JSngry Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Da' Bastids got it (had it): http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...la&issearch=yes I wish DEEP was around to provide some background on this one. All young upstate New Yorkers, it seems, a bunch of college boys who take the Blakey/Silver Messengers as their starting/finishing point, and (seemingly) get hyped up on speed and/or steroids to do so. Everything is played ARGH!, but it works. Works well in fact. These guys are totally without the nuance and subtext of the best hard bop, but they compensate for it by playing/riding a runaway rollercoaster of SWING. Think of it as an action movie, and its hard to resist. Sound quality is not that great, sounds like it was recorded in and extremely "local" studio, but what the hey? Hey - I got my guilty pleasures in jazz too, and vintage hard bop that does nothing but take the genre at face value is one of them, at least when everybody buys into the premise as thoroughly as these guys do. One ballad, one or two medium tempi, and the rest is fast and faster. And nobody falters even slightly. I'm surprised to say this, but... EXCELLENT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Looks interesting. Blue Moon. . . some interesting stuff from the "I never heard of dat" category seems to come out of that label two or three times a year! Hey, send a copy or an email to Danny and you'll probably hear something about it. . . . I can help you with an email address if you need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyJazz Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Reese Markewich, if I recall correctly and I really believe I do, was also somewhat of a jazz scholar and musicologist. A couple of decades ago, he published either a monograph or an actual book that revealed which jazz originals through that time were based on the chord changes of popular tunes, e.g., Bird's "Ornithology" ("How High the Moon"), Konitz's "Subconscious-Lee" ("What is This Thing...."), K.D.'s "Prince Albert" ("All the Things..."), etc. I was never able to secure a copy, and Lord knows, it would require a major update at this point in time, but I'd still love to have it, nevertheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Does anyone know how old Bringnola was at that point? I ask cause I have a copy of a Coral LP, Newport Youth Band, which purports to be Brignola's recording debut, and I'm not at all sure about the date of that concert ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 The Markewich date was recorded in 1957. Brignola was 21 by then. Never ran into that album. Sounds interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 The Markewich date was recorded in 1957. Brignola was 21 by then. Never ran into that album. Sounds interesting! Thanks, Brownie. Its an OK LP-I think there was one other young 'un who got a bit of attention as an adult. I'll have to dig it out later tonite and check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Ronnie Zito, the drummer on this album, is brother of Torrie Zito, the arranger (who also contributed many of the tunes here), and has played w/Woody Herman & Bobby Darin, a.o. A Google search truned up a surprising number of hits. I found out that, as of 1999, Reese was a practicing psychologist who still played jazz. http://cornell-magazine.cornell.edu/Archiv...Notes50-59.html http://www.allny.com/health/psychiatry.html The book that Marty mentioned: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0...3760112-8591369 http://www.music.indiana.edu/borrowing/browsemn.html And Jesse Avery, the tenorist/flautist here, was appaerntly a frined/bandmate of Scott LaFaro back in the mid-1950s http://www.geocities.com/chuck_ralston/10slfchr-5055.htm Interesting buncha folks, these were, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 The Markewich date was recorded in 1957. Brignola was 21 by then. Never ran into that album. Sounds interesting! My bad, Brownie. Its Ronnie Cuber, not Brignola, on the LP. He was 16 at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 This appears to be temporarily out of stock but I'm hoping it comes back in soon. It sounds very exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Its Ronnie Cuber, not Brignola, on the LP. He was 16 at the time. Dan, it is Nick Brignola on the Markewich album. Not Cuber! http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...la&issearch=yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 (edited) Didn't I acknowledge that when I posted what you are quoting? Edited August 17, 2004 by Dan Gould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 (edited) That's not what I read, Dan! Might be my understanding is off track! Ah! never mind Edited August 17, 2004 by brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 That's not what I read, Dan! Might be my understanding is off track! Ah! never mind Well, at least you have an excuse. Not as if you're a Brit and we're "separated by a common language" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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