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Has anyone asked Mr. Barkan if Grant Green was recorded at Keystone Korner?

Who recorded them? The writer isn't wrong. 😀 The whistle on the 1975 Oil Can Harry's date is cringeworthy. In fact, it would be a perfect use case for modern de-mixing technology. Digitally remove the whistle on two-track pre-FM mix-downs of live Grant Green recordings. It would be kind of a public service -- like removing Yoko Ono screaming over John Lennon and Chuck Berry on the Dick Cavett Show. 😁

That whistle can be heard on the 1975 Oil Can Harry's release. Listen around the 22 minute mark of "How Insensitive."

The Talkin' About XRCD sounds great!

Good sleuthing! Summer 65 does seem more plausible than the Nov. 65 date Klein now posits. Do we know who took the photo Heid posted? Are there any more photos from that gig? It appears Mr. Heid has passed away: https://www.wzum.org/jazz-blog/2023/06/30/mcgjazz-

Nice work Niko! Has anyone reached out to Jane Getz to see if her gig/s with Grant Green were privately recorded?

San Francisco Examiner Aug. 15, 1975

Great work guys! The phrasing is definitely Larry Young. Was the recording date ever definitively nailed down? On Nov. 15, 2023, Travis Klein posted on Facebook: "On this date in Pittsburgh music history, November 15, 1965, the Grant Green Organ Trio began a week's performance at the Hurricane. This is when we recorded the "Iron City" album." Does the master tape box / session log not exist? Were the musician contracts located? Green's last date as a Blue Note leader before his hiatus was March 1965 (I Want To Hold Your Hand). Was Green under contract to Blue Note that expired in 1965? Green made recordings for Verve as a leader in August and September 1965. After that he does some sideman dates for Blue Note and Prestige in 1966 before returning to the studio in 1969. Klein's recollection of a November 15, 1965 recording date seems plausible. Can Larry Young be placed in Pittsburgh that week? Observation: Larry Young's Unity LP was recorded November 10, 1965. The next studio entry for Young is Woody Shaw's In The Beginning LP recorded in December 1965. So it does look like there was a potential window for Young to gig with Green in PA starting November 15, 1965 and possibly record the Iron City album at that time.

I wonder if Mr. Feldman would entertain a download only series for lower sales volume artists. That way there wouldn't be a physical media production investment risk on his part. Well, we know the master numbers from the 1965 session. If someone here knows an employee at Verve/Universal Records, they could have them look up the take numbers in their internal database and see if the session is catalogued or is associated with a bar code in Iron Mountain. If the Cadet session burned up in the 2008 fire, does anyone here have a relationship with the Willette and Esmond Edwards estates? Might be worth asking them if they have an acetate of it. And wouldn't it be amazing if Willette's heirs have some private live recordings and don't realize they might be significant?

I've been yearning to hear the unissued 1965 Cadet session for decades. It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Willette received an acetate of this Cadet session as a courtesy from the record label. If so, do Willette's heirs still have the acetate? Alternatively, is it possible producer Esmond Edwards' (RIP) family has an acetate of the session? In 2008, the Universal Studios fire torched a lot tapes in the Argo/Cadet vault. I have no idea if the Willette Cadet session perished in the fire -- or if it was lost, stolen or trashed years before that. But maybe the unissued session survives in some form. ================================ Baby Face Willette (org) + others unknown c. late 1965 14267 When lights are low (unissued) Cadet 14268 After hours - 14269 Soul elevation - 14270 Get to steppin' - 14271 I got a woman (incomplete) -

Found some newspaper mentions of the Baby Face Willette Trio from October 1964, the month before the Argo studio album Behind the 8-Ball was recorded. I wonder if any live 1960s Willette trio recordings exist in private hands? Has anyone asked Willette's family? Is Ben White (guitar) still alive? The Indianopolis News Oct. 14, 1964 The Indianopolis Star Oct. 10, 1964 The La Crosse Tribune Oct. 19, 1964 Behind The 8-Ball (Argo 749), recorded Nov. 30, 1964, Tel-Mar Studios, IL

Here it is in higher resolution...

