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Kenny Burrell and Mundell Lowe on "Club Date"
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van
Nov 10, 2012, 11:14:48 PM11/10/12
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I've been looking at some videos that I taped off of the TV back in the 80s, and I came across a whole tape of a series PBS used to have called "Club Date".
It took place in La Jolla SD, at the jazz nite club in Elario's, in front of a live (well, they were breathing) audience in 1988.
Mundell Lowe was featured in a trio with the house rhythm section, Bob Magnusson, and Jim Plank (drums). It's typically lame Lowe, playing some guitar without any F-holes, but he plays some nice chord work for Bob Cooper on tenor.
Then there was a Kenny Burrell show, again with a trio, that was much better, until he took out his acoustic guitar.
Both Burrell and Lowe aren't the greatest trio players; it's too bad they didn't have a pianist or some other chord player.
Then the shows kept getting better and better; Buddy Collette with Larry Nash on piano- superb flautist!
Kenny Barron Trio playing only his originals- just incredible!
Hank Jones Trio- even better!
Cedar Walton with his own trio doing complex re-workings of Ellington tunes- great!
Red Rodney with Gary Lefevre on sax, and Frank Strazzeri on piano- great!
There were also two lame ones with Charles MacPherson (off night?)and the putrid Anita O'Day, but the good shows are the best things I've ever seen on TV.
They have the Joe Pass show on youtube, and Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and Peter Sprague supposedly did shows, but I don't know if they're on youtube.
The only search info I found said there were 37 shows altogether.
Does anyone know who else was featured?
It took place in La Jolla SD, at the jazz nite club in Elario's, in front of a live (well, they were breathing) audience in 1988.
Mundell Lowe was featured in a trio with the house rhythm section, Bob Magnusson, and Jim Plank (drums). It's typically lame Lowe, playing some guitar without any F-holes, but he plays some nice chord work for Bob Cooper on tenor.
Then there was a Kenny Burrell show, again with a trio, that was much better, until he took out his acoustic guitar.
Both Burrell and Lowe aren't the greatest trio players; it's too bad they didn't have a pianist or some other chord player.
Then the shows kept getting better and better; Buddy Collette with Larry Nash on piano- superb flautist!
Kenny Barron Trio playing only his originals- just incredible!
Hank Jones Trio- even better!
Cedar Walton with his own trio doing complex re-workings of Ellington tunes- great!
Red Rodney with Gary Lefevre on sax, and Frank Strazzeri on piano- great!
There were also two lame ones with Charles MacPherson (off night?)and the putrid Anita O'Day, but the good shows are the best things I've ever seen on TV.
They have the Joe Pass show on youtube, and Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and Peter Sprague supposedly did shows, but I don't know if they're on youtube.
The only search info I found said there were 37 shows altogether.
Does anyone know who else was featured?
Gerry
Nov 10, 2012, 11:53:11 PM11/10/12
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provide it to your long time friends. Or just a stroll down memory
lane?
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time. -- W. H. Auden
van
Nov 11, 2012, 6:38:37 PM11/11/12
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The producer/director of the show, Paul Marshall, is a noted film documentarian for KPBS, and these shows were recently accepted into the Library of Congress.
Someone on another forum said people were putting them on youtube.
He mentioned a Larry Vukovitch show with Tom Harrel in the band.
Gerry
Nov 12, 2012, 12:24:32 PM11/12/12
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On 2012-11-11 23:38:37 +0000, van said:
> The producer/director of the show, Paul Marshall, is a noted film
> documentarian for KPBS, and these shows were recently accepted into the
> Library of Congress.
> Someone on another forum said people were putting them on youtube.
> He mentioned a Larry Vukovitch show with Tom Harrel in the band.
I wish they whole of it could be found via PBS or the LOC. In the
> The producer/director of the show, Paul Marshall, is a noted film
> documentarian for KPBS, and these shows were recently accepted into the
> Library of Congress.
> Someone on another forum said people were putting them on youtube.
> He mentioned a Larry Vukovitch show with Tom Harrel in the band.
meantime, yes it seems there are a few of them on youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/bjgk5br
Thanks for the pointers!
andy-uk .
Nov 12, 2012, 12:42:31 PM11/12/12
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