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'Somethin' Else', legendary BN session with MILES is the one to have next. And then the Gil Evans album 'New Bottle Old Wine' (World Pacific/Toshiba) where Cannonball is heavily featured. Trust you have 'Kind of Blue' already!

Then you must be hiding corpses of unruly board participants!!

That 'Admin & Moderators Secret Hideout...' has me puzzled too. What do you hide there that is so secret??

Who says he's dead. The Prez makes me happy every day...

Simon, I was under the impression that Walter Benjamin's views on jazz were more tolerant than Adorno's. Will have to have a read of their correspondance. I'll take being wrong with philosophy

FFA, if you want to hear a superb Carl Fontana album, get the Uptown CD 'The Great Fontana' where he plays with a quintet that includes Al Cohn and Richard Wyands. I loved this session when it came out on LP then it was reissued on CD with additional tracks. Fontana is really stunning on that one. A must album.

Being a gentleman (at least, I'm trying) I have to come to defend Mary Astor from repeated attacks in this thread. As far as I am concerned, she was a great Humphrey Bogart costar in 'The Maltese Falcon'. The more I watch this film, the more I like how intelligently she plays her part. She may not have been as attractive as Lauren Bacall but she manages to project charm.

Free for All, about Carl Fontana, check this http://www.jazzmasters.nl/fontana.htm Slightly more upbeat news than the previous alarms.

There is a dynamite solo by Freddie Webster in the March 1945 Georgie Auld Orchestra version of 'Co-Pilot'. Dizzy Gillespie was also in the trumpet section but Webster is the one who solos. This was recorded for Musicraft and was last available on a Georgie Aiuld 'Handicap' Discovery CD reissue. Just one solo. But a beauty! Lawrence Kart already mentioned the Ira Gitler classic book 'Swing to Bop'! The book also includes a quote from Art Pepper who was 18 at the time (1943): 'When I was in Benny Carter's band, I was with Freddie Webster, and we roomed together a lot. He had the greatest, the most huge sound, and down low it was just gigantic. I never heard anybody who had a sound that bid down low. He was just a little cat, too. He always carried a loaded gun with him in his pocket, always - never without it'.

Bad news about Wayne Andre. He was really into a lot of sessions. I liked his contributions to the Kai Winding trombone group. He was on Kai Winding's 1956 Columbia session 'The Trombone Sound' which may have been his first recording date. Another great trombone player Carl Fontana was also on that album. There was worrying news about Fontana a while back but he seems to be recovering Jim wrote: That was Willie Dennis, indeed, not Andre.

Interesting observations from Wolff. I have weighted in often enough on various posts about Roy DuNann's superiority as the best sound engineer in the jazz business in the '50s and '60s not to applaud wholeheartedly. DuNann was THE engineer that produced the most lifelike and natural sounds. Regarding the sound on Blue Note vinyls, I think that the mono copies produced the best overall sound. The highs are more accurate on the mono copies than on the stereo ones. The Lee Morgan trumpet and Philly Joe Jones' drums on the 'Blue Train' mono original are way better over the sound produced in the various other versions of this album I have heard. Same goes for Elvin Jones' drumming behind Sonny Rollins in the mono copy of 'A Night at the Village Vanguard'. There is some saturation on the RVG reissue, not on the mono copy. As for Van Gelder's ears, I really hope that age has not diminished his hearing capacities. The recent recordings I've heard from him sound superb.

Of course, Lon. Should always check Classics CDs with anything over 50 years old.

Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis and historian-philosopher Eric Hobshawm? Didn't Hobshawm write a book about jazz? We all need more jazz philosophy! Speaking of philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre liked jazz. So did Walter Benjamin. But Theodor Adorno hated it.

I'ld go with Ray Bryant but there's also Count Basie

Gagnaire is among the two dozen chefs in Europe that have a three-star rating in the Guide Michelin, the most severe - and usually accurate - guide to restaurants. And Gagnaire is among the most inventive chefs around. His restaurant is not very far from where I work. Wish I could go there for lunch. But a meal at his place is very, very expensive. An interview with Gagnaire was published in the French review 'Jazz Magazine'. If you read French read on and Bon Appetit!: http://www.jazzmagazine.com/Interviews/Dau...e/pgagnaire.htm

Salut Vincent! The original notes by Joe Goldberg are included in the RVG 'No Room for Squares'. The reissue liner notes do not have photos of Lee Morgan, just two shots of Hank Mobley. The original LP liner notes did not have photos. Also Bob Blumenthal wrote new liner notes for the RVG reissue

French 3-star chef Pierre Gagnaire (one of the current top five chefs in the world) is very much into jazz.

A very worthy Sesac date was the Don Redman All Stars. These were issued on two LPs by the French label Vogue back in 1979 in their Jazz Legacy series. The two LPs has twenty tracks (mostly around 3 minutes, except for one 1m19 feature for Osie Johnson). The big band includes people like Charlie Shavers, Joe Wilder, Jimmy Cleveland, Coleman Hawkins, Al Cohn, Hank Jones and others. Shavers, Hawkins, Hank Jones are among the featured soloists. Since Fresh Sounds is reissuing some Sesac sessions (Elliot Lawrence, Charlie Shavers, Chico Hamilton among others) maybe they could tackle these Don Redman sessions soon?

The Bud Powell date with Freddie Webster was actually a Frank Socolow Quintet date. It was reissued in the 'Bebop Revisited' Volume 6 on the Xanadu 208 LP. Not sure the full session came out on CD. It's the one full record session where Webster is featured. Webster is heard in the 1946 version of Sarah Vaughan's 'You're Not the Kind'.

The Proper Tatum box is at http://www.propermusic.com/code/products.asp?catid=12 Go to page 2 of the new releases and you have all the details.

Fantasy's next batch of releases look exciting. They'll be out on September 9. The Red Holloway has already been mentioned. I'll be looking for that one. But I'll really be waiting for the Shelly Manne & His men release on Pablo 'Yesterdays: Live in Europe' from a 1960 concert date with Manne and his Men (Joe Gordon, Richie Kamuca, Russ Freeman, Monty Budwig). And the Jimmy Cobb's Mob session. the Lee Konitz/Alan Broadbent session. And others. This looks more exciting than the BN releases (not talking about reissues). Fantasy's new releases are at http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/new.html

Ubu, Proper is also about to release an Art Tatum 4CD box. You can have a look at what's going to be inside at their propermusic.com site (go to new releases). They boxes are OK and their prices are unbeatable!

Levi's used Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' amd Dinah Washington's 'Mad About the Boy' for extensive TV commercials usage in Europe. It made a hit for Dinah Washington a couple of years ago. Ella Fitzgerald's 'Too Darn Hot' is the timely background for an Adidas TV commercial 'running' on TV here.

b3-er. One thread I cannot go to is the 'My Controls' one. Would appreciate if you could change my location from 'Not Given' to 'Paris, France'. Unable to do that myself. Merci beaucoup!