Nonagenarian Jazz Musicians

[Rabshakeh]

1 minute ago, sidewinder said:

80, not 90.

Oh yeah. Got overexcited when I saw it was his birthday.

[sidewinder]

24 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Oh yeah. Got overexcited when I saw it was his birthday.

Thought I’d aged overnight by 10 years for a minute. 

[bertrand]

80 is the new 90 these days.

Re: Benny Golson. I have heard him tell the Clifford Brown story many times. He always gets the month wrong and says the accident was in August. It was June.

[Ken Dryden]

Maybe he wrote the song in August…

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, bertrand said:

80 is the new 90 these days.

Re: Benny Golson. I have heard him tell the Clifford Brown story many times. He always gets the month wrong and says the accident was in August. It was June.

William Shatner says 90 is the new 70.

[JSngry]

But dead is still the same dead 

[bertrand]

4 hours ago, jlhoots said:

William Shatner says 90 is the new 70.

Not with COVID.

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

But dead is still the same dead 

Yup.

5 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Maybe he wrote the song in August…

That is probably why he gets mixed up, but, as I said, he tells the story as if the accident happened in August.

Edited January 5, 2022 by bertrand

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

But dead is still the same dead 

FWIW, Shatner's not dead.

[JSngry]

Yet.

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Yet.

That's all of us. 

[JSngry]

Exactly.

[Justin V]

Argh.  I posted for the first time in almost a year to remind people that Richard Davis is still around, only to see Jim joke about a nonagenarian dying.  Back to lurking.  Stay classy, Jim.

[JSngry]

90 is still the same 90, that's all.

[Dmitry]

1 hour ago, Justin V said:

Argh.  I posted for the first time in almost a year to remind people that Richard Davis is still around, only to see Jim joke about a nonagenarian dying.  Back to lurking.  Stay classy, Jim.

What else is there to do, but break down completely, and stop functioning, like any other living creature? I bet Shatner makes death jokes every single day.

 

[Ken Dryden]

Ragtime pianist Max Morath turned 95 on October 1, though I am unsure if he is still actively performing.

[Gheorghe]

On 31.12.2021 at 2:17 PM, JSngry said:

That was Donald Byrd.

oh yes, how could I be so wrong. Dizzy Reece was with the "Paris Reunion Band" in the late 80´s  , right ? 

[Ken Dryden]

Bill Holman turned 94 last May 27. I guess he is still writing…

[Hardbopjazz]

Would Marilyn Maye be accepted as a jazz artist or more if a cabaret performer? Marilyn is 94 or 95. 

[clifford_thornton]

On 1/7/2022 at 2:04 AM, Gheorghe said:

oh yes, how could I be so wrong. Dizzy Reece was with the "Paris Reunion Band" in the late 80´s  , right ? 

yes indeed.

[Gheorghe]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

yes indeed.

But he might have had a hard time when THE Woody Shaw was also on trumpet...., I mean nothing wrong with Reece, but I think Woody was such an exceptional trumpet player and stylist that it may not be easy to combine him with another trumpet player. 
I remember in the 80´s there were two Blue Note albums Shaw-Hubbard, one was titled "Double Talk" maybe as a reminiscence of the old 1948 Navarro-McGhee 2 trumpet session. 
But I couldn´t find those 80´s albums any longer. BN did almost all reissues, why not stuff like this, like McCoy Tyner-Jackie McLean, or the live Joe Henderson ? 

[jcam_44]

On 1/5/2022 at 6:29 AM, Dmitry said:

What else is there to do, but break down completely, and stop functioning, like any other living creature? I bet Shatner makes death jokes every single day.

 

My grandpa who’s 97 or 98 has been making the same death joke for 20 years. 

[Ken Dryden]

Morticians’ mottos:

All men are cremated equal.

We’re the last ones to let you down.

[clifford_thornton]

12 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But he might have had a hard time when THE Woody Shaw was also on trumpet...., I mean nothing wrong with Reece, but I think Woody was such an exceptional trumpet player and stylist that it may not be easy to combine him with another trumpet player. 
I remember in the 80´s there were two Blue Note albums Shaw-Hubbard, one was titled "Double Talk" maybe as a reminiscence of the old 1948 Navarro-McGhee 2 trumpet session. 
But I couldn´t find those 80´s albums any longer. BN did almost all reissues, why not stuff like this, like McCoy Tyner-Jackie McLean, or the live Joe Henderson ? 

Reece & Curson did a fine album together with pianist Claude Williamson's trio.

Reece was very fond of the Paris Reunion band. After him, Nat Adderley came in -- another contrast with Shaw, and maybe that was part of the point.

The Shaw-Hubbard albums also call to mind, at least on paper, Night of the Cookers with Lee Morgan and Freddie. Apparently both Shaw-Hubbard dates were reissued in 1995 on CD though I have not seen that version.

[sidewinder]

Yes, the Shaw/Hubbard was reissued on one of those ‘doubletime’ 2CD sets.

[BillF]

3 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Yes, the Shaw/Hubbard was reissued on one of those ‘doubletime’ 2CD sets.

Yes, our late friend JohnS (sorely missed) gave me copies. As you can imagine, the Fats and Howard echoes really appealed to me.