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[tedzan]

JAZZ....one of my favorite subjects. During my College days in the late '50s (and early '60s), many of our evenings
were at the famous Jazz "hang out"....BIRDLAND. I was fortunate to see and hear such greats as......

Duke Ellington
Hoagy Carmichael
George Shearing
Dizzy Gillespie
Gerry Mulligan
Lionel Hampton
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright)
Jack Teagarden (across Times Square at his Metropole)
and,
the mesmerizing Gene Krupa

It was the best of times to live near New York....be a Yankees fan....love Jazz.


TED Z

[barrysloate]

I love Jack Teagarden...ever see the film of Jack and Louis Armstrong singing "Rocking Chair?"

[Kawika]

Check out Jack Teagarden's cover of Stars Fell on Alabama. More cooler no can get.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/teao.html

[judsonhamlin]

Wild Bill Davison or Zoot Sims anyone?

My favorite jazz memory is seeing Sonny Rollins at Blues Alley in DC in '89 - went up from college my senior year without the then girlfriend (I think the quote was 'why would you want to do that?'). Great show and got a chance afterwards to sit down and talk to him for about 5-10 minutes. Priceless.

[Rich Klein]

My mom was acting dean at William Paterson College in NJ (A position she had for six years) and one of the things she "deaned" was the art/music department. Thad Jones was a teacher there and I got to see regular concerts (and go backstage afterwards) of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis. Those were always quite the treat!

I also saw an very aged Count Basie in concert due to the insistence of my folks who made sure I got to see the all time great -- sadly he did not have much left when I saw him c. 1976

Rich

[tedzan]

I saw Jack Teagarden play his sweet sounding trombone many times at his place (The Metropole) in Times Square.
We'd switch between his place and Birdland (only 2 blocks away) depending on who the featured Jazz artist was.

My all time favorites are George Shearing and Lionel Hampton.

And, I cannot leave out Paul Desmond.....with his sweetest sounding Alto Sax.





TED Z