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From: atkins@nosc.mil (Hugh T. Atkins)
Subject: YellowJackets former Sax player. Where is he now ?
Keywords: yellowjackets,sax,russo
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:34:06 GMT

Does anyone know what became of the YellowJackets former sax player?
His last name is Russo and I can never remember if his first name is
Mark or Paul. I have seen a CD by a Russo but it is not the one from
the YellowJackets.

By the way, I really, really dislike the latest configuration of the group.
My favorite album is "The Spin".

Thanks , Hugh
atkins@nosc.mil


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From: oien@teledec6.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Geir Oien-dr.ing student)
Subject: re:Otis Spann
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:36:24 GMT


You must be referring to the CD box "Complete Candid Sessions" by Otis Spann
and Lightnin' Hopkins on Mosaic Records. It features Spann tracks (originally
on twp Candid LPs/CDs "Otis Spann is the blues" and "Walking the blues",
plus unissued tracks) from 1960, solo and with Robert Jnr. Lockwood (guitar
and vocals) and St. Louis Jimmy Oden (vocals). As you
say, some incredible work is contained in these tracks. Listen especially to
the instrumental "Otis in the dark" -- Spann was perhaps the greatest blues
piano player ever! He was of course a mainstay in Muddy Waters' band through
the 50s and early 60s (Chess recordings abound), as well as recording other
fine solo sets (some with bands), released on LPs /CDs on Testament, Original
Blues Classics, Storyville, etc. 

Also included on the Mosaic set is Lightnin'
Hopkins' 1960 Candid session, originally issued on "Lightnin' in New York" (plus
unissueds). It is mainly vocals and acoustic guitar.Try to locate a copy of
"Living Blues", "Juke Blues" or "Blues & Rhythm" and look in the ads department 
-- the Mosaic address may be found there. If you're only interested in Spann, the
Candid LPs have been re-released on CD (Try Roots & Rhythm mail order 
in El Cerrito, California, or good record stores.).

	Good Luck! Geir "Blues Boy" Oien, oien@tele.unit.no.
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Subject: Re: Dizzy Gillespie
From: smg+@cs.cmu.edu (Stephen Guattery)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:36:01 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

milliken@scofield.Corp.Sun.COM (Gary Milliken) writes:
>  [Excerpt from quoted magazine article:]
>"The Development of an American Artist 1940-46" (Smithsonian)
>   Unlike many of the other innovators such as Charlie Parker, Ornette
>   Coleman, and Cecil Taylor, it is possible to trace Dizzy Gillespie's
>   musical evolution on record from emulator (chiefly of Roy Eldridge) to
>   innovator.  Available as a 2-LP set (but not out on CD yet), this
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   package features a few of Diz's early sides with Cab Calloway's
>   orchestra and other swing bands, excerpts from Minton's Playhouse,
>   contributions to the first bop session (in 1944 with Coleman Hawkins),
>   and glimpses of the rapidly emerging Gillespie.

Anybody know if the Smithsonian has any plans to put this out on CD?  My
impression is that they put it together before CDs were popular (maybe even
available?), and probably didn't acquire rights for a CD release.

By the way, this is a great set if you're interested in the development of
bebop.  It doesn't include any of the small group recordings with Parker
(the compilers assumed that material was pretty well known and available),
so it probably won't duplicate a lot of things you might have already.
Cadence used to sell it for less than the Smithsonian's price.

					Steve Guattery
					smg@cs.cmu.edu
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From: mcgonig@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Gordon McGonigal)
Subject: Re: Don Cherry suggestions?
Organization: Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Engineering, U of Manitoba
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:49:06 GMT

And don't forget about his wonderful videos: Rock 'em Sock 'em I & II!!

(This better not get out of Canada, or there will be folks that won't
understand what I'm talking about!)
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Gord McGonigal                                  mcgonig@eeserv.ee.UManitoba.ca
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA (R3T 2N2)       phone: (204) 474-6295
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From: wcsanil@superior.carleton.ca (Anil Prasad)
Subject: UZEB News!
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:45:34 GMT

Random UZEB notes:
------------------

A 7 CD boxed set entitled "Uzeb L'integrale" (The complete Uzeb)
has just been released in Canada. It's a fairly nice package,
consisting of 7 picture discs each featuring a different live
pose of a band member and a commerative booklet. It contains every
single tune released by the band in its career, from "Live At
Bracknel" to "World Tour '90". It includes four albums that never
made it to CD prior ("Absolutely Live", "You Be Easy", "Live At
Bracknel" and "Live A L'Olympia"). Remastering is of above average
quality. Essential for the collector. BTW, this is a limited edition
of something like 2000 copies. The booklet included states that
World Tour 90 was the final Uzeb release, so I think we can
officially say that the band has called it a day.

