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California State University, Long Beach Drummer Gary Novak has told me about their activities. He works with them at their concerts and in their educational programs. LA Jazz Insitute

Is Oliver Beener still around? I have a tape that I made at the Vanguard of a Dannie Richmond group that included him along with "Brooklyn" Bob Berg. Otherwise yes, the Freddie Redd "Music from The Connection", which was the Holy Grail for collectors before is was reissued, is overrated for sure. Tina Brooks' "True Blue" was in the same Holy Grail catagory ( I found mine still sealed at the bottom of a pile at one stop in Miami) is great music.

Pepper Adams, Ephemera - (Zim) I have this on LP and it seems it has not been released on cd; it should be. w/ Roland Hanna, George Mraz and Mel Lewis.

I have this ( and others): 1017 Ted Curson Jubilant Power Lot of Steeplechase releases came out on Inner City. Love those records with dexter and Jackie! From our friend Scott Yanow: Inner City During the decade after it was formed in 1976 by Irv Kratka (as a subsidiary of the MMO Music Group), Inner City issued and repackaged a large amount of jazz LPs in the US. On its Classic Jazz division prebop music (much of it taken from the European Black & Blue label) was made available domestically, while the main Inner City label ranged from bop (including music licensed from Steeple Chase, Enja and East Wind) and the avant-garde to fusion and crossover. Inner City also distributed the Choise label. Overall Inner City was responsible for the release of around 200 records before it became inactive in the mid-'80s. While the Chice, Enja and Steeple Chase releases have been reissued on CD by the parent companies, Inner City's own output remains out of print. -Scott Yanow

Storms / Nocturnes w/ Tim Garland saxophones, Geoffrey Keezer piano and Joe Locke vibraphone & Marimba

Geoffrey Keezer, Reuben Rogers, Joe Locke & Terreon Gully

It's not the diference in the tenor players, but the In Action organization sound so much more like a group, if you know what I mean. Besides, I love Comin' On The Hudson and Light Blue!

I may be opening myself to a broadside here, but I like In Action much more than the Carnagie Hall / Trane set.

Maybe a bit like what's been written about Ernie Henry? Lots of promise that remained unfulfilled because he died prematurely and his few records showed him fumbling here and there because he apparently hadn't gotten his act together yet. I don't think so. He had already made a huge impact on the music , and had recorded: Salt Peanuts Shaw 'Nuff Hot House Billie's Bounce Now's the Time Ko-ko Dizzy Atmosphere Groovin' High Red Cross Moose the Mooche Yardbird Suite Ornithology Those alone are enough.

Both. I have the Lp, but really, the music is very good!

Though the music is good, Sonny is off mike at times. This has both Mickey Roker and Billy Higgings on drums, and some fine Tommy Flanagan.

Here is a couple by Joe Locke & Geoffrey Keezer: A duo version of

I love Booby!

Love Cedar. Some favorites are: Pit Inn Among Friends The Pentagon

You might want to look at the posts at TheVibe.net

The original source material is on acetate disc. It resides in the incredible music archives of Boris Rose. Although Mr. Rose is known to have recorded live music off the air and to have hired others to do so, I don't believe the Roost recordings to be genuine airchecks - an actual recording of the airwaves. I think they were recorded on location. The good audio quality of the music from these late 1940s AM radio broadcasts could cause such a suspicion, but I came to my conclusion because of the other components of the, broadcasts. If these are truly airchecks, then why, does Bob Garritv in the studio sound so dull in comparison to Symphony Sid on the bandstand, or the musicians and their performance? I believe that the initial recording was made by the technicians at The Royal Roost. They are recording Sid and the music at the spot, while the studio portion was fed into their mix on a phone line or, perhaps,, from a radio. Somehow Boris Rose obtained copies from these professional location recordings, or perhaps he got the originals. They became the cornerstone of his amazing collection, a collection that would be greatly expanded over time with real airchecks, often from Birdland. Regardless of whether I'm right or wrong, that I could form such an opinion is due to the fact that I had copies of the full broadcasts. As with some of you, I went to Boris Rose and obtained dubs cut directly to disc at his shop. This is the way this music began circulating among collectors roughly a half century ago. This is why we have live performances by this Miles Davis Orchestra, a nonet known as the Birth Of The Cool. - PHIL SCHAAP 1998 And: An enterprising New Yorker named Boris Rose (no relation) set up his home disc cutter next to the radio and documented scores of Parker broadcasts from Carnegie Hall, the Royal Roost, Birdland and other nightclubs in the late '40s and early '50s. He sold copies through ads in Down Beat magazine. They became a major archive. - 1999 by Don Rose

