Red Garland - Marchel Ivery - James Clay - Misty - Live 1977 - Dallas TX Part 02

Recovery Room
Dallas, Texas
April 8-9, 1977

Red Garland (piano)
Charles Scott (bass)
Walter Winn (drums)
Marchel Ivery (sax)
James Clay (sax)
Bob Belden (sax)

Bob Beldon mentions this performance in his JazzTimes article paying tribute to the recently deceased tenor great, Marchel Ivery:

http://jazztimes.com/articles/25517-marchel-ivery-9-13-38-10-30-07

"....In the 1970s, Red Garland, the famous jazz pianist and a resident of Fort Worth at the time, had an ongoing gig with Marchel at the Arandas Club, located at Oakland & Hatcher, which is still open, though no longer as a jazz club. The scene eventually shifted to the Recovery Room in Dallas. Marchel was bandleader for the house quartet at the club, a small, "intimate" and somewhat seedy joint (since it was located right next to a strip club), and you could catch him on the weekends, usually with his band of Thomas Reese or Claude Johnson (piano), Walter Scott (bass) and Walter Winn or W.A. Richardson (drums) and the ubiquitous Chuck Willis (trumpet). I would hop in my friend Peter Brown's Corvette and we would make the 40-mile journey (in 30 minutes going 90 mph) from Denton to Dallas to make the scene at the room. On more than one occasion, Red would be the pianist. Recently, someone sent me a CD-R of myself, at age 20, with Red, Marchel, James Clay and Chuck Willis playing "Misty" at the Recovery Room for 30 minutes. Sometimes it was Marchel, the vocalist Cynthia Scott, Clay, David Newman and Red with me sitting in. Tenor summit!"

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• jazz
• tenor
• saxophone
• texas

[56conn6h]

Was a great hang there. Now it is a gay bar.

[rasdorje]

...the last real jazz club in Dallas. :(