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| jazzy mary |
Posted - 28/09/2004 : 20:29:37
 He was a legendary jazz vocalist who recorded many great albums for the "Flying Dutchman" label in the 70s. His greatest "hit" was "The Creator Has a Master Plan" recorded w/ Pharoah Sanders. He was an amazing man. I'm biased as he was my boyfriend until his untimely death.
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| jazzy mary |
Posted - 15/10/2004 : 19:57:46
Oh, yeah Town Hall is on 43rd st. off of 6th. Ave. I'm hip to Laurie Anderson. One time at the Shanghai Acrobats Circus at teh New Victory theatre,I saw her and Lou Reed. She looks FANTASTIC but Lou looked AWFUL! |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 15/10/2004 : 19:35:01
Hey Otis, if you e-mail me your address, I'll send you the October "Hothouse" (a monthly mag. w/ all the listings). Be prepared to be depressed---you're missing alot! Last night I saw a great gig at the Village Vanguard. Eric Reed, Billy Drummond, Seamus Blake, Dwayne Burno and Jeremy Pelt. It was amazing. I intended to stay just for one set, but it was so good I stayed for the second, which got over at 12:20. I'm a little tired today.  |
| otis robb |
Posted - 15/10/2004 : 01:59:43
Mary, send me down a copy of the Village Voice so i/my wife can salivate over the jazz were missing down here in Trashville, I mean nashville. Hope the Arthur Lee show was great! REfresh my memory, were is TOWN HALL at exactly. The last time we were in NYC was in MAY 1984 to see a LAURIE ANDERSON concert which by the way got cancelled. We personally met Laurie at a booksigning in 1993(Atlanta) If you are not familar, again if one must, she would be put under the title of 'performance artist' Recommend her Big Science lp The United States 1-4 Live set, Mr. Heartbreak. Shes originally from Omaha Nebraska same birthplace as George 'Buddy'Miles.
Basically, she's a great storyteller! (you have to hear those albums) plus I have a collection of material on VHS from various concerts tv programs(Lettermen, etc) on her. Thinking about she would be a blast as support for ARTHUR LEE. Now that really would be top notch stuff! Till the next...peace to all |
| otis robb |
Posted - 15/10/2004 : 01:40:50
jazzyman: as for MANDRILL, are you refering to CLAUDE COFFEE CAVE. The band never mentioned a Curtis! I did a very lenghthy interview with them which i hope will get published in GOLDMINE one Day! Very interesting story of how CLAUDE got into the band. Claude is an incredible keyboardist. Currently he's involved with movie soundtracks. BTW, Mandrill is recorded a brand new cd and will be bery soon releasing their DVD from their 2002 MONTRUEX Switzerland concert. |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 14/10/2004 : 16:15:03
Thanks for all the info, Otis. Leon sang w/ a lot of people not just Pharoah (and btw, that's ne in French if it's a man, nee if it's a woman. SOrry to be a drag, but I majored in French in college, so I always notice that sort of thing and I thought you might be happy to know the difference!
Yes, Leon was amazing. He died, of leukemia, before his time at age 62. I miss him desperately but I feel happy that I made the last few years of his life among the happiest he's ever known. |
| jazmaan |
Posted - 14/10/2004 : 02:50:22
My cousin, Curtis Cave, was in Mandrill. He lives in Brooklyn. |
| otis robb |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 20:28:00
Sorry had to do some business, whaddya mean LEAVE the Forum HOW DARE YOU? Mama you dont understand! Well since the ice is breaking a little bit, and yours truly wants zero credit for it, before we go any further, to ghost Mr. Lee's You Can Save Up to 50%...(me) An interviewer, a music enthusiast, a white/Spanish looking brotha/
I wrote a non-rap sonota for my music class and Was told to forget that forget that, a white/Spanish Looking Brotha/if no one responds to what I say, then Ill resurrect the tulips of Tiny Tim...
(half of that is true, mostly the first part)
Responses: Larry, Hawkwind has ALWAYS had that cult following and appreciation. Also remember when Paul Grey, the one time bassist for the Dammed joined PHIL MOGG in UFO. Yeah I appreciated that version of UFO with no, as some have said, the ASIAN DUDE LED ATOMIK TOMMY McCLENDON one. Leon Thomas Is a kooldrude who has for the most part been a very underated vocalist/songwriter with the likes of the LEGENDARY PHAROAH nee FARRELL SANDERS aka Little Rock. His voicings were quite unique. Sadly he passed in 1999. Even his own led ensembles were more heralded overseas than over here! As posted before, if you can secure a copy of 'FACETS' The LEgend of Leon Thomas Anthology that was put out on Flying Dutchemn in 1975. The one time label of the great GIL-SCOTT HERON!!!
