More Vintage Getz
Apr 15, 2010 Jazz Clips
Posting that clip on Stan Getz playing The Way You Look Tonight evoked something for a bunch of readers last week. I got a note from my friend Dan Axelrod with an interesting story and clip:
“Billy Bauer told me he was in the Royal Roost in the early 50′s and Stan on a break returned to the bandstand and without accompaniment daven’d Little Girl Blue and when he was done there wasn’t a dry eye in the club.This ’56 live Basin Street Cafe rendition (Shelly Manne, Oscar Pettiford, Dick Katz) evokes a bit of that beauty- if you wanna post.”
A few words of explanation. Dan uses the word “daven’d.” This would be something of a Jewish colloquialism, although I’ve never heard anyone else use it precisely in this context. I think it generally means prayed, but in this case
Tags: Billy Bauer, Dan Axelrod, Royal Roost, Stan Getz
Catching Up, Nov. 24, 2008
Nov 24, 2008 Jazz Memoirs, Jazz Vinyl, Jazz Vinyl on eBay, Prestige
Here are updates on some of the records on eBay we’ve been watching at Jazz Collector recently. Most of these will be added to the Jazz Collector Price Guide by the end of the week. Take a look, please.
Sahib Shihab, Conversations, Polydor 623257. This was an original pressing in M- condition. Price: $256
Billy Bauer, Let’s Have A Session, Ad Lib 5501. This was an original pressing with the red label. The record was in M- condition and the cover was VG++. It sold for $160. I have two personal Billy Bauer stories. Back in the early 1970s, I had a gig as a rhythm guitarist accompanying my friend Dan Axelrod. My musical talents are, to be generous, modest at best, but Dan taught me enough chords to support him while he soloed. At the time Dan was taking lessons from Billy Bauer and one night Bauer came down to see us with a group of his other students.
Tags: Ad Lib, Art Papper, Bethlehem, Billy Bauer, Booker Ervin, Candid, Dan Axelrod, Jackie McLean, Jazz West, Polydor, Roland Kirk, Sahib Shihab
