Remember when this was aired. I taped most of it on a few cassettes. Great it’s all here to enjoy. The masters have left us but we can still hear them.
Great interview. 1989 and so many of the jazz giants were still with us. Not so today unfortunately. I was blessed to be able to see and hear them live. Side note. It looks to me like Bags sitting at the piano bench. Tootie or Bish Bash on the microphone. Maybe Jimmy Heath talking to Bags and possibly Mel Lewis in the shorts with his leg in the air.
Great interview. I would have liked to hear a little about Getz's bossa nova involvement. I thought they might go there when the Beatles were brought up and Getz referenced his record competing with theirs on the charts - but that's as far as it went.
I think possibly that might be Urbie Green on trombone on"Headache" as he was in LA about this time with Benny Goodman for the BG bioflic along with Lionel & others.
So Phil Schaap went to the hospital and played records for the dying Roy Eldrige. I wonder, did anybody play records for Phil during his final days? Would it even have been possible? What a tragedy.
Right there. Stan says that playing Dixieland when he started out was fortunate. Oh how I wish all the kids studying jazz in college would just learn to accompany a soloist. Now it's just one solo after another. Dullsville. And then having three horns be able to play with each other is just a blast. And Stan was a master at improvising along with others.
