marcello

I think he's too young for Clarence Banks. Woody Shaw Jazz Camp - Brockport, N.Y.

Billy Hart w/ John "Spider" Martin, Pepper Adams & Steve Davis

Gene Bertoncini

Tom Whaley & Steve Davis

Glad you like them, Chuck. Unknown Trombonist Mercer Ellington Orchestra

Jimmy Heath Rockerfeller Center - June 1977

Slide Hampton Jazzmobile concert - 1978 Jimmy Heath & Sam Jones in the background

Oscar Peterson

Billy Hart w/ Steve Davis

Tom Harrell

Dexter Gordon - Village Vanguard June, 1977

Dizzy Gillespie & Rodney Jones #2

Onward with the Gillespie theme tonight.....

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

A lot went on in those Gillespie hotel rooms.....like a late night nosh: I wish I could tell you of another night and a very bizarre lady...

I always called him The Jazzmobile Guy. He may have been a frustrated musician, but he was the guy who pulled the stage and set up the band. Here's another: That's Frank Wess, on the left.

Dizzy Gillespie teaches a visitor a rhythm pattern in his hotel suite, in Buffalo, NY.

One more of Freddie Waits when he was playing with the Billy Taylor Quintet at a Jazzmobile concert. That's Jimmy Owens on trumpet.

Speaking of Bleeker Street, here's a photo of Freddie when he played at Boomer's with the Bridgewater Brothers.

Freddie Waits was a great drummer and person. He died much too soon. Here's a photo that I took of him when he was with Hannibal Marvin Peterson's Sunrise Orchestra, on July 6, 1976. That October, I produced a concert with McCoy Tyner and his Focal Point band. The drummer them was Eric Gravatt. Her's a photo from that concert on October 8th, 1976.

All the Best!

You can get a hold of Dorthaan Kirk at WBGO: Mrs. Kirk

I remember this one from Harry Abraham, mentioned here: The cover and liner notes on this album are a bit odd. The front and back cover are suppose to be a sexy image of the exposed torso of a young woman covered with sweat. However, it looks like she’s got hair all over instead. The liner notes by Harry Abraham, a DJ at WHAM radio station, talks about how this “is not the greatest Jazz album.” He goes on to say that this is mostly a cover album of Top-40 songs of the time, but that it’s a step above other Soul-Jazz-Funk organ albums glutting the market in the 1970s. That’s a mixed review if I ever heard, and a strange thing to put on the back of an album you’re hoping to sell. The songs are mostly uninspired and don’t make for much of a listen, so Abraham obviously knew what he was talking about. The best song is a Foster original called Some Neck, which is a short funk piece. and here... "Let me begin by saying that this is not the greatest jazz album you've ever heard." So states critic/DJ Harry Abraham in the liner notes on the back of Sweet Revival, Ronnie Foster's second album as a leader. Abraham was obviously trying to deflect criticism that this record is, in his words, "a commercial album that could have just as easily been titled 'Ronnie Foster Plays the Top 40 hits of the Seventies With Horns, Strings and Voices,'" but nothing he could write would make this album acceptable to jazz purists. Harry was a hoot! Great DJ, by the way.

Disaproachment from Now Hear This , is a good example of the above.

Dizzy Gillespie & Rodney Jones