Articles by Cool Vic, The Music Dick

File 0999-2 - Case Solved: The Missing Benedetto

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 14, 2005

Greetings from The Big Windy, AAJers! On my way back east. Who would've thought that a nice guy like me in a nice 'burg like Chicago could find so much trouble?Guys and dolls sure love their tunes in this big town. Like any town, I guess. When I got the call to locate that missing guitar, I figured that only one guy had the ways and means to swipe it. I also figured that only one guy had ...

File 0999-1 - Case: The Missing Benedetto

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 14, 2005

Greetings AAJers!This is Vic chiming in from the road. I'm currently just south of Chicago, casing and cruising 'round Joliet. Got my Hertz Rent-a-Car, two unopened bottles, a box full of prime Cuban stinkers, and “Blues and the Abstract Truth" bustin' out the tape deck. The south side of Chicago really IS the baddest part of town, ya know what I mean?Yep, it's this same Joliet that brought us the famed brothers Jake and Elwood Blues. ...

File 0899-2

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 13, 2005

Case #3Hello Cool Vic:I am seeking a itinerary of concert dates that Louis Armstrong played in the summer of 1960.Do you (or any of your cohorts) know of a reliable source (website, book, or database) where I might uncover this info?Thanks for your time and concern (Love the website.)—Brian SouleSoule Man,Your question takes me back. It was a time before I was even born, when Satchmo ...

File 0899-1

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 13, 2005

Case #1 Greetings Vic... Long time no see, Did Kenton ever record “Here's That Rainy Day" in the studio? How many recordings of that song did he make? And... Are there any CD's of Woody Herman's Woodchoppers from the '40s Herman Band? —Dick Bellach Greetings, Herr Doktor Bellach, It has been a long time, hasn't it? That summer in Berlin. I had almost forgotten... the cabaret, the cigarettes, the hefe-weizen. ...

File 0799-1

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 12, 2005

Case #1 Memorandum To: [email protected] re: Missing Music Report I've been on this case for a long time without success, but I'm just a Private Ear who can't find what I want to hear. It's time to call in the pro. Here's the rundown: an old friend swears that Lambert, Hendricks & Ross recorded “Shiny Stockings," but I can't find any reference to it. (I did find it by Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan, but ...

File 0799-2

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 12, 2005

Case #3 Cool Vic, I have given up trying to locate the recordings AND sheet music to a couple of tunes entitled: “Malaga" by I have no clue and “Taboo" by a woman with last name Enesco. I hope you can help. I really would like to either listen to or perform these original versions. Desperate Again... Sam J Desperate Sammy, If you're my friend Mr. Jackson, I remind you yet ...

File 0699-2

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 11, 2005

Case #3

Mr. Vic,

Please help me - I beg of you. There was a famous jazz club in San Francisco, I'm pretty certain it was an after-hours or late hours club that is now defunct. Do you know its name?

-- Evan Bennett

Evanesque,

Your folks named you after Bill Evans' son, Evan. Isn't that right? Thought so. I guess that makes this “A Letter To Evan".

I love Frisco. (Hey, relax, I ...

File 0699-3

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 11, 2005

Case #5 Dear Vic...I'm looking for a version of the song “One Note Samba," performed by Dizzy Gillespie. I'm pretty sure James Moody plays flute on it and it has this tremendous cymbal-break in the middle. I've been looking for it for several years now, found a couple of versions (including a live-version with Gillespie and Moody in Paris, not the one), but none of it matches with the one I heard. Maybe you can help me?

File 0699-1

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 11, 2005

Case #1 Hi Victor...it's Victor, isn't it? Did Dianne Reeves ever record “Down Here on the Ground?" I heard a female version of this song about a week ago while riding in my car and it sounded like Dianne Reeves. This recording is not on her new CD, Bridges. Maybe she sung it on someone else's CD; if so, do you know whose? --Renee Clark Miss Clark, You can ...

File 0699-4

by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
November 11, 2005

Case #7 Hi Cool Vic,Remember The Mastersounds? The (three? four?) Montgomery brothers, including Wes, when they played 'Naptown. They cut a record in the '60s, something like Jazz Impressions of 'The King and I.' Incredible stuff. Has it been reissued on CD? I've been looking for it for years. (I note that Ahmad Jamal's Live at the Pershing has finally been reissued on CD. Cheap, too. I bought three: one for the house, one for the car and ...