Three Wishes
Nica asked John Handy what his three wishes were and his response was:- “Equal opportunity to do what I want to do.”
- “To be successful doing it.”
- “To be able to contribute to music.”
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Vibraphonist Johnny Lytle went into a New York City studio in 1968 and recorded The Sound Of Velvet Soul that was released on the Solid State record label. The ten (10) song recording session has a total length of 34:23 and was produced by Sonny Lester and arranged and conducted by Manny Albam.
Track Listing:
A1 The Thing To Do
A2 We’re Bluesin’
A3 L.A. Soul
A4 Street Scene
A5 Live For Life
B1 Under The Rising Sun
B2 On A Clear Day
B3 Somewhere
B4 Up Up And Away
B5 Suddenly You
The Players:
VibraphonE: Johnny Lytle
Baritone SaxophonE: Sol Schlinger
Bass: Richard Davis (2)
Drums: Mel Lewis
Percussion: Johnny Pacheco
Saxophone: Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson, Joe Farrell and Seldon Powell
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The Jazz Voyager
Top of the eastern coast states is the next destination for the Jazz Voyager as his plane settles down into Portland, Maine. The jazz spot where the locals go is where he has his eye on and it is simply called Blue located at 650A Congress Street, 04101.
Winning Portland’s Best Jazz Venue several years in a row, every Saturday night this intimate spot is dedicated to jazz. There is no cover as they are a donation based venue with 100% going to the musicians, so your generosity is welcome and no reservations are required. A one purchase minimum of food/beverage and sharing a table is highly encouraged.
This week the Jazz Voyager will be taking in an earful of flautist Carl Dimow with his Quartet beginning at 6:00pm. The cuisine is a selection of comfort food, non-alcoholic beverages, wine, beer and cocktails. 21+ only unless accompanied by legal guardian and as always more information may be obtained at 207-774-4111.
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Three Wishes
G. T. Hogan was asked by Pannonica what his three wishes were and he said:- “Health.”
- “Wealth.”
- “The thing that comes naturally.”
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Kelly Great is an album recorded on August 12, 1959 by pianist Wynton Kelly, and released that same year on the Vee-Jay record label. The photograph was taken by Chuck Stewart. Sid McCoy produced the 35:24 long session and Cozy Noda was responsible for the digital remastering.
Kelly, Morgan and Shorter all contributed compositions for this for song session that included the following lineup of tunes – Wrinkles (Wynton Kelly), Mama G (Wayne Shorter), June Night (Abel Baer, Cliff Friend), What Know (Lee Morgan) and Sidney (Shorter).
With Kelly on piano leading the quintet he enlisted the talents of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on the drums.
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