Three more tunes from October 19, 1988 with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Mark Behre (trombone), Carol Moeller (piano), and John Kafalas (tuba). The selections are “WPA Blues,” a tune I don’t know the title of, and “Kansas City.”
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This program is the first installment of the session from October 19, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Mark Behre (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano, first selection) and Carol Moeller (piano, last two selections), and John Kafalas (tuba).
The tunes are “Sittin’ on Top of the World,” “Copper-Colored Gal,” and “Whose Honey Are You?”
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Here are some rare 1949 recordings by trombonist Tommy Turk. I don’t have any information about the personnel, location, or circumstances of these recordings — but they contain some of the best jazz trombone ever committed to tape. An obituary in the November, 1981 issue of JazzTimes by Gerry Sloan of the University of Arkansas, contains a discography that mentions “Tommy Turk — Untitled (four one-of-a-kind discs, three 12″ and one 10″, made from Tommy’s private tapes — in the collection of John E. McDade.” It seems likely that those are the recordings presented here — but if you have any further information about these sessions, please drop me a line at podcast @ kafalas.com.
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Part VI of the session from 9/28/88 with Jimmy Mazzy on banjo and vocals, Fred Lind on cornet, Dr. Paul Meymaris on clarinet, Carol Moeller on piano, John Kafalas on tuba, Stu Grover on drums, and we were joined by a special guest, Terry Keef, on alto sax. The selections are “Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere,” and “Puttin’ All My Eggs In One Basket.”
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We continue with the session from September 28, 1988, with Jimmy Mazzy on banjo and vocals, Fred Lind on cornet, Dr. Paul Meymaris on clarinet, Carol Moeller on piano, John Kafalas on tuba, Stu Grover on drums, and we were joined by a special guest, Terry Keef, on alto sax. The selections are “Do Me A Favor,” “I Double Dare You,” and “Cuba, or I’ll See You In C-U-B-A.”
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This month, we return to the session of 9/28/88, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums. The selections are “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do,” “Ole Miss,” and “How Long Blues.”
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This month’s program is a set by the Jack Webb New Orleans Jazz Band, from May 6, 2000, live at Joe’s Place in Flagstaff, Arizona. The band was made up of Guy Senese (cornet/vocals), John Sexton (trombone), Dominic Lalli (tenor sax), John Kafalas (tuba), and Frankie… I don’t know his last name! (drums). The selections are “Didn’t He Ramble,” “Apex Blues,” and “Avalon.”
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This is “Part III” because Podcasts #13 and #14 presented some music from September 28, 1988. We’re going to finish that session, starting with this program and upcoming ones; and from here on out, will present the remaining (shoebox-full-of) recordings in chronological order, right through the last session we recorded on June 7, 1989. In any case, the musicians on September 28, 1988 were Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums. The selections are “Anything Goes,” “Everybody Loves My Baby,” and “Blue and Brokenhearted.”
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Part V of the session from 8/17/88. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), an unidentified clarinetist, Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Jeepers Creepers,” then a piano interlude including “Little Rock Getaway,” followed by “Sweet Girl,” then “Varsity Drag.”
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This program continues the session from 8/17/88 (the first three installments of which were presented in 2013). The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), an unidentified clarinetist, Carol Moeller and Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums), with a guest vocal by Carrie Mazzy. The selections are “How About Me,” “That’s All There Is, There Ain’t No More,” “Blue Room,” “Goody-Goody,” and “If I Didn’t Care.”
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The final portion of the session from March 30, 1988, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Stu Baird (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Don Frothingham (piano). The selections are “Ole Miss,” “I Cover the Waterfront,” and “Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town.”
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This program concludes the session of March 30, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Carrie Mazzy (vocal), Stu Baird (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Don Frothingham (piano). The selections are an unidentified tune [John Clark, a listener as well as an outstanding Boston-area reedman, identifies it as “And They Called It Dixieland” — ed], followed by “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man,” “Just A Little While To Stay Here,” and “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.”
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We roll along with the 5th installment of the session from 3/30/88 at Ephraim’s. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Stu Baird (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Carol Moeller (piano), Mark Behre (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). There are just two selections in this program: “Shuffle Your Feet” and “Undecided.”
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We continue with the session from March 30, 1988, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Carol Moeller (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), Mark Behre (tuba), Stu Baird (cornet), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “I Double Dare You,” “I Want a Little Girl,” and “Get Out and Get Under the Moon.”
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This is the third part of the session from March 30, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham and Carol Moeller (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). There’s also a guest vocal by Carrie Mazzy on the first tune, “You Tell Me Your Dream, I’ll Tell You Mine.” The other selections are “Puttin’ All My Eggs In One Basket,” “Anytime, Any Day, Anywhere,” and “Just a Gigolo.”
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We continue with the earliest session I recorded at Ephraim’s: March 30, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “You’re Just Pretending,” a blues that I don’t know the name of [note: Thanks to John Clark, who identifies it as “Stackolee”… ed.], and finally, “Shoe Shine Boy.”
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This is the first music I recorded at Ephraim’s, from 3/30/88. This evening, the musicians were Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are Blue Turning Grey, Back In Your Own Backyard, and Just You, Just Me.
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This program completes the April 13, 1988 session, featuring Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Ole Miss,” “Undecided,” “Blue Turning Grey,” “Goody-Goody,” which features a vocal by Carrie Mazzy, and “My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now.”
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This is Part III of a WERS-FM radio broadcast live from the Willow Jazz Club, Somerville, Mass., from around 1983, with Trombone Madness:
J.D. Smith and John Licata (trombones)
George Garzone (special guest, tenor sax)
Corey Eisenberg (piano)
Dave Gold (bass)
Glenn Davis (drums)
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This is Part II of a WERS-FM radio broadcast live from the Willow Jazz Club, Somerville, Mass., from around 1983, with Trombone Madness:
J.D. Smith and John Licata (trombones)
George Garzone (special guest, tenor sax)
Corey Eisenberg (piano)
Dave Gold (bass)
Glenn Davis (drums)
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This is a WERS-FM radio broadcast live from the Willow Jazz Club, Somerville, Mass., from around 1983, with Trombone Madness:
J.D. Smith and John Licata (trombones)
George Garzone (special guest, tenor sax)
Corey Eisenberg (piano)
Dave Gold (bass)
Glenn Davis (drums)
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This program is Part V of the session recorded on April 13, 1988 at Ephraim’s. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “How Could I Be Blue?,” “I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody,” and a tune the name of which I’m not sure of.
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For a change of pace, this is a concert by the Harvard Wind Ensemble at McGill University in Montreal, on April 6, 1990. The conductor is Thomas G. Everett, and I’m in the back row on euphonium — taking the spotlight briefly for a solo starting at 10:30. I don’t recall all the pieces on the program, but the second one (with the euphonium solo) is “Colors & Contours” by Leslie Bassett, and it’s followed by “Variations on a Theme of Haydn” by Norman Dello Joio.
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We continue with the session from 4/13/88, with special guest Jean Phillips Kelly at the piano for the first tune, “You’ve Changed,” which was a particular favorite of cornetist Fred Lind, who is featured. After that, Don Frothingham returns to the Steinway for “Sweet Girl” and “Louisian-I-A.” The other musicians are our usual cast: Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Stu Grover (drums).
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This program continues with the session recorded on April 13, 1988 and features a special guest: Jean Phillips Kelly, piano. The other musicians are from our usual cast of characters: Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Freight Train Blues,” “Tishomingo,” “Lazy River,” and “Darktown Strutters’ Ball.”
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