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Thanks for the reminder. The '53 aggregation was one of the great bands. Q

As Bird says it, it sounds pretty classy. Is there a problem with that? Q

He is very much involved with what he sees as institutionalized racism at UCSD - 1.3% of the 25,000 student body is African American ... that would have been his point. Sad all round. Q

Any news on this? It's over 2 years now ... Q

Thanks

Blacked out? Q

So that's it! If I was a dog I could pick up on that far-out shit. Q

Alto sounds very strained - you kidding? Q

Maybe the title should read "20 Minutes to Heaven"? Q

Many thanks. I'm interested in orchestral and harpsichord ... the Winschermann was both. It had a nice flow, as I recall. I have heard some versions that are pretty dry. I'll have to check these out. Q

Any recommendations for "The Art of Fugue"? In memory I recall a haunting reading of Helmut Winschermann's orchestration by Karl Ristenpart and the Chamber Orchestra of the Sarre on the Erato label ... but that has long gone ... Q

The Warne Marsh groups are Tristano School plus Art Pepper, not withstanding that Warne was originally from LA. Sometimes labels have meaning - if it says "Tristano School" that's what you get. I rather like what Larry said about the West Coast Jazz label, " ... a whole lot of people (I being one of them) found WCJ (when applied to the music to which it was commonly applied at the time) to be as accurate a label as could be, in the sense that the music so labeled had a good deal of stylistic coherence". I was one of them too. Bingo!

Yeah Dave. Q

That "Manhattan Studio" is a great video. Q

Many thanks. Q

If you want to put down West Coast jazz, put down "Birth of the Cool" because that's where it came from. Not all of it was as effete as Larry makes out - that is really one terrible example - cats playing 8 bar solos?!!! There was plenty of similarly arranged jazz recorded on the East Coast - John Lewis, Gigi Gryce, JJ, Handy etc. who all went that way "on record" for a few years... There were also plenty of accomplished "affected" soloists at that time on both coasts who benefited from that kind of recorded exposure ... names not required ... you know what I mean ... it became a kind of recording fashion, and the best of it, a sophisticated arrangement with that kind of soloist over at least a chorus or so, yeah - at times it sounded pretty good. On both coasts it was mostly a recording thing - no way they played like that in clubs ... Q

True ... in my case, painful at first, but with time, absolutely positive! Best wishes. Q

I heard long ago from a Tristano insider that this was a misquote and they had not played together. People like Connie Crothers and Carol Tristano would know the truth about this quote. Q

Er ... jazz masters? Maybe the jazz police? Whoever, he's a hell of a player. Q

Interesting they are reissuing Lennie Tristano's "Descent into the Maelstrom" on 2/4. This has just been released on Tristano's Jazz Records (JR14CD) "By Licence Agreement with East Wind Music Ltd. Co. Japan". Q

Received JR 14 CD today - excellent - tracks are from the long out-of-print East Wind LP/CD. Previously unreleased “Lullabye” and portions of “Pastime” and “Ju-Ju” are fascinating ... Production was done in France - I read somewhere that Lennie Popkin and Carol Tristano (producers) are/ were now centered there (?). Q

Willie Dennis was a hell of a musician - just amazing trombone - hearing him here made me pick up the Ronnie Ball (Savoy) which for some reason I had overlooked. Beautiful conception combined with a remarkable technique. What a loss! Q

Whatever ... beautiful music. Thank you. Q

Thanks for that David. Fine trumpeter - big bright sound, wide vibrato - to my ears very much on the swing side of the swing-to-bop musicians - hard to hear any obvious influence on Miles, but if Miles says so ... I presume that last track, the "Perdido" recorded in Cleveland, was a Tadd Dameron arrangement? Great program. Q

Jazz Records have just released "Descent into the Maelstrom". HP is here: http://www.jazzrecordsinc.com/catalog.html Lennie Tristano Descent Into The Maelstrom (JR14CD) 1. Descent Into the Maelstrom (3:28) 2. Dream (3:28) 3. Lullabye (1:53) 4. Image (4:11) 5. Take 1 (4:35) 6. Take 2 (3:12) 7. Take 3 (4:06) 8. Stretch (6:10) 9. Pastime (6:01) 10. Ju-Ju (3:33) 11. Con Con (8:51) Lennie Tristano, solo piano except: Stretch, Con Con: Lennie Tristano, piano; Sonny Dallas, bass; Nick Stabulas, drums. 1966 Pastime, Ju-Ju: Lennie Tristano, piano; Peter Ind, bass; Roy Haynes, drums. 1952 Take 1, 2 and 3 recorded in 1961. Released by Jazz Records, Inc. by License Agreement with East Wind Music, Ltd. Co. Japan. “Lullabye” and portions of “Pastime” and “Ju-Ju” previously unreleased.　2014 Jazz Records Inc Q