[78-L] Ray Bryant, RIP

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Fri Jun 3 11:48:01 PDT 2011


Due tell.

Cary Ginell

> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:30:21 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Ray Bryant, RIP
> 
> And I also hope that my more recent brain fart (typing "do" instead of 
> "due") will never,  ever be repeated by any of us.
> 
> T
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Ray Bryant, RIP
> 
> 
> >I would tend to agree with Warren.  My remark about Marie and Ray was do to
> > some sort of brain fart,  and I was happy that I was quickly corrected, 
> > and
> > posted to that effect as well.
> >
> > I doubt we will see my error repeated elsewhere!
> >
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "warren moorman" <wlmoorman3 at yahoo.com>
> > To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Ray Bryant, RIP
> >
> >
> >> Julian, you corrected Taylor quickly, and Cary was just adding a casual
> >> memory, but on the Gotham recordings of Tiny Grimes' band: they WERE in
> >> fact contracted by Grimes as leader, per AFM session rules. That any 
> >> sides
> >> were actually issued under other names (as the Summers and Jay Hawkins
> >> were) doesn't change that. Most Gotham label session details are sketchy,
> >> and there was once debate about whether Freddie Redd played on all the
> >> Gotham sessions, but it has been generally settled that Ray played on at
> >> least some of the sessions around 1949-50. I believe the only still 
> >> living
> >> member of that band is Herb Gordy, but he's in the  U.S. Pacific time
> >> zone, so ask him later.
> >>
> >> To say that a couple of casual posts on this list can create myths is to
> >> claim too great an impact for a venue that, for all its' usefulness, at
> >> times is little more than an adult-sitting service for shellac interested
> >> shut-ins. (ever seen what happens when there are simply no posts for more
> >> than a few hours?) A Cyber-tether, if you will. Even the 'net takes more
> >> than that to create lasting myths.
> >>
> >> Warren
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Fri, 6/3/11, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So far this list has created two-and-a-half myths about Ray
> >>> Bryant.
> >>>
> >>> !. He was the brother of Marie Bryant.
> >>> 2. He recorded "After Hours" with Buck Clayton!
> >>> 3. He did record with Tiny Grimes in 1949, but that was a
> >>> session under
> >>> singer J.B. Summers's leadership, although the it has been
> >>> reissued
> >>> under Grimes's name.
> >>
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