In 1992, there have been 3-4 offshoot releases:

Alain Caron & Michel Donato - Basse Contra Basse
(A *SUPERB* duo album for acoustic and electric bass)

Michel Cusson & The Wild Unit (Self titled)
(Yet another superb release featuring Cusson's new band, very
Uzeb-esque with a Brazilian feel)

Lorraine Desmarais (Self titled)
(A new album by this quebec pianist featuring Cusson and Brochu. Very
nice, tasteful, laid back stuff. Features a couple of burners too!)

and of course...

Sortie (Self titled)
(This is the brand new Uzeb SUPERGROUP featuring every past and
present member of the band except Michel Cusson. Alain Caron,
Paul Brochu, Jean St. Jaques and Michel Cyr along with Denny
Christiansen and Luc Boivin make up this group's personnel. This
is a fantastic album, and will surprise Uzeb devotees by its
diversity. At first I was wondering why the hell they didn't call this
group Uzeb, but it does stray from Uzeb's unique fusion sound 
considerably. Sortie are set to do a mega-cross Canada tour come
the summer of '93)

Other Stuff:
------------

Alain Caron has a new band that have been playing several gigs
in QUebec. Supposedly his new guitarist is phonmenal. I've been
told they're about to record an album.

There's a CD by Caron and Didier Lockwood available only in France.
I have no details about this, except that it is a trio album. I
can't recall the third musician's name unfortunately. I think
his last name is Ecay. If you can help me, please get back to me.

It's tragic that 1992 saw the end of this phenomenal band. They
became European superstars without ever gaining the following they
deserved in their home country or for that matter, the USA, where
they've been ignored by the press and record labels to a criminal
extent. If you're a fusion fan, you really deserve to check out 
this band.

Anil Prasad
wcsanil@ccs.carleton.ca
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From: anderson@phage.cshl.org (John Anderson in Anderson Lab - CSHL)
Subject: Re: Blues: Albert King
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:18:45 GMT

burdick@frostbite.crd.ge.com (William E. Burdick KWC-1623 5585) writes:

>Not only did Albert King play an upside down, right handed
>guitar lefte handed, he strung his guitar with two high
>E strings!

Do you mean he used a high E string for both the 1st and 2nd strings,
or he used two high E strings in the 1st string position?

John
-- 
John Anderson
W.M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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From: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: Valerie Wellington dies at age 34
Reply-To: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:14:43 GMT

	About one year ago, I moved from Europe to the U.S.
	When I arrived I was very tired, after days spent in
	packing things and finishing important things, and it
	was almost magic then to find myself in Chicago, with
	a couple of free days to spend there.  Chicago!
	In a cold (what I then believed to be incredibly cold :-),
 	windy, snowy day of january.

	Memories of the Blues Brothers came to my mind, so after
	dinner i stopped a cab (i'm still amazed about the fact
	that in Chicago a cab is always there when you need it,
	you raise your hand and it stops, just as in the movies!
	try that in Rome on a rainy day..) and asked to the driver for 
	a good blues place.  He drove north for a while, and dropped
	me in North Halsted Street, in front of Kingston's Mines.  
	And there Valerie was singing that night, and I was 
	astounded, and I understood what the blues _really_
	is, it has to be live and it's so different than just
	sounds off a CD or a movie.  She was giving all of herself, 
	a lot of energy, a lot of good music and a lot of fun!
	Valerie welcomed me to the U.S., and I will never forget
	that night! Thanks, Valerie!

--
Furio Ercolessi
Materials Research Laboratory           |   Intl School for Advanced Studies
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   |   Trieste, Italy
furio@uiuc.edu                          |   furio@sissa.it
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From: mciver@kibblesnbits.cs.colorado.edu (William McIver Jr.)
Subject: re: Harmolodics
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:38:13 GMT


I found these, among others, on our library catalog =>

TITLE(s):        What's the Harmolodic? New releases from Ornette Coleman
                   and Ronald Shannon Jackson, Also in this month's expanded
                   review section: Jimmy Page; Folkways and John Cash
                   tributes...

           In:   High fidelity.
                 DEC 01 1988 v 38 n 12
         Page:   74

TITLE(s):        Tomorrow Is Now.
Summary:         Barry McRae on Ornette Coleman.

           In:   Jazz journal international.
                 JUL 01 1991 v 44 n 7
         Page:   10



WJM
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From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
Subject: Re: Dizzy's Passing
Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:51:19


> hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:

> Yeah, but "Satchmo" is the name used by white folks, and to me it plays
> up the "jovial pandering to whites" side oide of Louis Armstrong. A more
> fitting nickname was "Pops." 

