philwoods.com - Open Mic http://www.philwoods.com/forums General Discussions en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:55:50 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.philwoods.com/forums/images/kirsch/misc/rss.jpg philwoods.com - Open Mic http://www.philwoods.com/forums Heads-Up! Cota 2010 http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43743&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:07:07 GMT Tonight I'm playing "A Child's Blues" and "Quintessence" in San Antonio. Tomorrow heading up to Delaware Water Gap to see Phil. Anyone else going? ]]> Open Mic tdunn http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43743 Making the scene... http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43553&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:13:19 GMT You set out to play a few nice choruses from the heart. What could possibly go wrong? Good luck out there my friends. Dig this:... You set out to play a few nice choruses from the heart. What could possibly go wrong?
Good luck out there my friends.
Dig this:
http://bit.ly/amZgKk

-Knots ]]> Open Mic Chaquane Knots http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43553 <![CDATA[Eric Dolphy "Original Ellington Suite"]]> http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43441&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:20:16 GMT I listened to this Chico Hamilton Quintet recording "The Original Ellington Suite" from 1958, and couldn't believe my ears.
The alto/flute and clarinet player on it was Eric Dolphy, and he was playing completely "inside" for the first time that I've ever heard him.
Not only was he playing "inside", but he sounded great, like Phil, Cannonball or Bird!
I've been looking for an example of Dolphy playing inside bop for over 30 years, and this was the only example I've ever found.
This recording surfaced for the first time in 2000, because the original date was nixed by producer Dick Bock of Pacific Jazz Records, supposedly because he didn't like the way Dolphy sounded.
They called back the original Chico Hamilton Quintet for a "reunion", and then they recorded the Ellington Suite, with Paul Horn and Buddy Collette playing the wind parts., and issued the LP in 1959.
Nobody ever found the tape of the Dolphy session, but some guy found a test pressing of the recording in a used record store in the UK in 1995.
He didn't think anything of it, until the Mosaic collection of Hamilton's complete Quintet recordings came out, and he noticed that it wasn't the same as the record he bought in the used record store.
It was brought to the attention of Michael Cuscuna, and he had it transferred to CD in 2000, and that's the recording I just heard.
Dolphy had the phrasing, rhythmic conception, sound and technique of a bop master on this recording, and I still can't believe my ears.
Has anyone heard this? ]]> Open Mic jzzgtr http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43441 Lester Young and Charlie Parker Birthday Broadcasts http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43352&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:46:28 GMT WKCR is in the midst of its annual celebration of Pres and Bird's birthdays. It is a 72 hour marathon of their music. You can catch it on-line at:

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

- Scooby ]]> Open Mic scooby http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43352 NEA Travesty http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43098&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:51 GMT Recently sent to NEA To whom it may concern, I was absolutely thrilled when I was named a 2007 NEA Jazz Master. Just to be considered... Recently sent to NEA



To whom it may concern,

I was absolutely thrilled when I was named a 2007 NEA Jazz Master. Just to be considered with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck was beyond my wildest dreams as a young musician coming up through the ranks. But to quote an old standard "The Thrill Is Gone.” I can understand your reluctance to award the NEA Jazz Masters award posthumously; what I can't understand is your naming a whole family as Jazz Masters. It makes no sense musically and as good as the Marsalis family may be, in my mind they are not the equals of the aforementioned giants. I think you have set a ridiculous precedent.
What I find most disturbing is the new Marsalis Family CD (the release date is Aug 24 - ads are already running in the jazz magazines) with the profits going to the “Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.” This smacks of exploiting the NEA to maximize profit. I’m sure it is a worthy cause but find it troublesome. I have been the recipient of NEA largesse when they underwrote our production of my Children’s Suite in New Orleans earlier this year but this was a one-time event that was largely ignored in The Big Easy. As a matter of fact I used a good portion of my $25,000 honorarium to record a CD and DVD as well as present the Suite at our annual Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Jazz Festival.

So as a matter of protest I will not be attending any further NEA Jazz Master events. You have tarnished the value of what was once considered one of America’s greatest symbols of achievement in jazz.
Phil Woods ]]> Open Mic Phil http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43098 Cota cd http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43082&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:53:44 GMT I stumbled across this link today: http://www.cotajazz.org/songs-for-cota-cd/songs-for-cota-cd/flypage.tpl.html Looks like a wonderful... I stumbled across this link today:

http://www.cotajazz.org/songs-for-co...ypage.tpl.html

Looks like a wonderful collection of ballads featuring Phil with Jesse Green on piano. Looks like it is a limited edition, so get moving!

