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  4. Hank Mobley Video Performance!

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    Posted · Edited by bertrand

    Marc Myers is suggesting on his blog that this is the version of Summertime that is circulating, but that one is 17 minutes long. The date I have for that session is 3/10/68. Myers gives a date of 3/8/68 for the video. He also only knows about the 4 tracks on the Blue Bossa CD.

  5. Hank Mobley Video Performance!

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    16 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

    Quite recently. And Hank was not referenced in the contents which would help keep things hidden for decades.  Dollar Brand and Dexter were the recognized stars on the program, with the Hank recording given the opening spot.

    What is intriguing is to consider if they recorded a whole set of Hank and company, with other tracks to be used on other broadcasts. If they continued to not list Mobley in favor of better known artists, there might be several other recordings in existence.

    I was wondering about that!

    6 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

    Looking at the Dutch Archives CD release from 2016, I believe the Pim Jacobs recordings were taken from a TV broadcast from a regular tv studio. So it wouldn't be new music necessarily but maybe there is video to match those tracks on the CD.

    I thought about that when the CD came out. That CD in itself was a find! Love the big band tracks.

  8. Unissued Wayne shorter Blue Note date - portions to be played at this Zoom meeting

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    WPI’s Jazz History Database kicks off a hot listening session Thursday August 25 on Zoom      

          

    3:00pm to 5:30           Jazz and social dance part III: Frankie Manning (JHDb From the Lab) 

    5:30pm to 6:30           social time and good sounds 

    6:30pm to 8:00           78s by bands that played the Savoy (Gian Carlo Cervone hosts) 

    8:00pm to 9:00           Paul Bley at Sweet Basil (Crossing Tones Power Hour) 

    9:00pm+                     Hot music from Wayne Shorter (Ras Moshe hosts) 

     

     

    For the Thursday session: 

    https://wpi.zoom.us/j/97495476280        

    [more options below]      

          

    All Times are USA Eastern (EDT) aka GMT-4      

    All are welcome to join any time.       

     

     

    3:00pm–5:30                           JHDb From the Lab        

    We’ve spent some quality time indeed this month learning from Bryant DuPre’s interviews with musicians reflecting on the way they engaged with dancers. The series culminates with an extensive listen to the story from the viewpoint of a dancer—the estimable Frankie Manning. Judy Pritchett, Manning’s partner in dance and in life, has curated a guided tour for us of DuPre’s 1988 interview. Not to miss! 

     

    5:30pm–6:30 

    We’ll transition with some reflections on the afternoon, further thoughts on social dancing in the music, and of course groovy platters to bridge us into the evening segment. 

     

    6:30pm–8:00 

    Gian Carlo Cervone spins 78rpm records by groups that played at the Savoy—either resident bands including Fess Williams, Luis Russell, Claude Hopkins, The Savoy Sultans, Chick Webb, Erskine Hawkins, and Lucky Millinder—or bands who came to battle, including Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Jay McShann. 

     

    8:00pm–9:00                           Crossing Tones Power Hour 

    On the Power Hour, Parker Fishel calls our attention to a recording of Paul Bley’s quartet at Sweet Basil, May 30, 1987. Were you there? 

     

    9:00pm forward 

    Ras Moshe Burnett leads a celebratory consideration of Wayne Shorter, including some choice mid-Sixties sounds, live with Miles Davis in 1969, and Weather Report 1971–72.  

  9. Today’s Wayne Shorter’s birthday.

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    Portions of the unissued Blue Note session are about to be played here (after the Miles set):

    WPI’s Jazz History Database kicks off a hot listening session Thursday August 25 on Zoom      

          

    3:00pm to 5:30           Jazz and social dance part III: Frankie Manning (JHDb From the Lab) 

    5:30pm to 6:30           social time and good sounds 

    6:30pm to 8:00           78s by bands that played the Savoy (Gian Carlo Cervone hosts) 

    8:00pm to 9:00           Paul Bley at Sweet Basil (Crossing Tones Power Hour) 

    9:00pm+                     Hot music from Wayne Shorter (Ras Moshe hosts) 

     

     

    For the Thursday session: 

    https://wpi.zoom.us/j/97495476280        

    [more options below]      

          

    All Times are USA Eastern (EDT) aka GMT-4      

    All are welcome to join any time.       

     

     

    3:00pm–5:30                           JHDb From the Lab        

    We’ve spent some quality time indeed this month learning from Bryant DuPre’s interviews with musicians reflecting on the way they engaged with dancers. The series culminates with an extensive listen to the story from the viewpoint of a dancer—the estimable Frankie Manning. Judy Pritchett, Manning’s partner in dance and in life, has curated a guided tour for us of DuPre’s 1988 interview. Not to miss! 

     

    5:30pm–6:30 

    We’ll transition with some reflections on the afternoon, further thoughts on social dancing in the music, and of course groovy platters to bridge us into the evening segment. 

     

    6:30pm–8:00 

    Gian Carlo Cervone spins 78rpm records by groups that played at the Savoy—either resident bands including Fess Williams, Luis Russell, Claude Hopkins, The Savoy Sultans, Chick Webb, Erskine Hawkins, and Lucky Millinder—or bands who came to battle, including Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Jay McShann. 

     

    8:00pm–9:00                           Crossing Tones Power Hour 

    On the Power Hour, Parker Fishel calls our attention to a recording of Paul Bley’s quartet at Sweet Basil, May 30, 1987. Were you there? 

     

    9:00pm forward 

    Ras Moshe Burnett leads a celebratory consideration of Wayne Shorter, including some choice mid-Sixties sounds, live with Miles Davis in 1969, and Weather Report 1971–72.  

