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b3-er. I'm posting from work. Company's intructions are to stick to Netscape 4.7. Versions above that may mess up our company system, I am being told. I stick to 4.7 and live with that even if parts of some threads unshow.

Not only was there 'True Blue' on Xanadu but there was also 'Silver Blue' from the same Xanadu session. Well worth the search. Blue Mitchell was featured alongside Sam Noto (in addition to Dexter Gordon, Al Cohn, Barry Harris, etc.). And worthy of mention for Mitchell's contribution is Don Patterson's Opus de Don on Prestige (a Chris A. supervising job if I remember well).

I'ld recommend the Classics, at least the first five volumes (up to 1947) and the current Storyville series. Volume 5 of the Classics has the VDisc version of 'Song of the Vagabond' that is a virtuoso musical stunt. The Classics have all the usual necessities.

Do you have any of the small groups sessions from the Pablo box? The Ben Webster-Tatum is a MUST. And I love the Eldridge-Tatum and the De Franco-Tatum and... I could go on and on

Italian-born (and French resident) drummer Aldo Romano was named winner of the 2004 Jazzpar prize from Denmark. He succeeds Andrew Hill, the 2003 laureate. The prize comes with a cash award of approximately $25,000. You can read more at 2004 Jazzpar and go to Latest News. An excellent pick from the Jazzpar jury!

Exactly.

Mike, the Ayler photos by W. Eugene Smith were not at the Paris show. I have never seen them. Would love to see them. I shot some photos at the session. They are visible at the Albert Ayler.supanet site. You can use the ones I took at the session.

Michael, is the material you listened different from the music that was on the double CD set David Young's Jazz Loft that came out several years ago? I loved that one and have been waiting for more. About Eugene Smith, there was an exhibition of his photos in Paris a couple of years ago. The photos included images taken at some of those jams (with Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall and others). Eugene Smith was also taking photos when Albert Ayler recorded the 'Spirits Rejoice' session for ESP at Judson Hall in 1965. I don't think those photos were ever published. Too bad!

Alan Greenspan must still be a jazz fan. He was a jazz musician for a time. He studied at Juilliard (he was there several years before Miles). He played tenor saxophone (and also clarinet) with the Henry Jerome Orchestra around 1944. Then he took the wrong road... Sidewinder. First time I caught the Count Basie band live was at London's Royal Albert Hall back in 1956, Princess Margaret was there as a Princess and a fan. The Basie band ended the concert with 'God Save the Queen'.

Brownie - Is this a recent issue? What's it like? Thanks in advance. This was released several years ago. It's from a 1989 Banlieues Bleues festival concert recorded at La Courneuve, a Paris suburb. It must have been a very exciting concert with Archie Shepp and the Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath crew giving it all. Not sure 52e Rue Est is still alive. I know they also issued a couple of Horace Parlan CDs.

The film 'Quiet Days in Clichy' does not belong in the blue movie category that Aric is shouting about. Sorry I cannot help on that matter. My education is limited in that range but from seeing Aric's enthusiasm, I really must have missed something. To think that I also missed seeing Dexter in that Danish porn/art film!!

Any Blue Note LP fans out there? This seems to include some interesting items. Blue Notes Ebay auction

Good question. Is it worth getting?

September is next week. Mosaic says the Miles Davis at the Blackhawk box (6LPs) was to be released by mid-August. Is this out yet? Has anyone heard it? And how does if compare sonically with the CD box? Mosaic Blackhawk

John Young - A Touch of Pepper (Japanese Argo CD) Chris McGregor/Archie Shepp - En concert (52e Rue Est CD) Johnny Hodges - The Verve 56-61 Sessions (Mosaic CD set) Jimmy Raney - In 3 Attitudes (ABC LP) Sidney Bechet with the Eddie Condon's All Stars (Queen LP)

The late Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov who headed KGB and was secretary-general of the USSR Communist Party from 1982 until his death in 1984 was a self-proclaimed jazz fan. So is the King of Thailand. And don't forget Alan Greenspan!

Anyone familiar with French singer Barbara? A very good singer who died in 1997. I'm not really a fan but a couple of songs she composed keep haunting me. Look for the song 'Nantes' which is about the time she travelled to the Brittany port city after getting a message indicating her father who had deserted his wife and children was dying in a hotel room. She arrived too late. A heartbreaking song on which she accompanies herself on piano.

Always liked his first two albums for Contemporary 'Blackstone Legacy' and 'Song of Songs'. Those came out on in the early '70s. Had started paying attention to him when he played in Paris with Nathan Davis (and Larry Young on piano!) back in 1964 or 65. Another great Shaw date is the Dexter Gordon 'Homecoming' album for Columbia when Dexter 'borrowed' the Woody Shaw band for one of his return to New York.

The previous worst heat wave in France was in 1947. The 2003 one was as fierce but what made it exceptional was its length: two full weeks with temperatures over 100 degrees F (40C). In Paris, the death figures rose after two nights when temperatures did not go below 78 degrees F (25.5C). This of course happened during the month of August when practically everybody in France is on holidays. The majority of victims were eldely persons who were left alone in their overheated apartments. Air conditioning in private apartments is practically unheard of here since the summer temperatures rarely reaches the 2003 highs for more than one or two days. The fact that the current government reduced the help to unpoverished elderly persons earlier in the year is probably a factor that will explain the unprecedented death figures.

None better than Clifford Jordan. He was the perfect man for this unit. As BFrank noted, the group was the Magic Triangle when Jordan was part of it. It became Eastern Rebellion in 1975 at the time Jordan left. Caught the Magic Triangle live a couple of times but never got to see Eastern Rebellion play.

Claude, newspapers and many officials in Spain now talk about at least one thousand dead. Italy is also slowly waking up to the unusually high death figures.

Dan, our responses crossed. But even with the rhythm section of Drew, NHOP, Riel, I'ld pick Dexter.

Where are Warne Marsh, Bud Powell, Cecil Taylor? They - and a number of others - made beautiful music at the Montmartre. Of the three listed, I have to pick Dexter.

Wish I could see Mnytime's favorite films list. He contributed heavily to the films posts.

Up. Up, up and away. The death toll from the heat wave in France is now said to reach 10,000. From AP: