Don Ober, Red Kelly Quartet, Art Doll & Floyd Standifer - On Green Dolphin Street (Live) 11-3-1974 скачать в хорошем качестве

Don Ober, Red Kelly Quartet, Art Doll & Floyd Standifer - On Green Dolphin Street (Live) 11-3-1974

Don "Earthquake" Ober 1922-1979 Recorded live with the Tumwater Conservatory at The Oregon Trail in Tumwater, WA November 3rd, 1974. Red Kelly on Bass (Intro), Don "Earthquake" Ober on Guitar, Jack Perciful on Piano, Dave Coleman on Drums and Art Doll on Soprano Sax (story of Don at 14) and Floyd Standifer on Trumpet. Other guest performers to play with the Trio / Quartet include Ernestine Anderson, Corky Corcoran, Bill Ramsey, Chuck Stentz, Fred Greenwell, Hank Stampf, "Mad Man" Ed Easton, Clark Terry, Rollie Morehouse and many others. More info on Don "Earthquake" Ober: As a young musician, Ober was part of the best white bebop band in the Northwest. They played at a beer joint on 9th and Pacific in Tacoma called the "Pirate's Cove." The band was organized by Buzzy Bridgeford (drums) and included Freddie Greenwell on saxophone, Hollis Sulser on piano, Paul Binnings on bass and Ober. During that time period, Ober affected a big hat, pinstriped suit and smoked a cigar. ("Jackson Street After Hours" by Paul de Barros) Donald A. Ober, a well-known classical and jazz guitarist and Tacoman, died Monday following a lengthy illness. He was 57. Mr. Ober, of 3909 N. 34th St., had appeared with bands her and throughout the Pacific Northwest, performing with such noted musicians as Dave Brubeck, Joe Venuti and Rusty Draper. Mr. Ober was a Washington native, born in Monroe, and started playing guitar at the age of 10. He was a member of the Air Force band during WWII. He died Dec. 31, 1979 after a lengthy illness at the age of 57. (TNT 1-3-80, pg. B-16) In the seventies, Ober became a regular sideman at Red Kelly's Club, the Tumwater Conservatory, near Olympia. He ran on Kelly's O.W.L. (Out With Logic, On with Lunacy) political ballot in 1972 as the Commissioner of Public Lands. The slate was a hodge podge of jazz musicians, whose main platform was laughter, and it garnered the largest minority vote in the history of the state of Washington. Ober died Dec. 31, 1979 at the age of 57. (TNT 1/3/80, pg. B-16 obit.) One who didn't quite make it was Don "Earthquake" Ober, possibly the best jazz guitarist Tacoma ever produced, who lost his battle with Big C on New Years Eve (TNT 1/4/80 - Denny MacDougan) Ober must have been remarkable. Three of his students became the trinity of South Sound guitar gods -- Jerry Miller (No. 68 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," & of Moby Grape Fame), Rich Dangel (the Wailers) and Joe Johansen (Little Bill Engelhart's longtime collaborator). (News Tribune 3-11-05) Wanted to share a little bit of the man, who's shoes I'm always trying to fill. -Sean Donald Ober