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Re: the million dollars that the TKC center are suing those no-good scoundrel scofflaws for (i.e. the musicians who cancelled)… People forget the immeasurable reputational damage to the person whose name had been newly added on to the outside of the Kennedy Center building. If a few hundred members of the public suddenly couldn’t go to what was to have been a simple, low-key free holiday jazz jam/concert — that might even irreparably sully the name of he who can’t be mentioned here.

Stan Getz “In Scandinavia 1959-1960” Jazztwin cd I will never get enough of Getz in this area of the world in this time frame, documented on Verve, Dragon or any other recordings. 300×300 10.2 KB

Humphries is still pretty active in Pittsburgh, I understand — leading jam sessions and possibly a regular band. Anybody think I should ask Roger about this when I get to PGH this Spring? — we expect to be moving in late February or maybe early March.

Good one.

Jaejoon Ryu - Symphony 2 New technique - use Pandora to find new stuff then use Spotify to play new records in full.

That is a good piece. Thanks for the link.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dadadrummer/p/what-is-the-artist-to-fascism?r=7ikr1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web good piece by Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi)

huh! ordered one the other day...

At the Eisemann Center in Richardson on April 12.

Posted over on the Steve Hoffman forums: Downbeat Magazine, 1966 In a surprise move, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson abruptly quit the Horace Silver Quintet in the midst of the group's performance before a Saturday night crowd at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop on April 2, 1966. Silver told Down Beat that the tenorist's reported reason for leaving was that drummer Roger Humphries' playing "was thwarting his solos." The pianist's group finished the Saturday night and played the following afternoon and evening performances as a quartet. Altoist Frank Strozier, who was "borrowed" from the Shelly Manne group in Los Angeles, substituted for Henderson through Silver's April 10 closing. The pianist, who said he did not plan to bring union charges against Henderson, indicated he would add a new sideman upon returning to New York City. Silver said he had no intimation Henderson was planning to leave, though the tenor saxophonist had asked the leader for a three-month leave of absence to form a recording group some months earlier. At that time, Silver refused on the grounds that by the time a replacement was taught the group's library, Henderson would be due to return. Asked then if he wished to leave, Henderson elected to remain.

You are included in the book a couple of times, quoting interviews you did.

Last night, Jonathan Fisher Quartet with Shelley Carrol at the Balcony Club.