Bernie Privin - I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (1956 Vinyl LP”)
“I haven’t mastered my instrument by far—but if I had a million dollars, I’d still play the trumpet. And I wish I had the million, incidentally! Or as I told someone—I’ll never marry poor again! But really, I’m very grateful for what I do. It’s been rewarding spiritually, monetarily, the people I’ve met, the places I’ve visited, all the beautiful things it has afforded me. And the friends I’ve made, and continue to make every day.” Bernie Privin
From the Vinyl LP "Brothers and Other Mothers Vol. 2”, 1956 recording
Bernard Privin (February 12, 1919, New York City – October 8, 1999, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was a lead and jazz trumpet player with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and the Glenn Miller Army bands. After his Army discharge, he joined the CBS staff orchestra, where he remained for 25 years.
Bernie Privin - trumpet
Toots Mondello - alto sax
Al Cohn - tenor sax
Romeo Penque - baritone sax
Berniw Leighton - piano, arranger
Clyde Lombardi - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image and video by cottonbro https://www.pexels.com/@cottonbro.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
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An upcoming new novel by the gadfly Danish writer, musician and artist - Juzno Svrsen. The characters are defined by the avatar Quov, who capriciously changes their names every night. Monk Gus must find where the avatar is hiding in order to save Meor, where all the inhabitants have the same last name. The book takes the reader to a compelling saga - from spiraling unknowns to convolutedly unresolved mysteries that nothing ever makes sense. Well that's because there really isn't a novel. No publisher in their right mind would put out such gibberish. Sorry, Juzno. Nice try but no cigar.
Hope your day is going well.
"I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin." - Hugh Laurie
From the vinyl LP "Bobby Hackett And Jack Teagarden – Jazz Ultimate Recorded in New York City, September, 1957.
Bass – Jack Lesberg
Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Peanuts Hucko
Drums – Buzzy Drootin
Guitar – Billy Bauer
Piano – Gene Schroeder
Trombone – Jack Teagarden
Trumpet – Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915– June 7, 1976) was an American jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet, and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Hackett was a featured soloist on some of the Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. According to critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s and "one of the best jazz singers too". Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
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My image appears in the Emily Gunnis's novel "The Midwife's Secret". It was captured in Georgetown back in November 2019 - the dawning of the pandemic age. The book is scheduled to go out on October 28, 2021.
Excerpts from The Midwife's Secret : She shone the torch around and spotted some names written on the wall: Clara, Sara, Megan. Who were these girls and what had they been doing in there? She clicked open the old trunk and pulled out a leather-bound book, opening it on the first page: ‘Tessa James, Patient Notes’. She began to read…
Bobby Hackett /Jack Teagarden - It's Wonderful (1957 Jazz Ultimate Vinyl LP)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
From the vinyl LP "Bobby Hackett And Jack Teagarden – Jazz Ultimate Recorded in New York City, September, 1957.
Bass – Jack Lesberg
Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Peanuts Hucko
Drums – Buzzy Drootin
Guitar – Billy Bauer
Piano – Gene Schroeder
Trombone – Jack Teagarden
Trumpet – Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915– June 7, 1976) was an American jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet, and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Hackett was a featured soloist on some of the Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. According to critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s and "one of the best jazz singers too". Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
INXDS. #jazz #trumpet #jazztrombone #vinylrecord #quoteoftheday
Zoot Sims - If I'm Lucky (1977 vinyl LP If I'm Lucky)
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the vinyl LP "If I'm Lucky" - an album by saxophonist Zoot Sims with pianist Jimmy Rowles, recorded in 1977 for the Pablo label.
Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone Jimmy Rowles - piano George Mraz - bass Mousey Alexander - drums
John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone. He first gained attention in the "Four Brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's big band, afterward enjoying a long solo career, often in partnership with fellow saxmen Gerry Mulligan and Al Cohn.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
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Vingt-cinq ans ont passé. Jack est devenu un solitaire rapide à la détente, un incorruptible ' en désespoir stationnaire '. La découverte sur une plage du cadavre d’une jeune fille au sexe scalpé ravive l’enfer des hypothèses exacerbées par le chagrin. Aidé par une brillante criminologue, Jack, devant les meurtres qui s’accumulent, mènera l’enquête jusqu’au chaos final…
Really, I have no clue what the above paragraphs say. All I know is that my image in Sydney on 2010 made it to the cover of Caryl Ferey's novel Haka.
Ramsey Lewis - I'll Wait for You (Goin' Latin 1967 jazz vinyl LP)
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - George S. Patton
From the album Goin' Latin, a studio jazz LP with Latin percussion and style by Ramsey Lewis which was released on Cadet Records in 1967. The album reached number 2 and number 16 on the Billboard Black and Jazz Albums Charts.
Cleveland Eaton - Bass Ramsey Lewis - Piano, Keyboards Maurice White - Drums Doug Brand - Supervising Engineer Don Bronstein - Photography Brian Christian - Engineer Esmond Edwards - Producer, Adaptation, Supervisor Richard Evans - Arranger Tom Gorman - Cover Design Hollis King - Art Direction Erick Labson - Mastering Andy McKaie - Reissue Supervisor Shigeo Miyamoto - Mastering Cameron Mizell - Production Coordination Isabelle Wong - Design
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received five gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
INXDS. #latinjazz #jazzpiano #vinylrecord #quoteoftheday
Ben Webster - Work Song (At Work in Europe jazz vinyl LP)
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your lifel." - Winston Churchill
From the compilation album At Work in Europe
Ben Webster (tenor sax)
Cees Slinger (piano)
Jacques Schols (bass)
John Engels (drums)
Heemstede, Holland, May 26, 1969
Ben Webster (tenor sax)
Kenny Drew, Frans Wieringa (piano)
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass)
Makaya Ntshoko or Donald McKyre (drums)
Copenhagen, Denmark, October 29, 1969
During the course of a long and musically illustrious career, the late Ben Webster (born in Kansas City on February 27, 1909; died in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 20, 1973) earned a very high all-time ranking among tenor men. Certainly among “mainstream” performers he can be rated not at all far behind the Unquestioned Number One, Coleman Hawkins. However, as with many other jazz greats, public recognition and financial success were much less than his stature would seem to have warranted. Consequently, Webster spent the last decade of his life in Europe, where right up until the end he continued to create such rich, valid jazz as is heard here. (liner notes from the album)
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
From the 1959 vinyl LP What is There to Say
Allmusic's Scott Yanow states about this album: "The last of the pianoless quartet albums that Gerry Mulligan recorded in the 1950s is one of the best", and observes that "Virtually every selection is memorable, with 'What Is There to Say,' 'Just in Time,' 'Festive Minor,' 'My Funny Valentine,' and 'Utter Chaos' being the high points".
• Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone • Art Farmer - trumpet • Bill Crow - bass • Dave Bailey - drums
Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, such as "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album.
Hope you enjoy.
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Tatum Group - I'll Never Be the Same (1955 vinyl LP)
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad
From the jazz album Tatum / Hampton / Rich Trio
The song was composed by Cole Porter. He claimed that “What Is This Thing Called Love?” with its innovative alternating major and minor key changes, was inspired by a Moroccan native dance.
Drums – Buddy Rich Liner Notes – Benny Green Piano – Art Tatum Producer [Produced By] – Norman Granz Vibraphone [Vibes] – Lionel Hampton Recorded: Los Angeles, August 1, 1955.
Arthur Tatum Jr. (/ˈteɪtÉ™m/, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest in his field. From early in his career, Tatum's technical ability was regarded by fellow musicians as extraordinary. Many pianists attempted to copy him; others questioned their own skills after encountering him, and some even switched instruments in response. In addition to being acclaimed for his virtuoso technique, Tatum extended the vocabulary and boundaries of jazz piano, and established new ground in jazz through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality. Lionel
Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
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Fresh from our garden.
