Larry Kart

Sorry for my error -- 2003 is correct.

Distinctive and excellent. For more info go to Marc Myer's' recent post on Madna (1931-88) on Jazz Wax. Lots of tracks from this album on You Tube.

Couple of inches of snow on the ground here (a Chicago suburb) and zero degrees.

A fine, quite individual player, he's recently recorded as a sideman with pianist Luis Perdomo and before that with guitarist Liberty Ellman.

Didn't know that, but a look at his hands in the drawing on the album cover, not to mention listening to him, suggests how he got that nickname. His given name is Gilberto Colon Jr. and he's best known for his work with Hector Lavoe.

Fabulous Latin jazz album. - piano (Pulpo) and percussion, very dense and intense

I survived an at once daunting and delightful interview with Ruby. An unfiltered excerpt: "Show business! I love show business. If I had my way, I'd be up there with dancers and magicians and lights and everything. Oh, why can't I have magic, so that when I lift my horn up and want it to disappear, it vanishes out of my hand? That can be done with lights; I know it can! Oh why can't I be tremendous? If I were a star I'd have such fun. Sinatra -- why don't I get the exposure he gets? Maybe I should call him up and threaten him. No, no. I'd better not do that -- that is not the way to go. But why did they ruin everything? I mean, this is the worst world I ever lived in. All I want to do is go over the rainbow to someplace better than where I was. And why can't I have my own talk show?"

Just that it was eventually a more or less sad, even sick story. McFarland was living fairly close to the edge, seemingly without either knowing or caring much that this was so -- all that talk from various associates about what a super-relaxed, lovely, devil may care guy he was, etc. -- and then the edge rose up almost out of nowhere up in the form of a batshit hipster author and killed him. BTW, whatever happened to Hoffenberg as a result of what he did to McFarland? It's like Gary's life was a kind of semi-conscious Ponzi scheme, and he got taken for good. In the end, the devil did care. But all that, again, may be mostly me.

i'm sure it's just me, but I found the documentary to be profoundly creepy.

That's what I thought but tossed in the above in case there are those here who dig Warne but might assume that his role in the context of Supersax would be of minor importance.

Some terrific Warne on these.

Tina!

Re-listening to a lot of stuff I hadn't listened to in a long while this 1993 album surprised me because I had thought of Stamm as essentially a first-call section man. Yes, he's that but also a fluent, inventive soloist with, of course, chops to burn, though he doesn't flaunt them unduly. Lineup is reedmen Bob Mintzer and Bob Malach, Bill Charlap, Mike Richmond, and Terry Clarke.

it's good, as are all of Spaulding's of that era and label. Nice selection of tunes from Don Sickler's bag of vintage stuff -- e.g. Elmo Hope. Tina Brooks. Clifford Brown. Hank Mobley.

Great drummer nonetheless 🙂

Wettling

I'm especially grateful for the support he gave Brignola.

Trust Ira.

OK. But based on the above photos of Garry, whoever married her had a formidable woman to deal with.

No. Composer George Russell's wife was Juanita Odejnar. (He named a piece after her, which was recorded at the same session s "Ezzthetic.") After that marriage came to an end, Juanita married Giuffre.

That Bonilla album is a gem.

It goes "ah-oo-gah, ah-oo-gah."

Damn!

I like latter-day Most, on Xanadu, but that Bird Monk, etc., album is pretty much a dud IMO.