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Jack Reilly, also known as Sean Petrahn was born on January 1, 1932, in Staten Island, New York. At age 7, he began classical piano and gave his first recital while still in grammar school. In high school, during his teen years, he formed a jazz band that proved to be pivotal in his choice of jazz as the major musical force in his life.
From 1951 to 1953 he played in a U.S. Navy band while stationed in Puerto Rico and it was there that he met Bill Evans. After military duty, Jack received a four-year scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music majoring in piano and composition. There he met Bill Russo, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, John Lewis, John LaPorta, and Hall Overton. The year he graduated from MSMJohn LaPorta hired Jack to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958.
The critics gave high praise for the quartet’s performance and raves for Jack’s playing. During this time he also worked with Warren Covington, George Russell, Lennie Tristano, and Jerry Wald. He moved to California briefly in the mid-1960s to study Indian classical music with Ali Akbar Khan, and returned to Manhattan where he composed the large-scale piece Requiem Mass for Chorus and Jazz Quartet. This work was performed in New York with Sheila Jordan, Jack Six, Norman Marnell, Joe Cocuzzo, and the contemporary chorale with Carol Lian conducting.
In 1967, Jack presented an entire evening of his solo and trio works at Carnegie Recital Hall. His Liturgical Jazz ~ The Psalms, sung by Sheila Jordan was a true synthesis of the blues and classical music. A second choral work, commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, was titled The Light of The Soul. The jazz musicians included Jimmy Giuffre~flute and tenor sax, Jack Six~bass, and Joe Cocuzzo~drums.
Reilly served on the faculties of New York University, Berklee College of Music, The Mannes College of Music, and the New School for Social Research. He was chairman of the Department of Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music as well as the Jazz Program at La Musica A Villa Scarsella in Diano Marina, Italy. He presented lecture/recitals at numerous universities in Europe and in North America including a presentation at the prestigious International Piano Festival and Competition at the University of Maryland.
Pianist Jack Reilly released nine albums during his career and passed away on May 18, 2018, at the age of 86.
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Three Wishes
When she asked Ram Ramirez what he would say his three wishes were he replied to Nica:
- “To be rich.”
- “To be richer.”
- “To find the Fountain of Youth, lay claim, and own it! With all that equipment, how dare you? How can you possibly compete with me? If I’m going to be sick, let me be young and sick. Not ‘like’ young and sick, but young and sick.”
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Requisites
Some Other Spring is an album by Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog with American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded in Norway in 1970 and originally released on the Sonet label in Europe. The session was produced by Hallvard Kvale and Johs Berg on May 10, 1970, in Oslo, Norway.
Tracks | 61:54
- Some Other Spring (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 5:00
- Blue Monk (Abbey Lincoln, Thelonious Monk) – 3:55
- How Insensitive (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 4:30
- Blue Eyes (Berndt Egerbladh, Karin Krog) – 4:50
- Jelly, Jelly (Billy Eckstein, Earl Hines) – 4:55
- I Wish I Knew (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:25
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Ace Adams, Lionel Hampton) – 4:35
- Shiny Stockings (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:40
- Karin Krog – vocals
- Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone, vocals
- Kenny Drew – piano
- Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen – bass
- Espen Rud – drums
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Three Wishes
Al Harewood responded to Pannonica’s question of three wishes by telling her:
- “I wish to be honest: to myself and to other people.”
- “I wish I could please others – as wel as myself – in my contributions to music.”
- “I wish God would help me to be a gentleman, and keep me truthful to myself, to others, and Him.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Requisites
Attica Blues is a studio album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp, recorded on January 24~26, 1972 at A&R Recording in New York City.. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a reference to the Attica Prison riots. The producer on the sessions was Ed Michel.
Track List | 37:16 All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated
- Attica Blues (lyrics by Beaver Harris) – 4:49
- Invocation: Attica Blues (Beaver Harris) – 0:18
- Steam, Part 1 – 5:08
- Invocation to Mr. Parker” (lyrics by Bart Gray) – 3:17
- Steam, Part 2 – 5:10
- Blues for Brother George Jackson – 4:00
- Invocation: Ballad for a Child (Harris) – 0:30
- Ballad for a Child (lyrics by Harris) – 3:37
- Good-Bye Sweet Pops (Cal Massey) – 4:23
- Quiet Dawn (Massey) – 6:12
- Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone (1, 6, 8, 10) and soprano saxophone (3, 5, 9)
- Brass and reed section on tracks 1, 6, 9 and 10
- Clifford Thornton – cornet
- Roy Burrows, Charles McGhee, Michael Ridley – trumpet
- Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens, Kiane Zawadi – trombone
- Hakim Jami – euphonium
- Clarence White – alto saxophone
- Roland Alexander, Billy Robinson – tenor saxophone
- James Ware – baritone saxophone
- String section on tracks 1, 3, 5, and 8—10
- John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar – violin
- Ronald Lipscomb, Calo Scott – cello
- Marion Brown – alto saxophone (1, 6), bamboo flute (3), flute (4), percussion (3—5)
- Walter Davis, Jr. – electric piano (1, 6), piano (6, 8—10)
- Dave Burrell – electric piano (3, 5)
- Cornell Dupree – guitar (1, 3, 5, 8)
- Roland Wilson (1, 3, 5–6, 8), Gerald Jemmott (1) – Fender bass
- Jimmy Garrison – bass (3—5, 9, 10)
- Beaver Harris (1, 3, 5–6, 8) – drums
- Ollie Anderson, Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan – percussion (1, 6, 10)
- Vocals
- Henry Hull (1, 8), Joe Lee Wilson (3, 5) – vocals
- William Kunstler (2, 7), Bartholomew Gray (4) – narrator
- Joshie Armstead, Albertine Robertson – backing vocals (1)
- Featured exclusively on tracks 9 and 10, written by Cal Massey
- Romulus Franceschini – conductor and co-arranger
- Cal Massey – fluegelhorn (10)
- Waheeda Massey – vocals (10)
- Billy Higgins – drums
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