marcello

Sure, that's still common. Some NYC contracts call for the contracted group not to play ay another venue in 3 months time. Before and after the contacted date.

Mingus

Blue Laws?

Charles Mingus 4th of July, 1976 NYC

Joe LaBarbera

Vi Redd, Marian McParland & Dottie Dodgion

Mingus Fingers

Who could she paying that kind of money? Nobody. I bet the last time Miles Davis made $500 for a week is when he was playing as a single and was a junkie. I remember when Miles played a club where I worked in '68 - '69 he was paid $5500 for the week. I remember because the owner complained so much. Duffy's Backstage, in Rochester. I was a weekend busboy and after school clean up boy.

Jimmy Owens warming up

You mean like this? This concert was in Rochester where Chick has lots of friends. When he and Mangione were in Blakey's band together, Chick would visit Rochester, stay a couple of weeks with Chuck's family, and pick up some local gigs for quick cash. Backstage was filled with these characters he played with then. I remember sitting with Joe LaBarbera during the concert, and one of the biggest responses from the audience was when they played acoustic in four.

J.J. Wiggins

Return To Forever

Chick Corea

Percy Heath w/ Stanley Cowell

You guys need some.... Percy Heath!

Back to photos...... Anbother one who died too soon: Freddie Waits PS: I understood Chuck very well by the way, so we must have gone to the same school.

His drug problem manifested rather late in his young life. That, combined with weight and terrible eating habits, killed him a a tour bus in the middle of the desert in Arizona while on tour with Buddy in 1986. This was his favorite breakfast: 1 lb. of egg noodles I stick of butter I package of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Boil the noodles, drain, mix in the butter and cream cheese and spice to taste. He had a huge and extensive record collection that would make most of the collectors here drool. But no matter what he did, whether it was studing List, collecting records and oriental rugs or digging a new substance, he was a completist and obsessive. I knew there was a mojor problem when I went to his place not long before he pass and saw that almost all of his records were gone. I got in his face about it; he got embarassed and soon he went on tour. Great, great pianist who had he lived and started to compose and found his voice, would have been a star today. He played a Summer at Bradley's, staying at Bradley Cunningham's apartment while he were out summering somewhere. He played the dinner hour. One night Barry Harris was the featured pianist and Barry and I stuck around. Later that night Barry Harris, Tommy Flanigan, Barry Kiener played songs round robin style for more than a hour. They all loved him, of course.

Barry Kiener Pianist with Buddy Rich on a tour break at home. Rochester, New York 1977

Oscar Peterson

Pepper Adams, Billy Hart & Steve Davis

Sam Rivers & Joe Daley Studio Rivbea - July 4th, 1976

George Adams w/ Hannibal's Sunrise Orch.

Chuck Wayne

Jimmy Heath Jazzmobile concert - 1978

Billy Taylor Jazzmobile concert - 1977