I came across...

[DukeCity]

I came across a bunch of recordings sheets. Here's a Howard McGhee album I produced Dec. 8, 1961.

...and here's the detailed session sheet:

Thanks for posting these, Chris! Under "Additonal expenses" there's $350 for "arrangements". Do you have any recollection as to who did the arrangements? How involved the charts were (for a quintet doing what looks like a fairly straight ahead set of tunes)?

[medjuck]

I came across a bunch of recordings sheets. Here's a Howard McGhee album I produced Dec. 8, 1961.

...and here's the detailed session sheet:

Is that "$10 for Liquor"?

[Christiern]

Yes. It was also 1961.

[DukeCity]

Thanks for the info, Chris.

Keep the stuff coming!

[Chuck Nessa]

I bet Chuck Nessa has a similar collection.

Similar but much smaller.

If I dig out the contracts for the Chicago Jazz Festival when I was chairman my list would be extended but....

I envy Chris' organization. It would take a year for me to sort my stuff.

[Harold_Z]

Yes. It was also 1961.

Gotta show this to DEEP. A shot costs more now than a bottle did then.

[blajay]

You really could publish this stuff Chris. Reminds me of one of Milt Hinton's books.

[Free For All]

Really interesting stuff, Chris.

So I wonder why Hendrix wasn't listed on the Woodstock ad? Do you know if he was he a late addition/confirmation?

EDIT: I also liked the mention of "curious food and fruit combinations to experiment with". hehehehehehe

Edited November 8, 2008 by Free For All

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This one really interested me, Chris.

I have two recordings of Ray Charles from October 1961 - successive nights at the Paris Olympia - and the band was in superb shape. I also saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon on that tour. But doubly lovely for there to have been an after hours session with Messrs Davenport, Chambers and Powell.

Did they ever get in touch with you?

MG

[marcello]

Really interesting stuff, Chris.

So I wonder why Hendrix wasn't listed on the Woodstock ad? Do you know if he was he a late addition/confirmation?

EDIT: I also liked the mention of "curious food and fruit combinations to experiment with". hehehehehehe

There are lots of acts that arn't in that ad including, Mountain, Jefferson Airplane, Bert Sommer, Melaine, Creedence, Ten Years After, The Band, Quill, Sly & The Family Stone and others.

Edited November 8, 2008 by marcello

[kh1958]

I would have wanted to be at the Village Gate every night in July and August.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

DID U EVER MEET STRAVINSKY?

[Christiern]

I'm afraid not, Aric.

MG, I don't think Rudy Powell got in touch with me when he returned from Europe, but he might have. I have come across several letters that I had completely forgotten about.

Edited November 9, 2008 by Christiern

[AllenLowe]

hey Chris -

I actually played at Jazz Vespers with a group of guys (all high school age) - we went on REALLY late - might have been 1969 - I remember very little abut that night except Howard McGhee played, and it wasn't in the church part, he played in some open space -

Edited November 9, 2008 by AllenLowe

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so this "jazz vespers" gig goes way back before Susan Pascal (really good lady vibebraphone) did it here in seattle......

[Christiern]

I also came across a postal rates card that I retrieved from the mail chute in my hallway many years ago. The chute is still there, the rates were long gone even when I took the card.

Oh, oh, government property!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some lovely pics there Chris. Thank you!

MG

[Christiern]

I know the picture is out of focus (most of my pre-digitals turned out to be—even Polaroids), but I couldn't resist posting this one of my two, sorely missed dobies, Mingus and Bessie.

[marcello]

Thank you, MG.

Here's something else I came across and had totally forgotten.

I wonder if this publication (which I never saw) still exists.

Shaw Nuff!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Here is her first recording, 1920.

Wow! Thanks Chris. Interesting.

MG

[AllenLowe]

hi Chris -

working on a new blues anthology/book, and am increasingly impressed by Ruby Smith's singing - found a few cuts I had not heard before (and as usual, since I'm at work, I cannot remember where I found them!) but she has a very nice voice, and a gentler sensibility than Bessie, which I like very much -

will still try to locate that info on those vinyl Bessie pressings, hope to search tonight -

[Christiern]

That's me in 1961, at the typewriter in the apartment I shared with Timme Rosenkrantz, and that my first published article (Aftenbladet, Monday, January 9, 1956). It was about making the jazz rounds in Manhattan with Timme (whose actual phone number was in the heading, the idea being that it provided me with a "Key to Jazz Land". My wife and I had a great time making those rounds, but the truth is that Timme didn't make it‚he got too drunk!

[blajay]

As you may have gathered, I have a lot of Alberta Hunter photos, so I thought I'd gather a feww into a montage...

You forgot to include the altar of candles in front and your Alberta Hunter voodoo doll made out of locks of her hair, haha.

[blajay]

I was just kidding Chris, I'm glad you're sharing them!

[Christiern]

Thanks, now I'll blow out my candles and put my voodoo doll on eBay.