Not quite true. Gary Giddins, in his pictorialized bio of Louis,
SATCHMO says that while Armstrong lovers and purists fight over the
correct pronounciation of Louis (i.e., Louie vs. Louis) and that
different ladies close to him called him either of those names,
Armstrong's own preference seemed to be Satchmo (from "satchel mouth").  
Pops, too, was a common and endearing nickname. I think we
in the post-Armstrong era make (as an indirect result of PC) a big
deal out of nicknames.

/sandeep
--
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        "This space of time is organized. We need not fear these
	 silences, -- we may love them." -- John Cage, Silences, 1961.
From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Curlew, Dr.Nerve, Bird, Jarrett
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:26:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Tom Cora is a member of Curlew.  A year or two ago he toured as
"Tom Cora and The Ex."  Does anyone know if this The Ex are the same 
as the anarchist punk band from Holland named The Ex (they had some 
albums out in the mid-late 80s notably "Too Many Cowboys")?

Thanks,
Ben
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From: mike@vm1.mcgill.ca (Mike Woo)
Subject: Re: Yellowjackets
Keywords: fusion,jazz
Organization: Computing Centre, McGill University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:27:54 GMT

In article <nat92-23.726006426@math.chalmers.se> nat92-23@math.chalmers.se (Jakob Schlyter) writes:

>       Is there somebody out there who could help me in my search of all of
>Yellowjackets' albums? I have the following:

>       Yellowjackets
>       Mirage a Trois
>       Samurai Samba
>       Shades
>       Four Corners
>       Politics
>       The Spin
>       Green House
>       Live Wires


>Regards,

>/Jakob

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jakob Schlyter

>Tradeshill 2885                      E-mail: nat92-23@math.chalmers.se
>S-448 91 Floda                       Phone : +46-302-363 62
>Sweden







>--
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jakob Schlyter

>Tradeshill 2885                      E-mail: nat92-23@math.chalmers.se

     Didn't Robben Ford play for the Yellowjackets at one time?  Which 
albums (from above) did he play on?  Any recommendations you can make would
be much appreciated.
                                       Thanks,
                                        Mike Woo
From: nat92-23@math.chalmers.se (Jakob Schlyter)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Yellowjackets - Like a river
Keywords: yellowjackets
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:42:49 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden


    I bought Yellowjackets' latest album a couple of days ago, and I think
it's a great one. The sound reminds me very strongly of Greenhouse and has a
kind of nature-touch. There are severy good tracks, like Memoirs (a nice cool
piece by Mintzer) and Dewey (a rather funky song for Miles by Ferrante &
Haslip).
 
    In addition to Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, William Kennedy and Bob
Mintzer, you can hear a couple of guest musicians; Tim Hagens (trumpet),
Nana Vasconcelos (perc & vocals), Steve Croes (synclavier), Bill Gable
(vocals) and Judd Miller (EWI programming).
 
   What can I say more - buy it...
 
 
/Jakob
 
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Jakob Schlyter                  - We want Yellowjackets live in Sweden
 
Tradeshill 2885                      E-mail: nat92-23@math.chalmers.se
S-448 91 Floda                       Phone : +46-302-363 62
Sweden
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From: ger@cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens)
Subject: Re: Dizzy Gillespie
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:06:53 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <8602@laas.laas.fr> doucet@ripolin.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet) writes:


>In article 1ii99eINNa0j@pith.uoregon.edu, tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny) writes:
>>
>>As regards essential recordings, I'm awfully fond of the Massey Hall concert
>>(Mingus, Diz, Max Roach, Bud Powell, and Bird [credited as Charlie Chan]);
>>half the material is Dizzy's, and while the recording is a little spotty,
>>it's a hell of a collective performance.
>
>	I completely second this.

Another great album of 'Birk' is 'the Winter in Lisbon'. It features three
version of the song 'magic summer', 1. piano solo, 2. big band, 3. combo,
and some fine songs by Dizzy.
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From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Need Reference to an Ellington Discography
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:36:05 GMT

Hello,

As part of a project, I am looking for the complete discography of
Ellington recordings from the early years to the time of his death.
Has such a work been put together?

Thanks.

Jon

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From: millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller)
Subject: Wayne Shorter (was Re: looking for a cd)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:52:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1993Jan12.181622.1514@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:
>"Infant Eyes" was written by Wayne Shorter. It is a haunting, beautful
>ballad. I don't know any other versions besides his original. Here's the
>data on that:
>
>Great players, great tunes ("Speak No Evil", "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum", "Dance
>Cadaverous"), great album. DOn't know if it's made it to CD yet. Would
>be criminal if it has not.

Yep, awesome stuff.  Check out "Wayne Shorter: Best of Blue Note Years".  It's
one CD with IMHO is absolute best.  Fantastic sound, too (direct from the
2 track masters)


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From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Don Cherry suggestions?
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:33:39 GMT
	<1993Jan4.211249.15447@mail.cornell.edu> <C0Dx2K.46B@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
	<RSHAPIRO.93Jan5142145@kariba.bbn.com>
Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY


> rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:

> Other notable early Cherry appearances: 
[...]
> and the stuff with Sonny Rollins.

