Man with the Golden Arm

Well no, but I think a Caddy deserves at the least something closer to a 4.0. Unless of course she would have mentioned that she could not wait to get some Mobley bustin' to move with a Detroit lean.

can i play my mulligan now?

Well I guess my guess is just that. I ran with Dimitry's hint and recalled that "Amen Corner" in Augusta was named for a jazz song. Lo and behold I arrived at that, which is "Shouting at Amen Corner" by Mezzrow. In 1958 Arnie won the match in the corner and that term was coined in Sports Illustrated after the moment. So I posted the man above. I would have bet money and did not even look for Mezz' chubby balding pix to compare. And since the Masters is right around the corner and since no one in their right mind that would have anything to do with the Masters back then would have ever used a term based on a song by a 'black' jazz musician. No new crime show for me this fall.

Mezz Mezzrow the coiner of the Masters Tourney back stretch. But I'm just googling here.

Just did some sampling as well. This is the kind of thing that should be on tour! Does have that Cincinnati sound to 'whoop on your old man' by. How'd you come up with this? -turntable-less fool still waiting for Jerome Richardson's "At the Movies" to see the light.

Oh yeah that "Black Talk" book of his was a tough one. It was in fact his doctoral thesis paper as I recall. But as Ben said at the end of 'The Doctor Is In': "be nice to the people on the way up, you're gonna see them on the way back down..." 'Talking Jazz' on the other hand is just simply conversational. No fact checking just having at it with some Q&A. A whole host of personalities are here: Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Roach, Betty Carter, McLean, Don Cherry, Rollins, Tyner, Archie Shepp, Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, DeJohnette and RVG among others. Ben poses some good questions but I'd really like to "hear" it as it feels a bit discombobulated in black and white. Nate Dorward gives it a good going over at Amazon.

I've been pawing through this hard cover recently- Ben Sidran "Talking Jazz". Has anyone ever heard the Public Radio broadcasts of this book's interviews? I believe they might very well be easier to manage in audio rather than a pure oral history translated onto the page as this is. It is a big one, so it's very hard to take while attempting such.

I can almost hear the voice-over coming from the other side of that fence in Dan's backyard now.

Well Mike I will add a bit more here so as not to look like I'm talking to myself. I was going to post up more of that disco you compiled and glad you put this up here. A well done bio for a band that seems to be an enigma when you start googling around. I'm so glad I included that cut as, with your comments, it became more than just a novelty in the midst of the set. I've listened to Mongo quite a bit but for some reason never get into really listening to a solo as hard as I should when it comes to Latin stuff. Lesson #1 here is that I will do so with much more concentration in the future. Putting together this test for me was more of a reaching out to hear what you all think of these tunes / artists as well as trying to confound you ringers at the same time. Quite a few of the tunes spurred a decent amount of conversation. I'd really like to hear the educated chew a bit more out of a few of these tracks. My questions within the answers: #2) I'd like to know of more of this "silly" Gil Evans piece. I am in no way a Gil guy. Have the standard Miles collabs as well as the Impulses and absolutely loved the "individualism" from Randy's test... where do I go from here? #3) Not much other Goraguer compos that are this over the top. It's that little conga bongo romp or whatever you call it that floats this along so well. Not quite as indulgent as say a Quincy Jones of the time but cooking at it's best. What else is like this?? #4) I just caught a snippet of a "dance on camera:Fly" tv show that featured the piano and score of Steve Beresford. Unfortunately I only saw the last minute and then the credits. The way the group makes room for each other here is so nice to hear. Not a typical "I'm John Zorn don't ya know" feature and Douglas is just so good on this piece too. It's that happy loping along that I really dig. While not entirely Monk-y I'd like to know what else is like this, too??? #10) Jumping ahead as the others have been talkd over a bit elsewhere. Many kind of just passed this one off but to tell the truth this thing is one of my favorites. Maybe it's that David Byrne's 'Rei Momo' album came out as well or that I saw this group with Pullen after 'Days and Nights of Blue Luck' and then only a couple weeks later got to see the real Mario Bauza at the same venue. To me Bruce is so nice and warm here and with a lyric that is intellegently silly for once. Bringing that Latin in with such a stellar group though is such a coupe. If you just try to listen to only the percussion you almost can't do it. The horns are just so damn tight - Mario Rivera and Ned Rothenberg building a nice wall for Murray to sharply point the mortar. You got to play this one LOUD possibly after your own bender! And I love how Serge's cha cha won't give you time to exit the floor. #11) This Wilen piece really re-kindled a very slight interest and how. The cut is the odd duck out on the JiP disc and I guess kind of Duke Jordans up the Django classic. So what's going on here? This thing is a cooker that a smart record clerk would put on the hi-fi and sell every copy in the store. Seeing that the first BFT included a cut from 'Jazz sur Seine' was purely an oversight. I need more of exactly this!!! ??? Well aside from the Latin Jazz Quintet I think this thing kind of petered out. If I had to re-work it I'd pick up after that accordion piece with Ribot and move into something a bit more fun. But I still love the solo playing by the quartet of horns on Teo's "Heart on my Sleeve". With all that Coleman vs Farrell on the other BFT I was surprised this tune did not spurr more debate. Maybe it's just a tad boring. It would be good to see more posts as the next two-fer is on deck in a week.

