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- From: jgthomas@crchh420.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Jazz Composers Guild
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.005416.7708@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
- References: <1992Dec22.175422.889@telesciences.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:54:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.175422.889@telesciences.com>, jbulyk@telesciences.com (Jerry E. Bulyk) writes:
- |>
- |> Reading through the liner notes on some of these XYZ ESP reissues,
- |> I came across references to the Jazz Composers Guild and their
- |> "October Revolution" of 1964. The only other place I have heard
- |> of the JCG was in rlc's Sun Ra discography under FEATURING PHAROAH
- |> SANDERS AND BLACK HAROLD [Saturn IHNY 165] recorded 6/15/64.
- |>
- |> Can someone fill-in who were the players who comprised the Jazz
- |> Composers Guild, and what, if any, sessions were ever recorded by
- |> this collective? What was their mandate, and did they eventually
- |> reform as the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association (JCOA) in 1968?
- |> - the first known record by the JCOA being the Cecil co-led date
- |> "The Jazz Composer's Orchestra" [JCOA 1001/2 841 124-2].
- |> There is too big a gap between the two dates to be explained, unless
- |> they went under all to fast.
- |>
- |>
- |> - jerry
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- Try finding a copy of Val Wilmer's book AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE. I believe
- she talks about the Guild in there. I don't have a copy at hand but
- you should be able to get it fairly easily as I think it has been
- reissued again (or try the library, that's where I originally got it).
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