Vincent, Paris

Found on trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's website a picture entitled "A Great Day in Brooklyn" with the following explanation : On Thursday, June 5, close to 70 musicians from the New York Metropolitan Area were called upon by Bob Myers (Up Over Jazz Café) and Ahmed Abdullah (Sistas’ Place) to participate in a photo shoot at one of Brooklyn's oldest churches, The Concord Baptist Church of Christ. The musicians who showed up (among them, Roland Alexander, Cecil Bridgewater, Phil Bingham, Bob Cunningham, Billy Harper, Craig Harris, John Hicks, Harold Ousley, Jimmy Owens, Bill Saxton, Charles Tolliver, Reggie Workman, Kiane Zawdi, etc.,) represent some of the finest veterans of a particular era of self-determination in the artform known as Jazz. Unfortunately, the picture is a bit too small for me to recognize most of the people but I found the idea great, and I am sure you will too. I'd like to see it in a big print.

EMI doesn't know how to get the royalties to the people who deserves them. They include : George Adams, Victor Bailey, Tina Brooks, Bobby Bland, Kenny Drew (don't they know at Blue Note that his son is a pianist too), Herbie Mann (man, he just died!), Bill Perkins (him too), Terry Line Carrington (she lives in CA) and many, many others! Don't they have some family around that could get the money? Have a look there ... some people on the board may be able to help ?

The September Criss Cross albums are now listed with their covers on Criss Cross website.

According to Venus Records website, the great Pharoah Sanders seems to have a new record out. I don't read Japanese but according to the cover, it is a quartet recording, with William Henderson, Ira Coleman and Joe Farnsworth. Seems like it's the album he was never allowed to make on Verve! Has anyone heard it yet?

NEWS! Universal France has reissued the "The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus" (recorded on April 19, live at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, in Paris), formerly issued as 3 LPs on America, now on a beautiful digipack 2Cd-set, with two previously unreleased tracks : "A.T.F.W." (which stands for for Art Tatum Fats Waller) and "So Long Eric", a tune Mingus had dedicated to Dolphy when he had learned that Dolphy had decided to stay in Europe at the end of the tour. It seems that Universal did some research to find the best sources, which have been restored to get the best sound. Dolphy playing is really great on this one too!

Thank you everybody for your answers. I just ordered the Koch reissue of Pony's album on Columbia and look forward hearing it. I might order his book as well. I became aware of him through a Pacific Jazz/Capitol reissue of some of Wes Montgomery's earliest recordings. I later found a postcard which was a William Claxton picture from the session, showing both Pony and Wes, and I always wondered how this guy could have fallen into such an obscurity during the last years of his life. I understand that, as so many American musicians who settled in Europe, he gradually became such a familiar figure that people begun to forgot how talented he was.

I have read somewhere that saxophonist Pony Poindexter had written and published his autobiography before his death. Has anyone ever seen (or read) such a book ?

No. Avishai Cohen the trumpet player once recorded as Avishai E. Cohen. Both come from Israel.

