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

[Dan Van Landingham]

On the Springboard International album I had,Byas also soloed on "Star Dust" 
with Dizzy,Joe Guy was
the soloist heard on "Guy's Got to Go" and "Stompin' at the Savoy" which also 
showed Christian to good
advantage.It was my understanding that those recordings were privately 
recorded.There was a story I
heard years ago that whenever Charlie Parker came up to the mic to play,the 
person who made the rec-
ordings turned off his recorder.I was of the impression that it was a man named 
Jerry Newman.The discs
were paper.Nick Fenton,who worked with Lester Young in the early '40s,doubled 
bariton sax along with
string bass.I have an old RCA Vintage album of Lester Young's band with Una Mae 
Carlisle on piano
and vocals("Blizkrieg Baby" and "Beautiful Eyes".also featured were trumpeter 
Shad Collins and guitarist
John Collins).They were recorded in 1941.




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From: Don Chichester <dnjchi78 at live.com>
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Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 1:04:29 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Joe Guy, was Beiderbecke TV series on BBC


W2XMN, Alpine, NJ.  Major Edwin H. Armstrong's experimental FM station, now 
owned by Columbia University, NYC.

Don

> From: simmonssomer at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> 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
> ----- 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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