Happy Birthday Thelonious!

[paul secor]

Its proably been posted before but it seems appropriate.

Monk's notes to Steve Lacy from his notebook.

You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

Amazing! Where did you find this?

Does anyone know if this appears in the book, Steve Lacy: My Experience with the Soprano Sax? Has anyone here read that book?

Did a search and found an answer to one of my questions. According to Marcello, it's to be found in Steve Lacy: Conversations (Duke U. Press) - edited by Jason Weiss. http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3815-4

Those pages do not appear in Conversations, unless there has been a new edition with additional material. Being the Lacy freak I am, I bought the book about five minutes after it came out. There are several similar documents in Lacy's handwriting included, which may account for the confusion, but I had never seen the Monk advice in Lacy's hand before.

Findings: My Experience With the Soprano Saxophone is not really a book you sit down and read - it's more of a workbook for saxophonists, although anyone interested in Lacy's music would get something out of it. It's got exercises, Lacy scores, solo transcriptions, and advice. It includes of of Book H of "Practitioners," his fiendishly difficult set of etudes for saxophone. I pull those out when I want a real technical challenge. The book is in French and English, and every saxophonist who is interested in going beyond "Cherokee" should have it, in my opinion.

By the way, the Monk list is not in that book, either.

Apologies for posting wrong info. Saw post #324 on this thread http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry864377 and assumed it was correct. Perhaps I misread it. My bad.

Edited October 14, 2009 by paul secor

[AndrewHill]

I'm going to have to check out the film mentioned by 7/4, if its still available. I've GOT to see footage of this!

Here is the beginning of 'Straight no Chaser' where you can see Monk dancing in circles:

Enjoy!

[Norm]

I'm going to have to check out the film mentioned by 7/4, if its still available. I've GOT to see footage of this!

Here is the beginning of 'Straight no Chaser' where you can see Monk dancing in circles:

Enjoy!

Thank you! That was awesome.

Speaking of Straight no Chaser,' the album not the documentary, I'm wondering if people who have the CD could chime in with which version they have. I don't have any but definately want to pick it up and on Amazon I've come across only 1996 release by Sony. Is the sound OK on this one? Is there a better one?

[jazzbo]

There's a soundtrack album, and a studio album totally unrelated to the documentary.

In 2002 or 2003 both were released in new remastering, and these sound excellent. They appear to be out of print at the moment. . . perhaps the studio album that is in print is the same remastering though it says it isn't (I don't see why it wouldn't be). . . .

[AndrewHill]

There's a soundtrack album, and a studio album totally unrelated to the documentary.

In 2002 or 2003 both were released in new remastering, and these sound excellent. They appear to be out of print at the moment. . . perhaps the studio album that is in print is the same remastering though it says it isn't (I don't see why it wouldn't be). . . .

My edition of the studio album is dated 1996, and it seems to be in print at Amazon for $7.99, however the soundtrack's OOP but can be had pretty cheap used.

[jazzbo]

HG, thanks. Maybe there wasn't a remaster in 2002, I just seem to remember there was. I only have that studio session at the moment in the excellent sounding SACD.

[AndrewHill]

HG, thanks. Maybe there wasn't a remaster in 2002, I just seem to remember there was. I only have that studio session at the moment in the excellent sounding SACD.

The SACD was released in 1999, I think, and that appears to be OOP.

[Norm]

HG, thanks. Maybe there wasn't a remaster in 2002, I just seem to remember there was. I only have that studio session at the moment in the excellent sounding SACD.

Jazzbo...that SACD wouldn't happy to be a hybrid, would it? It is OOP but used copies are available; nevertheless, the product description at Amazon is a bit unclear about whether its a hybrid disc or not. If not, I guess I'll go for the 1996 release.