drsmooth wrote:this is sort of jazz-ish news:

Henry Wu's Yussef Kamaal band denied entry to US, allegedly due to Trump travel ban

Dont know them - but 3 bands were denied access to SXSW and artists and even people on ESTA visas are being turned back. It's really bad. And the backlash is going to impact American's going abroad. This will lead to isolationism and more nationalistic insanity.

I'm glad none of my social media accounts use my real name, and you can be sure if I go abroad I won't even have those apps on my devices -- nor email.

Nuts... just nuts... this time slice...

Classic Woody Shaw Live in Antibes summer 1979
First track is a piano trio, go to approx 13minute mark for first full Quintet
Woody Shaw - Trumpet /leader
Carter Jefferson - Sax
Onaje Allen Gumbs - Piano
Stafford James - Bass
Victor Lewis - Drums

This group recorded seminal albums like Rosewood, Wood III in the late 70's

Tickets are now available for the Center City Jazz Festival April 29. Went a couple years ago and it's a nice event for tyros like me who want to get a good sampling of styles and performers.

swishnicholson wrote:Tickets are now available for the Center City Jazz Festival April 29. Went a couple years ago and it's a nice event for tyros like me who want to get a good sampling of styles and performers.

My feeling is everyone should go in order to listen to Odean Pope because he's a Philadelphian and because who would not kill to be named Odean Pope

drsmooth wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Tickets are now available for the Center City Jazz Festival April 29. Went a couple years ago and it's a nice event for tyros like me who want to get a good sampling of styles and performers.

My feeling is everyone should go in order to listen to Odean Pope because he's a Philadelphian and because who would not kill to be named Odean Pope

I saw this trio do all these tunes live at the Painted Bride circa '83 - I played this record on Moers a lot back then.

(for you non-jazz guys - this is a bit different - check it out)

Philly the Kid wrote:I saw this trio do all these tunes live at the Painted Bride circa '83 - I played this record on Moers a lot back then.

(for you non-jazz guys - this is a bit different - check it out)

You are like the jazz Batman, Kid! Incredible stuff, as is/was your Woody Shaw selection.

Apparently I Called Him Morgan was released last September, documenting Philly guy Lee Morgan's life & death, & presumably focused on his post-heroin recovery & time with wife/eventual murderer Helen.You might say Morgan was saved, & killed, by - not brotherly, or sisterly...possibly 'motherly'? - love.



Anyway, its first US screenings took place earlier this month, and according to the schedule at the film's website, the Landmark Ritz at the Bourse booked it for Friday, April 7 - inexplicably, its first and ONLY Philadelphia screening.

So, catch the Nats-Phils game in the afternoon, then go see the movie, right?

Not so fast; the R at the B does NOT show the movie on its list of coming attractions, and NEITHER does the film's Facebook page - and we know NO one lies on Facebook.


So, what to do? Well, you could write the Ritz & ask them what's up with that. I mean, if you have any civic and/or cultural pride, that is.

In honor of his passing:

Philly the Kid wrote:In honor of his passing:

Great track.

swishnicholson wrote:

Philly the Kid wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Alto sax player Arthur Blythe, 76, multiple health conditions. "Keeper of the flame" is a cringe-inducing cliche, but Blythe's appearance in the late 70's, and particularly his Lenox Avenue Breakdown, released in 1979, did that

Aw man. Really liked him. Great track on a McCoy Tyner record called 4X4 with Arthur and McCoy. I couldn't find it on youtube -

rip..

Not sure if this is THE track, but this is A track from 4 x 4 featuring Blythe on sax.

YES - this is it. Not sure why I couldn't find it? I've found it in the past. I own this on vinyl --

Philly the Kid wrote:In honor of his passing:

Just for the record, whomever added that file to YouTube also added an "n" to Lenox Avenue (Blythe's label didn't do so on the jacket)

nice review of I Called Him Morgan. I haven't seen it yet

8-bit So What:

the new YMCK album is a riff on jazz

This is kind of a great idea:

A Quest To Rename The WIlliamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins

drsmooth wrote:This is kind of a great idea:

A Quest To Rename The WIlliamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins

That could be cool. In general, I'm not in to naming bridges and schools and venues after people - we focus too much on posterity. Keep in the now. But since I'm alone in that view - yeah - let Sonny get his bridge.

Jazz Track of the Week for Week Starting Sunday April 9th 2017



Bill Evans - piano
Eddie Gomez - bass
Marty Morrel - drums

Recorded Live circa 1972

Composition - Scott Lafaro (Evan's bass player in '61)

Evans passed in 1980 at age 50.

Philly the Kid wrote:Jazz Track of the Week for Week Starting Sunday April 9th 2017

(Gloria's Step)

Another nice choice, Kid

The Ig has cut a few jazz tracks, with Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, and someone I never heard of.

He relates his thoughts about doing so in recognizable Iggy Pop fashion, notwithstanding his Rolling Stone interviewer straining the gravitational bonds of intellectual pretension (& how's that for doing so?).

Also Mr. Pop has celebrated his 70th birthday, which while he's always appeared to be in pretty good physical shape seems to defy some odds of something somewhere.

Jazz Track of the Week for April 23rd

Giant Steps:

1. Original recorded 1960 Atlantic Records 1961



2. Mechanical Computer



3. McCoy Tyner



4. Gonzalo



5. Benito



6. Chick Corea



7. Barry Harris - Advanced Jazz Lesson around Giant Steps



8. Michel Camilo



9. Stevie Wonder



10a. Joey Alexander audition age 11-ish



10b. Joey Alexander studio



11. Brandford Marsalis