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Topic: Buddy Emmons ' Steel guitar Jazz ' |
Richard Nelson
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 5 Mar 2017 8:56 pm |
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There's a review on the back of the 1993 CD release (as you may already know). Try to google Billboard magazine archives, it's a site were they scanned all their issues. Good luck!
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Frank Freniere
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Posted 6 Mar 2017 5:57 am
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| I believe "Downbeat" magazine gave it a positive review at the time. |
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Fish
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Posted 10 Mar 2017 8:29 pm
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I found this poor scan of the Downbeat Magazine review on the SGF many years ago:
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Jim Cohen
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Posted 10 Mar 2017 9:06 pm
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It would be very interesting to interview Charli Persip, the only living member of the group that recorded the album with Emmons. I would love to know what he and the rest of the band were thinking at the time, their impressions of Buddy, the material, the album in general, etc. Persip, now 87, apparently still teaches at the New School in NYC, and leads the band Supersound.
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Jack Stanton
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 5:52 am
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If Buddy wasn't an original stylist, I guess we can all check our guitars at the door....
Reminiscent of the "appreciation" and revisit NPR did of Buddy, Steel Guitar Jazz and his subsequent career as a solo artist a few years back. It was positive, but I wouldn't go as far as to say glowing.
Kind of reminds me a review in Variety for a band I was in the 70s. They mentioned my name and noted the I "ably handled the instrumental sections". At the time I was disappointed, but reading other reviews in that issue I can to realize it was positive.
What my father used to call "a back handed compliment". |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 8:09 am
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 9:16 am
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| If Buddy wasn't an original stylist, I guess we can all check our guitars at the door.... |
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I take it that the reviewer was speaking from a jazz musicians point of view rather than a steel guitarists point of view..  |
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Bill Cunningham
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 9:46 am
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
| It would be very interesting to interview Charli Persip, the only living member of the group that recorded the album with Emmons. I would love to know what he and the rest of the band were thinking at the time, their impressions of Buddy, the material, the album in general, etc. Persip, now 87, apparently still teaches at the New School in NYC, and leads the band Supersound. |
I think you are the man for the job! You practically live in the neighborhood and are capable. Make it happen, cap'n. 
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Fish
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 10:59 am
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Hi Michael,
I can see how one could read what I wrote and be offended. I meant no harm and apologize for my poor choice of words (no pun intended). On the contrary, I really appreciate the fact that you posted it many moons ago - I didn't know it was you who had. Without you taking the time to post it here, few of us would have ever seen the original. In fact, it's my only copy. Thanks!!
all the best,
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Fish
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 11:11 am
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Jim Cohen-
I contacted Mr. Persip in 2010 when researching Buddy's book. He was very polite but in no way wanted to be interviewed. Apparently 1963 was a very dark year for him on a personal level, and he pointedly said to me he did not want to relive the memory of those days again.
Buddy had very fond memories of his time in the studio with Charli Persip. If you get through to him and he changes his mind about an interview, go for it! Ask him if he remembers how disorganized the sessions were on the first day because there were no charts prepared due to a misunderstanding with Quincy Jones. Buddy and the band more or less jammed through the entire record, which is the way to go if you ask me.
I sure love that album!
Steve
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 3:28 pm
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 3:46 pm
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Jack Stanton
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 4:09 pm
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Barry,
Your assessment is spot on. The wtiter was no doubt coming from a perspective of a jazz reviewer in that time and place, while when look at that review it's hard to separate my reverence for Buddy and the hindsight of 55 years of all E accomplished in his career.
What continues to blow my mind was that he was only 21 when he made that album. Just amazing. |
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Fish
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Posted 11 Mar 2017 5:17 pm
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Michael-
Your original copy of the GP review is a first for me. Thanks for posting.
Regarding Leonard Feather: if anyone on the Forum has ever seen - or better yet has a copy of - a review of any kind by Feather of Steel Guitar Jazz, I would love to see it. I've heard rumors about it but have never been able to substantiate it's existence.
Thank you. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 8:43 am
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Jim Cohen
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 9:25 am
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| For comparison there was a tenor player who doubled flute, his name was Rufus Harley, and he did an entire LP (or two) of jazz on bagpipes. |
Hah! Never thought I'd read Rufus' name on the SGF! He played at my wedding! 
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Damir Besic
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 9:45 am
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Craig Stock
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 9:49 am
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Jim, did Rufus play bagpipes at your wedding? And if so, I didn't know you were Irish  O'Cohen?
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 10:35 am
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Michael Lee Allen
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Michael Lee Allen
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Richard Nelson
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 11:58 am
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Jim Cohen
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Posted 12 Mar 2017 6:24 pm
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| Jim, did Rufus play bagpipes at your wedding? And if so, I didn't know you were Irish O'Cohen? |
Yes, he did play bagpipes, but just to lead the procession out of the church. He cut quite a figure, as an African-American bagpiper in a kilt! And you think my background is mixed up...? 
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