Red Norvo video, 1974 -- great solo on "Ipanema"

[Larry Kart]

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/searc...orvo-1974_music

Such a happy solo. Bless him.

[Christiern]

Very nice, Larry. I always liked Norvo (Was he ever on "I've Got a Secret"? ) Gives me a good opportunity to post a photo of Red and Louis, taken in the 1940s at WNEW. Thanks for posting this, and doesn't Kessel look like Pavarotti?

[Kalo]

Nice!

Red was a true marvel, at the forefront of his instrument for a good 40-50 years! How many guys his age were still performing at this level in the '70s? Dig his comping, too.

[Stereojack]

Thanks for posting this, Larry. Very enjoyable!

[Larry Kart]

Nice little nod Larry Ridley gives to Red at solo's end. Red does some lovely, dauntingly inventive things rhythmically here, all from a stance of total relaxation -- look at how loose his arms and body are.

[JSngry]

This would be a George Wein Newport All Stars group, would it not? Looks like Wein doing the MC work.

[Larry Kart]

This would be a George Wein Newport All Stars group, would it not? Looks like Wein doing the MC work.

Yes.

[catesta]

Nice little nod Larry Ridley gives to Red at solo's end. Red does some lovely, dauntingly inventive things rhythmically here, all from a stance of total relaxation -- look at how loose his arms and body are.

Yeah, he made it look all so easy.

Thanks for posting the video.

[Christiern]

This would be a George Wein Newport All Stars group, would it not? Looks like Wein doing the MC work.

Amazing deduction, Jim.

[Michael Weiss]

Just saw Ocean's Eleven on TV last night. Who's playing in Red Norvo's band? Looked a little like Al Cohn, (Jerry Dodgion??) playing alto. Jimmy Wyble on guitar.

[JSngry]

This would be a George Wein Newport All Stars group, would it not? Looks like Wein doing the MC work.

Amazing deduction, Jim.

Not everybody here is old like us, Chris. People might wonder under what circumstances Blue Note/StrataEast stalwart Larry Ridley came to play with people like Norvo & Lamond.

[Larry Kart]

From his website, Larry Ridley's rather dumbfounding curriculum vitae (though he was born in 1937):

INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS, NIGHTCLUBS, RADIO, TELEVISION, RECORDINGS: with Pepper Adams; Toshiko Akiyoshi; Mousey Alexander Trio; Ernestine Anderson; "Killer" Ray Appleton; Harold Ashby; Dave Bailey; Chet Baker Quartet; Dave Baker Big Band and small groups; Bill Barron; Kenny Barron; Benny Barth; Gary Bartz; Edgar Bateman; Alvin Batiste; Marcus Belgrave; Louis Bellson; George Benson; Walter Benton; Leonard Bernstein; Eddie Bert; Gene Bertoncini; Skeeter Best; Walter Bishop Jr.; Art Blakey; Carla Bley; Ruby Braff; Buster Brown; Hallie "The Comet" Bryant; Darius Brubeck; Kenny Burrell; Jaki Byard; Charlie Byrd; Donald Byrd; George Cables; Jay Cameron; Conte Candoli Quartet (w/Slide Hampton, Benny Barth); Harry Carney; Joe Carroll; Benny Carter; Betty Carter; Nell Carter; Joe Chambers; Dennis Charles; Doc Cheatham; Ray Chew/Alicia Keys; Don Cherry; Jimmy Cobb; Al Cobine; Jimmy Coe; Al Cohn; Cozy Cole; Cy Coleman; George Coleman; Ornette Coleman; Junior Cook; Keith Copeland; Chick Corea; Hank Crawford; Harold Cumberbatch; Andrew Cyrille; Albert Dailey; "Dameronia" -- Leader-Philly Joe Jones, after Joe's death, drummer Kenny Washington played a few gigs with us, Walter Davis Jr., Johnny Coles, later Virgil Jones, Cecil Payne, Frank Wess, Charles Davis, later Clifford Jordan, Britt Woodman, later Benny Powell, Don Sickler- trumpet and Dameron music transcriber along with John Oddo; Charles Davis; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; Walter Davis Jr.; Vic Dickenson; Roger Dickerson; Phyllis Diller; Sam Dockery; Eric Dolphy; Bobby Donaldson; Lou Donaldson; Dorothy Donegan; Kenny Dorham; Hobart Dotson; Kenny Drew; Ted Dunbar; Frankie Dunlop; Harry "Sweets" Edison; Duke Ellington & his Orchestra; Mercer Ellington; Herb Ellis; Booker Ervin; Tal Farlow; Art Farmer/Jim Hall Quartet,with Walter Perkins; Tommy Flanagan; Frank Foster; Panama Francis; Bud Freeman; Don Friedman; Curtis Fuller; Red Garland; Errol Garner; Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell; Stan Getz; "Giants of Jazz"--Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Curtis Fuller, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & LR; Dizzy Gillespie; John Gilmore; Spaulding Givens; Benny Golson; Paul Gonsalves; "Babs" Gonzalez; Benny Goodman; Dexter Gordon; Lulu Gotsana; Stephane Grappelli; Benny Green (trombonist); Bunky Green; Chuck Green; Everett Greene; Freddie Green; Grant Green; Urbie Green; Charles "Majeed" Greenlee; Tiny Grimes; Sol Gubin; Bobby Hackett Quintet; Al Haig; Jim Hall; Chico Hamilton; Jimmy Hamilton; Lionel Hampton; Slide Hampton Octet and small groups; Herbie Hancock; Roland Hanna; Barry Harris; Lanny Hartley; Coleman Hawkins; Louis Hayes; Roy Haynes Quartet; Albert "Tootie" Heath; Jimmy Heath; Joe Henderson; Al Hibbler; John Hicks; Billy Higgins; Andrew Hill; Lonnie Hillyer; Milt Hinton; Johnny Hodges; Uncle Ben Holiman; Elmo Hope; Lex Humphries; Roger Humphries; Joe Hunt; Earmon Hubbard Jr.; Freddie Hubbard; Bobby Hutcherson; Milt Jackson; Oliver Jackson; Billy James; Clifford Jarvis; "Jazz Legacy Ensemble", Leader; Paul Jeffries; Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson; Gus Johnson; Sonny Johnson; Elvin Jones; Hank Jones; Papa Jo Jones; Philly Joe Jones; Thad Jones; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra; Virgil Jones; Clifford Jordan; Duke Jordan; Connie Kay; Wynton Kelly; Barney Kessel; Joe Kennedy, Jr.; Alan Kiger; Willis Kirk; Lee Konitz; Gene Krupa; Steve Kuhn; Don Lamond; Cliff Lehman; Mel Lewis; John Lewis; Booker Little; Mundell Lowe; Harold Mabern; Shelly Manne; Albert Mangelsdorf; Lawrence Marable; Charlie Mariano; Hugh Masekela; Johnny Mathis; Stu Martin; Ronnie Mathews; Lenny McBrowne; Larry McClellan; Brownie McGee; Howard McGhee; Dave McKenna; Jackie McLean; Marian McPartland; Charles McPherson; Carmen McRae; Mabel Mercer; Don Michaels; Walt Miller; Harold Minerve; Charles Mingus; Al Minns/Leon James; Blue Mitchell; Hank Mobley; Grachan Moncur III; Thelonious Monk Quartet; James Moody; Danny Moore; Buddy Montgomery; Monk Montgomery; Wes Montgomery; Lee Morgan; Benny Morton; J.C. Moses; Ray Nance; Phineas Newborn; David "Fathead" Newman; Joe Newman; Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars; Herbie Nichols; "Big Nick" Nicholas; Red Norvo; Jimmy Nottingham; Anita O'Day; Jimmy Owens; Buddy Parker; Leo Parker; Paul Parker; Donald Patterson; Cecil Payne; Freda Payne; Walter Perkins; Coleridge Taylor Perkinson; Charli Persip; Oscar Peterson Trio; Flip Phillips; Sonny Phillips; John Pierce; Bucky Pizzarelli; Al Plank; "The Platters"; Paul Plummer; Bernard "Pretty" Purdie; Sonny Redd (nee Sylvester Kyner); Melvin Rhyne; Dannie Richmond; Ben Riley; Max Roach; Timmie Rogers; Sonny Rollins; Bobby Rosengarden; Charlie Rouse; Ernie Royal; "Rutgers/Livingston Jazz Professors"- Larry Ridley(Leader), Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron, Frank Foster, Freddie Waits; Davey Schildkraut; Hazel Scott; Tony Scott; Don Shirley Trio; Woody Shaw; Wayne Shorter; Horace Silver Quintet (w/Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Roger Humphries, later Tyrone Washington); Zoot Sims; Pete (La Roca) Sims; Hal "Cornbread" Singer; Jimmy Smith; Willie "The Lion" Smith; Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra; Jimmy Spaulding; Marvin Stamm; Slam Stewart; Sonny Stitt; Clarence (Scobey) Strohman; Frank Strozier; John Stubblefield; Sun Ra Arkestra; Ralph Sutton; Lew Tabackin; Buddy Tate; Grady Tate; Arthur Taylor Jr.; Billy Taylor Trio, Les Taylor Jr., Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Clark Terry, Sonny Terry; Ed Thigpen; Bobby Thomas; Willie Thomas; Charles Toliver; Ross Tompkins; Tommy Turrentine; McCoy Tyner; Jerry Tyree; Earl VanRiper; Joe Venuti; Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Freddie Waits; Earl "Fox" Walker; Cedar Walton; James "Jabbo" Ware; Dinah Washington; Chuck Wayne; George Wein; Frank Wess; Randy Weston; Josh White; Joe Wilder; Cootie Williams; Earl Williams; Joe Williams; Richard Williams; Tony Williams; Larry Willis; Gerald Wilson; Phil Woods; Jimmy Wormworth; Richard Wyands; Cecil Young; David Young; Snooky Young; "Young Giants of Jazz" (Joe Henderson, Jimmy Owens, Gary Burton, Cedar Walton, Roy Haynes, & LR); Trummy Young; Kiane Zawadi; Attila Zoller; etc.

