[78-L] Joe Guy, was Beiderbecke TV series on BBC

[simmonssomer]

It was Monk  with Joe Guy , Kenny Clarke, Don Byas on "I Can't Give You 
Anything But Love"; "Rhythm Riff" "Nice Work If You Can Get It".that I know 
of.
It was Ken Kersey with Guy and Byas on "Kerouac, Exactly Like You and 
"Indiana."
 On"Topsy" it was Monk, Charlie Christian and Joe Guy.
Fortunately, many of these broadcasts from Minton's were recorded by 
Columbia University's pioneer FM station from whose facilities these b'casts 
originated.. Call letters now WKCR, but I believe that in Fall of 1941 this 
station, the first FM station in the country (if I'm nnot mistaken ), had 
call letters with an X in there somewhere as it was "experimental."
Anyway in the fall of 1941 these extensive b'casts featured the "Joe 
Guy-Kenny Clarke Band " featuring Thelonious Monk. The bassistt was Nick 
Fenton.
All still in the WKCR archives and are played once in a while by Phil 
Schaap. I have the titles on some of these b'casts for anyone researching 
the birth of the Bop period.

Al Simmons
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lewis" <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
To: "78-l" <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:34 AM
Subject: [78-L] Joe Guy, was Beiderbecke TV series on BBC


>
> Dan Van Landingham wrote:
>
> [Joe} Guy and [Billie] Holiday were together when she went to prison in 
> 1947.Guy appearantly led her 1945 big  band.He vanished after 1947;I don't 
> know what ever became of him.The only recorded work I ever heard by him 
> was Cootie Williams' 1942 Columbia recording of "Fly Right" a/k/a 
> "Epistrophy" which was unissued until 1966(on the Columbia LP "The Sound 
> of Harlem" according to Ira Gitler)
>
>>>>>
> Joe Guy is one of the trumpets in the jam band led by Charlie Christian in 
> the Minton's Playhouse recordings made by Jerry Newman in 1941. Lips Page 
> is one of the other trumpets, but from what I understand it is Guy that 
> plays the majority of the solos in those sessions. If so, he was a very 
> good player in the swing style. I have never encountered information 
> indicating what happened to him either.
>
> It is also said that Thelonious Monk is the pianist on some sides, though 
> this is disputed. To my ears, the pianist said to be Monk doesn't sound 
> anything like him, even bearing in mind that in 1941 he is also said to 
> have sounded more like Teddy Wilson than his mature self.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
>
>
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