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Apart from Beehive (or was it Bee Hive?), are there that many jazz catalogues which haven't been reissued still on CD (or a few albums only) ? It seems to me that almost every major one has been (if not completely) somewhere in the world, Japan, US, or Europe. Any thoughts? I think there's been a thread on that topic already but couldn't find it.

I was listening today to the first session (1955) from the JR Monterose CD "Jaywalkin" on Fresh Sound and I was really blown away not only by Monterose but alos by pianist Wadde Legge, who had three compositions recorded that day. Very nice writing and absolutely stunning playing. I look around a bit to find more information on Legge and saw that he died pretty young (b. 1934 - d. 1963). Under tragic circumstances ? Drugs involved there too ? AMG states he had two sessions, one on Blue Note, the other on Vogue, from 1953 (ha was 19 at the time). And no more as a leader. What ever happened to him ?

So Roy Hargrove is now on Blue Note ? Or Lundvall is confusing with Terence Blanchard ?

Previously mentioned by Brad.

I strongly suggest that you read the interview Jerome Richardson had in The Saxophone Journal (interview PDF format). This is really interesting and you'll see how Richardson lived well until the end, if not playing jazz as often as he would have liked.

Bunky Green is Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida.

You should have a look here, on Naim website Anderson seems to have recorded another solo set for that label.

I suggest that you order from Abeille Musique website, which is the French distributor for the whole SteepleChase catalogue. The Ted Brown CD is listed at 19.38 € Direct link to the Ted Brown CD or the complete SteepleChase catalogue listing

No, John Hicks and Victor Sproles.

You can read a sample from "Tin House" by going on their website here A. J. Albany published a book entitled "Low Down, junk, jazz, and other fairy tales from childhood" composed of fragments from her memories which are often trashy and dark : not exactly the childhood you wish you had... You can listen to her talking about her father on WBGO online Here's a review from the Los Angeles Magazine : JAZZ HAS BECOME SUCH A FIXTURE IN ELEVATORS and on easy-listening stations that it's easy to forget that jazzers were once the bad boys of popular music, considered to be purveyors of low-class beats for low-class people. Pianist Joe Albany--who played with Bird, Mingus, and Lester Young, among others--lived up to the image of the hard-drinking, hard-living jazzman, chasing women and shooting heroin with his fellow junkies until his death in 1988. Albany was a gifted musician but no great shakes as a husband and father, often leaving his young daughter to fend for herself during his frequent drug binges. At age five she had little adult supervision. She played "jump the bum" with neighborhood kids to pass the time and ate toothpaste and shaving cream when there was no food in the house. A.J. Albany recounts these memories of her childhood in Low Down (Bloomsbury, 163 pages, $24), a collection of vignettes about growing up in Hollywood during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her initiation into the jazz world starts early. As a baby, she is dropped on her head by Dizzy Gillespie; at five, she is serenaded by Louis Armstrong. Later, she hitches a ride in a runaway, no-brakes Dodge Dart with post-Beat writer Terry Southern and listens to the hard-luck tales of hookers and former strippers during her father's club dates. Characters with names like Blind Danny and Eddie No-Collar (a defrocked priest who goes nuts one night and stabs a boxer in the eyeball with the cross on a rosary) drift in and out of her life. The pathetic story of Koko, an aging circus clown and pedophile, is vividly captured through a single line of his poetry ("A.J. is an angel bright who lights up Koko clownie's night") and a brief description of his head ("bald except for a few random tufts of orange hair"). Albany inherited her father's love of jazz as well as a sympathy for her hometown and its inhabitants. In our collective memory the Hollywood of that period, midway between its glamorous heyday and its reinvention as a sanitized, Disney-fled tourist trap, was a seedy, violent hole. In many ways it was. But in Low Down it is also a magical place, full of charming oddballs and mysterious happenings. Hollywood shines, its run-down hotels and methadone clinics every bit as beautiful, on their own terms, as the grand jazz joints of Joe Albany's glory years.

... to the alto player Vinnie Dean who was on a couple of Eddie Bert's albums and in the bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kenton in the 50's ?

