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On 8/1/2025 at 4:28 PM, gvopedz said:

Are people already familiar with this video (and the other videos) on the Portal to Texas History website?

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1553179/?q=elvin jones

 

 

I was at this clinic. I was going to North Texas at the time. Elvin played a few tunes with the students as well. I wonder why they weren't included. Perhaps there were clearance issues or something. The sax player at the end was John Schroeder. Any excellent sax player. I don't know what happened to him but all we thought he was one of the most promising players at school and destined to great things. Craig Handy, who was also a student at the time, also sat in at some point during this clinic. There were a number of these clinics. Joe Henderson was among one of the more memorable ones.....

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On 8/3/2025 at 8:00 AM, JSngry said:

I also recall Sam Rivers, Roy Haynes, and Gary Burton. Maybe not in the same series, but the same type of deal. Also Gary Foster, Clare Fischer  and Dizzy Gillespie.

Funny,

I don't remember any of those, perhaps they were from after I left school.....

I remember Joe Henderson because he hung out out at one of our apartments listening to music after the lecture (Woody Shaw's "In the Beginning" had just come out and he had't heard it yet).....

I also remember Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Flanagan, Michael Brecker, Tom Harrell, Dave Holland and Barry Harris.

It was a great series.....

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Rivers was later, much later, in the 2010s. He was working with John Murphy. That deal was to have one "repertoire" concert one semester and then a "new music" concert the next. Sam performed one night and then gave a clinic the next. I drove up for both because, hey, Sam Rivers.

The others might have been before you arrived. Some were there for the Spring Lab Band Extravapalooza, others just for one-off "workshops". I very much recall that Clare Fischer brought along his chart for Lennie's Pennies, but I forget who played bass sax on it. But Gary Foster was there to add some flavor, which he did. No Warne, though...

 

Oh yeah, one more I remember was Ran Blake, who did a quick hit-and-run. He was just starting his Third Stream Deparment at NEC(?) and was barnstorming music schools looking for recruits. AFAIR, not luck at NT!

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