On Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 9:30:06 PM UTC-4, joel fass wrote:

On May 16, 5:14 pm, van <sg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On May 15, 9:00 am, "Rick Stone" <rickst...@rickstone.com> wrote:

<fasstr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:79e4bada-56c3-46b6-809f-Hey, >Rick. Thanks. I've been talking to Eckoff lately---speaking of >underappreciated musicians (he way more than me---been out there since >the 60s and worked with a lot of bad MFs). I remember playing with you >when I was living at the Jazz Cultural Theater. What did we do, play

on Broadway in midtown? The bread was much better then. Everyone is so >tuned out now, just playing with gadgets, blathering into cell phones, >or with earbuds in. A real drag. Tghat's why i do it, to show an >alternative......

I heard Yaged recently. Still a legendary pain in the ass, and still >one of the most melodic, swinging clarinet players alive. At around 85 >I figure he learned to play from the original ten commandment >tablets..... Britta is supposed to play a few with us at Smalls.

Thanks for reminding me. I haven't seen Burt much lately. He came by the house one night about a month ago with my friend Carol Leven. They were on
their way to a rehearsal in Brooklyn.

Burt and I played together a lot in the 90s (when I was actually getting some gigs). Now I've cut back to a trio for the few gigs I get. The money's
been so short on most gigs that going in with a quartet just doesn't make sense anymore, and I've really come to love playing with just bass and drums
anyway.

I recorded Burt's CD "Ecology" here in my little basement studio.http://cdbaby.com/cd/burteckoff(forthose interested). And he also
recorded a CD with a singer Kelly Bedwell herehttp://cdbaby.com/cd/bedwell.

As far as Sol goes, still the same. Amazing that he's still doing it at 85
(his birthday was back in November). He called me for a gig last Friday, but it was way up in Tuckahoe early on a Friday night and the bread was short (no suprise there). I turned it down though (I think he was pissed).
By the time you get done with the traffic and everything else, coming from
Brooklyn that becomes an 8-9 hour gig. I always enjoyed playing with Sol though, as long is it stayed about the music (and you know with Sol there could be a lot of other factors).

Tell Britta I said hello.

BTW: We played together on Broadway (or was it 7th Avenue) over by Penn Station or Madison Square Garden (must have been about 1983 or 84?)

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Rick Stone
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I just did a gig last night with a pianist who told me a story about
Sol booking a gig in Chicago at a club, and getting two guys from NY
as sidemen, and telling them it paid $500.
They agreed to do it, but didn't realize that they had to pay their
own way to Chicago, and pay for hotel accommodations!
They took Greyhounds all the way from NY, and when they played the
gig, the owner gave them the check for the gig, because Sol wasn't
around at the time.
The check was for $10,000!
They confronted Sol, and got him pay for their bus fare and hotel room.

good for the bastard (; Nice guys finish first sometimes----when the
leader doesn't show up

Wow, weird to see this again. Not for the props---I ain't that needy. But the stories were pretty funny about Sol---now gone, as is Rick Stone, who I knew from the earliest '80s. Very, very sad. ##### is, of course, Dick Onstenk---who I wish I was half
as perspicacious as. This guy PLAYS Bird solos---not easy. Sorry we never met in person, he's a great guy. I never really left town that brief period in the Hague (which has some ace players, BTW---every instrument). OK. cats---like they say in the Army (
which I was never in!) 'As you were'...

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