Born Under the Sign of Jazz

by Hultin, Randi

• ISBN13: 9781860741944
• ISBN10: 1860741940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

Since 1953, Randi Hultin's home has become an institution among jazz personalities all over the world: Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, to name a few. They composed and jammed in Randi's house, where she caught the priceless moments on tape and film. These can now be seen and heard for the first time in this remarkable collector's item.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(2)
Sonny Rollins
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CD MEMORIES ON TAPE, FILM
And Now CD	15	(8)
Warm Thanks	23	(1)
Quotes About The CD	23	(2)
Randi's Jazz	25	(8)
The Young Artist	33	(26)
Anatomy	35	(1)
Norway's Wenche Myhre	36	(1)
Emergency Paramedic	37	(1)
I Meet Tor	38	(3)
Wivi-Ann And Christina Are Born	41	(1)
The Priming Spark	42	(1)
The Oslofjord To Birdland	43	(1)
Petrillo On Board	44	(1)
Gartnerveien 6	44	(3)
``What's She Saying?''	47	(2)
``I'll Boil Something''	49	(2)
Sonny Clark	51	(2)
Record From Gartnerveien	53	(1)
Stan Kenton	53	(2)
Press Debut	55	(2)
Going Abroad	57	(2)
Count Basie	59	(10)
In The Bathroom	61	(2)
An Audience With Ray Charles	63	(1)
Basie Adoptee	64	(1)
A Day Off In Oslo	65	(2)
Two Friends Talking	67	(1)
Basie ``The Healer''	68	(1)
Jamming at Gartnerveien	69	(28)
Guitar And Bass	69	(2)
At Beppe's	71	(1)
Ray Brown	72	(3)
``To Sofie Street''	75	(1)
The Jam-Happy Fifties	76	(2)
Phone Call From The Cops	78	(2)
Mary Anderson	80	(2)
Brubeck	82	(3)
Jamming With Zoot Sims	85	(3)
A Man Of Few Words	88	(1)
Getz, Dizzy And Eldridge	89	(4)
At Stan Getz's Home	93	(1)
Paul Gonsalves	94	(3)
At Josephine Baker's Home	97	(14)
Josephine And Tor	98	(3)
A Trip To France	101	(1)
Fairy Tale Castle	102	(3)
``What About The Money?''	105	(1)
Photographic Debut	106	(2)
Buzzing Around Paris	108	(1)
Josephine's Tenth Child	109	(1)
Josephine's Tax Letter	109	(1)
Chez Josephine	110	(1)
Legendary Louis Armstrong	111	(10)
Sleigh Ride	113	(4)
Louis Is Having A Ball!	117	(2)
``Randi, Where Are You?''	119	(2)
On My Own	121	(36)
Help From Stan Getz	122	(2)
The Metropol And Other Clubs	124	(2)
Bengt Hallberg And Kjell Baekkelund	126	(1)
Stan At The Metropol	126	(3)
Janne And Reinhold	129	(2)
Wivi-Ann The Dancer	131	(2)
My First Festival--And Others	133	(2)
Karin Krog's Big Break	135	(3)
At Work And At Home	138	(1)
Not Only Jazz Artists	139	(2)
Cecil Taylor's Trio	141	(2)
Coleman Hawkins	143	(2)
Tubby Hayes	145	(2)
``Where's The Bed?''	147	(1)
Whispering Stuff	147	(3)
Exhausting Routines	150	(2)
Phil Woods	152	(1)
`Randi'	153	(2)
Clark Terry And Richard Nixon	155	(1)
Jazz Wedding In Texas	156	(1)
John Coltrane--``Trane''	157	(22)
Welcome	158	(3)
No Drums	161	(1)
Encounter In Antibes	162	(3)
Dissatisfied	165	(3)
With Trane In Paris	168	(2)
In Jazzland	170	(3)
Elvin Jones	173	(2)
Elvin And Coltrane	175	(2)
