[Dixielandjazz] Inside Pinky Vidacovich

[Harry Callaghan]

Robert:

Thank you for that valuable info.

The Jay McShann LP I referred to last night, entitled "Last of the Blue
Devils",  was recorded in '77 with Paul Quinichette & Buddy Tate on tenor
sax, Joe Newman, trumpet, John Scofield, guitar, Milt Hinton, bass & Jackie
Williams, drums

Among others, he does "Jumpin' at the Woodside", "Confessin' the Blues" &
"Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do".

I have a cassette kicking around here somewhere but I'm in the course of
doing some minor renovations and everything is kinda topsy-turvy.....don't
recall the recording dates on it...

And yes, I believe Pinky is John's third cousin, once removed.

Tides,
HC


On 4/10/10, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Thought I'd respond to Harry Callahan's curiosity about John
> Malco.....  (what was the name again?
>
> Jay McShann was heard by lots of people after he departed the twilight of
> R&B and (apparently just as US bookings were decreasing) started touring
> Europe.
>
> Of course he was a jazz rather than a blues pianist.
> The Kansas City background and his own immense gifts let him work as a
> blues player, and even market demand dictated what was recorded earlier in
> his career. The bluesier side of his big band's repertoire was recorded,
> omitting rather  a lot.
>
> I wish I still had the recording of the Handful of Keys type stride
> composition of his own which McShann produced in a studio in the 1940s.  He
> did know Donald Lambert among many others.
> And there was the gig when he suddenly went into overdrive and to the
> amazement of bassist and drummer delivered Billy Strayhorn's LOTUS BLOSSOM
> and a set of other things not in the least associated with blues rather than
> jazz. As well associate Fiddler with his long career playing guitar in the
> R&B context.  Or Al Casey with the same sort of thing.
> Or Prince Robinson, though he was doing the raucous tenor thing in the
> 1920s.
>
>
>
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