[JSngry]

From his website, Larry Ridley's rather dumbfounding curriculum vitae (though he was born in 1937):

INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS, NIGHTCLUBS, RADIO, TELEVISION, RECORDINGS: with Pepper Adams; Toshiko Akiyoshi; Mousey Alexander Trio; Ernestine Anderson; "Killer" Ray Appleton; Harold Ashby; Dave Bailey; Chet Baker Quartet; Dave Baker Big Band and small groups; Bill Barron; Kenny Barron; Benny Barth; Gary Bartz; Edgar Bateman; Alvin Batiste; Marcus Belgrave; Louis Bellson; George Benson; Walter Benton; Leonard Bernstein; Eddie Bert; Gene Bertoncini; Skeeter Best; Walter Bishop Jr.; Art Blakey; Carla Bley; Ruby Braff; Buster Brown; Hallie "The Comet" Bryant; Darius Brubeck; Kenny Burrell; Jaki Byard; Charlie Byrd; Donald Byrd; George Cables; Jay Cameron; Conte Candoli Quartet (w/Slide Hampton, Benny Barth); Harry Carney; Joe Carroll; Benny Carter; Betty Carter; Nell Carter; Joe Chambers; Dennis Charles; Doc Cheatham; Ray Chew/Alicia Keys; Don Cherry; Jimmy Cobb; Al Cobine; Jimmy Coe; Al Cohn; Cozy Cole; Cy Coleman; George Coleman; Ornette Coleman; Junior Cook; Keith Copeland; Chick Corea; Hank Crawford; Harold Cumberbatch; Andrew Cyrille; Albert Dailey; "Dameronia" -- Leader-Philly Joe Jones, after Joe's death, drummer Kenny Washington played a few gigs with us, Walter Davis Jr., Johnny Coles, later Virgil Jones, Cecil Payne, Frank Wess, Charles Davis, later Clifford Jordan, Britt Woodman, later Benny Powell, Don Sickler- trumpet and Dameron music transcriber along with John Oddo; Charles Davis; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; Walter Davis Jr.; Vic Dickenson; Roger Dickerson; Phyllis Diller; Sam Dockery; Eric Dolphy; Bobby Donaldson; Lou Donaldson; Dorothy Donegan; Kenny Dorham; Hobart Dotson; Kenny Drew; Ted Dunbar; Frankie Dunlop; Harry "Sweets" Edison; Duke Ellington & his Orchestra; Mercer Ellington; Herb Ellis; Booker Ervin; Tal Farlow; Art Farmer/Jim Hall Quartet,with Walter Perkins; Tommy Flanagan; Frank Foster; Panama Francis; Bud Freeman; Don Friedman; Curtis Fuller; Red Garland; Errol Garner; Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell; Stan Getz; "Giants of Jazz"--Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Curtis Fuller, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & LR; Dizzy Gillespie; John Gilmore; Spaulding Givens; Benny Golson; Paul Gonsalves; "Babs" Gonzalez; Benny Goodman; Dexter Gordon; Lulu Gotsana; Stephane Grappelli; Benny Green (trombonist); Bunky Green; Chuck Green; Everett Greene; Freddie Green; Grant Green; Urbie Green; Charles "Majeed" Greenlee; Tiny Grimes; Sol Gubin; Bobby Hackett Quintet; Al Haig; Jim Hall; Chico Hamilton; Jimmy Hamilton; Lionel Hampton; Slide Hampton Octet and small groups; Herbie Hancock; Roland Hanna; Barry Harris; Lanny Hartley; Coleman Hawkins; Louis Hayes; Roy Haynes Quartet; Albert "Tootie" Heath; Jimmy Heath; Joe Henderson; Al Hibbler; John Hicks; Billy Higgins; Andrew Hill; Lonnie Hillyer; Milt Hinton; Johnny Hodges; Uncle Ben Holiman; Elmo Hope; Lex Humphries; Roger Humphries; Joe Hunt; Earmon Hubbard Jr.; Freddie Hubbard; Bobby Hutcherson; Milt Jackson; Oliver Jackson; Billy James; Clifford Jarvis; "Jazz Legacy Ensemble", Leader; Paul Jeffries; Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson; Gus