{"id":7385,"date":"2016-03-01T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:16:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T06:16:57","slug":"jones-lewis-company-in-the-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/03\/jones-lewis-company-in-the-ussr\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones-Lewis &#038; Company In The USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Svetlana Ilicheva, our occasional Moscow correspondent, sent photographs made <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7206 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Svetlana-Ilicheva-X80.jpg\" alt=\"Svetlana-Ilicheva-X80\" width=\"90\" height=\"102\" \/>during the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1972 Russian tour. She reports that the Moscow photohistorian Raf Avakov has retained a number of Vladimir Sadkovkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pictures of that visit. With their permission, here are two of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7386 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mel-Dee-Dee-Jones-in-Moscow.jpg\" alt=\"Mel, Dee Dee, Jones in Moscow\" width=\"494\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mel-Dee-Dee-Jones-in-Moscow.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mel-Dee-Dee-Jones-in-Moscow-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><strong>Lewis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jones at a Mocow concert<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/US-USSR-Jam-1972.jpg\" alt=\"US-USSR Jam 1972\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/US-USSR-Jam-1972.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/US-USSR-Jam-1972-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A glorious mob scene at a USA-USSR jam session. Trumpeter Valery Ponomarev on the left, Pepper Adams on the right. Next to Adams, the late Andrei Tovmasyan, a renowned Russian trumpeter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8221;\u00a0This provides an excuse, if we need one, to bring you the Jones-Lewis band in 1968, a few years before their Russian expedition. In the video, Mr. Jones announces the name of the piece, which he composed and arranged. The soloists are Danny Moore, trumpet; Pepper Adams, baritone saxophone; Roland Hanna, piano; and Mel Lewis, drums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6QxsGTh67Q\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Composer\/Arranger\/Conductor\/Flugelhorn:<\/strong> Thad Jones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Saxes\/Woodwinds:<\/strong> Jerome Richardson (lead), Jerry Dodgion, Joe Henderson, Eddie Daniels, Pepper Adams.<br \/>\n<strong>Trumpets:<\/strong> Al Porcino (Lead), Richard Williams, Snooky Young, Danny Moore<br \/>\n<strong>Trombones:<\/strong> Eddie Bert (lead), Jimmy Knepper, Garnett Brown, Cliff Heather (bass tro.).<br \/>\n<strong>Rhythm:<\/strong> Roland Hanna (piano), Richard Davis (bass), Mel Lewis (drums, co-leader).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1968, Village Vanguard, New York City. <strong><em>(Oops. Not so. See the first comment below.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svetlana Ilicheva, our occasional Moscow correspondent, sent photographs made during the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1972 Russian tour. She reports that the Moscow photohistorian Raf Avakov has retained a number of Vladimir Sadkovkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pictures of that visit. With their permission, here are two of them. Lewis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jones at a Mocow concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}