     

  11. Andrew Hill--composer

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    1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    Cal Massey left behind a really solid body of work, but only had one record under his own name. He had to depend others recording his work, and although he had some amazingly heavy hitters doing that.. they all had their own careers and music's to take care of.

    Archie Shepp probably(?) was the most regular advocate, but... 

    I was surprised Blue Note never put together a 'Blue Note plays Cal Massey' compilation CD. They did a Beatles one.

    Yes, it is too bad Cal rarely got to record his music but he was well served by the heavy hitters. Is it possible they did not quite play it the way he intended it to be played? Maybe. But when you have Wayne tearing it up on Assunta like he does, I can't imagine it played any better. Whew.

    Zane Massey has a project called Cosmic Surf Club that mostly plays Cal's music. I doubt that is the way Cal intended it to be played 😀

  12. Andrew Hill--composer

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    Posted · Edited by bertrand

    2 hours ago, JSngry said:

    Yes, projects. There are no Nichols tunes that can be considered "common currency", meaning that you can not consistently get some random-but-qualified people together for a jam and call one of his tunes without having to produce a lead sheet for at least one of the participants. Not unless you prescreen your invitees.

    I'd love to be wrong about this, btw.

    And people who make records of other peoples music should start covering these pieces, because that's how it works. Projects don't really create currency, repetition does.

    Correct. Any one who wants to play Herbie Nichols music with others has to produce some sheet music. I doubt even Lady Sings The Blues/Serenade is one people can play off the top of their heads.

    This is going down another rabbit hole, but there is a certain stigma attached to playing a whole program of music by a specific composer. It often gets dismissed as a tribute or gimmick, which is simple-minded. No one has such qualms in the classical realm. This was the concept I had when I started curating the Take 5 concert series at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2012. I encouraged artists to present entire programs of lesser-celebrated composers (Booker Little, Herbie Nichols, Grachan Moncur III, Cal Massey, Dewey Redman) but of course Shorter, Monk, Coltrane were in the mix also.

    This began as a Take 5 concert, the video is from three days later:

    Most guys got it and put together amazing programs. They really worked hard to explore music they were not always familiar with. A couple of guys grumbled and pulled out originals instead, something they could do on any other gig. If you are confident enough in your compositional skills...

    A complete artist for me is one who can present both compelling originals and perform music in a respectful way by some of the great composers in jazz history. They do NOT have to try to sound just like the record.

    Jim, please elaborate on your comment about Cal Massey.

  15. Barbara Thompson RIP

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    9 hours ago, felser said:

    Wayne Shorter Quintet

    Wayne Shorter (ts) Barbara Burton (vib, bells, per) McCoy Tyner (p) Miroslav Vitous (b) Alphonse Mouzon (d, per)

    A&R Studios, NYC, October 13, 1970

    I am friends with Barbara Burton on Facebook. One day I will get the nerve to ask her about the session, and her brief stint with Weather Report. 

  16. The Ascension Name Game

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    12 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

    It's Dewey Johnson, not Dewey Dixon on the original.

    Frank Wright was invited to be on Ascension but demurred. I kind of wish he was there. Marion Brown wasn't all that random, as he knew Coltrane and was already making a name for himself on the scene at the time. Dixon would have been interesting -- he knew Coltrane of course -- but was already on another trajectory. Hubbard's presence has always struck me as weird even if he plays well in that situation. Coltrane as we know was conflicted about going "too far out" and having a horn player from his camp probably made it feel easier, not to mention helping sell records. Lasha and Simmons could've been a good fit (Lasha was in England then I believe) but of course it also would've been a very different record, and probably more reined in. 

    Machine Gun is great as it is; there is a live version with Gerd Dudek added on tenor saxophone. 

    Why did Frank Wright decline?

  17. Grachan Moncur III Has Died - RIP

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    On 6/4/2022 at 1:11 PM, clifford_thornton said:

    I saw him once with Jackie McLean, Rene McLean, Bobby Hutcherson and others at the Iridium back in 2004. It was incredible to see the three veterans of Blue Note Records playing tunes like "Love and Hate."

    This Molde footage is something else.

    I was there for two nights!!!

  18. Grachan Moncur III Has Died - RIP

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    46 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    For me, he created one of the most valuable and treasured books of jazz compositions. Bar none. Compositions, not songs, not blowing vehicles, compositions, each one either its own set of specific images and vocabulary. 

    RIP 

     

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    Yes, absolutely!

    This one hits really hard. Glad to have been able to hang with him and hear him play one last time in Baltimore in November 2019.

  20. Perception label - full-scale catalog reprint

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    Posted · Edited by bertrand

    Isn't Tyrone Washington's Roots also part of this series?

    There was some speculation these might be needle drops since supposedly the tapes were missing. Did anyone ever find out more? I have the old version of the Larry Young and never had any reason to think that it might be.

  23. Jimmy Forrest on Prestige

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    7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

    Oh yeah.  The Magnificent Goldberg hipped me to Out 'Dere.  It's one helluva record.  :tup

     

    The other (non-Prestige) Jimmy Forrest record that gets pulled from my shelf regularly:

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    Later reissued on a Muse CD.

     

     

    Good idea.  I'm overdue to give that a spin.  :) 

     

    Randissimo is the drummer on Heart Of The Forest!

    Forrest Fire has Larry Young, so that is my favorite.

  24. Hank Mobley

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    On 7/1/2013 at 4:09 AM, robertoart said:

    You remembered right. I listened to this session for the very first time yesterday, after reading this thread. On Summertime Mobley plays some stuff that is on an unaccompanied solo tangent. This is very brittle stuff. I'm very glad to have been made aware of this album.

    The opening solo portion of Summertime is actually thr first movement of the Thinking of Home Suite. It works really well in that Algerian war film soundtrack :)

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