``Thank You For Your Understanding''	177	(2)
Mingus--The Great	179	(10)
Swingin' Coffee	181	(4)
The Jam Continues	185	(1)
Eric Dolphy	185	(1)
Last Wish	186	(3)
Bud Powell--Quiet Genius	189	(26)
Sandwich At The Standard	191	(2)
Bud's Birthday	193	(1)
``Is This Your Daughter?''	194	(4)
Inez Cavanaugh	198	(1)
Bud In Jail	198	(2)
To Paris	200	(1)
Bud And Francis	200	(3)
`Una Noche Con Francis'	203	(1)
At A Restaurant	203	(4)
Bud Powell Says ``Hello''	207	(2)
Interrupted Recordings	209	(2)
Letters And Cards	211	(1)
Thelonious Monk	211	(1)
Monk In Oslo	212	(3)
Long Tall Dexter	215	(18)
``Be There In A Minute''	216	(4)
``You Need A Plumber''	220	(2)
In Copenhagen	222	(1)
`Fairweather'	223	(1)
Round Midnight	223	(4)
Bud Powell's Melody?	227	(6)
Portrait of My Pals	233	(24)
Lars Gullin's ``Golden Record''	235	(2)
Art Farmer And ``Bird''	237	(2)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	239	(7)
Ben Webster	246	(3)
Taylor And Griffin	249	(5)
Jean-Luc Ponty	254	(3)
Bill Evans--The Lyrical	257	(10)
Scandinavian Hospitality	259	(2)
Never Self-Satisfied	261	(2)
Sources Of Inspiration	263	(2)
Jazz And Pop	265	(2)
The Pianists Are Coming	267	(18)
Left Behind In Alesund	270	(1)
``We Want Lloyd''	271	(1)
Lloyd Quartet Dissolved	272	(3)
World Class Keith Jarrett	275	(1)
Hampton Hawes	276	(5)
Jaki Byard	281	(2)
Radio	283	(2)
Sonny Rollins--The Colourful Giant	285	(16)
Sonny's Return To Jazz	287	(1)
Sonny With The Lawn Mower	288	(3)
Reincarnation	291	(1)
Jazz And Yoga	292	(3)
Multiple Inspirations	295	(3)
Fascinating Letters	298	(1)
``Playing In The Yard''	298	(1)
Family	299	(2)
Jazz In Eastern Europe	301	(12)
Garbarek In Warsaw	303	(1)
Polish Cultural Medal	304	(3)
Another Wedding	307	(2)
Michael Urbaniak And Urszula Dudziak	309	(1)
To Tallin	310	(1)
Moscow	311	(1)
And Jazz From Japan	311	(2)
Eubie--The One, The Only	313	(34)
Ragtime In The Brothels	315	(2)
Young Josephine Baker	317	(1)
`Randi's Rag'	318	(2)
Molde	320	(3)
Historical Letters	323	(1)
Morten Gunnar Larsen	324	(2)
To Oslo	326	(3)
Standing Ovation	329	(1)
Prediction About America	330	(2)
To Brooklyn	332	(3)
Triumph	335	(2)
The School Play	337	(2)
Playing For The President	339	(2)
The Great Day	341	(1)
``I Made It''	341	(1)
Morten Gunnar's Visit	342	(2)
One Hundred Years And Five Days	344	(3)
Stan Getz--``The Sound''	347	(12)
Back In Oslo	349	(2)
Antabus Dupe	351	(4)
Illness And Fitness	355	(1)
Juan-Les-Pins	355	(2)
Treated By Getz	357	(2)
Chet Baker--The Fascinator	359	(14)
At The Hospital	361	(2)
With Diane	363	(2)
Hot House And Jazz Alive	365	(2)
``Blamann''	367	(4)
The Tape Is Rolling	371	(2)
Jazz And Fate	373	(18)
Cancer	374	(2)
On A Jazz Cruise	376	(1)
Vicissitudes Of Life	377	(1)
To India With Jazz	378	(2)
Jazz At Norsk Hydro	380	(1)
Fate Revisited	381	(2)
Under The Sign Of Jazz	383	(2)
Many Compositions	385	(4)
Cancer And Another Jazz Cruise	389	(2)
Rare Moments	391	(4)
Index	395