It's been a long time since Curtis Fuller had a new album under his own name. I received few days ago an email from Delmark announcing their future releases (February 24, 2004). Among the four up-coming CDs is a Curtis Fuller album : CURTIS FULLER -- "Up Jumped Spring" (Delmark 550) Trombonist Curtis Fuller was born and raised in Detroit, a hotbed of new jazz talent in the '50s. In '57 Fuller went to New York to make his recorded debut as part of the Yusef Lateef Quintet. He was 22 at the time and possessed a unique style and sound. After only eight months in New York he had made six albums as leader and fifteen as sideman including John Coltrane's "Blue Train." He also recorded with Jimmy Smith, Bud Powell, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and many more. "Up Jumped Spring" was recorded In August, 2003 while Curtis was in Chicago for the Chicago Jazz Festival. With Brad Goode, trumpet; Karl Montzka, piano; Larry Gray and Stewart Millerm, bass; and Tim Davis, drums. TED SIROTA'S REBEL SOULS -- "Breeding Resistance" (Delmark 551) Drummer Ted Sirota relocated to Chicago in 1992 after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Sirota quickly became very active on the Chicago jazz scene performing with Von Freeman, Jodie Christian, Fred Hopkins, Lin Halliday, Rob Mazurek and many others. As a member of the Sabertooth Jazz Quartet, Sirota has been performing weekly at the Green Mill for seven years now and counting. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls was formed in '96 and have since released three albums. "Breeding Resistance" is the Delmark debut for the Rebel Souls which features Jeb Bishop, trombone; Geof Bradfield, tenor sax; Jeff Parker, guitar; Clark Sommers, bass; Ted Sirota, drums. DUANE THAMM -- "Tribute To Hamp" (Delmark 552) Vibraphonist Duane Thamm has appeared on two Delmark albums as sideman - Barrett Deems Big Band, "How D'You Like It So Far?" (Delmark 472) and Chuck Hedges, Swingtet "Live At Andy's" (Delmark 465). This is Thamm's debut as leader though he has been a professional musician for many years working with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Henry Mancini, Tony Bennett, Bill Russo and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Buddy DeFranco, Butch Miles and many others. Tribute To Hamp was recorded in November, 2002 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library with accompaniment by Chuck Hedges Swingtet - Chuck Hedges, clarinet; Frank Dawson, guitar; John Bany; bass; Charlie Braugham; drums. KALAPARUSH AND THE LIGHT -- "Morning Song" (Delmark 553) Tenor saxophonist Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre recorded as sideman on the legendary first AACM recording, Roscoe Mitchell's "Sound" (Delmark 408). He went on to record "Humility In The Light Of Creator" (Delmark419) and "Forces And Feelings" (Delmark 425). Though he was continually active on the New York avant-garde scene, Kalaparush didn't return to the Delmark roster for 27 years until 1997's "Return Of The Lost Tribe" (Delmark 507) by the group Bright Moments. Here Kalaparush leads his own trio with Jesse Dulman on tuba and Ravish Momin on drums. "Morning Song" is an amazing document presenting Kalaparush's musical beauty, simplicity, power and spirituality.

An additionnal remark now that I have the Mulligan CJB box set : "Mama G" composed and arranged by Wayne Shorter is listed among the unrecorded tunes from the Concert Jazz Band book. So Bill Crow's memory was right!

To those who might not be aware of who the topic starter is : Claude Schouch is the man who published the Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, and many other jazz great discographies. Welcome on board Claude !

"MaliCool" came out in France on Verve and on Sunnyside in the US. It is a very nice recording with Roswell Rudd playing along with some famous Malian kora players. This is not some kind of uninspired "world music" but a very nice meeting with a lot of freshness and natural feeling between the trombone sound and the soft kora picking heard in an intimate setting. It was recorded in Bamako, actually. I guess you can say this is some kind of peaceful Africa/Cool as opposed to the brilliant and explosive Africa/Brass, like the other face of the African continent. Beautiful to my ears.

I would strongly recommend "South" on the ACT label. More there. This album received numerous rightly-deserved good reviews.

You will find the DVD there : on Disconforme website (along with the Definitive Records stuff)

The liner notes in the booklet to the Allen Eager issue on Uptown are quite interesting to read regarding the Boston scene during the bop era (ca. 1947) with lot of information regarding Twardzik and other less-known "local" players.

Check that link. They deal with a "forth-coming album" but the page doesn't seem to havebeen updated recently.

Look here for a very nice discography of Wynton Kelly.

Does anyone hear a defect on "Uncle Rough" (Sonic Boom, track 11) around 3'09, right in the middle of the trumpet solo, as I do ? Seems like a split on the tape

The legendary pianist from Chicago Billy Wallace, who recorded with Frank Strozier and Max Roach, is still alive. He is active on the Seattle jazz scene. There is a long feature about him on a local jazz magazine that you can check on-line - search for the February 2002 issue.

Hey Bertrand, Rooster Ties has been claiming for that information on another thread. Maybe you should post it there.

From Bill Crow, "From Birdland To Broadway", Oxford University Press, page 182 : Gerry's music library included arrangements by Bill Holman, John Mandel, Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Thad Jones, and Wayne Shorter, as well as his own charts. The CJB was 13-piece band. The CJB Verve box set discography at Mosaic doesn't list any arrangement by Shorter. But "Nellie Bly" was performed by Maynard Ferguson big band in which Shorter played for three weeks before joining Blakey at Lee Morgan's request. LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka mentions this piece in a famous article about Wayne Shorter published in The Jazz Review (1959).

Bertrand, Bill Crow also says that Wayne Shorter write some arrangements for the Concert Jazz Band, but if so, none seems to have been recorded.