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Thanks, Dan. And I had searched the archives before posting... Sorry. Luca

Rhino has just released a DVD with two Ray Charles concerts in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 22, 1963. Tina Brooks is in the saxophone section (there's also Julian Priester playing trombone). Maybe this is the only existant footage with Brooks. I cannot recall any other. Luca

BTW, "Naked Spirit" (from Hommage) and "Tripping" (from Shades) are two different titles for the same composition. Luca

"5 Mo" and "11/8" on the Palmetto CD release of A Beautiful Day are not the complete versions, which last respectively 17:25 and 6:05 and could be downloaded (maybe they still are) from the Palmetto website. Luca

Thanks for the link, Bev. BTW, we at Musica Jazz magazine will be having a big feature on Kenny in our April issue, with a 16-page retrospective and a CD with some unissued tracks. As soon as the tracklist is ready, I'll put it here. Luca

It's a quartet with Chris Potter, John Taylor and Dave Holland. No drums. All tracks by Wheeler, recorded in NYC last June. Label is CamJazz (CAMJ 7768-2). After a couple of spins, it sounds to me like one of the best Wheeler CDs in a long time. I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Luca

Anyway, "Roderick Ward*" was Kenny Garrett, not Branford Marsalis (who appears on the Kenny Kirkland Cd under his real name). Best, Luca

Mike, There has been a thread on ART WORKER some months ago. Here's what I wrote way back then: *** I''ve been trying to discover the truth behind this record for a long time, since it first came out in the '80s on a Lotus LP. According to the composers' credits - and to a small bit of research on my side - I think that the following musicians are featured: Art Farmer (?), trumpet, or Dusko Gojkovic, trumpet Robert Politzer, trumpet Erich Kleinschuster, trombone Hans Solomon, alto sax, tenor sax, bass clarinet Fritz Pauer, piano, electric piano Erich Bachtragl, drums The identity of the bass player is a little more difficult. It could be Jimmy Woode, of course, who lived in Vienna then; it could be Peter Marshall, who played with all those musicians at that time, it could be Rudolf Hansen. I have the feeling that Farmer is not on this record, and that the main trumpet soloist could be Gojkovic I think that the recording took place in Vienna; 1969? 1970? 1972? *** There's another possibility I dug out while browsing a Carmell Jones page: "On January 9, 1969 Carmell Jones played at Vienna´s Austrophon Studio with the ERICH KLEINSCHUSTER SEXTET: ROBERT POLITZER (tp, fl-h), ERICH KLEINSCHUSTER (tb), HANS SALOMON (as, ts, b-cl), FRITZ PAUER (p), JIMMY WOODE (cool.gif and ERIC BACHTRÄGL (dr), the show was broadcasted by ORF radio." Best, Luca

I received my set yesterday as well, but it's already #462 Luca

Tony Arco, a drummer from Milan who studied with Bob Moses. Marco Vaggi is on bass. It was a big band gig, with the Civica Jazz Band led by Enrico Intra. Here, Hill is trying to conduct the band :-)

One Way Records reissued it on CD, about ten years ago. I have it, but I think it has been OP for quite some time. Hammer plays also on Steve Grossman's "Some Shapes to Come", a P.M. from 1974, alongside Gene Perla and Don Alias. One Way reissued it too. Luca

Andrew Hill, Prato, Italy, February 2004

Looks like it worked. So there's another pic of mine, from the same concert: Billy Bang and Kahil El Zabar. Luca

Just trying to post a picture. Should it work, this is Hamiet Bluiett playing in Florence a couple of months ago. Luca

Received my discs this morning. Thanks, Agustin. Luca

There was another duo record with Red Mitchell ("Fifty-Fifty", Natasha NI 4014), that I've always found more interesting than the Concord one (it's a studio recording from 1987). Don't know if it's still available somewhere but I'd look for it. "I'll Never Be the Same", from that CD, is a real winner. Luca

I, too, had thought about that. To me, it sounded like a Jim McNeely arrangement (or a Bob Brookmeyer one) for the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra or the Danish Radio Big Band. But I could not find anything similar among my records. Luca

I have that. I don't think it has ever been reissued on CD (which, in any case, should be a double album: it's 85+ minutes). In a sense, it's a period piece, very Sandersian (Pharoah, that is), recorded live at the East in 1971, with some strong compositions ("Saud", in particular, is very well done, with an excellent Stanley Cowell solo). Musicians are Leroy Jenkins, Gary Bartz, Carlos Garnett, Cowell, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Ndugu Chancler, Mtume, Andy Bey, Joe Lee Wilson, Eddie Micheaux on vocals and two poets. Date is AUgust 29, 1971. I found it ten years ago, still sealed, in a small record shop that had another dozen of strange (still sealed, too) Strata-East LPs by mostly unknown guys, at a very low price. I took them all, and the guy at the shop was so happy to see them go, that he kept saying "Please, come back soon"! (He had quite a handful of old MPS, too, so I came back VERY soon...). Luca

I found a 2002 interview with Gasca, on www.jazzreview.com : Luis Gasca Luca

As far as I know, the composer of Morning Star is Rodgers Grant, who used to play piano in Mongo Santamaria's band, taking also part in Hubert Laws' "Flute-by-Laws", an early Atlantic date by the flute player. Luca

Re #14, I think it's track 6 from this album Here's That Rainy Day Luca

I had just listened to #8 a couple of days before receiving Daniel's BFT disc :-) Maiden Voyage A very good pianist, and a very underrated one, in my opinion. Luca

Got my copy yesterday. Thanks Daniel. Luca

My vote goes to Clarence (or Gene) Shaw, whose three Argo dates I have always loved (in addition to his work on a couple of great Mingus records) Luca

I have the double LP, bought way back when. It's about 70 minutes long, so it should be one CD only. But I also have the Evans Complete Verve Box (the big rusty ones) which has 31 more tracks from that gig, all previously unissued. The complete output of those two nights (August 17 and 18, 1967), should cover three CDs. Luca