Guest youmustbe Posted October 6, 2003 Report Posted October 6, 2003 Gene Quill was one of the hardest swinging alto sax players ever! Not an easy guy to like. Short, squat, a wise ass...one of the alltime junkies, would shoot up on stage. (Billy Root told me how once when they were in a backing band in Atlantic City for The Supremes, in the middle of a song, Gene started puking into the bell of his horn). But, all back in the day anecdotes aside, he was a mother as a player! He had that soulful wail in his sound! Check him out! (I especially love his feature on Johny Richards' 'Ballad Of Tappan Zee on Wide Range record.) Quote
Guest youmustbe Posted October 6, 2003 Report Posted October 6, 2003 BTW I wonder if he was related to the infamous Mike quill of transit authority Strike fame? Quote
brownie Posted October 7, 2003 Report Posted October 7, 2003 Gene Quill sure could play. He was a very good match to Phil Woods. Also wish he had been given more solo space when he was with the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band but there was a lot of good soloists in that unit! Loved his solo on 'Inside Out' in Al Cohn's RCA album 'Mr. Music'. And there are a lot more Quill solos to listen to. Also liked what he was doing in a couple of Dot LPs 'Down Beat Jazz Concert' where the cream of the New York musicians - well, a lot of them - showed up in 1958. Quote
king ubu Posted October 22, 2003 Report Posted October 22, 2003 Among the very few things by Quill I own, there is a very good session he co-led with Dick Sherman recorded for Dawn. I don't know the date, but it might be 1956. Line up is Quill as, Sherman t, Dick Katz p, Teddy Kotick b, Art Taylor d. This date (5 tunes, around 20 minutes) was released as the A side of "Jazzville '56". It's currently available from freshsoundrecords.com on a 2CD sampler featuring most of the four Jazzville albums (what's not on this one is some Quinichette stuff included on Quinichette's own Dawn/Blue Moon/Freshsound CD). Recommended! ubu Quote
jazzbo Posted October 22, 2003 Report Posted October 22, 2003 (edited) Yeah Quill. . . a burner of a player! I like the recordings resulting from the partnership with Phil Woods for RCA and Weinstock labels. . . . And there's a nice one on Roost with trombones. . . . And yeah, I dig the Dawn material! Definitely a Bird-inspired performer! Edited October 22, 2003 by jazzbo Quote
JSngry Posted October 22, 2003 Report Posted October 22, 2003 The demise of Gene Quill is close to being up their with the demise of Woody Shaw in the pantheon of jazz tragedies. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted October 23, 2003 Report Posted October 23, 2003 I thought his real name was Phil Anquill. Quote
Shrdlu Posted October 23, 2003 Report Posted October 23, 2003 Phil Anquill were heard to good advantage, trading fours etc., on a probably hard-to-find Manny Albam LP called "The Blues Is Everybody's Business". You could even call it a Manny Album. Quote
mmilovan Posted October 25, 2003 Report Posted October 25, 2003 I like his work behind last Billie Holiday's recordings. Quote
desertblues Posted October 27, 2003 Report Posted October 27, 2003 Among the very few things by Quill I own, there is a very good session he co-led with Dick Sherman recorded for Dawn. I don't know the date, but it might be 1956. Line up is Quill as, Sherman t, Dick Katz p, Teddy Kotick b, Art Taylor d. This date (5 tunes, around 20 minutes) was released as the A side of "Jazzville '56". It's currently available from freshsoundrecords.com on a 2CD sampler featuring most of the four Jazzville albums (what's not on this one is some Quinichette stuff included on Quinichette's own Dawn/Blue Moon/Freshsound CD). Recommended! ubu Quill also plays on several tracks on another Dawn lp "Message From Garcia" led by the seemingly forgotten guitarist Dick Garcia. Great stuff on those Dawn sessions... Quote
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