Jimmy Wormworth

[Durium]

Last year the Music Centre the Netherlands, the former Dutch Jazz Archive, released the album J.J. Johnson - What's New, a registration of his August 1957 Amsterdam Concertgebouw concert - a great album. The openng performance of that concert was an unknown group of young US students, labeled as the American Jazz Sextet. This concert was unrecorded. Jimmy Wormworth remembers this concert and his first trips to Holland as a young jazz musician and loves to share with you his photos and remembrances of that period. In three contributions the Keep Swinging blog loves to publish his retrospect.

Jimmy Wormworth: the 1956 Student Cruise program and stay in Holland

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[Lazaro Vega]

Very well done. Haven't heard that J.J. Johnson recording.

[Michael Weiss]

Jimmy is playing his ass off today and you should hear him when you're in NYC.

[AllenLowe]

Jimmy's a great guy, I used to see him with Al Haig all the time, in the 70s. Glad he's still active.

[Joe]

Wow; I'd no idea Jimmy's association with George Braith went back that far.

Thanks for these posts.

[fasstrack]

There used to be a gig in the late '90s with Morris Edwards on bass, myself on guitar, and 'The Worm'. The leader was a 'saxophonist' who is actually a very good AM radio sportscaster with a speaking voice of gold. He couldn't play or sing either and knew maybe three tunes, but he had this gig every month at the loft of an artist well-known in Eastern Europe: Lalo.

The gig was only a $50 hit, but Lalo fed and boozed us until we were almost blind----way past 'needing glasses'. He loved us. And Morris, Worm, and me ignored the leader---thankfully a saxophone can't do the damage a bad drummer, bassist, or painist can---and had a ball on that gig. Jimmy and Morris go waaaay back.

[John Tapscott]

A fairly recent CD with Jimmy Wormworth on drums. He really lights up this Tardo Hammer date.

[marcello]

I once hung with him a little when he came to Rochester to play with Jimmy Rowles and Michael Moore. Jimmy Rowles got blind drunk, so waxed in fact that he fell off the stool on the first set of the first night and was fired. My Buddy Barry Kiener was deputized to take over for the night and we all had a fine time. The Rowles trio was booked for a week but everyone had to go home the next day. Wormworth had never played with Rowles before and the whole scene kind of shocked him.

Jimmy's daughter Tracey is a bass player who played with Herbie.

[fasstrack]

A fairly recent CD with Jimmy Wormworth on drums. He really lights up this Tardo Hammer date.

Get that!

Tardo is one of the best anywhere. No way you can go wrong.

[Afric Pepperbird]

Wormworth?? Is that kinda like Wordsworth?

[cymbalgroove]

Jimmy is a really good friend of mine and great drummer! I talk with him all the time. He has shown me pictures of him playing with Kenny Dorham, Mal Waldron, Al Haig and a bunch more. Jimmy has a very organic sense of the music. Still playing great. I heard him on the Smalls live feed last night with Tardo and Lee Hudson-Swingin..