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On 6/17/2023 at 7:34 AM, Gheorghe said:

Wow, I think the only foto of Leo Parker I ever saw is on one of the two albums he made for BN. There are two of them and he plays so great ! Only I never understood why they picked up so obscure sidemen, such a music should have Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey ! 

These guys probably were players he was familiar with. Those you mention might have been slightly too modern for him and may have tended to steal the spotlight a bit. His sidemen totally support him and that serves him perfectly. He needed players with a strong R & B touch.

The Dexter sessions took place but remained unreleased for many years, there is a tinge of sadness about the loss of his former Eckstine bandmate lingering over them.

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13 hours ago, mikeweil said:

These guys probably were players he was familiar with. Those you mention might have been slightly too modern for him and may have tended to steal the spotlight a bit. His sidemen totally support him and that serves him perfectly. He needed players with a strong R & B touch.

The Dexter sessions took place but remained unreleased for many years, there is a tinge of sadness about the loss of his former Eckstine bandmate lingering over them.

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Interesting remark and you may be right !  Maybe Blakey would have fitted in, since he had played numerous gigs and recording sessions with Leo Parker in Leo´s best years, the 40´s. With Tadd, with Mr. B. .....

About pianists it´s hard to say, with Bud on the other side of the ocean I couldn´t imagine another better 40´s rooted piano player. With bassists, well BN sometimes gave veteran bass players a session so it´s astonishing that the then "modern" Sonny Rollins for a typical 50´s hard bop session would be combined with  the veteran Gene Ramey, or Griffin with also veteran Curley Russell. 

20 minutes ago, Dave Garrett said:

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I don´t know absolutly nothing about sports, but is this the "Lou Ghering" about whom I had read in context with Mingus´ terminal desease which is also called "Lou Ghering Desease" until I learned that this was a sportsman. 

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