marchel ivery

oh yeah...i didn't look to see whether or not tad sprung for an ad in the fweakly, but texas tenorman marchel ivery makes a special guest appearance at the 9th anniversary of the black dog's sunday jazz thingy this weekend. i usedta go see marchel's quartet with thomas reese, charles scott, and walter winn at the recovery room on lemmon avenue in dallas ca. '78. back then, miles' '50s pianist red garland would occasionally spell reese at the 88s, and one memorable night, ornette's '60s drummer charles moffett brought his three phenomenal freeblowing sons to sit in during a band break and they practically blew the roof off the j'int. in the '90s, marchel cut three albs for the dallas-based leaning house label, including one with nouveau organ-funk guy joey defrancesco. the regular sunday night cats always look forward to his visits. worth checking out, i'm thinking.