[Dixielandjazz] Great Moments In Jazz

[Howard Wiseman]

In 1956 (approx.),George Shearing put on a free and unpublicized jazz  concert at the University of Virginia.  He started at 7:30 p.m. and the place was packed.  And at 9 o'clock the concert was supposed to be over.  But it wasn't.  He had just returned from South America following a conversation with Charlie Byrd after Charlie had brought back the Bossa Nova.  However, Charlied had miscopied a note or two - which both  men felt were improvements.
 
But, at 9 Shearing introduced a new singer named Edie Gorme (whom i had seen a couple of years earlier with Vaughn Monroe) and asked if we would mind staying and listening to some new sounds he was trying out.  Think anybody left?  Shearing live playing jazz was not quite the same as he was on the cool records we had heard.  He put everything into it.  As we would say today, he rocked the joint.
 
A terrific evenng of jazz - maybe not OKOM (there, I used the acronym), but a hard driving jazz 
night of mujsic perhaps unique.
 
Don W (Ignore the "Howard" only computers insist on using that.
 
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Great Moments In Jazz
To: "Meatball" <h.wiseman at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 6:18 AM


Caveat: not all OKOM to some!
In 1972, I went, albeit with some apprehension, to hear The Jazz
Giants (Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Theolonius Monk, Al
McKibbon and ARt Blakey) at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv.  I went
to the matinee, to make sure the band would not spoil my evening.  And
- WOW!  Suffice it to say that, by the time the evening show was
scheduled to start, desite the frantic gesticulation of the stage
hands, the band was still playing!  One of the best shows I've ever
attended! Plus, the only show during that worldwide tour on which
Stitt played the tenor sax in addition to the alto!  I went to the
evening show the next day, but it was not as good.
A similar thing happened to me in Edinbourgh a few years later (at
leat 12), whe a band with Buddy TAte and Benny Watters (more suitable
for this list) played well into the time of the next set!

Oh, memories, memories!
cheers

On 01/09/2009, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> Don Ingle spoke about a great moment in Jazz at which he was lucky to have been present.
>
> I also had one of those moments.
>
> It was at either the first or 2nd Sacramento Jazz Jubilee.  I believe it was the first one in 1974.  It was outdoors at the old 49er site in Old Sacramento on a beautiful May evening.  There was an all-star band onstage.  I can't remember who was in the band except that at one point, Bobby Hackett with Dick Carey on piano played  the most beautiful duet version of "My Funny Valentine" that I have ever heard.  In fact, it was one of the most beautiful performances that I have ever heard.  And as in Don's case, I was lucky just to have been there.
>
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