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JSngry thread on J.R. Mont(e)rose elsewhere was a reminder that Monterose was part of Kenny Dorham's Jazz Prophets. Beside the BN Cafe Bohemia sessions, the Jazz Prophets recorded an album for ABC-Paramount in April 1956. This was released as 'Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets Volume 1'. A second session was recorded in July 1956 (with Monterose, Bobby Timmons?, Sam Jones and Arthur Edgehill). This was supposed to be Volume 2 but has remained unissued. I also remember reading an item in Down Beat in the early '60s that Kenny Dorham also recorded for UA (but I may be wrong of this). This was not the KD 'Matador' date with McLean. There was a photo accompanying the DB story. Can't recall who else was on that date. That session also remains unissued. It's not even listed in the Lord discography. Anybody knows what happened to these sessions? It's about time to have them issued.

The Xanadu reissue of the Monterose Jaro album also had J.R. as Montebrose in its personnel list. Gave a fresh listen to the In Action last night. Beautiful music. Got an original copy of this album years ago and this has been playing numerous times. His Uptown albums are also superb (the duo date with Tommy Flanagan gets more interesting at each fresh listening).

Some more from the weekend: - Duke Ellington 'Drum is a Woman' (French CBS LP) - J.R. Monterose 'In Action' (Studio 4 LP) - Brew Moore 'Brew's Stockholm Dew' (Sonet LP)

Soul Eyes? European (Belgium). This was recorded in Belgium (except for the Steve Coleman add-on from USA) and manufactured in Belgium.

Ghost of Miles wrote: Definitive/Jazz Factory also released those Mel Powell Capitol sides (along with the Joe Sullivan sides) on their 'Two Cats and a Mouse' CD (the 'mouse being Mary-Lou Williams!) moments after the Mosaic Capitol set became available. The material that Mel Powell recorded for Vanguard is essential (the trio sides with Ruby Braff and Paul Quinichette are awesome) and has yet to be reissued properly.

Don't have a De Franco/Clark Mosaic track list handy but the Mosaic set included everything the De Franco small groups with Sonny Clark recorded for Norgran/Verve. This excluded 'Odalisque' a 1953 De Franco big band date and 'Broadway Showcase', a 1956 De Franco session with strings. Both had Sonny Clark on piano. You can view a discography of Sonny Clark at http://www.jazzdisco.org/clark-dis/c/

Mike Ricci e-mailed back in a very acceptable manner. He overreacted. I overreacted. This debate is closed.

- Bill Perkins/Pepper Adams 'The Front Line' (Trio LP) - Curtis Amy/Paul Bryant 'The Blues Message' (Pacific Jazz Japanese LP) - Dexter Gordon Disc 7 Steeplechase box - Art Pepper 'The Way It was' Contemporary CD - Walt Dickerson w. Ware/Cyrille 'Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things' (Why Not CD) - Carnegie Hall Christmas '49 (Jass CD) listened to this extraordinary gathering (Parker, Miles, Bud, Chaloff, Getz, Sarah, Stitt, Haig and others) while waiting for the 1945 Town Hall Gillespie/Parker concert to show up on Uptown

Thanks for mentioning this bonus track. I did not notice it when I heard the double CD the first time around. The announcements must have been made during one of the inaugural flights of the Air France twin-jet Caravelle aircraft in 1955. Sacha Distel and his unidentified quartet play Django Reinhardt's 'Nuages' (Clouds), an obvious choice. There is a 1955 Philips recording mentioned in the Tom Lord discography as the initial release under Distel's name and should be this. I have my doubts however on whether this was actually recorded in flight as indicated by the announcer. The background noise is pretty quiet. If I remember well, the Caravelle was a pretty noisy jet.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable date and would be a great reissue with alternates. There must be some lying around.

