lot of the classic post-bop licks "under his fingers." Who knows? Perhaps, the "Hutch" but that's too obvious. Clearly not Gary Burton. The only modern guys I know of are Stefon Harris, Bryan Carrott, Joe Locke and Matthies Luppri and this recording sounds rather old. The drummer has perfect time. Track 2: Definately dig the concept. It's kinda rockish and the guy has a very pleasingly funky rhythmic concept though relatively simple. I have no clue as to tune though I've heard such a tune before. Like a rag or a delta blues. Track 3: I love this Monk tune, "Ask Me Now." I am totally digging the bass clarinet's embellished melody in tandem with the muted trumpet and tap dancer. The tap dancing and the modernity of the inflections/recording quality hint at Savion Glover, however Glover is also the only dancer I know the name of. My favorite recent versions of this tune were by James Carter on "Jurassic Classics" and Bruce Barth's "East and West." Also a young bassist who recently graduated from Berklee did a pretty version. He is based in SF Bay Area. The CD is called "Previous Misconceptions" and his name is Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee. Maybe JimR has heard of him? Track 4: No clue. Max Roach? Freedom Suite? Idris Muhammad? Lots of African influence but too randomly free. The use of the hi-hat should tell me but I do not portend to be a drum expert. The voice implies Africa. Track 5: This is Lovano (first soloist) and another tenor player but is not from the Tenor Legacy CD he did with Josh Redman, McBride, Nash, and Mulgrew. This is quite obviously Paul Motian on drums from the free style and the indiosyncratic use of the hi-hat and cymbals in the beginning. The chord changes after the head are to Airegin. The other tenor could be Dewey Redman or Walt Weiskopt. The second tenorist's concept is informed by Joe Henderson and seemingly by Lovano too. I dig! Track 6: Abercrombie? Maybe with Larry Goldings or George Cables? Forget the name of this tune...kinda slow and boring Track 7: This sounds like John McLaughlin. Very ethereal and airy. NMCOT. Track 8: No conjectures. Maybe some closer listening will reveal something. I was thinking Pat Martino but I think it's somebody younger and lesser known. You can barely hear the bass! I really like this trumpeter's sound....It'n not a neo-bopper but it is someone young. Probably someone obscure to throw us for one. Too many names come to mind. Perhaps Tim Hagans? Track 9: Sounds like a post-modern version of Ellington's Main Stem. Guitarist sounded a bit like Rosenwinkel. Track 10: Not a clue. NMCOT. Track 11: I like the composition and the open voicings in the horns. Definately new-schoolers. Maybe something from Fresh Sound New Talent? Track 12: This is the definition of early free jazz. One instrument slowly leading the group through the tune. Sounds like Wayne Shorter on tenor. This is most likely late 60s or 70s. Track 13: Solo rendition of Sammy Cahn's classic "I Should Care." I keep seeing versions of this tune all over the place recently - like on the new Jim Snidero CD. James Williams could do a great solo piano rendition that was markedly more structured and with a definite tempo. Both this and my memory of that are nice. Track 14: It's clear what song it is. I dunno this singer nor the band. I will leave this one to others. Track 15: Definately Dexter! At times I feel like I'm gonna recognize the piece but it continues to elude me. Nice arrangement. Track 16: Yeah!!! Jimmy McGriff? I know that grunt/hum! Reminds me of Jimmy McGriff but it could be so many cats. Very groovy! Thanks for a challenge .:impossible, its been fun and tough so far. I probably won't get much farther than this on disc one so I will now move to Disc Two and hope that I recognize something there too. I didn't make any positive IDs as I have none of these CDs but it has me wanting 5, 13.and 16 especially.

I played Fire Waltz on my show today. I got three callers asking what it was!

Program: The Jazz Clinic Date: 02-03-2005 , 10:00 to 02-03-2005 , 12:00 Dave Douglas -- Strange Liberation -- A Single Sky Michael Wolff -- Dangerous Vision -- Dangerous Vision Caribbean Jazz Project -- Here and Now -- Naima Masada -- 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. 7 -- Kedushah Jim Snidero -- Close Up -- Blues for the Moment Booker Little -- Booker Little and Friend -- Victory and Sorrow Booker Little -- Out Front -- Man of Words The Bad Plus -- Give -- 1979 Semifinalist Trio Mundo -- Rides Again -- Hot Ice Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey -- Walking With Giants -- Walking With Giants Albert Ayler -- Holy Ghost Rare and Unissued Recordings 1962-70 (BOX SET) -- Sunnymoon For Two Bobby Timmons -- The Best of Bobby Timmons -- Dat Dere Tom Harrell -- Wise Children -- What Will They Think of Next Jason Moran -- Same Mother -- Fire Waltz Mike Ladd -- Negrophilia -- Worldwide Shrinkwrap (Contact Zones) Yeah No -- Swell Henry -- Flanked Stefano di Battista -- Parker's Mood -- Salt Peanuts Charlie Parker -- Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection -- Salt Peanuts This is what I played over my two hours!