San Marzano tomatoes originate from the small town of San Marzano sul Sarno, near Naples, Italy, and were first grown in volcanic soil in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. One story goes that the first seed of this tomato came to Campania in 1770, as a gift from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Kingdom of Naples, and that it was planted in the area of San Marzano sul Sarno.
Compared to the Roma tomato, San Marzano tomatoes are thinner and more pointed. The flesh is much thicker with fewer seeds, and the taste is stronger, sweeter, and less acidic.
According to Wikipedia, San Marzano vines are determinate, and have a somewhat longer season than other paste tomato varieties, making them particularly suitable for warmer climates. I will find out if this claim is true or not next year.
Bobby Hackett / Jack Teagarden - Indiana (1957 Jazz Ultimate Vinyl LP)
"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
From the vinyl LP "Bobby Hackett And Jack Teagarden – Jazz Ultimate Recorded in New York City, September, 1957.
Bass – Jack Lesberg Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Peanuts Hucko Drums – Buzzy Drootin Guitar – Billy Bauer Piano – Gene Schroeder Trombone – Jack Teagarden Trumpet – Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915– June 7, 1976) was an American jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet, and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Hackett was a featured soloist on some of the Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. According to critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s and "one of the best jazz singers too". Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
INXDS. #jazz #trumpet #jazztrombone #vinylrecord #quoteoftheday
Traffic on Third Avenue, Nashville. If you find the traffic too congested, wait until dark and the sidewalks gets packed with tourists. It can get incredibly disorienting.
If you continue and go north, you'll hit Lower Broadway otherwise known as the Honky Tonk Highway, where you can find a row of honky tonks pumping live music. Still, Third Avenue is just as interesting, One can go the Sun Diner. Their menu compliments artists who recorded at Sun Records. Think of Elvis, Jonny Cash, and Rolling Stones among others. Next to it is the Johnny Cash Museum, which features the the world's largest collection of artifacts and memorabilia of the Man in Black himself.
Hope your day is going well.
Bobby Enriquez - Jeannine (Live in Tokyo jazz vinyl LP)
"When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket." - Don Rickles
Pianist Bobby Enriquez (1943-1996) became known to international audiences through his work with Richie Cole and through a series of recordings for GNP Crescendo. His idiosyncratic and energetic performance style earned him the epithet ‘Wild Man’. He was born in Bacolod on the island of Negros in the Philippines. He was performing professionally from the age of 12, much to the chagrin of his mother, who banned him from playing the piano, in order to focus his attentions on school. Following expulsions from a number of schools, Enriquez chose to run away from home, and he moved to Manila. where he played in local jazz groups and teamed up with the peripatetic clarinetist Tony Scott.
Spells in Hong Kong, Taiwan and from 1964 in Japan, gave Enriquez the opportunity to work with acclaimed bandleaders like Tito Puente, Chico Hamilton and Lionel Hampton. Richie Cole heard him performing and invited the pianist to join his band. They recorded The Wild Man Meets the Madman together in 1981 for GNP Crescendo.
The same year, he released his debut album as a bandleader, made with musicians of the calibre of Mexican bassist Abraham Laboriel, Peruvian drummer Alex Acuña, and Americans Poncho Sanchez (conga), Harvey Mason (drums) and Chuck Domanico (bass).
After becoming a born-again Christian in 1993, Enriquez largely restricted his performances to church settings. He died in 1996 of a pulmonary embolism.
Source: World of Jazz
Bass – Isso Fukui
Drums, Percussion – Shinji Mori
Piano – Bobby Enriquez
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
INXDS. #jazz #jazzpiano #vinylrecord #quoteoftheday
She would have been sweet sixteen. Never made it here to Georgetown. The Lord took her away a few weeks before we began our move to Texas. I suppose she was always a California girl. Lord, I miss her.