Glad to see Organissimo back on its feet. Curious thing happened while you were down. When I noticed Friday AM Paris time that this board was down, went to AAJ as I often do and posted on the AAJ: The Site & The Bulletin Board thread a short note advising that Organissimo.org was a victim of the Blackout. This post was later deleted. I had an e-mail from Michael Ricci explaining that he did this because he preferred not to promote other boards at AAJ and because 'telling others Organissimo is down had nothing to do with the AAJ BB or the AAJ Website'. Michael Ricci concluded by adding 'Hope you understand'. I have e-mailed back and told him I did not understand. Also told him that I doubted I would be back at AAJ.

That heat in Paris? I knew it was murder! From AP:

Got volume 2 of the Wardell Gray's Masters of Jazz series. This has the complete 1946 session with Dodo Marmarosa, Red Callender, Harold 'Doc' West, plus Chuck Thompson who replaced West for the final side. The CD was on sale for pocket money change. I already had the same session on the Black Lion 'One for Prez' release and did not buy it when the Masters of Jazz CD came out in 1998. Big mistake that has been corrected. The sound on the Masters of Jazz is way better. And the remastering has restored the tunes to their original key. What a shame that Masters of Jazz is out of action now! Their final release was volume 7 of the Wardell Gray series (this was supposed to go to volume 15). And then they were gone.

The Eddie Gale Blue Note CD I see in the Paris stores has the original notes in english.

Ubu. Just be patient. This is the summer season and the secondhand trade is going on very slow. Keeping that item in mind but it may take some time before I catch it.

Well, I was wondering when that would happen after seeing all those photos being posted on this and other Boards! There is a lot of talk at photo agencies/organizations about the limits of copyrights. In many European countries, the agencies are very protective about the copyrights. And France - where many photo agencies are based - is superprotective about this. I bet that the people at Magnum - whose main offices are in Paris - have not realised yet that the photos by Guy LeQuerrec (a Magnum photographer) are displayed on this and other jazz boards. Even if the images are not offered for sale, there might be more trouble ahead. A reminder that the laws about music which state that recordings that are more than 50 year-old fall in the public domain and are not protected by copyrights are different from the laws that protect the photo images.

This may be the problem: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...52050_2003aug12

The Riverside album I am looking for is one of those sounds of Sebring races they issued back in the late fifties where Allan Eager is heard speeding past on whatever he was driving at the time. Or was this just in my dreams?

The Blue Note albums seem to have been carefully thought out productions. Roach wrote the liner notes to three of the five albums (Nat Hentoff did the other two). Two of the album covers were not shot by Francis Wolff which was very rare at the time. I love the tenor saxophonists he used (Hank Mobley and Joe Henderson of course but wish Percy France and Conrad Lester had appeared on more of these dates). 'Mo' Greens Please' was my introduction to Freddie Roach. I may have preferred Jimmy Smith and Larry Young but Roach always came out with the right stuff. Somehow had missed on his Prestige albums but it happens that last week I found a copy of an English Ace CD which has both Freddie Roach Prestige albums 'Soul Book and 'Mocha Mention'. Very nice, swinging dates.

One of Quincy Jones' loveliest tune was 'Meet Benny Bailey' that Count Basie recorded for Roulette and Quincy Jones recorded for Mercury. A beautiful tribute.

Ubu, those Chet Baker CDs turn up sometimes in the Paris secondhand stores. If I see a copy of vol. 2, I'll get it for you. Will trade.

Chris, were you able to hear Johnny Hartman sing while he was under the shower? As for Moondog, I never got to hear him at that Manhattan street corner but he was at one benefit at the East Village hall which later became the Fillmore East. Moondog was on the same bill as Archie Shepp and Wilson Pickett. Moondog was something but Pickett was really wicked!

You're welcome. Now I'm jealous because you got this album at half the price I paid for it.

Duke is the one. So much stuff to enjoy and discover. Lester, Miles and Trane are not far behind.

Had the pleasure of meeting Benny Bailey when he was in Paris in the winter of 1959 with the big band that Quincy Jones was trying to launch. A very fine gentleman and a superb big-toned trumpet player. Make sure you play tunes from the albums 'Upper Manhattan Jazz Society' (Enja) by Charlie Rouse and 'Grand Slam' by Bailey (with Rouse). The 'Grand Slam' album was reissued by Storyville.