I've known Billy well for more than 40 years, met him when he was working for Getz, with Clint and Joanne, and I was taking care of sound at Ratso's (as a second gig). He's a very bright, decent, sensitive, analytical, and thoughtful guy. We've had MANY conversations over the years, and on many topics, including about some pretty hip fiction we'd both read. I also had some interactions with Stan. I recorded that band professionally at Ratso's, with very good equipment and mics. The masters are at the LAJI archive. Billy told me that Stan was playing great, and my non-musician's (but serious jazz listener's) ears agreed. That's the good news; the band news is that the tape that professionals had available, from 3M (Scotch) and Ampex, had a manufacturing defect that made it cheaper to mfr, but that resulted in "the Sticky-Shed Syndrome," that caused the magnetic coating to come of the backing as it went past the playback heads 10 years later and make them unplayable. A solution was devised, to bake them, play them once, and transfer to a modern media. That's a LOT of work by very experienced professionals, and makes historical research using these recordings VERY expensive.
I think after Dave Holland left Stan Getz's Quartet he was replaced by George Mraz. I heard Getz , Albert Dailey, Mraz and Billy Hart in 1974, before Clint Houston joined the band.
There is this excellent live recording from 1977 with Stan Getz (ts), Joanne Brackeen (p, el-p), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (db) and Billy Hart (dm) live at Montmartre Copenhagen. I was there :D th-cam.com/video/BtK17C-EIpE/w-d-xo.html
I've known Billy well for more than 40 years, met him when he was working for Getz, with Clint and Joanne, and I was taking care of sound at Ratso's (as a second gig). He's a very bright, decent, sensitive, analytical, and thoughtful guy. We've had MANY conversations over the years, and on many topics, including about some pretty hip fiction we'd both read. I also had some interactions with Stan. I recorded that band professionally at Ratso's, with very good equipment and mics. The masters are at the LAJI archive. Billy told me that Stan was playing great, and my non-musician's (but serious jazz listener's) ears agreed.
That's the good news; the band news is that the tape that professionals had available, from 3M (Scotch) and Ampex, had a manufacturing defect that made it cheaper to mfr, but that resulted in "the Sticky-Shed Syndrome," that caused the magnetic coating to come of the backing as it went past the playback heads 10 years later and make them unplayable. A solution was devised, to bake them, play them once, and transfer to a modern media. That's a LOT of work by very experienced professionals, and makes historical research using these recordings VERY expensive.
Jabali…
Man these conversations are so valuable, thank you.
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I think the short guy that Jabali was talking about in regards to Judy Garland was Mickey Rooney.
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I think after Dave Holland left Stan Getz's Quartet he was replaced by George Mraz.
I heard Getz , Albert Dailey, Mraz and Billy Hart in 1974, before Clint Houston joined the band.
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@@jakefeinbergshow I think Billy's memory is not what it's been. Age catches up with all of us.
There is this excellent live recording from 1977 with Stan Getz (ts), Joanne Brackeen (p, el-p), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (db) and Billy Hart (dm) live at Montmartre Copenhagen. I was there :D
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