ONOFFON

[onoffon]

This seems positive -"Hello Von...I believe this project may be a fit for our self-fund. We are in the final stages of putting our own monies together and I anticipate around Sept. 1st we will be ready to begin funding projects. Since our focus and aim will be "family-friendly" positive message pieces, including documentaries, I believe that this project may be right in our "sweet spot". I'm not going to make any guarantees, but I will have our people look at it once we're up and running.Let's keep an open line of communication between now and the first of September and I would like to revisit this when my self-fund is up and running.Thanks!"Onward...

[onoffon]

This is pretty cool -I'd like to invite everyone to listen to an episode of Jason Crane's "The Jazz Session". This particular interview is with respected jazz journalist, Marc Myers, host of the JazzWax.com blog. Jason and Marc talk about Bud Shank's association with the Laurindo Almeida Quartet, a group formed by Harry, and its influence on the creation of the Bossa Nova - great listen -http://thejazzsession.com/2009/09/02/th ... years/It's nice to see at least the question raised - was this the true birth of Bossa Nova? Did these guys do something that no one else had done in music? It's time to start to include all those innovators that influenced the future with genius and creativity...As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'll get my chance to add to the conversation when I do my interview with Jason...

[onoffon]

Sept 13, 2009, 10:23am, onoffon wrote:I've just been asked to be the interview guest on a podcast show hosted on the AllAboutJazz website called The Jazz Session with Jason Crane -http://thejazzsession.com/Of course, I'll be talking about my father's life and career and the documentary production. It will air sometime in early November and I'll be happy to post the time and date when it's locked in...As it turns out, the interview I mentioned was recorded but it won't air for six to eight weeks. It seemed to go well - it's tough to try to encapsulate my father's life in twenty minutes. As you all well know, I could have talked for hours about my father...Mr. Crane was very complimentary of my father's contributions and to me for preserving an important time in music history.My favorite part was when we were talking about the Charlie Parker recording. When most people recount that event - most famous for being when Bird and Chet Baker first met - they seem to never mention Harry's involvement. Jason, on the other hand, pointed out that it was Harry's hosted jam session at the Tradewinds that brought them together in the first place.Harry had met Bird back in Kansas City in the early forties and again, a year or two later, in New York City. So, it was natural for Mr. Parker to look my father up when he came to L.A. in '52. Chet Baker was a local boy from Inglewood who used to hang out at the club in the hopes that he'd get the chance to jam...The rest, as they say, is history...It was so cool for Jason to make that point without having had it come from me.I'm looking forward to hearing the interview when it finally goes live - maybe early next year.Huge thanks to Jason Crane, The Jazz Session, and All About Jazz for making this happen...

[Von Babasin]

Since it seems that my original ONOFFON thread has been split into two separate threads - not duplicate but some posts appear on one and the rest appear on the other, I guess I'll try to post on both so they remain together. Perhaps I'll make ONOFFON updates on this one and Harry Babasin's Jazz In Hollywood updates on the other... I'll figure it out.

So, I'd like to invite those of you who haven't heard any music off of our latest CD, Bridge to Presage, to visit our MySpace page. I finally uploaded one of the tracks from that CD on that page and is the only place on the internet you can hear it other than the digital distribution sites like iTunes and Emusic.

It's the first track on our player - Giulivo (con Giusto) - and has amazing soprano sax work by our resident horn player, Glen Garrett.

http://www.myspace.com/onoffon

Thanks for humoring me...