Comments on: mark weber | the jimmy cleveland octet rehearsal july 31, 1980 @ local 47 http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/mark-weber-the-jimmy-cleveland-octet-rehearsal-july-31-1980-local-47/reviews/ on-line source for jazz, free jazz, improvised, innovative, adventurous and unheard music and dangerous poetry. We listen to music and read artists who don't even exist yet. This page belongs to the Metropolis media group. Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: William Roper http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/mark-weber-the-jimmy-cleveland-octet-rehearsal-july-31-1980-local-47/reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-600 William Roper Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:49:01 +0000 http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/?p=7901#comment-600 Mark Weber, I have read your fine essay on Jimmy Cleveland. A couple points. 1. "And let me say that I don’t know any jazz musicians who work in the avant garde who are members," Okay, granted I am not a jazz musician but I do work in the avant garde and I do belong to the union. AND you do know me. I suspect that I am not the only one who belongs to the union that you know and some of them are probably jazz musicians. 2. I don't know if you know, but I was in Cleveland's band for at least two maybe three years. I was introduced to Cleveland by yet another trombonist -- Dick Rinde. Carl Saunders, Steve Huffsteter or Bob Summers played trumpet, James Leary on bass, Jerry Pinter or Benn Clatworthy on tenor, Bill Cunliffe or Cecilia Coleman on piano. I think Randall Willis played baritone for a while, Paul Kreibich on drums most of the time. Very good book. It was put together for the band that had Howard Johnson on tuba, so it was rather challenging. I quit the band before they did any recording, which they eventually did. Roper Altadena, CA <strong>Editors Note:</strong> More on William Roper can be found here: View the video component of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/blasquinte/loc.html" rel="nofollow">Land Ob Cotton</a>. Click <strong><a href="http://128.97.152.18/?id=3040&query=William" rel="nofollow">here</a></strong>, this is the artists page. Scroll down to "William Roper," click and the video will download. Mark Weber,
I have read your fine essay on Jimmy Cleveland. A couple points.

1. “And let me say that I don’t know any jazz musicians who work in the avant garde who are members,” Okay, granted I am not a jazz musician but I do work in the avant garde and I do belong to the union. AND you do know me. I suspect that I am not the only one who belongs to the union that you know and some of them are probably jazz musicians.

2. I don’t know if you know, but I was in Cleveland’s band for at least two maybe three years. I was introduced to Cleveland by yet another trombonist — Dick Rinde. Carl Saunders, Steve Huffsteter or Bob Summers played trumpet, James Leary on bass, Jerry Pinter or Benn Clatworthy on tenor, Bill Cunliffe or Cecilia Coleman on piano. I think Randall Willis played baritone for a while, Paul Kreibich on drums most of the time. Very good book. It was put together for the band that had Howard Johnson on tuba, so it was rather challenging. I quit the band before they did any recording, which they eventually did.

Roper
Altadena, CA

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]]> By: Todd Moore http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/mark-weber-the-jimmy-cleveland-octet-rehearsal-july-31-1980-local-47/reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Todd Moore Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:44:51 +0000 http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/?p=7901#comment-597 Mark Weber is not just an anthropoligist with a camera. He is the jazz world's essential poet with a camera. Both the photo images and the narrative add just that much more to the backstory of the Jimmy Cleveland Octet.. And, if you read this piece closely, you'll see that some of Mark Weber's story is here as well. If you don't leave a little blood on the floor when you write something like this, then you haven't done your job. Mark Weber is not just an anthropoligist with a camera. He is the jazz world’s essential poet with a camera. Both the photo images and the narrative add just that much more to the backstory of the Jimmy Cleveland Octet.. And, if you read this piece closely, you’ll see that some of Mark Weber’s story is here as well. If you don’t leave a little blood on the floor when you write something like this, then you haven’t done your job.

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