Jazzy M, have you which im sure you have, heard of DENISE JANNAH?
Just finished listening to her 1995 album 'I was Born in Love with You' which features some wonderful comps by BILLY STRAYHORN/DUKE ELLINGTON,COLE PORTER/T.MONK and a few originals by Denise (Aloen Never Lonely). In fact, on the cd, she looks like a very young SHIRLEY HORN. Yes Ive seen here recently, that was at the free ATLANTA JAZZ FESTIVAL in MAY (The Heath Brothers Appeared with Ahmad Jamal, Jimmy Scott and others) Yes I was aware of her health. She looked rather sickly at the concert! Have in my library her 2000 release as the SHIRLEY HORN TRIO, 'Youre My Thrill' and her 1989 one,'Close Enough For Love' that has tracks by Johnny Burke, Andy Razaf, Cole Porter, Bobby Troup's The Girl Cant Help It (fyi, the late great guitarist RONNO aka Mick Ronson, most known for his work with DAVID BOWIE AND IAN HUNTER, did a rather kool rave-up on his second solo lp, Play Dont Worry from 1975) and other renowned composers of the time. As you know Mary, Lots of this good stuff like Shirely hardly treks to these parts (various reasons), so Im fortunate to enable myself along with my wife to travel to St.Louis or Atlanta to see them live.(which doesnt get these people very ofter-various reasons once again)One good place in Atlanta is at Spivey Hall at the college there in Jonesboro, since they have a good jazz program. We have seen FREDDY COLE, the last living Cole left about 1 1/2 years ago there. Excellent show! I know I'll get hit over the head with a pair of old JEFF BECK tennis shoes, but his delievery and piano playing is a bit more dynamic than Nat's. (oh no how could you...) But that's not saying...fill in the blanks. Ive always said he's always had to carry on in the face of Nat's shadow which I believe has stalled the proper recogition given to him! Mary, as you previously stated that people in you class thought that your paper and music selection of Charlie Parker was between the 10th and the 11th (as I call it, but to simplify...weird) well I suppose im one of those 'stupidly happy' eccentrics who can talk about Hawkwind Freddy Cole Leon Thomas and everything else in one paragrah. Ah the king of the run-on sentences! Till the next... |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 20:08:51
I think you'd love Leon. I'm not familiar w/ that Herbie album. "Maiden Voyage" is more my speed. |
| LarryNYC |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 19:27:40
No Mary cant say Ive had the pleasure, I like some jazz but I'm not very knowledgeable about it. I have an album by Herbie Hancock I'm rather fond of called Bubbles, kind of jazz funk. |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:48:11
Larry, are you hip to Leon Thomas? |
| LarryNYC |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:37:09
I'm a Brit living in NYC by the way Otis |
| LarryNYC |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:36:17
I'm surprised Otis, I thought Hawkwind, The Damned and The Stranglers were not too well known in the USA. I worked many times with all 3 of them especially The Stranglers, those were the days, Rattus and No More Heroes lol |
| otis robb |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:31:40
Im relly enjoying this guys and gals, talking about HAWKWIND AND SHIRLEY HORN at one clip. Ive always said there needs to be atrue meeting of the minds. Mary as for Hawkwind, if a label needs to be affixed it would have to 'Sci-fi' I never got to see the early line with Nik Turner Dave Anderson or Dave Brock, let alone future Motorheadish, Lemmy. Though Imust say, okay get the muclear warheads out folks, I really enjoyed the version with ROBERT CALVERT, even when he came back in the late 70's and they became The Hawklords with the Deadly Assassins as the back-up. Look its settled, lets all petition to have one great show with ARTHUR LEE HAWKWIND SHIRLEY HORN JIMMY SCOTT THE STRANGLERS THE DAMNED THE CHURCH PHAROAH SANDERS MCCOY TYNER MANDRILL(did I leave out anybody ha/ha) on Mt Helens in Washington sometime in the near future...till the next...(seriously) peace to all... |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:18:04
Otis, just so I'm not misunderstood--what I was saying that it would NOT surprise me that AL fans would also like jazz because AL's music is so much more complex and deep than most music--just like jazz! So, I figure the folks who are hip enough to dig AL would dig jazz. |
| jazzy mary |
Posted - 13/10/2004 : 18:15:56
I don't know who Hawkwind is. |
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