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I saw this link provided by Larry Appelbaum on the JPL: Jazz on the Screen by David Meeker

You said it better than I, Mike. The Fred Hersch recording is a very different take on Monk's music without being facile ( like I think the Broom recording is), and adding another, complimentary vision. Either record Monk's music with respect ( either straight or with a personal perspective), or leave it alone.

This is incredible: Tommy Smith INTO SILENCE Tommy Smith - tenor & soprano saxophones & bells This recording features 25 improvisations, folk songs, ballads and some Gregorian Chants within the beautiful and haunting reverberation of the Hamilton Mausoleum.

Joe Locke did "I'll Be There" on his State Of Soul cd.

Well I have this but didn't like it very much. The bass player should raise his bridge because every other note slaps and boings on the fretboard. and I don't think the drummer has a very good concept concerning Monks music. Bobby Broom is OK, not great. Sorry! Having said that the Motion recording is very, very good and Fred Hersch's "Fred Hersch plays Thelonious Monk", is great! "Fred Hersch plays Thelonious Monk" Nonesuch CD 79456-2 'Round Midnight - 3'44; In Walked Bud - 4'48; Crepuscule with Nellie/Reflections - 4'51; Think Of One - 3'11; Ask Me Now - 5'30; Evidence - 3'31; Five views of Misterioso - 7'01; Let's Cool One - 4'50; Bemsha Swing - 3'16; Light Blue/Pannonica - 6'07; I Mean You - 4'17; 'Round Midnight reprise - 1'40; (1997 Stamford CT) Fred Hersch - piano. Then there is always: Bud Powell - "A Portrait of Thelonious" Columbia CK 65187 Off Minor - 5'20; Ruby My Dear - 5'46; Thelonious - 3'46; Monk's Mood - 7'06; (plus 4 other songs) (December 17, 1961 - Paris) Bud Powell - piano, Pierre Michelot - bass, Kenny Clarke - drums. and: Tommy Flanagan - "Thelonica" - Enja CD 4052-14 North of the Sunset - 4'22; Light Blue - 5'28; Off Minor - 5'28; Pannonica - 6'59; Ask Me Now - 4'10; Thelonious - 4'10; Reflections - 7'30; Ugly Beauty - 5'03; Thelonica - 5'11 (by Tommy Flanagan; (1982 - N.Y.) Tommy Flanagan - piano, George Mraz - bass; Art Taylor - drums.

Hi Guy, have a Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday, Jack!

Happy Birthday, Barak!

I saw him a couple of weeks ago, and the jury is still out.

I was living in Miami when they fought in the Orange Bowl. It was a HUGE event there and Arguello was a hero to the community.

A interesting tidbit is that Johnny Mandel worked on the string arrangements on "Off The Wall".

Arlid Anderson/Tommt Smith/Paolo Vinaccia - Live at Belleville review Arild Andersen double-bass, live-electronics Paolo Vinaccia drums Tommy Smith tenor saxophone Tracks: 1. Independency Part 1 2. Independency Part 2 3. Independency Part 3 4. Independency Part 4 5. Prelude to a kiss 6. Outhouse 7. Dreamhorse Recorded September 2007 ECM 2078

Saw Asaf Sirkis just a few weeks ago at Bath - as part of Dan Stern's group. Excellent drummer ! For those of you who live in the L.A. Area, they play at Catalina's on Monday, June 29th.

At the JazzWeek conference last week, Tom "The Jazz Man" Mallison said that he donated his collection after having it appraised by a certified estate appraiser, for ( I believe) $104,000.

I believe that Moon is not legit.

Bill Cosby was the host

Sorta. Closer to the point is Bobby, who I like a lot, has people sending them to him instead of going out to search and buy. I bet if he had to buy them he would be way more selective, thus a smaller collection. But hats off to Bobby because most people would sell them.

I think that 14,000 is very respectable! Bobby Jackson, who is the Program Director at WCPN in Cleveland, told me he had 22,000 cds! I would imagine that most of them are promos, though. Here's...Bobby!

Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio Fantastic!

Kush Abadey is a comer. His father is drummer Nasar Abadey, who uncle is/was Frankie Dunlop. Kush has been playing with Wallace Roney of late, while still in high school.

If he did, that's scary! Here's a photo from last night:

Organissimo Photo at the Rochester Festival

I saw him last night. The other keyboard player is Pat Bianchi, who lives in Denver now. He also had a vocalist named Colleen McNabb. I sat at their dinner table for a while because he was with a drummer I know Carmen Intorre, who will be playing with him soon and was hitching a ride in his tour bus on the way back to NYC. Joey D was a little surly, but what the hell. Maybe it's just because he's so huge. He played pretty well but also played a real cheesy keyboard for a toy like sound on Waltz for Debbie, which the singer sang. It didn't come off well. He later played with a small keyboard that he could use with his mouth when festival producer John Nugent sat in on a blues. Nugent is a very good saxophonist, by the way. The crowd ate it up and demanded a encore.