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  1. Stewart is Bill Stewart (drummer) or Bob Stewart (the tubist)? I assume the former.
  2. Kenny Karsh (leads the jazz guitar program at Duquesne here in Pittsburgh and appeared on a couple of 70s releases with Eric Kloss. Rueben Rodgers - newer tpt player Kyle Koehler - organist with Dom Minasi and Don Braden among others.
  3. It's weird but right after I started this poll, I started looking into the great BFT Big Al sent and most of the tunes he included on the "enjoy" christmas CD are not on this poll. silly me. I really like "In Ecelsis Deo," and "Santa Claus is Comin to Town." I'm pretty sure one of the tunes on the Christmas BFT disc is definately Dexter doing something mentioned above.
  4. I am about to edit the list. So far I count 137. There have got to be more.
  5. Believe it or not, though I'm not Christian and do not celebrate Christmas, I have a great love of Christmas and other seasonal tunes. So indulge my penchant for polls (it's been a while now) and pick your favorite jazzy christmas rendition. Besides the above, I also thought notable 'others' for your consideration might be any of the following, all of which I've heard jazz versions of: Adeste Fideles A Child Is Born Greensleeves Joy to the World Here Comes Santa Claus Santa Claus is Comin' to Town Edit: My favorite is a current Dianne Reeves rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  6. Here is a list of jazz artists I have come up with who have the same first letter in both their first and last names. I have not consulted anything but a mental picture of my CD/LP collection. I urge you to resist the urge I fought in consulting the All Music Guide or any other comprehensive sources of this kind. This game was suggested to me by some musicians who had played it in the car to pass the time going from New York to Pittsburgh. Here is the list I have come up with so far. George Gee is a rather local Pittsburgh name (though his big band goes all over the US these days for swing dances and the like). Try to keep it to names that you think others would know. I think this one should be fun! Ahmed Abdoul-Malik Al Aarons Albert Ammons Albert Ayler Alex Acuna Alvin Alcorn Bam Brown Barney Bigard Baron Browne Benny Bailey Bill Barron Bill Basie Bill Bickford Billy Bang Billy Banks Billy Bauer Billy Butler Billy Butterfield Billy Byers Bix Beiderbecke Bob Bates Bob Berg Bob Brookmeyer Bobby Broom Bobby Bradford Borah Bergman Brian Blade Brian Bromberg Bruce Barth Bubba Brooks Buddy Bolden Buddy Bregman Bunny Berigan Buster Bailey Cab Calloway Carla Cook Charlie Christian Chick Corea Chris Cheek Chris Connor Conte Candoli Corky Corcoran Cosy Cole Curtis Counce Cutty Cutshall Cyrus Chestnut Dave Douglas Diz Disley Don Doane Donald Dean Doris Day Eddie Edwards Eliane Elias Ellery Eskelin Essiet Essiet Frank Foster Fred Fried Gene Gifford George Garzone George Gee George Gruntz Glen Gray Gianni Gebbia Gil Goldstein Gigi Gryce Giorgio Gaslini Grant Green Hampton Hawes Harold Harris Helen Humes Herbie Hancock Herbie Harper Horace Henderson Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez Ike Issacs James P. Johnson Javon Jackson Jimmy Jones Jimmy Johnson Jo Jones Joe Jackson Joe Johnston John Jenkins Jonah Jones Joseph Jarman JJ Johnson Kenny Kirkland Krysztof Komeda Lorne Lofsky Lou Levy Marcus Miller Marian McPartland Maria Muldaur Mark Murphy Marty Markowitz Marty Morell Mat Maneri Matty Matlock Maurice Meunier Mezz Mezzrow Michael Philip Mossman Miff Mole Mike Manieri Mike Mantler Mike Metheny Mike Migliori Misha Mengelberg Monk Montgomery Mulgrew Miller Myra Melford Pat Patrick Paul Parker Perez Prado Pony Poindexter Ram Ramirez Red Rodney Renee Rosnes Ronnie Ross Rudy Rutherford Rufus Reid Sahib Shihab Sal Salvador Shirley Scott Shorty Sherock Slam Stewart Sonny Sharrock Sonny Stitt Steve Smith Steve Swallow Stuff Smith Tommy Tedesco Tommy Turrentine Toots Thielemans Teri Thornton Walt Weiskopf Wilbur Ware Zeke Zarchy
  7. There is a review of this disc posted at Dusted. They make the album, and the choir's contribution, sound fairly bizarre. Yeah the choir definately takes away from the experience. But the band will occaisonally (out of nowhere) play some beautiful harmonized horn passage quoting a standard.
