Jazz Kat Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Would you say the Jazztet was revolutionary and/or highly successful? You dig them? I still think Meet The Jazztet is one of the greatest albums ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 In order: No Relatively, yes Yes I'd not go that far, but it's a good'un fersure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Burke Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I'd hardly say revolutionary but they're enjoyable dates. For the record, I find I play the Curtis Fuller Jazztet sides on Savoy more than the Farmer/Golson material, though I very much like the two Mercury dates with Moncur . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I remember seeing one with John Lewis. I guess they had a lot of guest artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Hmm, I have it pictured on one of my Argo/Cadet record sleaves, The Jazztet And John Lewis, with Art Farmer and Benny Golson, number 684. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 No, The Jazztet & John Lewis - JL arranged and conducted, but did not play. Issued on Argo, part of the recent Mosaic set. For detailed discography of The Jazztet (and Orchestra U.S.A. for that matter), see my website. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 No? What did I have wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Lewis didn't play on the date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Yep, and that means he's not a guest star? No matter.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 The "no" was for David's post, not yours, written simultaneous to mine. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 No problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 And my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Not revolutionary but very enjoyable and fine music from that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 I think they reunited in the 70's correct? Meet The Jazztet is just classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Weiss Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 The Jazztet reunited in 1995 for a European summer concert tour. Art, Benny, Curtis, Buster Williams, Carl Allen and myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 (edited) The Jazztet reunited in 1995 for a European summer concert tour. Art, Benny, Curtis, Buster Williams, Carl Allen and myself. They reunited several times before that tour, I think Mickey Tucker played piano, at least on the studio recordings. Edited clarification: Not that I'm insinuating that you were suggesting that your tour was the only reunion. Just clarifying that there were other reunions. Edited March 9, 2005 by Dan Gould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted March 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 I think read about those on the hardbop homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Why do I bother to document all this stuff if folks won't use the readily-available free resources? Just look at the discography on my website for all details of Jazztet reunions that have been preserved on tape - and if Michael Weiss knows of any documentation of his tour with the group, I'd love to know. If I'm not mistaken, this was the group that played at the Jazz Cafe in London on July 7, 1995. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 I don't think we need to get heavy handed with your first comment Mike. Folks may not know it's there or not have the time or werewithal to access your site. Regarding Michael Weiss' comment, with all due respect, a group of people can only have a reunion when all the original group gets together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 (edited) I don't think we need to get heavy handed with your first comment Mike. Folks may not know it's there or not have the time or werewithal to access your site. Or share the obsessive, anally retentive interest. All we're doing is adding what we ourselves know. Who cares if its documented elsewhere? Edited March 9, 2005 by Dan Gould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 No, The Jazztet & John Lewis - JL arranged and conducted, but did not play. Issued on Argo, part of the recent Mosaic set. That's a good album! I got a Japanese import of it two or three years ago. Jazztet= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Since I *already* mentioned the discography and the website earlier in this very thread, only those who aren't careful readers aren't aware of it at this point. I don't expect everyone to know about it ahead of time - that's why I made the first post. My feeling is that it's lazy, pointless, and unproductive to say, "Uh, I think such and such happened at such and such a time" - when in 5 seconds you can say "The first recording of the post-1960s Jazztet happened in 1982." If after everyone has that baseline knowledge, someone wants to deal with a follow-up question, great: "I know the first reunion recording was in 1982. Did the group get together before then (without recording)?" Time or wherewithal? It's a website that anyone reading this site can immediately view. It's free. There are no logins or cookies. The effort is absolutely minimal - but yes, you do have to bother to click and read. However, it takes less time to look up the correct information than it does to reply with a vague or incorrect comment. And no, it's not obsessive - it's either right or wrong. Why spend the time being wrong when in seconds you can be right? The Internet is a vast and wonderful tool - more information is available to more people than ever in history. USE it! Next, you want nit-picky? Go around and tell everyone that the "family reunion" isn't a reunion because the original people went and got dead. Tell the new babies and brides and grooms to go home. No, I didn't think you wanted nit-picky. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Temper, temper, Michael. When I said time and werewithal, I meant that since some of us are doing this at work, we probably don't have that much time to look at your site or other sites. We try to fit reading and posting in when we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Please - there are no temper issues here. And come on, work says it's OK to read and post on organissimo??!???! (But not to follow links in organissimo postings?) Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Please - there are no temper issues here. And come on, work says it's OK to read and post on organissimo??!???! (But not to follow links in organissimo postings?) Mike I don't know about you but I (and many others I'm sure) need to discrete about my organissimo reading. More basic research has to come at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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