I'm glad this was mentioned. I was more than a bit surprised at John
Litweiler, in his Ornette bio, pooh-poohing the Cherry/Rollins collab
that resulted in one or two RCA albums. I have ON THE OUTSIDE (RCA
Bluebird) which has Cranshaw/Grimes and Higgins; I like it a lot.

/sandeep
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From: mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo)
Subject: Re: looking for a cd
Organization: The Poto Mitan in the Houmfor
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:16:22 GMT

"Infant Eyes" was written by Wayne Shorter. It is a haunting, beautful
ballad. I don't know any other versions besides his original. Here's the
data on that:

Records with this Tune:
Shorter, Wayne                                         Blue Note BST 84194 (LP)
Title: Speak No Evil
Recorded: 12/24/1964 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Released: 1965
With: Wayne Shorter (leader), Tenor Sax
      Freddie Hubbard, Trumpet (not on 5)
      Herbie Hancock, Piano
      Ron Carter, Bass
      Elvin Jones, Drums
Contents: 1) Witch Hunt                                                ( 08:05)
          2) Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum                                             ( 08:50)
          3) Dance Cadaverous                                          ( 06:40)
          4) Speak No Evil                                             ( 08:35)
          5) Infant Eyes                                               ( 06:45)
          6) Wild Flower                                               ( 06:00)
          Total:                                                       ( 44:55)
Purchased: No Date

Great players, great tunes ("Speak No Evil", "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum", "Dance
Cadaverous"), great album. DOn't know if it's made it to CD yet. Would
be criminal if it has not.
-- 
Marcel-Franck Simon             	mingus@usl.com, usl!mingus

	" Papa Loko, ou se' van, ou-a pouse'-n ale'
	  Nou se' papiyon, n'a pote' nouvel bay Agwe' "
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From: hbsk@hostsit.cad.cea.fr (David HAUBENSACK)
Subject: Re: Dizzy Gillespie 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:01:35 GMT
Organization: CEA

I recommand "BIRD and DIZ" (Verve), meeting of two young great musicians...

David
From: hsu@walnut.sfsu.edu (William Hsu)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Cadence Poll
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:31:39 GMT
Reply-To: hsu@walnut.sfsu.edu

In article <C03G94.LBC@world.std.com>  writes:
> >What? No Braxton at Willisau?! Maybe it's the price of the set
> 
> The poll includes only what was reviewed in the magazine between
> December 1991 and November 1992, and they hadn't gotten to the Braxton
> yet.  Wait 'till next year.

Actually the readers are allowed to vote for items not reviewed
in Cadence, but the critics are only allowed to vote for records
reviewed in Cadence. The Braxton set didn't make the readers' poll.

Cadence is pretty behind on reviews these days. I understand there've
been more new releases (just look at the pile of Hat Arts that appeared
last year), but couldn't they put out a double-size issue or something
and get caught up?

It used to be a big deal to "scoop" Cadence on a review. But these
days it seems to happen a lot.

Bill
From: mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Chet Baker
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:10:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Poto Mitan in the Houmfor

> burger@sphinx.ece.wisc.edu (Dick Burger):
>    i was eyeballing the two chet baker - russ freeman box sets from mosaic 
> records.   does anybody out there have these?  if the sound quality is ok,
> i thought the live set might be better.  i haven't heard a whole lot of c.b.,
> haven't even seen "let's get lost", but i like his tone.  the little bit
> i've heard of the early 50's mulligan-baker sounds interesting to me, but
> is a tad stiff.    thanks for any recomendations on the baker-freeman sets.

I have the live set. Sound quality is  actually quite
good, but then again, Mosaic is a company with high
standards. I also find the music weak and pallid, and
overall not nearly as good as the Mulligan pianoless
quartet; this tends to me my reaction to most/all Chet
Baker, so I conclude that my liking the material with
Mulligan is due to Mulligan rather than to Baker. Get
some input from Baker-lovers before you make a decision.
-- 
Marcel-Franck Simon             	mingus@usl.com, usl!mingus

	" Papa Loko, ou se' van, ou-a pouse'-n ale'
	  Nou se' papiyon, n'a pote' nouvel bay Agwe' "
From: scott@sklib.usask.ca
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Valerie Wellington recordings
Date: 5 JAN 93 20:12:30 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sklib.usask.ca

Here are a couple of things from Valerie Wellington you might want to
look for:

Million Dollar Secret (Rooster Blues Records R2619) Recorded October
1983. Backed by Magic Slim and the Teardrops. 10 track album.

"A fool for you" on The New Bluebloods (Alligator AL7707) Released 1987.
Compilation of "new" Chicago bluesmen/women.
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