Comments on: Sonny Rollins: “Jazz is a Meritocracy”

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:22:43 +0000

Maarten/Mattyman: I went to the last concert, MCN 1201, the Lee Konitz/Zoot Sims package (also Phineas Newborn and J + K). The package toured Europe under the name
Jazz from Carnegie Hall.

By: maartenkools

maartenkools — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:02:15 +0000

rudolf: did you visit any of those concerts that time?

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:35:27 +0000

Well, Maarten and Rudolf, that’s a nice bit of extra information I didn’t expect! Thanks, it’s also what makes ‘hanging around’ on Jazzcollector so much fun 😉 and at Rudolf: too bad I can’t show the ‘Weaver of Dreams’ clip to my late grandpa any more, I’m sure he would have been able to tell with 100% certainty if it really is the Laren Concertzaal. Still a nice bit of video though!

By: rockies

rockies — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:35:07 +0000

Hi gentlemen,

I saw SR playing at the Montreal Jazz Festival last year when he was 80 years old.
Just spectacular !!
1 1/2 hour of Pure Magic !!!
His solos were simply amazing …

thanks

By: maartenkools

maartenkools — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:31:47 +0000

the following releases have been made the last year(s), about the concerts in The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in teh 50′ and 60′
Really good material

* Chet Baker: Indian Summer – The Complete 1955 Concerts in Holland
(MCN 0701)
* Gerry Mulligan: Western Reunion – The Sextet Live in Amsterdam 1956
(MCN 0801)
* J.J. Johnson: What’s New – The J.J. Johnson Quintet live in Amsterdam 1957 (MCN 0903)
* Sarah Vaughan: If This Isn’t Love – Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio in Amsterdam 1958 (MCN 1006)
*Star Eyes – MCN 1201
featuring Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, Phineas Newborn, Red Garland, Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:44:36 +0000

Mattyman: I found a Sonny Rollins video track on You Tube, which looks like to be from the Laren Concertzaal. Look for Sonny Rollins trio and select “Weaver of Dreams”.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:38:58 +0000

bad news Mattyman.
During the Kurzaal concerts there were always VARA and/or Philips people active preparing for a recording of the events. Thus we have the LP on Unique Jazz # 19 of the Miles Davis quintet with Trane (is also on CD). The Chet Baker quartet with Dick Twardzik was also recorded that way (18 Sept. 1955)
Do you know the series of the Dutch Jazz Archive? Very valuable. So far Chet quartet, Gerry Mulligan sextet and J.J. with Bobby Jaspar and Tommy Flanagan Over CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

By: Al

Al — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:56:34 +0000

You’re welcome. I liked it to. Thanks to Dave Pehling (and Sonny) for doing it.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:44:11 +0000

And before I forget, Al: thanks for putting this interview up. I liked it a lot 😉

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:43:25 +0000

Well, Rudolf, I’m afraid that if they used Ampex video reels for it, they probably reused them for something else. You read that all the time: Ampex reels were so expensive that reusing them was cheaper. It’s also the reason why we have lost basically all the episodes from “Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster” 😉 -Only the songs they recorded were ever recorded on film and, hence, still exist. In the early days of Dutch TV, however, a lot of shows (for instance most of the early Toon Hermans) shows were literally filmed off TV screen on film, also known as ‘telesync’ recordings, but made on good old celluloid. And then later put on Ampex. They have done the same with Dutch Swing College Band performances, so maybe there is a tiny chance that somewhere in The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) there are still some of those ‘telesync’ recordings of that particular Henry Grimes and Pete LaRoca performance with Theodore ‘Sonny’ Rollins! 😀