I know he's the hot ticket in jazz right now or has been since JazzTimes and Downbeat proclaimed him the best trumpeter around but I think there are parallels to other great musicians. For instance, I would draw a connection between someone like Sam Rivers and Dave Douglas or Malachi Thompson and Dave Douglas. They all SEEM unfocused but it's because they are such creative, forward-thinking individuals. I know it's kind of absurb how many bands Douglas has, but in all honesty when do you think the last time was that the Convergence string group band got back together and did a tour or the Tiny Bell Trio (yeah maybe here and there). But why not "diversify one's portfolio," to use the parlance of our times. He has made himself iinfinitely more marketable (especially to the Japanese and Europeans who are willing to shell out dough in advances and retainers to see these forward-thinker/innovators do their thang on the bandstand). All the bands he has chartered also gives arts management people and booking outfits the ability to say, look, here's this educated guy who's a good player and a good educator (evidenced by his work at Banff Summer Program) who can wear all these hats and sound darn good in almost all of them. Then the booking people can say, this demographic will eat this up. It's just good business on the part of Dave Douglas. Sidenote: for a while Dave Douglas seemed to be moving towards the center; what with all the press coverage for "Soul on Soul" and "Strange Liberation" and "Freak In" and "The Infinite." But now he has gone back to his roots as a rather free composer - unbound by stylistic brand names or labels. Now that's he's established his name all over the world as a talented trumpeter and concept man who can do commissions and be versatile, he can go around and do more stuff than he could have had he not gone to mainstream route for a little while there. Joe M: Would you call a composer someone who lacks focus? Would you chide a jazz musician for going in several directions at once? Isn't that what jazz is about? Ideally? I frankly wouldn't be surprised if he started to do what Don Byron has been known for, with social commentary. In fact the two musicians are alike in many creative respects. They want to do all these different things because so much occurs to them that hasn't been done - tonally, theoretically, harmonically. I want to see more of Dave Douglas, the prose writer as well. The piece he wrote on Roswell Rudd being marked "avant garde" was thoughtful. I forget which publication it was in. p.s. i think it was a shameful thing when the editors of downbeat and jazztimes both thought they had a good idea by pitting dave against wynton. why do that? to sell magazines, yes....but i am confident that dave never thinks about wynton and wynton is too damn busy on tour all the goddamn time to be thinkin about dave. so as far as I'm concerned there don't seem to be a problem...just a ploy by the publishers to sell product. ......and that's all I have to say about that........

I received this for aiplay and MAN is this a good group or what? The street date was January 25th but I suppose a lot of you guys or gals already have it - especially Chicago folks since its on this new subdivision of Premonition which Douglas owns called "Green Leaf." The ensemble is really unique. The instrumentation that Douglas is using brings Arthur Blythe to mind in that they are unlikely to be put together - tuba, cello, drums, middle-register woodwinds (alto, clarinet, bass clarinet). Like modern third stream. The concept of the album is also pretty phenomenal - premiering a commission in the wilderness:

Do we get answers soon?

Does anyone know about this "new" division they have called "Verve Forecast" with Latin female artists like "Brazilian Girls" and "Chivira Chevello."

Pick on jazz? That was promoting jazz brother!

The Terminal - Benny Golson appears playing I Remember Clifford. Lost in Translation - sleazy bar trio in Tokyo hotel where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen (HOTTIE!!!!) are staying. Catch Me If You Can - Spielberg flick about fraudulent check writer - several jazz tunes including some Ella on the soundtrack and some killer alto saxophone playing by studio cat Dan Higgins on the theme music composed by (You Guessed It) John Williams. It seems to me Nancy Wilson appeared in some movie some years ago as did Rosemary Clooney. -_- -_-

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I've been wondering this myself. If you check Patitucci's website his tour info will tell if he's the bassist with this upcoming 'Directions in Music' revival tour. I will be going to the show in Pittsburgh - I'll probably write something up for AAJ and maybe post a brief review here. They put up signs all over the city and on campus. They are really making an effort to sell this one out despite poor turnout for comparable events at large venues. This will be a treat - hearing Brecker in a context outside his own band - something I've never seen. Edit: Yup, according to Scott Colley's new ArtistShare site here (tour info), Scott Colley will be on bass and Teri Lynne will be on drums!

I wish they did these kinds of tours in the states

I thought surely Mike Fitzgerald would come to the rescue on this one. What was the first recorded jazz version beyond the movie soundtrack which really isn't jazz at all. I can't use Brian (the software he touts all the time) for some reason. Probably that I don't have user priveleges on these cluster machines I been using since my computer went to the hospital

Roy Eldridge Sextet Roy Eldridge (tp, vo) Bud Freeman (ts) Ray Bryant (p) Elmer Snowden (g, bj) Tommy Bryant (b) Jo Jones (d) NYC, February 1 & 2, 1962 One for the Money Fontana [H] 883 909 Loveless Love - Saturday Night Fish Fry - School Days - Basin Street Blues - My Blue Heaven - * Saturday Night Fish Fry / Roy Eldridge, Bud Freeman, Elmer Snowden (Fontana [H] 883 909)

I know a person at Relix Magazine if you want me to forward a CD, Jim. They pretty much cover the jam band scene.