- Scooby ]]> Open Mic scooby http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43082 Abbey Lincoln 1930 - 2010 http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42925&goto=newpost Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:59:02 GMT *Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80 in NY* * * Image:... Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80 in NY

By CHARLES J. GANS, Associated Press Writer Charles J. Gans, Associated Press Writer – Sat Aug 14, 9:13 pm ET
NEW YORK – a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died Saturday in New York at age 80.
She had been declining in health for the past year. Her death was confirmed by friend and filmmaker Carol Friedman, who has been working on a documentary on Lincoln's life.
Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career surge again in the 1990s when she found new voice as a songwriter.
Over her long career, Lincoln acted with Sidney Poitier and collaborated in music with the drummer , whom she married in 1962 and later divorced.
In later years, she had chart-topping albums with "You Gotta Pay the Band," which she recorded with Stan Getz, and " Got Your Tongue," in which she rebuked some rappers, comics and filmmakers for profiting from the denigration of black culture.
As a young woman, Lincoln made a splash not only because of her voice, but her beauty. Early album covers featured her in slinky dresses, and she appeared in a Jayne Mansfield movie wearing the dress worn by in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
But after falling under Roach's influence, Lincoln turned her back on that image, casting herself instead as a civil rights advocate, dressing in African-inspired clothing and hairstyles, and making music with a political tone.
Her 1960 collaboration with Roach and Oscar Brown Jr., "We Insist! (Freedom Now Suite)," was a testament against racism.
Explaining her in 1993, Lincoln told The Associated Press, "This dress was more important than I was. People in the audience were looking at my exposed breasts and the shape of my body, and it didn't have nothing to do with the music.
"... It wasn't a dream of mine to be a star, so Max came along at the right time to help save me from myself. Otherwise, I would have become an alcoholic and unhappy."
Born Anna Marie Wooldridge in 1930, Lincoln was the daughter of a handyman and grew up with 11 brothers and sisters in rural Calvin Center, Mich. She discovered music early, teaching herself piano and singing in music and school.
Lincoln worked as a maid as a teenager, but continued to sing, and eventually worked her way on to the nightclub circuit in Honolulu and then played supper clubs in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, performing under the name Gaby Wooldridge, and then Gabby Lee. Her manager and songwriter eventually came up with the stage name Abbey Lincoln.
Her work with Roach began in 1957 with the album "That's Him."
In the 1960s, she had several film roles, starring in the independent film "Nothing But a Man," a story about a black railroad worker in the South in love with a preacher's daughter, and then opposite Poitier in "For Love of Ivy" in 1968.
Lincoln's career fell quiet in the 1970s and '80s, after her marriage to Roach ended. She recorded on small independent labels, but she found new fame and acclaim when she signed with Verve Records/France and released "The World Is Falling Down," in 1990, an album that featured such jazz stars as pianist and trumpeter Clark Terry.
She released nine more albums for Verve, the last, "Abbey Sings Abbey," which featured reinterpretations of her own compositions, in 2007. Lincoln also acted again for the first time in decades, with a brief role in the 1990 Spike Lee film "Mo' Better Blues."
In 2003, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized her with its Jazz Masters Award, the nation's highest jazz honor.

"I've done what I please, told people to go bug off and exercised my independence," Lincoln told the AP in 1993.
Friedman said the world had lost "an amazing genius." "There are gorgeous women, there are spirited women, there are genius women — Abbey Lincoln was all of that," she said. "You don't find an artist that embodies this kind of level of physical beauty and cerebral magnificence in one package." ]]> Open Mic Jazzman http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42925 Richie Cole http://www.philwoods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42790&goto=newpost Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:54 GMT Last week I was vacationing in Mexico City; fortunately, my Fodor's guidebook listed a jazz club called Zinco in the city's historic center. Anyway, Thursday night I heard a really good tenor player; the next night Richie Cole was playing. I had wanted to hear him live for a while.

He played Friday night with a trumpeter and a rhythm section. I must say that he played well and did show his mastery of the altissimo register. While he is not Phil, it was a pleasure to actually meet him. He is a really nice guy. It was really cool to meet someone that I first heard in 8th grade, and was one of many artists (obviously, Phil is included) who got me excited about jazz.
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