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Topic: What's Happening? / Star keyboardist Merl Saunders dies

Star keyboardist Merl Saunders dies

(10-24) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO—Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia’s solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.

Read more:

http://tinyurl.com/5r75xy

We toured with him several times.

That’s when you get to know someone.

What a beautiful human being…

Topic: What's Happening? / Porter Batiste Stoltz w/ King Johnson (Atlanta)

Location: Oct.30 Shorty’s Tucker GA / Oct.31 Vinyl Atlanta GA

Street: Oct.30 Lwrvl. Hwy. / Oct.31 W. Pchtree St.

City/Town: Oct.30 Tucker / Oct.31 Atlanta

Website or Map: http://www.cowbus.org

Event Type: Party

Organized By: Cow Bus via Uhler

Event Description

— PBS and KJ -

source: Chris Uhler chrisuhler@bellsouth.net

Thursday 10.30.2008 King Johnson at (((((Shorty’s Pizza))))) in Tucker GA.

Friday 10.31.2008 Porter Batiste Stoltz w/ King Johnson at (((((THE COWBUS PARTY@ClUB VINYL))))) in Atlanta GA.

Tickets for this show are sold online at www.ticketalternative.com. They can also be bought at the Vinyl Box Office. Here’s a direct link to the event.

http://www.ticketalternative.com/Events/1355.aspx

click on ‘Find Tickets’ enter ‘blender’ in the promotion code click on ‘Go’ then follow the normal steps to purchase!

All tickets are will call only. They can be picked up at the Vinyl Box Office M-F, 12:30-6pm. Or at the door night of the show.

for more info on venues, directions, etc., you can visit www.cowbus.org. peace. moo.

Topic: Non-Music Discussion / 300,000 quotations

I happened to see a website
containing 300,000 quotations.

Just go to http://thinkexist.com
for lots of pearls of wisdom :)

Topic: Audio & Video / About the MP3s I posted

Link to the tracks:

http://geocities.com/kingjohnson2003/apmtracks.html

About these tracks:

SOUND BITE: I have always been interested in Space
and our place in it. Wouldn’t it be great to meet
an alien? But not just any alien… one that is
FRIENDLY :)

RUNNING: Recorded with Skeebo Knight and Reggie Solomon
in Macon at the Grey Room. This was the first of two
sessions. Skeebo has Scleroderma now, a hideous disease
but his heart remains big and pure and true:
www.myspace.com/skeeboknight

EVERYTHING: My alter ego recorded this during a moment
of clarity. It might seem long and boring but Nobby
doesn’t care. How nice to be in the moment with the whole
Cosmos as a traveling companion. Of course the Cosmos
includes little things too like a spiderweb glistening
in the sunshine.

DAMN YANKEE: On the road with Anthony Papamichael
(in Vegas) with some great players assembled for a
giant audio convention. The horns were myself and
Karl Liberatore and Darian Emory.

FLOW: King Johnson (from the album “Hot Fish Laundry Mat”)
where I play a triple high ‘D’ in the middle. This track
moves from a jam band groove to a latin mambo and back
to a jam band groove. I think Oliver’s lyrics are about
healing.

GOODBYE: King Johnson (from the album “Hot Fish Laundry
Mat”) and I remember comparing the timbre of the trombone
to a Bill Watrous CD in the studio, trying to get the
right EQ. The track is about saying goodbye and as you
know, it’s hard to say goodbye.

WISE: King Johnson (from the album “Live ‘05”), one of
the few times I played cornet. The background development
behind the guitar solo makes me proud and Chris Long’s
lyrics are good as gold.

ADAMRAP: Wrote some rhymes just before the divorce in 2004
but did not get to record them until 2008 with Skeebo and
Marcus and Marshall in Macon at Muscadine. This was the
second of two sessions. Caution: I sound like a trombone
player trying to rap, ha ha.

Everything except furniture is out of the apartment now
waiting for new carpet tomorrow. Some of you know there
were broken pipes in the ceiling which made a big mess here
below. The good news is it forced me to clean house, LOL,
and I am enjoying all of this empty space. Call me
Mister Minimalist.

—-Adam Mewherter (July, 2008)

Topic: Non-Music Discussion / Swing

Yes, but consider the happy eyes and the bright smile of the congero or timbalero when he plays his drums not to mention the basic tumbao of the bass and the hummingbird who visited for the first time today. Drama, Vibration, Life.

Topic: The Dozens / DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Really enjoyed seeing your picks. Reminds me to find my copy of THE BRIDGE here in my home.

Topic: Non-Music Discussion / Swing

( Don’t know where to put this )

...Everything has a swing to it. While waiting for something to come to me to type, my thumbs tapped the basic rhythm of the tune BRASIL on the side of the space bar of this aforementioned dusty keyboard (everything is dusty here). Everything has a swing to it. My 43 years have seen many musical styles. What a great life it has been so far. Everything has a swing to it. Now my teeth are chattering together to BRASIL. How lucky I am to be sensitive to rhythm. How lucky I am to have made it 43 years. Every sound and person and leaf and galaxy and ant and cobweb has a swing to it.

Topic: Jazz Questions (and answers) / HELP!

Very tonal, through composed, many quotes, recorded live, beautiful: Sonny Rollins “The Solo Album” http://www.amazon.com/Solo-Album-Sonny-Rollins/dp/B000000Z45

Topic: Jazz Music Theory & Analysis / jazz arranging and composition questions??

