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blog o jazz blog o jazz reminiscing in tempo at a moment s notice for no reason at all in c sunday february 12 2012 lester bowie plays saving all my love for you lester bowie s brass fantasy plays saving all my love for you in berlin in 1986 posted by steve bowie at 1 11 pm no comments saturday july 23 2011 campaign for cootie my last post was about the centennial of cootie williams birth duke ellington wrote concerto for cootie and tutti for cootie for williams in that spirit i would like to start campaign for cootie the results were just announced for this year s critics poll abbey lincoln and paul chambers were voted into the hall of fame surprisingly cootie williams is not in the down beat magazine hall of fame i d like to solicit your help vote for cootie today using the instructions from db s website since this poll is for downbeat readers only you do need to be a subscriber either to our magazine or our e newsletter click here for sample to vote if you do subscribe simply fill out all of the categories or just the ones that interest you please vote only once any multiple votes will be disqualified if you are not a subscriber sign up today just go to downbeat com and hit the subscribe button to get the magazine or you can subscribe to downbeat s eheadlines newsletter for free sign up for our free e newsletter here it s quick and easy to subscribe without having your e mail on file your vote won t count that s all it takes to get started on the poll just enter your name and e mail address then follow the prompts you can select one choice from the list for each category or write in your choice if it doesn t appear on the list please pass this on to all your jazz friends posted by steve bowie at 3 51 pm no comments sunday july 10 2011 cootie williams centennial today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of trumpet great charles melvin williams better known as cootie he was most famous for his skill with the plunger but as can seen below he was a master of the open horn too actually he may have been born 103 years ago 102 or 101 years ago there are several dates of birth given for him and the truth may have been that he didn t know when he was born the only things the various birthdates have in common is the month of july even the day could have been the 10th 14th or 24th that said did you know no one has written a biography of williams he had a very interesting career two stints with duke ellington and a year with benny goodman before embarking on a period as a big band leader his band boasted people like eddie cleanhead vinson eddie lockjaw davis pearl bailey bud powell and charlie parker he was the first to record thelonious monk s round midnight and epistrophy for a time round midnight was the band s theme song i ve spent the past few months collecting reference materials and conducting interviews all towards writing a biography of the great and underrated cootie williams finally check out cootie s plunger work from a 1966 performance filmed in france happy birthday cootie posted by steve bowie at 11 08 am no comments sunday june 19 2011 giant steps john coltrane s solo on his 1959 recording of giant steps is an acknowledged classic here are three different homages via youtube first a scroll through the transcribed solo as the recording plays second a robot programmed to play the solo lastly a virtuoso performance of a gentleman playing along with trane s recording on piano and bass guitar simulataneously posted by steve bowie at 1 41 pm 3 comments sunday may 08 2011 new coltrane good news and bad news the good news there s some new coltrane on the market the bad news you have to buy a box set in order to get it as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for impulse they re releasing a 4 cd set entitled impulse 50 first impulse the creed taylor collection john coltrane s previously unreleased demo recording for his africa brass big band album is included plus some alternate takes from the session albums like gil evans la nevada ray charles genius soul jazz and oliver nelson s stolen moments are part of the set but who doesn t have those already posted by steve bowie at 2 52 pm 1 comment sunday april 03 2011 new smithsonian jazz collection during my high school years the local public library was one of the resources i would use to hear jazz recordings one i vividly remember was the smithsonian collection of classic jazz it was a multi record set that included items from scott joplin duke ellington charlie parker etc last week a new edition was released it s six cds and 111 tracks i think the original was 8 lps it s been updated to reflect the changes that have occurred since its original 1973 release but all the great classics west end blues hawk s body and soul duke s ko ko are still there it would be a great investment to fill in those gaps in your jazz knowledge or collection as a taste there s a link to a mary lou williams recorded of virgo part of her zodiac