Noch ein Bootleg hier – zwei Mitschnitte aus dem Blue Note in Chicago vom 24. April und 1. Mai 1953, jeweils zuerst das Trio von Oscar Peterson (Barney Kessel, Ray Brown), gefolgt von Buddy DeFrancos Quartett (Kenny Drew, Eugene Wright, Art Blakey).
Gar nie wirklich überlegt, aber das war wohl Blakeys letzter grösserer Sideman-Gig:
“Earl Hines had me so tight when I was in his combo. He bought us all bathrobes and pajamas and he’d send in flowers every morning to put in your bathrobe lapel – ‘You never know when the press is coming.’ (laughter). […] He went out with a combo; he had Etta Jones, Harold Clark, Bennie Green, Jonah Jones and myself and I think Tommy Potter. Osie Johnson came in and took my place. Oh, Gate was so mad, he wanted to beat me up. We had a good thing going, but I had to get out of there, it wasn’t my thing. I wanted to get myself together so I went and joined Buddy DeFranco.”
“Well, he [Buddy DeFranco] had a hell of a rhythm section. He had Curley Russell and Gene Wright and Kenny Drew and myself. We had a ball back there, we didn’t care what he did, just set fire to it. But he was a fine person, something else. He turned down a lot of opportunities because of us. Everything wasn’t roses back then. They’d expect Buddy DeFranco to come in with an all White band. He’d show up with us and some places we’d come in the Midwest, Idaho, we get our reservations and come in to check in and we say, ‘What do you mean there’s no room, we have reservations.’ They’d say, ‘Naw, we got a football game today, your rooms are all gone.’ Buddy would say, ‘What! Football in August?’ (laughter). He’d come in and raise hell; he’s a hell of a man.”
– Art Blakey, Cadence, July 1981.
Via hier:
https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/
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