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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!

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!