FSNT-170 In The Beginning Eli Degibri Quintet Featuring: Eli Degibri (as), Aaron Goldberg (p), Kurt Rosenwinkel (g), Jeff Ballard (d), Ben Street (B) FSNT-169 Push Helen Sung Featuring: Marcus Strickland (ts), Helen Sung (p), Richie Goods (B), Brian Blade (d), Jeffrey Haynes (perc) FSNT-168 Third Eye Phil Stöckli Quintet Featuring: Phil Stöckli (as,ts), Mike Moreno (g), Pete Rende (p,fender rh,synt), Matt Penman (B), Jeff Ballard (d), Matthias Künzli (perc #1,5,8), Barbara Mendes (vcl #1) FSNT-167 In The Land Of Art Frank Carlberg Featuring: Christine Correa (vcl), Chris Cheek (ts), Frank Carlberg (p), Michael Sarin (B), Andrew Rathbun (d) FSNT-166 Mind Motions Felipe Salles Featuring: Felipe Salles (ts,ss,fl), Tony D'Aveni (tp,flh), Joel Yennior (tb), Laura Arpiainen (v), Nando Michelin (p), Rick McLaughlin (B), Bertram Lehmann (d), Ernesto Diaz (cgas,timbales), Pedro Ito (perc) FSNT-165 Intersection Erik Jekabson Featuring: Erik Jekabson (tp), Matt Otto (ts), John Ellis (ts,bcl,ocarina), Ben Monder (g), Alexis Cuadrado (B), Mark Ferber (d,perc) FSNT-164 Astronautus - Introducing Javier Vercher Oscar Peñas Group Featuring: Oscar Peñas (g), Javier Vercher (ts,ss), José A. Medina (p), Germán Fernández (B), Mariano Steimberg (d) FSNT-163 Gin Bon - Special Guest: John Abercrombie Loren Stillman Quartet Featuring: Loren Stillman (as), Russ Lossing (p), Scott Lee (B), Jeff Hirshfield (d), John Abercrombie (g on #2,4,7,10) FSNT-162 Common Ground Hans Glawischnig Featuring: David Sanchez (ts), Donnie McCaslin (ts), Miguel Zenon (as), Luis Perdomo (p), Hans Glawischnig (B), Dan Weiss (d) FSNT-161 The Trumpet Player Avishai Cohen Featuring: Avishai Cohen (tp), John Sullivan (B), Jeff Ballard (d). Special Guest: Joel Frahm (ts) on #4,5,7 FSNT-160 Bill McHenry Quartet Featuring Paul Motian Bill McHenry Featuring: Bill McHenry (ts), Ben Monder (g), Reid Anderson (B), Paul Motian (d)

Thank you Cali for this answer. Is that an extract from the GRP CD ?

Bertrand thought about the interview known as "Jazz Can Be Sold" (Down Beat, 02/09/1970). Here is the quote : "I don't like labels. If you can play, you can play with everybody. Look at Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson. Whatever you prefer, you'll find sufficient quantities of talented musicians who prefer the same. But you should never limit your mind. With the new thing coming in, I'm one of those who prefer to swing a lot. But I've experimented with free forms, like on Grachan Moncur's "Evolution" and Andrew Hill's "Grass Roots" -- playing without the rhythm, against the rhythm, disregarding it -- the whole freedom thing. The avant-garde organist who plays with Tony Williams -- Larry Young. I made an album with him, and the next week one with Lonnie Smith, a whole different thing. Then Reuben Williams had me and George Coleman, and we did some pretty show tunes, things by Burt Bacharach." (from the Down Beat website)

Billy Higgins first recorded with Lee Morgan on "Sidewinder". Blakey was supposed to be the drummer on this one, but could not make it, so Alfred Lion brought in Billy Higgins, and after that date, Higgins was Morgan's drummer on almost every session until Morgan had his own regular band.

Just posted on JazzWeekly.com : a new Henry Grimes interview by Fred Jung.

While reading the new liner notes by Michael Cuscuna to the 'Rosewood" reissue (1998) in the Columbia/Legacy series, I was hit by the following : "Our next project [Cuscuna was the original producer]was to record the working band live at the Village Vanguard. Hopefully, the issued album and some unreleased gems will soon see the light of day on CD, because the quintet had reached an astonishing peak with Woody at the height of his power." Was that alluding to the Mosaic box set (I thought it came before '98) ? Did it finally come out on CD? Was that discussed before on the defunct BNBB ?

Pete Fallico at the Doodlin' Lounge made some researches about Baby Face Willette. Interesting to read.

Some pictures from sessions at David X Young's loft are online, but it's unclear for me if they were shot by Eugene Smith or by Young himself : jazz pictures from David X Young Some of those (if not all) are also visible on All About Jazz.

Sonny Rollins did a tribute to Vick on "This Is What I Do" (Milestones) with a tune entitled "Did You See Harold Vick?" (could be the title for this thread).

Must finish with that one :

And none of those were Blue Note LPs !!!

Not the easiest way to play on a bongo!

I don't know, there's something ridiculous with that one but I can't tell what.

Careful with the glasses!

I suspect they did those for the covers only.

Does it happen often ?

I can only post a link to that one Oh God!