Bright Moments Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) Hot damn! this is one good disc! B-) Edited April 30, 2005 by Bright Moments Quote
mikeweil Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 'f course it is! The quartet sides are my favourite Gryce and among my favourite Monk. Percy Heath is great on this one, too. If you like the large group sides, check out the Oscar Pettiford ABC sides with Gryce on board collected on this Impulse CD: Quote
jazzbo Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 I've been digging that disc since the day it was released on Savoy/Denon cd. I remember my friend Dave who was then jazz buyer of Tower telling me that it was coming up on a Tuesday release, and I dashed up there on my lunch hour! That series of Savoys was a voyage of discovery for me, and I still feel sentimental about many of the cds. I had only a handful of Savoy lps before Denon commenced that series and I was fascinated by the lp reproduction and the wonderful sound (which still holds up as great cd sound). Quote
Brad Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 This is a fabulous cd, especially the songs by Ernestine Anderson, particularly Social Call. The only person I've heard do this is Charlie Rouse on the Uptown release (no vocal) but this is a classic. I had planning to use it on my BFT but c'est la vie. Quote
JSngry Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 Betty Carter did a really hip version of "Social Call" (hell, it's a really hip tune period!) for her Columbia/Epic debut(?) sides. PERFECT tune for how she was singing back then. Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) Drag was that the Betty Carter session wasn't issued at the time. It sat for 30 years. The appendix of my book has lists of all recorded performances of Gryce tunes and my co-author, Noal Cohen, maintains the additions/corrections on his website here: http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/GG.html Mike I should also mention that hearing those arrangements live is unbelievable. If you get a chance to hear the Chris Byars Octet, they have a number of them in their book. Edited October 13, 2004 by Michael Fitzgerald Quote
AmirBagachelles Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 Absolutely one of the great records of the 50s. And I love just about everything w/ Pettiford. Quote
SEK Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 The quartet sides are my favourite Gryce and among my favourite Monk. Yeah! Great stuff! I got that session many years ago on an LP paired with a Savoy Herbie Nichols date. Quote
Bright Moments Posted October 14, 2004 Author Report Posted October 14, 2004 If you like the large group sides, check out the Oscar Pettiford ABC sides with Gryce on board collected on this Impulse CD: just ordered! love that half.com!!!!! B-) Quote
Bright Moments Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Posted April 30, 2005 Hot damn! this is one good disc! B-) was the nica referred to here the baroness of charlie parker fame? Quote
Bright Moments Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Posted April 30, 2005 Yes, and of Monk fame too. and apparantly of art blakey fame too! i sure would like to know more about her! B-) Quote
Bright Moments Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Posted April 30, 2005 This one is some help. thanks for the link1 B-) perhaps some of our members could post their favorite "nica" stories here for us! i'm sure chris must have a few doozies! Quote
JPF Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 I hope if people post stories about her, they're actually true stories, and not some scurrilous rumors circulated by people who never knew her. I'm getting a little whiff of "Yeah, she really 'liked' jazz musicians, know what I mean, heh, heh" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). I hope I'm wrong. The lady did a lot of good for jazz musicians over the years. I'm sure the Monk family would agree that Thelonious would not have lived as long without her help in his final years. Maybe if any of you know Horace Silver or Barry Harris, you could get them to comment. Quote
ghost of miles Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 Yes, and of Monk fame too. and apparantly of art blakey fame too! i sure would like to know more about her! B-) I think somebody may be writing a book about her... more speculation than even rumor at this point. Quote
johnlitweiler Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 Well, it was said that Monk, Barry Harris, Sadik Hakim, and 100 or so cats -- meow-type cats -- lived at her house in NJ and that she bought the uniforms that Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers wore. Quote
chris Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 Anyone have pictures of her? I was only able to find this one on the web-- Nica and Monk: Quote
JPF Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Want to hear what she sounded like? Go here , click on "new releases" on the left side, then play track 1 of the first new release, "Live In New York, Vol 1", where it says "Intro by Pannonica." Edited April 30, 2005 by JPF Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 1, 2005 Author Report Posted May 1, 2005 Want to hear what she sounded like? Go here , click on "new releases" on the left side, then play track 1 of the first new release, "Live In New York, Vol 1", where it says "Intro by Pannonica." that was excellent!!!! but what does she say her last name is? it's not Koenigswarter! Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted May 1, 2005 Report Posted May 1, 2005 Going back to the original point of this thread - this is/was not a Savoy date. It was recorded by Signal and sold to Savoy. Signal deserves a thread of its own. Quote
JPF Posted May 1, 2005 Report Posted May 1, 2005 but what does she say her last name is? it's not Koenigswarter! She's saying "This is Nica's Tempo," using the name of that tune as if it were the name of a radio show she's supposedly doing. God knows why. I think they were just having fun with a microphone and a tape recorder. Quote
brownie Posted May 1, 2005 Report Posted May 1, 2005 Nica was born a Rothschild. She married Jules de Koenigswarter in 1935. de Koenigswarter was a French Resistance hero during World War Two. Nica drove ambulances for the Free French Forces during that war. They separated in 1951. She settled then in New York. That's where she met Monk through MaryLou Williams in 1953. Quite a Lady! Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 1, 2005 Author Report Posted May 1, 2005 Nica was born a Rothschild. She married Jules de Koenigswarter in 1935. de Koenigswarter was a French Resistance hero during World War Two. Nica drove ambulances for the Free French Forces during that war. They separated in 1951. She settled then in New York. That's where she met Monk through MaryLou Williams in 1953. Quite a Lady! i think i heard somewhere that when charlie parker first came to new york he went to work in the kitchen of mary lou william's husband, john williams', bar-b-q shack. but this is supposed to be a thread about nica! B-) Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 4, 2005 Author Report Posted May 4, 2005 more nica stories PLEASE!!!! B-) Quote
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