neveronfriday Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 Mail will go out within the hour. Please acknowledge receipt or post here if you didn't get one! Cheers! P.S.: We're on the roll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 the Count says: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD45 Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 You ought to seek out Jim Luce, radio producer. At a recent public radio conference he handed me a copy of the Basie documentary he was working on. He would be a good source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 You ought to seek out Jim Luce, radio producer. At a recent public radio conference he handed me a copy of the Basie documentary he was working on. He would be a good source. Do you have his e-mail or any other address? Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 (edited) pic of the Basie band from the depths of the archives of the The Hague city archives (Netherlands) Het orkest van Count Basie treedt op in het Kurhaus (the Basie orchestra performs in the "Kurhaus" [scheveningen]) Fotonummer: 1.14800 Fotograaf: Smit, Simon E. Datum: ex. 9 maart 1959 1 zwartwitfoto 17 x 23 cm so, who do we see here? Edited May 12, 2004 by couw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD45 Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 Could that be Freddie Green? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I just received permission to use the pictures of the collection of the dutch national archives for the website. You can view them here if you type basie in the search space. Nothing very spiffy, but nice nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller center Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I just received permission to use the pictures of the collection of the dutch national archives for the website. You can view them here if you type basie in the search space. Nothing very spiffy, but nice nonetheless. Ahhh, they have Kirk too! Thanks for this link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 That's cool, John! The man with the half-bald head ougth to be Marshall Royal, lead-alto man of all the great Roulette-dates (thanks again, François!) ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I just received permission to use the pictures of the collection of the dutch national archives for the website. You can view them here if you type basie in the search space. Nothing very spiffy, but nice nonetheless. Ahhh, they have Kirk too! Thanks for this link. (don't forget to check the coltrane pic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I just received permission to use the pictures of the collection of the dutch national archives for the website. You can view them here if you type basie in the search space. Nothing very spiffy, but nice nonetheless. Great news, John! That gives us the chance to stay clean legally, and that's what we wanted to do here. No ripping off of other people's stuff. If Dmitry get some images in as well, we have plenty for illustration purposes. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I'm going to set up the "Count Basie Development Board" ( ) on my site today. I will send you a brief mail when it is completed. We can use that to post discussions etc re the different areas of the site in development in a more organized way then here. Thanks for all the mails I got from you guys (the gal is still missing). I will replay and contribute to the discussion when I'm done with the board. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 The Basie Website Project Board is up and running. Contributors who have registered with me before (everyone who received Basie Mail 04) should run over and register. We've got work to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Volkher, would you mind having a link to the Basie project board here? And could someone in the meantime PM me the link? I'd like to have access to that site without having my notebook at hand (as is the case right now). thanks, ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Thanks, EKE and deus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Once all the contributors have registered, the board is going to be locked up. So, no link here, sorry. Besides, everyone is only interested in the final result anyway, right? Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 Important PM sent to Dmitry. Please check your inbox. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 Dmitry, another mail just bounced. I sent you a mail with the details. Hope it works. The problem seems to be that your email account refuses my mail. Did you put me on a spam list (by accident)? Looks almost like it. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 15, 2004 Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 pic of the Basie band from the depths of the archives of the The Hague city archives (Netherlands) Het orkest van Count Basie treedt op in het Kurhaus (the Basie orchestra performs in the "Kurhaus" [scheveningen]) Fotonummer: 1.14800 Fotograaf: Smit, Simon E. Datum: ex. 9 maart 1959 1 zwartwitfoto 17 x 23 cm so, who do we see here? Looks like the saxes are (from L-R): Billy Mithchell, Frank Wess, Marshall Royal, & Frank Foster. Sonny Payne's on drums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 15, 2004 Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 thanks Jim, seems Marshall Royal never had much hair did he? I see there is a live recording from Switzerland recorded February 1959; I assume this pic was taking during the same tour of europe and that personnel did not change. For the Suisse disk is listed: Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman.(tp) Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell.(tb) Marshall Royal.(as); Frank Wess.(as,fl); Billy Mitchell, Frank Foster.(ts); Charlie Fowlkes.(bs) Count Basie.(p); Freddie Green.(g); Eddie Jones.(b); Sonny Payne.(ds) Recorded : Live at Lausanne, Switzerland. February 3,6, 1959. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 I go away for a few days, and some people stop workin'? What's up with that? GET GOIN' ... slowpokes! There's tons to do. Look forward to a longer post on the Basie Board tomorrow. And you better check it out! This motivational message was brought to you by ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 SOME can have a beer cause there´s SOME work done... ...and MUCH MORE to be done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 The work on the biography of the Count for our upcoming site has begun. Here's the current proposal for the structure of the biography in several "eras". If you have any other and/or better propositions, please let me know! So: - Childhood/Youth - Early Years: Blue Devils, Bennie Moten - Barons of Rhythm: The Old Testament - War Years: Radio Days - The Hard Years - New Testament: the Clef/Verve Years - New Testament: the Roulette Years - Popular Times: the Reprise Years - Back to Basics: Granz & Pablo What do you think about this? feedback wanted! thanks, ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 (edited) - New Testament: the Clef/Verve Years - New Testament: the Roulette Years - Popular Times: the Reprise Years - Back to Basics: Granz & Pablo Might want to break these down/up some more, because there was another post-Roulette stint at Verve that kinda ran parallel to the Reprise years, and then that kind broke down into the Dot years (two albums w/The Mills Brothers here, btw, in addition to the instrumental ones), which kinda ran parallel to the years spent doing one(or two)-offs for various medium (ABC Command, for example)-to-smaller (Flying Dutchman, Groove Merchant, MPS, etc)-to-smallest labels (Happy Tiger!), both with and without various singers such as Bing Crosby, Kay Starr, and Jackie Wilson. The Pablo years were defintiely a return to stability as far as label affiliation goes, and it had been a long stretch in between. Seeing as how those years found the band sorta wandering in the desert labelwise, maybe you could call them the Blazing Saddle Years. Edited June 8, 2004 by JSngry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 Seeing as how those years found the band sorta wandering in the desert labelwise, maybe you could call them the Blazing Saddle Years. "somebody better go back and get a shit load of dimes" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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