Et Tu Brutus... March 15th is aound the corner. But we all know what happens when we try to control the start of the BFT.

beware!

Village Voice this week:

That's beautiful! Glad to hear he hasn't lost his edge. I remember that thread going about Jimmy's interpersonal relationship skills on the old BNBB, too. I had seen him a few years ago at the old House of Blues in Cambridge. Some young girl yells-"we love you Jimmy" in the middle of one of his solos (sic) and he yells back without a blink "fuck you!!". No doubt made her night.

Can you expound upon this theory? Not being wise ... I'd like to know why? (I do recall one time buying one of those Blue Note Breakbeats, a molded disc of course, that was something like 79:58 and the last cut "Ollloqui Valley" as I remember would fall apart on certain players. Just an anomaly I assumed?) My advice for the cheap ones is to go Japanese whenever convenient. A big old 50 of Fujis can be had after rebates for about $5.00 at Best Buy etc... now I see Fuji is going with 100 cts from Taiwan. And NEVER EVER Philips!!!!

Hey, you don't look nearly old enough to be a grandpop! Congratulations!!!!

Get yerself a twelve pack, indulge and take your dog for a nice long walk. Whenever you encounter one of her signs staked into the ground you and the dog give it a go! :rsmile:

BTW that's a great memory Jim... Here's another that was under Willie.

I have just a handful of old cards around. Lucky for me my neighbor, who I trotted to the drug store with to get packs, was probably getting antsy for some Indians cards I might have gotten and traded me a few way back when. They were no doubt his older brother's as we would have been wee chaps then. This baby is one I kept and is from '61 - Topps #150. Sez mays led the N.L. in '60 w/ 190 hits.

or... has anybody heard this Organ Trio setting?

At dinner last nite my third grader started discussing her MCAS (those state produced tests that wig everyone out!) essay practice test of the week: a "Wynton Marsalis Biography". She had a bunch of little fun facts to share about him and his family and that he was one of the 'youngest trumpet players to ever make a record' etc... She was a bit disappointed to find her answer to "you must have some of his CDs?" Pretty cool though. B)

I Googled up some birthday recipes and they all said the icing must be "grease-free"! So "No Cake Forrr You!" Happy Birthday!

Noj, You are welcome and THANKS! Glad you dug in. There's lots of good discussion within and it seemed that folks were getting antsy for the goods. Hopefully the 'answers' thread will even edumacate me as to what's going on in that disc. Funny that I worked around a couple of Johnny Lytle cuts when I started but it got too "mod" in the groove. Some of his more latin slabs would go nicely in here.

This seems to be Beresford's most concise discography. On another note: I do see on this site that he played with Piet Noordijk at some point. I had read long ago somewhere that Zorn "stole" his style from him, I believe. Any help there as to where you might see Zorn fitting in with other stylists? During Randy's test I immediately thought of Zorn on the McLean and percussion cut.

Now here you go... I've been all over trying to find out more about him too and I Googled a different way and lookie here:Danger Girl! (w/ sound bite) click play all audio samples and it's more bft #7!!! Yowzzaaa! even some killer John Barry Seven? I see that he appears on some other compilations regarding TV themes from the UK. Another link that talks up his bio.