  8. Keezer just got signed to MaxJazz. Hopefully that will mean more people find out about him.
  9. Yeah he's BAD, but the only thing it's consistent in - is being the same thing rehashed over and over.
  10. Interesting--would be great to hear those bands. A friend tells me Lehman's a guy to check out, esp. the new one on FSNT. It's a shame The Preserver hasn't been issued yet--I hope some enterprising label picks it up. We should get him to join the Org Board. He's obviously computer-savvy. Hopefully Pi will release all his old records - it's just a matter of getting the rights. I think Mother Tongue came out too late in the year to make "best of 2004" lists. Am I wrong?
  11. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown! Great song. Great composer!
  12. The station just got a copy of Globe Unity Orchestra & The Choir of the NDR-Broadcast The title is Hamburg '74 and its on Atavistic's Unheard Music Series. Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler - trumpets Peter Brotzmann, Rudiger Carl, Gerd Dudek, Evan Parker, Michel Pilz - reeds Gunter Christmann, Paul Rutherford - trombones Derek Bailey - guitar Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano Peter Kowald - bass, tuba Han Bennink - drums, percussion, clarinet Paul Lovens - drums, percussion I like it a lot! Opinions?
  13. I really really really like this CD. I am always spinning it on www.wrct.org, the station I dj for. He really doesn't like to include liner notes. So there is minimal info on each CD. But his sound is so powerful and the ideas just flow. It's not as amazing as Black Water cuz that was my first time hearing him, so I'm a little bit more used to his approach now. But it's still really good, intelligent, soulful music. I don't really care for the bonus track with all the languages overdubbed. Jason Moran did a much better job with this but I think we'll be seeing a lot of this type of stuff in the future. Matt
  14. Is he back in Detroit now. I figure some of our members might know. Happy Birthday Barry Harris! Thanks for the music.
  15. Ray Drummond the bassist, like many other first-call rhythm section cats is on so many records and CDs. Rather than start a poll based on the little which I DO have, I thought I would start a thread with recommendations of stuff he led or stuff we're he sounds particularly good. Look forward to your responses.....
  16. My radio station has almost all of them. I was just spinning Harry 'Sweets' Edison the other day on a combined Xanadu LP with 'Hot Lips' Page.
  17. We read this chart in a rehearsal band I'm in that was badass. It was a bass trombone feature called "I Ain't Gonna Ask No More." the sax soli was ridiculous - especially my 2nd tenor part (but that's always the case). Does anyone know what recording this is/was on? And who did it feature on bass tb. If anyone has any versions of it I would very much like to know what they are (and might I dare say get a "burn"). I can imagine Dave Taylor playing it....
  18. Filling dead air...... Currently playing Roscoe Mitchell LP entitled L-R-G, The Maze, S II Examples Taking requests on this forum if you can tune in. I have a bin full of the newest jazz, hip hop, rock, indie, whatever. You can also reach me via AOL Instant Messenger at wrct883. cb-a
  19. Chris Potter - Lift: Live At The Village Vanguard (Sunnyside) What he does with the sax intro to Mingus' "Boogie Stop Shuffle," is enough to get this disc by itself. I love his compositions too (especially "What You Wish" and "Lift," the title track). Any band with Bill Stewart and Scott Colley is gonna cook. Roy Haynes - Birds of A Feather (Dreyfus Jazz) Every cat on this album is sick. And who can resist Bird's tunes. You can't go wrong with Kenny Garrett, Roy Hargrove, Dave Kikoski and Davel Holland. The old man has still got the fire!!! Jean-Michel Pilc - Follow Me (Dreyfus Jazz) A really amazing set of solo piano from this Frenchman. A lot of standards - including "My Favorite Things," "Autumn Leaves," and "St. Louis Blues." His reharmonizations are the work of a true genius. Burton Greene - Live at Grasland (Drimala) This is really a beautiful solo program by this Florida native who has lived in Europe for quite some time now. It's very meditative. Not as free as I thought it would be. And the liners explaining the names of the tunes really cracked me up. Don Byron - Ivey-Divey (Blue Note) I'm so happy Blue Note and Don got these cats together. What a threesome. Ralph Alessi continues his work with Byron in great form on the quintet pieces. And the theme was really cool too.
  20. One of my housemates uses the Blockbuster service and we all love it! I never jumped on the Netflix bandwagon but now that I live with someone who does the Blockbuster one, I would definately consider it in the future for myself. The online service does rent titles that are NC-17. No porn or anything. But the selection is great. Their online "warehouse" selection is much better than any real Blockbuster I've ever seen. The discs come really quickly. I have been watching whole seasons of "The West Wing," with him and his girlfriend whenever I have a few hours. We were also trying to watch the whole "ER," from first season to now. But that would take months so I gave up on that. Both these shows have compelling plots that really keep you wanting to watch the next episode because they are at your fingertips. Also, the two in-store rentals are really nice because occaisonally the local warehouse will be out of what you want and one of your local stores will have it. Matt
  21. Three Baritone Saxophone Band - best bari sax CD out there that I've heard. I'll have to get the one Brad is talking about. That sounds scrumptious.
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