romualdo Posted May 29, 2012 Report Posted May 29, 2012 just received an email from James Accardi notifying that the site (in beta mode) has just gone up looks great - about to delve into it Best of luck James & Stuart Quote
BeBop Posted May 29, 2012 Report Posted May 29, 2012 One of the site's creators, Professor Varden, is also the keeper of the great Fats Navarro website. Still work to be done on the Gray site - he advises and you will quickly discover - but it's a nice start and deserved tribute. Quote
romualdo Posted May 29, 2012 Author Report Posted May 29, 2012 Link to Wardell Gray website oops!! forgot to enter the link when I posted last night thanks for covering for me Quote
flat5 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Posted May 29, 2012 Good bio of Gray. That's as far as I've got. Quote
king ubu Posted May 30, 2012 Report Posted May 30, 2012 Thanks a lot for that link! I'd still wish that 15CD set would be leaked somewhere... or much better even, (dream on, dream on) be adopted by Mosaic! Quote
BeBop Posted May 30, 2012 Report Posted May 30, 2012 Thanks a lot for that link! I'd still wish that 15CD set would be leaked somewhere... or much better even, (dream on, dream on) be adopted by Mosaic! If I'm ever reunited with my collection for a long-enough period... I'd worked with Coover Gazdar a bit before he passed...just before we were to get together again on this project at an IAJRC convention. I know he'd have wanted me or someone to carry on, but for me, it just became impossible. Quote
king ubu Posted May 30, 2012 Report Posted May 30, 2012 Too bad no one was around to take this over! Btw, what about that session that was to be issued on a Blue Note CD? poss. John Jenkins (as); Wardell Gray (ts); Norman Simmons (p); Victor Sproles (b); Bert Dahlander (d). Private recording, The Beehive Club, Chicago, IL, c. March 1955 Billie's Bounce unissued I Can't Get Started unissued What Is This Thing Called Love unissued Keen And Peachy unissued The Squirrel unissued Southside unissued Pennies From Heaven unissued Comments: On Billie's Bounce: prob. Ira Sullivan or E. Parker MacDougal (ts) added; on I Can't Get Started poss. Nicky Hill or Jay Peters (ts) added. I have not had access to these recordings. All titles were supposedly to be issued on CD BN 8-33329-2 titled “Wardell Gray - Beehive '55” but I have no further information. Whatever happened to that project, why was it shelved? It looks fascinating on paper, to say the very least! Quote
BeBop Posted May 30, 2012 Report Posted May 30, 2012 I want to see this one: http://detroitmusichistory.com/W_Anderson.pdf <<(Willie) Anderson’s recordings have never been reissued and, like Anderson, were popular only in Detroit. Had he chosen to make the move to Manhattan with Gillespie, Hawkins or Goodman this article would be unnecessary. Most of his recordings will be included in a forthcoming CD compilation on Uptown Records – Detroit Jazz Before Motown, 1945–53: Rare and previously unissued recordings featuring Wardell Gray, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Willie Anderson and others. Lars and I hope a worldwide audience will hear and appreciate Willie Anderson. He deserves a place in the pantheon of great Detroit pianists.>> C'mon Uptown! Quote
romualdo Posted May 30, 2012 Author Report Posted May 30, 2012 Thanks a lot for that link! I'd still wish that 15CD set would be leaked somewhere... or much better even, (dream on, dream on) be adopted by Mosaic! I had previously asked (via email) Michael C about a WG set - he was non commital - that was a few years ago now Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted May 31, 2012 Report Posted May 31, 2012 omg Too bad no one was around to take this over! Btw, what about that session that was to be issued on a Blue Note CD? poss. John Jenkins (as); Wardell Gray (ts); Norman Simmons (p); Victor Sproles (b); Bert Dahlander (d). Private recording, The Beehive Club, Chicago, IL, c. March 1955 Billie's Bounce unissued I Can't Get Started unissued What Is This Thing Called Love unissued Keen And Peachy unissued The Squirrel unissued Southside unissued Pennies From Heaven unissued Comments: On Billie's Bounce: prob. Ira Sullivan or E. Parker MacDougal (ts) added; on I Can't Get Started poss. Nicky Hill or Jay Peters (ts) added. I have not had access to these recordings. All titles were supposedly to be issued on CD BN 8-33329-2 titled "Wardell Gray - Beehive '55" but I have no further information. Whatever happened to that project, why was it shelved? It looks fascinating on paper, to say the very least! Quote
bichos Posted May 31, 2012 Report Posted May 31, 2012 I want to see this one: http://detroitmusichistory.com/W_Anderson.pdf <<(Willie) Anderson’s recordings have never been reissued and, like Anderson, were popular only in Detroit. Had he chosen to make the move to Manhattan with Gillespie, Hawkins or Goodman this article would be unnecessary. Most of his recordings will be included in a forthcoming CD compilation on Uptown Records – Detroit Jazz Before Motown, 1945–53: Rare and previously unissued recordings featuring Wardell Gray, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Willie Anderson and others. Lars and I hope a worldwide audience will hear and appreciate Willie Anderson. He deserves a place in the pantheon of great Detroit pianists.>> C'mon Uptown! the online discography of wardell gray was overdue!!! very good! and the "uptown" detroit jazz before motown cd also. for years i´m waiting for the issue. (therein was also announced the "now´s the time" track with charlie parker and the phil hill quintet from the bluebird inn in detroit from october 1, 1949). c´mon uptown! keep boppin´ marcel Quote
johnlitweiler Posted May 31, 2012 Report Posted May 31, 2012 What's the current state of the book-length biography of Wardell Gray? Is it ongoing or has it been abandoned? Who is doing the work? He should be encouraged. Quote
BeBop Posted May 31, 2012 Report Posted May 31, 2012 I'm no longer involved in the biography (not that was ever deeply involved), but I will send an e-mail to the would-be author. Quote
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