suite by coincidence that happens to be my sign http soundcloud com smithsonian folkways virgo mary lou williams jazz and if you re feeling brave take their jazz quiz while you re there http www sporcle com games smithsonian_folk jazzchallenge25 posted by steve bowie at 11 06 am no comments sunday march 27 2011 stritch beer michael bowe has relocated his angel city brewery from torrance to downtown los angeles he was recently featured in articles in the los angeles times and the los angeles downtown news the brewery is not too far from our bookstore metropolis books we share quite a few similarities there s only one letter difference in our surnames we have la s city hall in our business logos and he s a saxophone player who loves jazz mr bowe has even named beers after charlie parker lester young and rahsaan roland kirk the prize winning kirk brew is called rahsaan roland kirk stritch stout i wandered over to buy some beer along with a t shirt the website describes it thusly rahsaan roland kirk stritch stout 10 abv is our biggest and most luscious beer made with lager yeast this beer will surprise you how drinkable it is complex dark malty and warm no wonder why stritch stout won a gold medal in the los angeles international beer competition i can t tell you how it tastes since i can t bring myself to open the bottle posted by steve bowie at 2 45 pm 3 comments saturday february 26 2011 registering for world war i at the rather ripe age of 41 at least in military terms my great grandfather john bowie registered for the world war i draft by 1918 the us government required men between the ages of 18 to 45 to register so he wasn t quite at the top of the age pool in browsing these records i also came across the records for duke ellington louis armstrong and jelly roll morton only armstrong described himself as a musician at the time ellington was a government messenger in washington dc while ferdinand joseph morton gave his occupation as actor according to morton biographies in his early years he travelled the country as part of a vaudeville troop on this form he gave his date of birth as september 13 1884 as far as i can tell this date hasn t been reported anywhere else i ve seen dates of september 20 1885 and october 20 1890 his tombstone has 1890 for the year of his birth he died here in los angeles in 1941 morton was also known to stretch the truth quite a bit some of these dates may have been due to vanity or in support of his claim of inventing jazz in 1902 or course it may have been simpler than that in the days of home births and non recorded births he might not have known when he was born posted by steve bowie at 4 31 pm 2 comments thursday february 17 2011 the sincerest form of flattery posted by steve bowie at 4 16 am 1 comment thursday february 10 2011 a few minutes of soprano saxophone the soprano sax is a very difficult instrument to control in the wrong hands it can make for a painful listening experience fortunately there are some great masters national public radio recently did a feature entitled on the instrument entitled soprano sax the story of a skinny horn they mentioned the main practitioners of the instrument sidney bechet and john coltrane but the soprano sax was not unrepresented in the swing era the time between the heydays of bechet and coltrane i d like to add johnny hodges and charlie barnet johnny hodges was a bechet protege he can be seen playing soprano sax in this clip from check and double check a truly horrible amos and andy movie in 1940 hodges decided he should be paid extra to double on soprano ellington refused and hodges abandoned the instrument charlie barnet was a big band leader who had a few big hits in the swing era but is unfairly neglected these days a man walks down the beach and finds a bottle on the shore he picks it up and rubs it a genie appears and grants him one wish since the man is a humanitarian he asks the genie to solve the conflicts in the middle east the genie asks for a map and studies it for a while the genie apologizes and says that he can t grant the wish because the problems are too complicated and started even before he was put in the bottle so the man is granted another wish well since the man is a musician as well as a humanitarian he asks for a soprano sax that plays in tune the genie pauses for a minute and asks uh can i see that map again posted by steve bowie at 8 37 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me steve bowie view my complete profile followers links to blogs and things metropolis books of downtown los angeles a bookstore owned by julie swayze steve bowie music asian cinema life in general i was doing all right radio video jazz byas d opinion the best pianists in the world ampbrain jazz lives midriff st louis jazz notes the jazz clinic jazz beyond jazz howard mandel does your house have lions the jazz vinyl podcast the jazz authority jazz blues music reviews rifftides doug ramsey the jazz cat jazz my two 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