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

[Don Chichester]

W2XMN, Alpine, NJ.  Major Edwin H. Armstrong's experimental FM station, now owned by Columbia University, NYC.
 
Don
 
> From: simmonssomer at comcast.net
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> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:55:19 -0500
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Joe Guy, was Beiderbecke TV series on BBC
> 
> 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
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> 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
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> 
> >
> > 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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