Double Bass Historic Red Interviews.

[Paul Warburton]

Click on "Interviews" at the top. Red tells it like it was. Including the night Bird "Insisted" that he sit in with him the first set with Miles and the Guys. (just a true tease to rope you in).
Also interviews with Diane, Grace about Whitey and the Mitchell family.
These are long clips and I haven't heard them all yet, but as some of you know, I've been spewing stuff about this for many years so here it is straight from the horse's mouth.
Musicians in general, and bassists in particular, should spend some time with this truly historic stuff. He told me some of this when I spent some time with him on the West coast. I never told some of it here because I felt that people might not believe me because of my feelings for him.

http://www.redmitchell.com/

 

[Nuno A.]

Thanks a lot Paul, truly gems, made my day.(in fact, still listening)

 

[MLysh]

Thanks for the link, Paul. Great interviews, great to hear Chet play "My Romance."

The trouble with you is you don't play in the middle of the beat...

 

[Paul Warburton]

Whitey was a piece of work too. I had trouble thinking of what TV comedy smash hit he didn't write for when he did that stuff.

I love hearing Chet try to play with Red's piano changes on that.
I played some with Chet and I told this story before here. I got the whole thing on a cassette. You can hear Chet call "But Not For Me". Then you can hear me say "What key?" Chet says "F". I say "You wanna start on the one chord or the two chord, Chet?" He says "Paul, Paul....I don't know chords, Man".

 

[Chris Symer]

Great link Paul, took me all of 2 seconds to bookmark that one. It's going to take a while to get through it all.........

 

[Paul Warburton]

I just hung up from a conversation with Diane (Red's widow).
Under "Videos" besides the Red and Bill Mays stuff there are two new vids of Red from an ISB Convention.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

Whoo boy, thanks for this thread and the email, PEE. I'm off to an all day session, but I'll check it tonight.

 

[Phil Rowan]

Thanks Paul!! This is really great. I'll have to chat w/ Tardo about Red next time I see him (for those who don't know, Tardo Hammer's a great pianist.. some great trio albums w/ Leroy Williams and the late, great Dennis Irwin).

 

[Paul Warburton]

Man, I'll tell you guys (as if I never told y'all before) he was one amazing walking, talking and playing miracle of life.
So much (or little ) I do in music comes directly from him. His lines I copped off of those Hampton Hawes Trio sides still wander around in my brain like weird, beautiful ear-worms. And like Jim Hall said, his solos were gorgeous and were right up there on a level with Pres.
(be sure and read his poetry that Diane put up).

"Whether we're big
Or whether we're small
There's a little A** hole
In us all."

Red Mitchell.

 

[davidAaronCarte]

I am supremely excited for all this new Red content, Paul

 

[Ron Lacey]

Listening now instead of working. Great stuff, thanks PW!!

 

[Phil Rowan]

Wow.. Paul.. thanks SO much, man. I'm watching the 1st ISB video and it's like, philosophy and the meaning of life 101 w/ Red. What a beautiful cat.

 

[Treyzer]

Thanks so much Paul. This is what keeps me hangin out here. The good stuff!

Best
T

 

[drurb]

Thanks for this window into history, PW!

 

[Paul Warburton]

Listening now instead of working.

Ain't that the whole point?

EDITITO:
Unashamed, Thread Topic Poster Bragging Rights: Diane reminded me of one of the nicest compliments I've ever had. Tom Burns of Capri Records played the Duo record that guitarist Dale Bruning and I did for that label called "Our Delight" for Red and Diane one evening and Diane said to Red........"That sounds like you".
I can sure live with that.
I call that side...."The poor man's Jim Hall/Red Mitchell". Very poor, indeed.

 

[Fletcher Lanning]

Alright Pdub I'm now offically waiting for an online posting of that recording. Thanks to your loud mouth I've been spending an inordinate amount of time listening to Red Mitchell and I need something else

And on top of it all I now have an itching desire to play with my hand 4 inches apart....

 

[Paul Warburton]

 

[chrisbudhan]

Thanks for spreading the news, Paul! I'm the developer of the site. Note that there's also a discography of 500+ of Red's recordings, a PDF of 50+ of his songs, and a PDF of 25+ of his poems. I've also posted six of my Red transcriptions.

If anyone has any suggestions or content for the site, please PM me. We're trying to get permission to post more videos, including another masterclass.

 

[Paul Warburton]

Hey, Chris. Dint know you were a member here.
I'm sure anyone here on the board will be glad to give feed back on the site.
I have a small problem and I'll post it here, in case others are having something similar.
I did the email, user name and password thing in there when the site first came up. Now, when I log in to remark, it doesn't want to accept that. It tells me my user name has been taken (me). But, apparently,(I guess) isn't accepting my password. I tried the option of asking for a new password that would be sent to my emaill address and got nothing.
I'll post a link to the site on my Facebook home page and others, hopefully, will come into this thread to give props and any other feed back.
You guys are doing a great job and all I can say is that it's about time that people are more aware of what did Red did to impact this art form we call Jazz. And, for me, how he impacted this thig called Life.

 

[chrisbudhan]

Thanks for your feedback, Paul. Please check your spam folder for the missing e-mails. For some reason, Gmail, Comcast, and possibly other mail services, are currently filtering RedMitchell.com's messages as spam. If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll manually change your password.