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Ok, sorry - didn't want to read anything into your comment! Interested parties... is that what all the honchos are? Sort of "having been there" in case something big happens? Ready to snatch up Lambert from the finger-snapping youngster?

I'm not mad enoug about Brubeck to read a book... but I have enough CDs not to feel I need the 4CD compilation... Ah, well, who knows... I might get there some time!

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I'm giving it its first spin... the postman threw it into the (still sealed, we had a wrong key!) new mailbox somewhen in the last few days... found it there this evening. Warren comes through very well on the recording, the band is fine (Christophe is the only one somewhat familiar to me - he's excellent).

At around 5:25 the heavier guy with slicked back hair talking to Avakian could be Brad McCuen. Thanks a lot! Of course without knowing what Avakian looked like I was assuming the finger-popping microphone-talking guy to be the producer, as he makes the impression to be in charge of things... The others then would just have been around to see who this weirdo Lambert is that they dragged in there? They would have known him from LH&Bavan's stint with RCA earlier, I assume... so what's going on there? Was the control room always so crowded? Some of them seem so obviously professionally not interested, it almost hurts.

Thanks Mike! That clears two questions since I've wondered about (the) Bates(es), too!

Lost my reply, will bow out of this thread now, apologies to all those who felt I'd stepped on their toes.

HRpita wishes lots of fun

ok, will check if the 'bones one is there... not sure from memory, but there must have been at least five or six, one or two twice.

Great film! Who's the enthusiast producer? And who are the mobsters crowding the control room chewing gum?

Of course, all I post is my opinion (humble or not). She's young, she can grow - of course. I've seen stuff on youtube she did with Konitz, Morgan and Woods as well as on her own - and I'm afraid to say I just don't like any of it. Either way, siding up with Konitz or Morgan as a youngster in public is maybe not the smartest idea...

Tell me which ones to get and I'll be back... I've not heard a single tune by them yet.

Well, they may all be nice - but she can't play.

Got my copy on its way! There are some nice videos of this band (from concerts given in France in May 2010) up on youtube: Barack Obama Blue Bossa The Theme (all from Angers) Cantaloupe Island (from "Duc des Lombards", a club in Paris)

not sure if any of these qualify for "great finds", the vinyl is mostly ok (I don't speak that lingo where "good" means so beat-up you'll never be able to spin it again, in my world "good" means "good") and the covers somewhat beat-up in various degrees. The Supremes - A' Go-Go (Stereo) Inside Sauter-Finegan (RCA Victor LJM-1003, foldout) Jazz Omnibus: A Cross-Section of Jazz Today, in All Its Styles (Columbia CL 1020) Stan Kenton - Back to Balboa (Capitol T995) Lionel Hampton - Golden Vibes (Columbia CL 1304) Lionel Hampton - Silver Vibes (Columbia CS 8277) Like Cool - The Contemporary Trombone of Eddie Bert (Somerset P-5200) The Dave Pell Octet - The Old South Wails (Capitol T1512) Erroll Garner - Paris Impressions, Vol. 1 (Columbia CS 8131) The Jonah Jones Quartet - Broadway Swings Again (Capitol T1641) Teo Macero - Acoustical Suspension (Teresa FW40111) We Three - Dinah, Joe, & Sarah (Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughan) (Roulette R 52108) Dionne Warwick - The Windows of the World (Scepter SPS 563) (punchhole) could have picked up plenty of beat-up Four Freshmen Capitols, too, but the above was enough (and cost me around 40$)

Must have pushy real parents, I guess

Grace is young, yes... but talented? Not so sure. The videos on youtube are horrible.

...that I'm becoming unhinged...

Tuck & Patti Amadou & Mariam Siegfried & Roy sorry, came late...

yeah, as in:

Well, I found it flippin' through all these French Sidney Bechet singles and other stuff... saw that cover and BANG! needed to get it, absolutely! I guess I'd have payed whatever the dude told me it would cost...

great description, Clifford