Johnson; Sonny Johnson; Elvin Jones; Hank Jones; Papa Jo Jones; Philly Joe Jones; Thad Jones; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra; Virgil Jones; Clifford Jordan; Duke Jordan; Connie Kay; Wynton Kelly; Barney Kessel; Joe Kennedy, Jr.; Alan Kiger; Willis Kirk; Lee Konitz; Gene Krupa; Steve Kuhn; Don Lamond; Cliff Lehman; Mel Lewis; John Lewis; Booker Little; Mundell Lowe; Harold Mabern; Shelly Manne; Albert Mangelsdorf; Lawrence Marable; Charlie Mariano; Hugh Masekela; Johnny Mathis; Stu Martin; Ronnie Mathews; Lenny McBrowne; Larry McClellan; Brownie McGee; Howard McGhee; Dave McKenna; Jackie McLean; Marian McPartland; Charles McPherson; Carmen McRae; Mabel Mercer; Don Michaels; Walt Miller; Harold Minerve; Charles Mingus; Al Minns/Leon James; Blue Mitchell; Hank Mobley; Grachan Moncur III; Thelonious Monk Quartet; James Moody; Danny Moore; Buddy Montgomery; Monk Montgomery; Wes Montgomery; Lee Morgan; Benny Morton; J.C. Moses; Ray Nance; Phineas Newborn; David "Fathead" Newman; Joe Newman; Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars; Herbie Nichols; "Big Nick" Nicholas; Red Norvo; Jimmy Nottingham; Anita O'Day; Jimmy Owens; Buddy Parker; Leo Parker; Paul Parker; Donald Patterson; Cecil Payne; Freda Payne; Walter Perkins; Coleridge Taylor Perkinson; Charli Persip; Oscar Peterson Trio; Flip Phillips; Sonny Phillips; John Pierce; Bucky Pizzarelli; Al Plank; "The Platters"; Paul Plummer; Bernard "Pretty" Purdie; Sonny Redd (nee Sylvester Kyner); Melvin Rhyne; Dannie Richmond; Ben Riley; Max Roach; Timmie Rogers; Sonny Rollins; Bobby Rosengarden; Charlie Rouse; Ernie Royal; "Rutgers/Livingston Jazz Professors"- Larry Ridley(Leader), Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron, Frank Foster, Freddie Waits; Davey Schildkraut; Hazel Scott; Tony Scott; Don Shirley Trio; Woody Shaw; Wayne Shorter; Horace Silver Quintet (w/Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Roger Humphries, later Tyrone Washington); Zoot Sims; Pete (La Roca) Sims; Hal "Cornbread" Singer; Jimmy Smith; Willie "The Lion" Smith; Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra; Jimmy Spaulding; Marvin Stamm; Slam Stewart; Sonny Stitt; Clarence (Scobey) Strohman; Frank Strozier; John Stubblefield; Sun Ra Arkestra; Ralph Sutton; Lew Tabackin; Buddy Tate; Grady Tate; Arthur Taylor Jr.; Billy Taylor Trio, Les Taylor Jr., Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Clark Terry, Sonny Terry; Ed Thigpen; Bobby Thomas; Willie Thomas; Charles Toliver; Ross Tompkins; Tommy Turrentine; McCoy Tyner; Jerry Tyree; Earl VanRiper; Joe Venuti; Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Freddie Waits; Earl "Fox" Walker; Cedar Walton; James "Jabbo" Ware; Dinah Washington; Chuck Wayne; George Wein; Frank Wess; Randy Weston; Josh White; Joe Wilder; Cootie Williams; Earl Williams; Joe Williams; Richard Williams; Tony Williams; Larry Willis; Gerald Wilson; Phil Woods; Jimmy Wormworth; Richard Wyands; Cecil Young; David Young; Snooky Young; "Young Giants of Jazz" (Joe Henderson, Jimmy Owens, Gary Burton, Cedar Walton, Roy Haynes, & LR); Trummy Young; Kiane Zawadi; Attila Zoller; etc.

Geez, can't the guy keep a gig?

[Christiern]

Great! What more can one ask for? As far as career goes, this says it all.