BLUELONIUS ! ! !

Topic: Players & Bands / michael buble the fake!

Hey Vic. Sorry for sounding negative. He is a kid who got lucky, that’s all. But he did a good job. I hope we can all be more positive. The job of a critic is to be honest. The job of a trombone player (me) is to hope for a gig, ha ha. Take care.

Topic: Players & Bands / michael buble the fake!

He did a good job on Oprah. By the way, did you just reply to yourself on here? Man, I feel happy for anyone ANYONE who gets on network TV.

Topic: Jazz Polls & Lists / Favorite Ballads of All Time

So true, Ted ! That whole
record is a favorite here !

PS: To DMBLUV: I think
Moonglow works well as
a ballad or as a swing tune.

Topic: Jazz Polls & Lists / Favorite Ballads of All Time

Tough question. Maybe
Miles / Gil Evans version
of J.J. Johnson’s LAMENT
from “Miles Ahead.” Well,
that would atleast be a
good place to start :)

Topic: What's Happening? / RIP Sean Costello

He died young.

A couple days ago.

Very gifted guitarist and singer.

I got to play sousaphone on
one track on the new record.

http://www.seancostello.com

Topic: Jazz Questions (and answers) / Take My Quiz (Please Take My Quiz) ... OFF TOPIC

Only one of the ten questions is “jazz related” but
I suspect almost all of you will get that one right :)

http://adamchapter8.blogspot.com/2008/04/tmq.html

Topic: General Forum Topics / How to use this forum

Login at http://www.gravatar.com

Then click on MY GRAVATARS

Next be sure the email address
you use at jazz.com is the same
email address for your “gravatar”
(what an interesting word) that
shows up on the My Gravatar page.

You can also click on “Check this
gravatar” and it will show you
more information. I am new to this
concept so maybe someone else can
embellish on the procedure.

I think it takes a while for changes
to take effect. Have a nice evening,
Adelaide. I am friends with Harry’s
brother here in Georgia by the way.
Small world :)

Topic: Jazz On The Radio / What's on your dial?

The wonders of modern technology: Sitting here in Atlanta listening to a LOCAL California jazz radio station named KCSM :) High-speed stream: http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/kcsm/kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls

Topic: What's Happening? / Benefit Concert (Oakland, CA) Monday Mar. 24, 08

Tell your friends near San Francisco
about this great event to help a child:

REPOST ….. from MySpace …..

Monday, March 24th, 2008 at Yoshi’s
at Jack London Square in Oakland.
Shows at 8pm/$25 and 10pm/$18.
Tickets are now on sale!!

http://www.myspace.com/benefitconcertinfo

Christopher Rodriguez is a ten year old
who was recently taking a piano lesson at
Harmony Road Music School (Piedmont Piano
Company) in Oakland, California and was
hit by a stray bullet from a robbery across
the street from the school.

It severed his spinal cord and he is now
paralyzed from the waist down. If you can’t
attend the concert please consider making
this [MySpace] page one of your top friends
for a while to help spread the word. Thank
you so much!
~Carol Alban, Benefit Concert Organizer

Topic: Non-Music Discussion / Jazz in the White House

-
What a fun question !

Louis Armstrong (President)

Jack Teagarden (Vice President)

Monk (Chief Justice)

Charlie Parker (House Speaker)

Sonny Rollins (President pro tempore of the Senate)

Also . . .

Basie, Dizzy, JJ, Duke, Ella, Billie, Getz, Roach (Assoc Sup Court Justices), Sun Ra (Sec of State), Miles (Chair of the Joint Chiefs), Trane (NASA), Blakey, Dinah Washington, Mingus, Slide Hampton, Metheny, Ornette, Prez, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, Dexter, Clifford, The Marsalis family, Goodman, Ray Brown, Steve Lacy, Thad, Toshiko, Ray Charles, The Adderleys, Randy Weston, Gil Evans (Ambassadors), Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Jack Dejohnette, Bix, The Breckers, Sarah Vaughan, Chris Potter, Rosolino, Nina Simone, Maria Schneider, Tom Harrell, Stanton Moore, Robin Eubanks, Jaco, Bill Evans, Christian McBride, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Jim Hall, Jelly Roll Morton, Scofield, Nicholas Payton, Phil Woods, Toots, Chet, Grant Green, Chick Corea (state governors).

Okay, who am I forgetting ?
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Topic: General Non-Jazz Music Discussion / Other musicians of interest

Sorry, I mixed some jazz players
in with the non-jazz players but
they all seem to be getting along
okay :) Playlist below . . .

http://www.geocities.com/kingjohnson2003/shuffle5mar08.pdf

Topic: Players & Bands / Trane: An Alternate Take

What a fine writer you are!
I love your adjectives. But
“intoning ‘A Love Supreme’
17 times” was an inspirational
hallmark by definition. Just
another guy’s opinion :)

Topic: What's Happening? / A little humor from the brass section

Please, get some clarity. Kindly refer to the musical evolution poster at

http://site.bigbrass.com/images/evolution_trombone_poster.jpg

(ha, ha)

Topic: General Forum Topics / Feedback and Suggestions

Really enjoying the graphics used here at jazz.com as well as the logical layout. Nice work, Space Dog (ruff ruff). ~Adam in Atlanta.