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Good bio of Gray. That's as far as I've got.

I bought Jazz Party ~1962. Thought it was great and played the hell out of it :-)

You just had to groan again? :-) Really? Only USA-ers? Interesting.

I had already been playing clarinet for two years when I discovered early jazz on the fm radio in Los Angeles. I started to play along with the radio and read about jazz. I was attracted by the freedom the clarinet role had. or so I thought :-)

Mosaic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28Art_Blakey_album%29

I got rid of 'em. An old joke: I Got Rhythm, "clap, clap" I Got Rhythm, "clap, clap" I Got Rhythm, "clap, clap" Who Could Ask For Anything More. Sing and clap. See if you get the idea :-)

He speeds up in the first section too. I agree, he seems to want to get through the encore piece as fast as possible :-)

He is a very! nice man. Very positive too.

Can't ask them either.

I'll never forgive John S. Wilson for his record review of Sonny Rollins' "Our Man In Jazz". It's very obvious reading through the Bird Omnibook solos that Bird's rhythmic phrasing is free (complicated and varied) and natural for him. It's in a class of it's own, I believe. Perhaps Ravi Shankar is as varied :-) In the 1970s someone wrote a doctoral theses on "Charles Parker's 42 original melodic ideas". It was available on microfilm from some university.

Cool! There are more mp3s to be found hidden on that page. SusanGraasMcKeeverBeet Op.2.2.1.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverBeet Op.2.2.2.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverBeet Op.2.2.3.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverBeet Op.2.2.4.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverGaluppi1.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverGaluppi2.mp3 SusanGraasMcKeeverGaluppi3.mp3 SusanGraasMckeeverGaluppi4.mp3 SusanMcKeeverMendelssohn.pt1.mp3 SusanMckeeverMendelssohn.pt2.mp3 SusanMckeeverScriabin4th.mp3

I thought there was also humor in it and that surprised me. (the slap tongue)

Does anyone agree with me that "Focus" was recorded with Dixie cups and strings for microphones? Just horrible EQ on that otherwise great project.

I met him and his father in Eureka, Ca. ~1975. Got to play a few tunes with him.

Harold Land

Wasn't Joe Henderson a contender by 1964? For the right project Miles and Roland Kirk could have been a teem. Bobby Hutcherson?

I never thought of that spelling but a pianist of that name played every week at the Haight Levels (on Haight Street) San Francisco in 1966 and maybe 1967. Good group with Julius Elerby (is that right? on trumpet) and Sunny Lewis on tenor sax. You might contact Bert Wilson for more info.

Yo Yo Ma is most certainly somebody. Yo MaMa!

In 1979 I worked next door to Intel. Never thought of buying stock. My grandmother told me she could have bought AT&T and Kodak stock very cheap. She was advised to but did not. Don't know when that was. I bought The Westchester Jazz Workshop Recorded in New York City, 1956 Joe Shepley (tp) Eddie Bert (tb) Vinnie Riccitelli (as) Carmen Leggio (ts) Gene Allen (bs) Dolph Castellano (p) Eddy Tone (b) Joe Venuto (d) when I was a kid and found it very interesting.

All those 1950s West coast tenor players have a lot in common is mostly true. Harold & Teddy excepted.

You're allowed to dislike me. We don't have the same world view. BTW, playing with Mr. Grimes in 1966 was a peak experience for me, musically. For the whole day he was very unkind to me. Very negative. BUT...one second before we started playing the first tune I felt a huge wave of positive energy behind me that continued to the end of the last tune. It must have been shortly after that he stopped playing.

Why yes, of course! To me, his life is not up lifting. To present it as so is phony. Henry Grimes's rebirth...a qualified yes.

There is not enough playing on the video (that I saw) to make a fair judgement. He may be warming up; Getting to know the piano. The music may have been highly edited. The CD will tell the true story. I was offended that the first article was presented as a heart warming, uplifting story. Edit: I've now heard the 'Round Midnight massacre. Maybe years ago in his youth he played better. If I was in a bar where he was playing I would leave quickly. I know just the (alleged) bass player for him :-)

Mark, I agree the album is great. I bought it in the early 1960s. Although on alto sax I also enjoyed playing It Could...as KD does on this record. Bish works with the piano and it does not bother me :-) I prefer this version of "US" over later versions of Uno Mas. I transcribed the arr. and have played it a few times over the years when possible. I would like to have a good big band arr. of it for my hobby club big band. Jackie is a little different on this record (drunk?) and I like it.

IMO, he confused his fan base by "Free Fall". The record company dropped him.