Larry Kart

Parking was no problem -- I parked at or near Tribune Tower, where I probably had been working on something else during the day, then strolled to Grant Park and eventually hot footed it back. Didn't have a lap top -- did they exist back then? So many memorable nights e.g. the big band tribute to Dusable H.S.' famous teacher Capt. Walter Dyett, with many of his alumni in the band, fronted by Johnny Griffin. In the midst of the heartfelt set there was a huge downpour; the stage was sheltered by the bandshell but the good-sized audience was drenched. Almost nobody in the crowd left, though, which led Griffin to say, "You people NEED to be here."

On foot -- about five long city blocks, maybe ten or more minutes. Last sets were supposed to end at 10:30 -- my deadline, never missed, for a review of about 800-1,000 words was midnight. Adrenaline, plus the stimulus of the music, plus I was used to it all and found it kind of exciting to know that my thoughts would appear in the morning paper. Also, to be honest, some times I edged away before the last set was over when I felt fairly sure that what I'd heard so far was going to be followed by more of the same -- e.g. Miles in 1990. Finally, I soon learned that for me at least you couldn't /shouldn't write much of anything in your head on the way back to the paper. Maybe a key phrase or two, but I needed to just sit down and type, one thought leading to the next.

The Serrano-Johnson set is something else. Eddie is on fire.

Bravo, Dan. What a sound PF had. Plumed is a word that comes to mind.

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Anyone have experience with this? It may be in the cards for me.

Point aptly made.

I'm not familiar with that anecdote. As for Feather, I hold no brief for the man. The one glancing encounter I had with him -- not face to face but in a journalistic-professional matter that involved me -- told me all I needed to know about his lack of ethics.

If you're thinking of Jutta Hipp, Bertrand, you're on target. But Jutta is no more, as is Feather, and his reputation, for this and other reasons. is tarred. OTOH, a post about Hipp on Marc Myers Jazz Wax site, citing a woman who has extensively researched Hipp's life, indicates that there were more reasons for the demise of Hipp's musical career than anything that Feather did or might have done.

No you don't, unless you have a strong stomach.

My favorite "Pastoral."

Gifted composer/bandleader Anita Brown, daughter of tenor saxophonist Ted Brown, had emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor on May 26. The tumor was benign but if not removed would have cost her her sight. She is recovering but has been hit with heavy medical bills. This Go Fund Me campaign has been created to help her: https://gofund.me/21ad70ec

The date with Pee Wee Russell! He and Wilson, however unlikely it may seem, were a lovely musical pair. l

You seem to be confusing Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.

Just solved it, with the help of an angel from Apple. Not sure why it wasn't working before, but now I have 24 Teddy Wilson tracks on my IPhone for openers.

My Mac is updated.

I have an I Phone 11, a USB Superdrive, and a 2017 IMAC. What I want to do, and what an Apple Support person told me last night I could do (and he sent me guide to how to do it), is put music from my CDs on my MAC, using my Apple USB Superdrive to do so, and then transfer that music to my I Phone, where I could listen to it and I walked around the track. Problem is that my Mac won't recognize my Apple USB Superdrive; thus music from CDs can't be imported to my Mac from it. Today an Apple Support senior manager said that the reason was that my IMac was not on the list of Mac models that my USB Superdrive can communicate with. This seemed odd to me because the Superdrive and my IMac were contemporaneous devices, purchased at about the same time (though my wife, who bought the Superdrive had never used it). So I called Apple Support again, and the person I spoke to said that my 2017 I Mac definitely was on the list of Macs with which my USB Superdrive was compatible. He tried to help me for at least an hour and retired in defeat. Any thoughts?

On the excellent Sonny Stitt album on MCA, originally on Argo with no title and the same color photo of Stitt on both sides of the album cover and no liner notes, it has often been speculated that the rhythm section is Barry Harris and fellow Detroiters Frank Gant and William Austin, but it is clearly the Ramsey Lewis Trio (bassist El Dee Young is unmistakeable, as is Lewis), and Ramsey plays very well behind Stitt. Tunes include "This Is Always," "Just You, Just Me," "Dancing on the Ceiling."

Nose Konitz, of the NASA Big Band.

IIRC sound is much better on the LP than on YouTube.

"Zeke Tolin" on "Gil Evans Plus Ten."

Thanks to Mark Stryker, a link to the out-of-body performance I mentioned a day or two ago:

On an OOP Swedisc LP (that's the label, not a typo for Swedish) LP "Sax of a Kind -- Lee Konitz in Sweden, 1951/53," there's a 1953 air check of a performance of "Loverman" from a Gothenburg concert with the Kenton band that must have been an out-of-body experience for Lee. I can't imagine the effect of playing that solo might have on a person. One of those nights when anything was possible.

Wow -- how did I ever miss this?Maybe I was seduced by my old Maderna LP, lavishly slow, but this Serenade is superb. And I haven't even gotten to Five Pieces yet.

His "Midnight Creeper" album, with Lisle Atlkinson and Al Harewood, on the Miljac label, is very soulful.