In regards to Baltimore, where I visit because a daughter lives there, there are two fine players: Pianist Bob Butta and drummer Nasar Abadey

I'm a regular contibutor to The Jazz Foundation Of America. In fact, I just sent them a check today.

You are so right, Larry. Lenny talked about Lyndon Johnson having to rehearse how to pronounce "Negro" on TV: "It's knee-grow, Lyndon. Come on, try it again - knee-grow. "

Very good Jim! I found this by the late Grover Sales: Across the street from Off Broadway, Dick Gregory was headlining the hungry i. Like Chaplin, Fields, Lenny, and Erwin Corey, Greg was another American comic turned social critic. Greg and I walked in on the middle of Lenny's show; he had never heard Lenny. Spotting Greg, Lenny peered at the audience for an unnerving interval: "Are ther any niggers here tonight?" Greg stiffened like a retriever, with the rest of the audience. In 1962, nobody had ever heard that word on stage, not in a white nightclub. Lenny began a mock soliloquy: "Ohmygod, did you hear what he said? 'Are there any niggers here tonight?' Is that rank! Is that cruel! Is that a cheap way to get laughs? Well, I think I see a nigger at the bar talking to two guinea qwners, and next to them are a couple of wops, one kike, two greaseballs, a squarehead, three gooks, one frog, two limeys, a couple of sheenies, two jigaboos, one hunkey, fonky boogie - bid 'em up! Bid 'em up! Six more niggers! I pass with two dykes, four kikes, and eight niggers!" The once frozen audience now gave way to hysteria, the sweet laughter of liberation only Lenny could unloose: "Now, why have I done this? Is this only for shock-value? Well, if all the niggers started calling each other 'nigger,' not only among themselves, which they do anyway, but among the ofays. If President Kennedy got on television and said: 'I'm considering appointing two or three of the top niggers in the country into my cabinet' - if it was nothing but nigger, nigger, nigger - in six months 'nigger' wouldn't mean any more than 'goodnight,' 'God bless you,' or "I promise to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God - when that beautiful day comes, you'll never see another nigger kid come home from school crying because some ofay motherfucker called him a nigger." Gregory turned to me: "This man is the eighth wonder of the world. You have to go back to Mark Twain to find anything remotely like him. And if they don't kill him, or throw him in jail, he's liable to shake up this whole fuckin' country." A year later, Gregory published his book Nigger dedicated to "Dear Momma - Wherever you are, if you ever hear the word 'nigger' again, remember they are advertising my book."

I saw Dr. Ron a few weeks ago when he played with Eddie Daniels in a clarinet grouping of Daniels, Ken Peplowski and Paquito Rivera. I belive that Dr. Silver is also Joe Locke's dentist.

The Man speaks the truth! I love those Royal Roost airshots. That's music you can feel! Move on the Birdland ( w/ Fats) set is high art.

Times have changed since this thread was started. Word is that HHB was bought by Sennheiser and the quality has plummeted. I would stick with Denon or Tascam if I were to buy a CD burner right now. Tascam is a "professional" unit, meaning it doesn't have SCMS and can use PC blanks. That pushes it to the front of the pack. However, it is expensive. Kevin Kevin, the Denon has a feature to defeat SCMS with a push of a button. The Denon cost me about $750.

Maybe Groovin' High with Milt Jackson and Lou Donaldson?

I have the same one and it works great. The dual drives allow you to edit if you need to (and I do, for live tapes to cdr). Once you get by the technical instruction book, it's a breeze to operate. When I transfer from LP and tape to CDR, the sound it exceptional, even enhanced.