In the early '80s, drummer
Philly Joe Jones, with the strong assistance of trumpeter
Donald Sickler (who transcribed the arrangements), revived the music of
Tadd Dameron in a nonet called
Dameronia. Two Uptown records resulted (with such sidemen as
Walter Davis, Jr.,
Britt Woodman,
Frank Wess, and
Cecil Payne) before
Jones' 1985 death. In 1989,
Sickler gathered together the alumni (with
Kenny Washington on drums) for a special Paris concert that was documented on Soul Note. ~ Scott Yanow