![]() ![]() Although the festival itself had a rocky history through the 1960's, moving to variety of venues and even out of town in the 1970's, it did create the template for the founding in 1958 of the Monterey Jazz Festival, which flourished for years and is still going strong. Each year it was recorded by Voice of America radio and released in several best-selling jazz record albums, which only spread the relevance of jazz in the late 1950's even further. The Newport Jazz Festival was in its fourth year and had established itself as a true ambassador for the jazz world. One of the better experiences I've had with that lately is viewing the new video print of the 1958 Newport Jazz Frestival documentary, "Jazz on a Summer's Day". I'm feeling like there's not much to look forward to these days, so I am enjoying re- discovering the past much more. Review of "Jazz on a Summer's Day" for EatDrinkFilms In the process of getting there we might have given a passing nod to the "Be Here Now" mantra from the late 1960's, but the answer we claearly settled on was "Be THERE Now!"ĭick Fregulia, CEO Blue Koala Records, 2022 Significant inspiration came from memories of San Francisco's long defunct Jazz Workshop and Blackhawk clubs and the sounds of Miles Davis' classic 1961 Kind of Blue album. Ultimately the cd hopes to honor the traditions of great jazz recordings and jazz firmly rooted inĪcoustic sounds, classic harmonies, sophisticated rhythms, and lyrical melody lines. The remaining tracks were recorded with Jimmy on drums in 2021. The tracks with Bill Moody are from the JB Piano concerts, accompanied sometimes by Piro Patton on vibes. I selected my best tracks from the What Now? album, recorded a batch of new tunes with Jimmy and Steve, re-mastered the combined results, and moved forward to honor the past. When the pandemic hit I withdrew to an online Facebook piano bar from home, then moved on to this recording project. Jimmy also ran a small recording studio in San Anselmo, which would ultimately facilitate this cd. But I had recently met Jimmy Hobson, a fine drummer playing with bassist Steve Webber in Larry Moss's trio at Joe's, so we put together a couple of concert gigs as a trio. By 2020 I was firmly entrenched in playing weekly solo piano at Marin Joe's in Marin County. ![]() The next chapter: Bill Moody sufffered a fatal heart attack in 2018, the trio gigs all disappeared, and the Covid pandemic was coming. But I always liked parts of it and wanted to see it continue to evolve. In 2017 I printed 75 copies, put it on for digital sales only, and gave away more copies than I sold. The original album, which we recorded at concerts in 20, had some very good trio and quartet tracks, some borderline ones, and a cover/concept that struggled. This cd is the answer to the question presented by my last cd, What Now? in which I was left wondering what to do after getting rudely dismissed from my trio gig at Cafe Claude in San Franisco.
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