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I would say - very roughly - one out of four images appear in those books. I should add that the new book is way better. My copy is the 2014 édition from Flammarion France. Beautiful book with fine prints. Printed in Slovénie. Very well researched. Have enjoyed it numerous times since it came out. One minor complaint: There is no photo from the Cannonball/Miles 'Somethin' Else' session.

The Lord discography lists an Oliver Jackson LP on Black & Blue 'Oliver Jackson' présents Le Quartet' with Percy France, Leonard Gaskin and Jackson. Recorded in New York in September 1982, it says...

Very sad to learn this. Chris was ann invaluable contributor to the Board! Hope he departed peacefully!

Joyeux anniversaire, Flurin!

Heavy damage but the two towers still stand. The cathédral will be rebuilt!

There is a huge fire now going on at Notre Dame cathédral. I live à few blocks from the place. Hope the fire will not spread too far. No victim reported yet. Hope the damage will not be too important.

Had the Lion and the Tiger and the Drums LPs when they came out. Not looking to purchase the CD set of the first but will get the Drums one very soon. Great fan of Monsieur Jones here...Fascinating stuff and lots new material added on the CDS.

I am old enough by now to have seen and heard about half of those Giants. Among those I did not, I am forever sorry to have missed Wilbur Ware, Luckey Roberts, Joe Thomas, Mary Lou Williams, Lester Young, Marian McFarland and so many others....

Wild guess... KD ?!?

Love his 'Collaboration' with Shorty Rogers. One of the best West Coast recording...

Learned so much from him. He will be missed...

Happy Birthday! Trust you pick à good bottle of wine to celebrate...

Yes... Happy Birthday!

A Happy Birthday to you...

Later than late... and a Happy Birthday to you!

Superb actor. .. He was awesome in Wim Wenders 'American Friend' and 'Wings of Desire' not to mention his interprétation of Hitler.

That's André Francis too... He aslso appears on the récent French Swing CD Thelonious Monk Paris 1954 where he extracts à couplé of words from Monk . He also introduced the live recording of Coltrane's Love Supreme at the Antibes festival.

French radio producer André Francis died Tuesday in his sleep. His voice appears on dozens of recordings including Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron in Paris in 1949.

Very sad news. A musician of many, many talents..

Damn!

That's not Chick Webb on drums!

The Solal date with Deuchar, Byers, Eager, etc.. was reissued on vol. 4 of the Solal Complete Vogue Recordings CD series

Among the favorite KD albums, I rank the ones with Barney Wilen and Duke Jordan at the top. Was lucky to be able to attend a couple of evenings when they appeared at the Club Saint-Germain here.

Glenn Osser arrangéd and conducted the orchestra backing Coleman Hawkins on the Capitol 1956 album 'The Golden Hawk'.

Do the new transfers add much to the NORK 2-CD set from Retrieval Records that John R.T. Davis produced back in 2001? Unless proved wrong, I am sticking with that one....