Found this Dec. 3, 1965 St. Louis Post Dispatch article which interviews Grant Green's father, John Green: A Jazz Guitar From St. Louis Grant Green Doing Just Fine Making Records in New York, And His Father Is Very Proud By Jack Rice

Here’s clip of Jack playing on this 1962 Frankly Jazz show from YouTube. This is not from the source videotape and appears to be a multigenerational copy. Wilson’s solo starts at 4:07 Great stuff. If UCLA ever publishes their new transfer from the original videotape, it will be a massive upgrade in video and audio quality.

A two-inch original master videotape of Jack Wilson performing on the TV program Frankly Jazz in 1962 was donated to UCLA, transferred to digital and streamed via Zoom in 2021. I have not seen the video. Did anyone see this? It was only a one-time screening! See Gerald Wilson show below. https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2021/05/06/frankly-jazz-three-preserved-episodes May 6, 2021 - 4:00 pm Virtual event Watch on Vimeo This is a one-time live screening. Read Television Archivist Mark Quigley's interview with Lance Evans, son of Frankly Jazz host, co-producer and disc jockey Frank Evans. Premiering on Los Angeles’ KTLA Channel 5 in 1962, the tragically short-lived local television series Frankly Jazzoffered viewers powerhouse live performances by some of the best West Coast jazz musicians of the day. Hosted and co-produced by noted disc jockey Frank Evans (and sharing the eponymous title of his popular L.A. radio show as heard on KRHM-FM), Frankly Jazz took up where Bobby Troup’s Stars of Jazz ABC-TV series left off in 1958—providing a ‘60s-era, new frontier soundtrack to the City of Angels, with stark modern visuals to match. Recorded on black and white videotape from a bare soundstage draped in noir shadows and cigarette smoke, host Evans schooled Saturday evening television audiences on the sacred world of jazz with an unshakable, laid-back cool, effortlessly dropping deep musical knowledge and keeping it real with his hip trademark sign-off, “later.” The Archive presents three episodes of this obscure local music TV series, as preserved from recently acquired, original 2 in. master videotapes featuring legendary artists such as Gerald Wilson, the Jazz Crusaders and Sammy Davis Jr. The performances will be introduced by jazz musician and educator Ray Briggs, Ph.D., Jazz Studies Department Chair for the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, and Assistant Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches courses in jazz history and ethnomusicology. Program curated and notes written by Mark Quigley, John H. Mitchell Television Archivist. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding from the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. Frankly Jazz: The Jazz Crusaders and Mary Ann McCall Record date: 8/3/1962 KTLA. Producers: Frank Evans, Gary Markas. Director: Gary Markas. Host: Frank Evans. Musicians: Wayne Henderson (trombone), Wilton Felder (reeds), Joe Sample (piano), Victor Gaskin (acoustic double bass), Stix Hooper (drums), Mary Ann McCall (vocals). Frankly Jazz: Gerald Wilson Big Band Record date: 12/5/1962 KTLA. Producers: Frank Evans, Gary Markas. Director: Gary Markas. Host: Frank Evans. Musicians: Gerald Wilson (trumpet, leader); Al Porcino, Robert Knight, Jules Chaikin, John Audino, Fred R. Hill (trumpets); John Ewing, Bob Edmondson, Louis Blackburn (trombones); Buddy Collette (flute, alto sax); Joe Maini (alto sax); Teddy Ed-wards, Henry Grant (tenor sa)x; Jack Nimitz (baritone sax); Jack Wilson Jr. (piano); Jimmy Bond (acoustic double bass); Mel Lewis (drums). Frankly Jazz: Sammy Davis, Jr. and Victor Feldman Record date: 10/19/1962 KTLA. Producers: Frank Evans, Gary Markas. Director: Gary Markas. Host: Frank Evans. Musicians: Victor Feldman (vibraphone); Jimmy Rowles (piano); Bob Whitlock (acoustic double bass); Kenny Dennis (drums); Sammy Davis Jr. (vocals). B&w, total program running time: 85 min. Preserved from original 2 in. videotapes. Video transfers at DC Video. Engineering services by David Crosthwait. Special thanks to Greg Lewerke and Stan Lewerke. Musician credits from Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker.