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Great news! Never understood why they skipped 2003.

Was listening this week to the Earl Anderza 'Outa Sight' CD which I purchased the second it hit the stores when those West Coast Classics were reissued. This had been a very rare LP which I never ran into. There is a full page reproduction of the LP cover in the 'California Cool' West Coast Jazz of the 50s and the 60s' book by Graham Marsh which features many albums covers from the Pacific Jazz, World Pacific, Contemporary, etc. issues. Same 12inch book size as the earlier Graham Marsh Blue Note covers books. This was the unique appearance of Earl Anderza on records. He seems to have been a very modest musician. An excellent one! Anybody knows what happened to him?

Yusef Lateef - Into Something (New Jazz/OJC) Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson (Verve LP) Charlie Parker - Boston 1952 (Uptown) Anita O'Day/Jimmy Giuffre - Cool Heat (Verve Japanese LP) Earl Anderza (Pacific Jazz CD reissue) The Boswell Sister, volume 4 (Nostalgia Arts) Curtis Amy - Peace for Love (Fresh Sounds). The Curtis Amy is a splendid late (1994) date which seems to have been unnoticed when it was released. If people are waiting to get the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select set, they should go ahead and hear this one! Curis Amy was in top form!

I was wrong. Doublechecked on that Uptown Bird in Boston. It indeed had 70 minutes of hitherto unreleased Parker. Gave it a fresh listen last night. Music is just wonderful.

A Parker fanatic here. Nearly all of the 'Boston 1952' Uptown had been released before. I have the Uptown Boston Bird CD. The sound is way better than the other previous issues.

Totally agree but a trio plus one is a quartet!

A very moving piano trio version of 'I Remember Clifford' is the Bud Powell one on the 'Bouncing with Bud' Sonet album, with NHOP and William Schiopffe. Bud played the Golson tribute pretty often.

The last previous major 'previously unreleased' Charlie Parker material seems to have been 'The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert', the September 1952 Harlem concert benefit for a Communist party leader that came out about 5 or 6 years ago, a double Jazz Classics CD with a lot of new material from better source. Some of the material was released years ago by Charlie Parker Records but the Jazz Classics had the complete concert in much better sound (thanks to fine engineering by Doug Pomeroy). The better source were the tapes that came from Chan Parker. That concert (with Walter Bishop, Mundell Lowe, Teddy Kotick, Max Roach and the string section) must have been something else to attend! The music is Parker at its very near best.

Distribution obviously worked only on one side of the Atlantic. Get it. It's great McLean.

I got this when it was originally released as a LP on the Choice label in the '70s. Gerry MacDonald owned that label which released quite a number of superb albums (by Jimmy Rowles, Zoot Sims, Toots Thielemans, Jimmy Giuffre among others). A number of these albums have been reissued by Candid. The Haig date is an inspired and swinging album, one of the best by the Shank/Williamson quartet.

This obviously got very bad distribution. I had a hard time locating a copy. But it really was worth the search. Rooster Ties summed it: a gem.

Voted for 'I Remember Clifford'. Just superb. But I could have voted for 'Blues March' which was the hip tune when the Jazz Messengers (with Benny Golson) invaded France back in 1958. That tune was being played on all the French radio stations then.

According to the usually reliable Bird's Diary book by Ken Vaill, the Town Hall concert was held on Friday, June 22, 1945. The book shows a newspaper (or magazine?) ad that lists the 8:15PM concert organized by the New Jazz Foundation. The ad announces Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie (with Parker, Haig, Russell and Roach), Slam Stewart, Pearl Bailey, Buck Clayton, Sidney Catlett, Don Byas and Introducing Erroll Garner (with Harold West and Al Lucas), Symphony Sid-Narrator. The Ken Vaill book also includes a copy of a review (obviously from Down Beat) which reads: 'The New Jazz Foundation is still shooting better-than-par. At its latest Town Hall soiree two of the most widely-heralded stars, Coleman Hawkins and Slam Stewart didn't show. Me I'd like to know what goes on here. ...(the writer then complains about the way these concerts are run)... 'As for the music - well, lot of it was good but too much of it was repetitious and for that reason dull. Dizzy Gillespie's band and Don Byas certainely offered plenty of excitement but how great for how long can they be? Dizzy Gillespie and alto-man Charlie Parker gave out with great music but it would have been a big help if their work was broken up by other acts instead of being presented in one...' The rest is now shown. So much for the writer. He watches and listens to History and complains. Now let's wait for the CD. Will it be out by the end of the year? If so, I know what Santa is going to bring me!

Felicitations!!

Not taking any bet on this. But I'll bet they will not have the Uptown booklets along!

Jimmy Lyons' first album as a leader 'Other Afternoon' for the Byg label (with Lester Bowie, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille) is really worth seeking. Not sure it was among the recent Byg reissues on CD. This was recorded in Paris in 1969 when Lyons, Cyrille (and Sam Rivers) were playing with the Cecil Taylor Unit. Cecil Taylor was approached to record for Byg but he and Sam Rivers wisely refused to have anything to do with that label. Lyons was very eager to record under his name at the time and did not let this opportunity go past. 'Other Afternoon' is a splendid album.

Not only the Vikings invaded Britain but the Romans were there also, before the Vikings. Claudius' s Roman Legions landed on the island in AD 43. They must have brought some pasta with them!

Bird Lives! Thanks Jim for filling us in.

What a voice! What a mujere! Very sad news.

Red beat me to Charlie Parker's 'Don't Blame Me'. May I pick Lester Young's 'These Foolish Things', the Aladdin version?

That's the other title of the Rhino CD 'Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1972. Same CD. Very highly recommended.

Talk about oscure? And this is not even a session, but would love to hear this: Coleman Hawkins - A Documentary, a 1956 Riverside 2LP issue where the great man reminiscises. A rare item which never made it to CD. Hawkins was a very articulate person who had plenty to reminisce about.

Trust you have the Mercury Complete Recordings box. It includes many great sessions. If you don't, this should be your next purchase. Non-Mercury sessions from Kirk I love are: - Volunteered Slavery (Atlantic) part of which was recorded at the 1968 Newport Festival, - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1972 (Rhino), - Roland Kirk/Al Hibbler 'Meeting of the Times' (Atlantic). But there are plenty more superb Kirks available. And don't overlook the Roy Haynes quartet date 'Out of the Afternoon' (Impulse). Very inspired Kirk there.

Dan, I've got the Fresh Sounds LP reissue buried somewhere. Nat Wright's singing is just OK if I remember well. But there is a lot of good music produced by the accompanying bands.

Bastille Day listening: - Chet Baker/Dick Twardzik Quartet 'Chet Baker in Paris', (EmArcy) - Barney Wilen/Mal Waldron 'Movie Themes from France' (Timeless) - Benny Carter in Paris (20th Century Fox LP), - Martial Solal 'Jazz a Gaveau' (French Columbia LP) - Django Reinhardt 'Nuits de Saint-Germain des Pres' (Jazz in Paris)