B. B. King - His real name is Riley B. King. B.B. stood for "Beale Street Blues Boy," a nickname he acquired after his radio DJ days in Memphis. King grew up on a tenant farm near Itta Bena, Mississippi, where he worked as a sharecropper picking cotton.
The image was taken at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
For more than a half-century, the bluesman and Lucille have been virtually inseparable. Lucille also serves as B.B. King’s voice, as much as the bluesman’s actual voice. “The minute I stop singing orally,” he once said, “I start to sing by playing Lucille.”
Lucille’s beginnings date to 1949, when King, then in his early 20s, was performing at a nightclub in Twist, Arkansas, in the dead of winter. To heat the cold room, King recalled, “they would take something that looked like a big garbage pail, half fill it with kerosene, light that fuel [and] set it in the middle of the dance floor.” All well and good, but on this night, a fight broke out between two men, and the pail was knocked over. “It spilled on the floor, it looked like a river fire,” the guitarist said. “And everyone started to run for the front door, including B.B. King.”
The blueseman managed to make it to safety outside — only to realize he had left his guitar behind. He raced back inside to retrieve it even as the wooden building, he said, “started to fall in around me.” The next day, he learned that two men had died in the blaze and that the fight that had set off the tragic chain of events had been over a woman who worked at the club. Her name was Lucille.
The original Lucille — the guitar King rescued that night in the fire — was an inexpensive, small-bodied Gibson L-30 archtop. The singer would go on to play a range of guitars over the ensuing years, attaching the Lucille name to each one. He was particularly drawn to Gibsons of the semi-hollow ES-335 model, such as the one displayed at the museum.
(Source: The Legacy of Lucille: The Surprising Story Behind B.B. King’s Guitar, Rolling Stone)
Dara Tucker singing at Rudy's Jazz Room
Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, but for everyone
Songwriters: David Hal / Bacharach Burt F A
This was our last night at Nashville.
An authentic jazz experience in Music City USA. Standing out as a beacon in the city and filling a huge void, Rudy’s Jazz Room raises Nashville to the level of other great cities like New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City and many more, and truly allows Nashville to live up to its name as "Music City" with a full fledge and accessible jazz club, embracing and contributing to the flourishing Nashville scene.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
Hope your day is going well.
#jazz #Bacharach #Nashville #MusicCity
I read somewhere that it's a way of life around Nashville - bachelorette parties enjoy the fact that they can relax, have a good time, and disappear into the fabric of Nashville's local community. I don't know about that. Those women were conspicuously making a statement. I think they were shouting, "You got a right ... to party!"
Ramsey Lewis - Blue Bongo (restored 1967 jazz vinyl LP)
"Grief is the price we pay for love." - Queen Elizabeth II
From the album Goin' Latin, a studio jazz LP with Latin percussion and style by Ramsey Lewis which was released on Cadet Records in 1967. The album reached number 2 and number 16 on the Billboard Black and Jazz Albums Charts.
Cleveland Eaton - Bass Ramsey Lewis - Piano, Keyboards Maurice White - Drums Doug Brand - Supervising Engineer Don Bronstein - Photography Brian Christian - Engineer Esmond Edwards - Producer, Adaptation, Supervisor Richard Evans - Arranger Tom Gorman - Cover Design Hollis King - Art Direction Erick Labson - Mastering Andy McKaie - Reissue Supervisor Shigeo Miyamoto - Mastering Cameron Mizell - Production Coordination Isabelle Wong - Design
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received five gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.
I do not own the copyright to the music, the recording and the photos. (Image post and video art were appropriated from the original album.) This video is posted for educational use under Section 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
As much as possible, I attempted to remove most of the pops and crackles from the original vinyl album. I also remastered the sound to be able to compete with most current preferences for listening to modern music.
Hope you enjoy.
INXDS. #latinjazz #jazzpiano #vinylrecord #quoteoftheday