Joe Maini

[brownie]

There are quite a number of fans of this great saxophone player. Not sure they are aware there is a website dedicated to him (with a discography from our own Vincent, Paris). Lots of very interesting photos and memories of Maini.

http://www.traversino.com/joe_maini_website/default.htm

Edited March 3, 2005 by brownie

[Late]

Right — I think I remember this site from the BNBB? Didn't Joe's son actually stop in to post there once or twice? (Maybe I'm just imagining.)

I like this photo. Both Maini and Coltrane liked to wear thong sandals on the bandstand.

Thanks for the reminder Guy!

[Jim Dye]

The famous Selmer Ad.

[Tony Pusey]

Thanks for the link Brownie, really nice site.

[AllenLowe]

guys - I know I'm going blind and getting old, but I cannot find the weener in that photo - please draw me an arrow or something -

[mikeweil]

Both Maini and Coltrane liked to wear thong sandals on the bandstand.

Frank Sinatra Recording Session - April 10th, 1962

Sinatra never removed his hat once during the two sessions, though occasionally he tilted it back on a head of hair that began thinning some years back and now shows gray around the ears. (Only one other hat remained unremoved and that was worn by veteran jazzman Ben Webster, who is so busy these days that he came to the first session carrying dinner-sandwiches in two brown paper bags into which he dipped at odd moments. At the second session saxist Joe Maini became a topic of talk among the spectators because, wearing open leather beach sandals on bare feet, he kept time by moving one middle toe up and down rhythmically while all the other toes remained stationary.) Sinatra squints when he concentrates and when he wanted the band to stop playing, he held up his right...

(from site linked above)

Anybody take your shoes and socks off and give this a try?

p.s. you can leave your trousers zipped up.

Edited March 3, 2005 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

guys - I know I'm going blind and getting old, but I cannot find the weener in that photo - please draw me an arrow or something -

Above the index finger of his left hand, to the right of the bell of the horn ...

[AllenLowe]

thank you -

[Jim Dye]

No, the tip is peeking out over his belt.

[AllenLowe]

I think it's the other - but the way I always heard it described was that he draped it over the bell of the horn - which does not appear to be the case -

[brownie]

This thread is for fans of Joe Maini. And all I see is a discussion on one photo.

Is that all that Maini was about

[Clunky]

I first heard Maini on the Kenny Drew Quartet/ Quintet BN Cd , love his tone and playing , pity hi small group work is so hard to find.

[Late]

I first heard Maini on the Kenny Drew Quartet/ Quintet BN Cd ...

Do you mean this one? (Wasn't it originally on Pacific Jazz?)

That is a great album. Maini just rips it up. Should be in the permanent EMI catalog. It blows me away that Maini wasn't offered (to my knowledge) a recording as a leader circa 1954-60.

Imagine ~

Joe Maini: alto saxophone

Carl Perkins: piano

Red Mitchell: bass

Frank Butler: drums

Frank Rosolino: trombone (track 3 only)

recorded Summer 1957

Introducing Joe Maini VSOP

[Clunky]

I first heard Maini on the Kenny Drew Quartet/ Quintet BN Cd ...

Do you mean this one? (Wasn't it originally on Pacific Jazz?)

That is a great album. Maini just rips it up. Should be in the permanent EMI catalog. It blows me away that Maini wasn't offered (to my knowledge) a recording as a leader circa 1954-60.

Imagine ~

Joe Maini: alto saxophone

Carl Perkins: piano

Red Mitchell: bass

Frank Butler: drums

Frank Rosolino: trombone (track 3 only)

recorded Summer 1957

Introducing Joe Maini VSOP

yup

[brownie]

It blows me away that Maini wasn't offered (to my knowledge) a recording as a leader circa 1954-60.

I already mentioned somewhere else that there is a Joe Maini album that was issued by Fresh Sound in 1990. A vinyl that goes under the title 'Joe Maini Memorial'.

The session was produced by Don Specht. It's a November 1962 date with Maini on alto, Richie Kamuca on tenor, Victor Feldman on vibes, Lou Levy on piano, Buddy Clark on bass and Mel Lewis on drums.

Wally Heider was the engineer.

This does not seem to have ever been reissued.

[AllenLowe]

WEENER ALERT WEENER ALERT -

Ok, ok, enough about that - the best Maini, IMHO, is on the various Terry Gibbs big band "live" dates; he is at his peak, searching, rhythmically subtle, incredible soul -he also plays well on the Mingus date for Debut with Knepper/Mingus/Triglia/Richmond -

[kh1958]

www.jazzwax.com has an interesting new piece on Joe Maini, written by his daughter. She says his death was a tragic gun accident, not suicide or Russian roulette.

[AllenLowe]

that's also what Joe Albany told me.

[Niko]

same story told by Joe's brother has long been on this fine Maini website... finally, here's a discography; best about the jazzwax piece are the new photos; jazzwax had some pretty good stuff recently, a two part interview with David Amram remembering Bobby Jaspar, an interview with trumpeter Dick Collins...