tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post22298656905213874..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Ray Brown: Holding Up the Bottom of the WorldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4063779825655000672012-02-13T08:04:50.370-08:002012-02-13T08:04:50.370-08:00Steve,
Good memory...
plan to make
assault on th...Steve,<br /><br />Good memory...<br /><br />plan to make<br />assault on the figure<br /><br />that is, what is that which<br />is pastTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37446724511184469162012-02-13T07:58:50.472-08:002012-02-13T07:58:50.472-08:00Tom,
Sorry I didn't get to see/hear this yest...Tom,<br /><br />Sorry I didn't get to see/hear this yesterday -- such great notes and quotes ("You didn’t have to recognize all the notes so long as you felt the pulse.”). I met & heard your brother John play once in Sausalito, my then girlfriend's house up on hill under the oak trees, someone on her grand piano, John on his standup bass -- the 4th of July I think it was, all those notes now thought about (if not quite heard) again. . .<br /><br />2.12<br /><br />pale blue whiteness of sky above sunlit<br />shoulder of ridge, moon beside branches<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> thought about, plan to make<br /> assault on the figure<br /><br /> that is, what is that which,<br /> now is to which forms<br /><br />grey white clouds reflected in channel,<br />pelican flapping toward green of ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51595597057662142952012-02-12T22:14:41.846-08:002012-02-12T22:14:41.846-08:00A nano-memory of "Salt Peanuts" is defin...A nano-memory of "Salt Peanuts" is definitely worth sprinkling into this pleasant mix of tribute and commentary, for which many thanks.<br /><br />Ray, in retrospect, might have done well to opt for the unsalted variety. (He died of a stroke the year that last photo was taken.) But -- take it from here --- it's important now and then to at least be able to look back and remember a world in which one was permitted that now forbidden exotic substance.<br /><br />But were we talking about nostalgia, or salt -- or simply reverence and respect for the days when it was not considered uncool to hit all the notes?<br /><br />In any case it is an extremely cool thing to hear that jangled nerves can be calmed by a humble blog post. That ain't peanuts.<br /><br />Here's to intense concentration, indeed.<br /><br />Many thanks to all from the Clark brothers.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-777815601809455212012-02-12T16:45:46.100-08:002012-02-12T16:45:46.100-08:00Curtis,
you and I seem to be in the same bad plac...Curtis,<br /><br />you and I seem to be in the same bad place tonight. Until, of course, Tom posted this.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77222155894510512862012-02-12T09:42:51.268-08:002012-02-12T09:42:51.268-08:00This is a treat in all ways. Thank you. It's ...This is a treat in all ways. Thank you. It's helping (as much as anything can) me to cope with an attack of nerves but replacing the bad sensations with very good ones. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31830776365374539802012-02-12T09:24:59.596-08:002012-02-12T09:24:59.596-08:00Great tribute to Ray Brown, and a fascinating essa...Great tribute to Ray Brown, and a fascinating essay on the bass. Very much enjoyed the Frank Jackson quartet too. Right before JC’s bass solo, starting about 3:20, Jackson seems to work in a little “Salt Peanuts” riff.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28357983263449242192012-02-12T09:05:55.811-08:002012-02-12T09:05:55.811-08:00"a man who has a sound he walks around with&q..."a man who has a sound he walks around with" The video of One Bass Hit attests to this and to Brown's intense concentration--the man looks nowhere but straight ahead as if mesmerized by his own musical talent.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73071194247295233642012-02-12T06:39:40.805-08:002012-02-12T06:39:40.805-08:00What a truly delightful Sunday morning post! I...What a truly delightful Sunday morning post! I'd forgotten all about, in the dusty archive of memory, Oscar Peterson Meets Ben Webster. Ray Brown ... absoluting an integral part to that amazing recording.<br /><br />And John ... wonderful recording. Listening to Frank Jackson reminded me of seeing Charles Brown (with Clifford Jordan) in a small setting in underground Atlanta.<br /><br />Beautiful. Cheers to John and all.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48127953522817053332012-02-12T01:21:46.856-08:002012-02-12T01:21:46.856-08:00Here is a transcription, with the sounds, of Ray B...Here is a transcription, with the sounds, of Ray Brown's bass part in Bye-Bye Blackbird, from Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHp1zs3U8iU" rel="nofollow">Bye-Bye Blackbird (Ray Brown bass part transcription)</a><br /><br />And a bit more related atmosphere from my brother, offering a sense of the lineages:<br /><br />"I loved the Gottlieb photos on the blog, didn't know that they were in the Library of Congress to be searched and browsed. I missed hearing most of [those guys] play, wish I had [had the chance]. I did hear Miles once in the fusion phase and heard Ray Brown often...<br /> <br />"A lot of those players were well before my time. I feel like I have a link with them through Frank Jackson, the piano player I work with every Thursday. Frank had his 86th birthday in December and he's going strong, plays all over town as well as the steady gig I do with him. He was the house pianist at Bop City, the legendary club in the Fillmore in the 40's and 50's where all the players fell by after their gigs to jam after hours. He knew and worked with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, most of the giants of the music and can tell some great stories as well as playing and singing terrific straight ahead jazz."<br /><br />Here is John himself at work on bass, at that "steady gig" with Frank Jackson:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdRMMjHJH_s" rel="nofollow">Frank Jackson Quartet: Confessin' the Blues (JC solo from 3:25)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com