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The last three on disc #3, "The Happy Medium", "Peace" and "Old Mother Nature Calls", and three tracks on disc #4, "How Much Does Matter Relally Matter", "All" and "All in Time". The original records involved are "That Healin' Feelin' ", "Total Response", "All", and "Silver 'n Voices". Luca

JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC London, 1969 Pablo 2PACD-2620-119-2 (2-CD set) Disc 1: Ow (Jam), Stardust, Yesterdays, You Go to My Head, Tin Tin Deo, The Champ, Woman You Must Be Crazy, Goin' to Chicago, Stormy Monday Disc 2: Shiny Stockings, Undecided, I've Got the World on a String/ L.O.V.E., Blue Lou, I Can't Get Started, September Song, Body and Soul, Bean Stalkin', What Is This Thing Called Love? with Clark Terry, James Moody, Zoot Sims, T-Bone Walker, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins Luca

"Blue Monk" comes from a concert in Paris, November 3, 1967, with the Monk quartet (Rouse, Monk, Larry Gales, Ben Riley) plus Clark Terry, Ray Copeland, Jimmy Cleveland, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin. Also issued on INA/France's Concert 113, LeJazz 7 and Affinity 122. "Light Blue" and "Evidence" come from a live set in Newport, July 2, 1966, with the regular quartet (Rouse, Monk, Gales and Riley), Also issued on a Denon CD (with other tracks by Max Roach) Luca

It's just coming our way. Allen has signed with Telarc, and will release a new CD late August (a trio session with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette). Luca

OK. Anyone interested can drop me a line. Luca

Funny thing is, the Parisian audience would have liked to try and kill Mr Russell. There's almost a riot at the end of every piece (four long tracks), and Russell is clearly embarrassed by the strong hostility his music gets that evening. "The last piece you didn't like," he says at one point, "but you'll like the next one even less"... Luca

It comes from a concert in Nice, France, on July 21, 1971. Tracks: 1. You Will Know When You Get There (20:30) 2. Toys (22:20) 3. Be What (18:05) The title of my copy is "Herbie Hancock Sextet - 1971", (Blu Jazz 022). It was one of a series of bootleg CDs that were given away with a jazz magazine here in Italy in the '90s. There were some crazy things among those CDs, mainly a George Russell 1964 sextet concert in Paris (with Thad Jones, Garnett Brown, Joe Farrell, Barre Phillips and Tootie Heath), and an Albert Ayler disc with unissued tracks from the Foundation Maeght concert of July 25, 1970. Best, Luca

I had thought about that, but I have never seen that LP. The Farmer disc, however, does not sound too much "ecclesiastical", as the titles of the Kleinschuster "Mass" would suggest: "Introitus", "Gloria", "Alleluja", and so on. Best, Luca

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 (B) and ERIC BACHTRÄGL (dr), the show was broadcasted by ORF radio." The mystery goes on... best, Luca

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? Take all the above as a fist step in working out this mystery... Best, Luca

Eddie Harris' "Here Comes the Judge" has been reissued on CD by European Sony three/four years ago (492533-2). A very nice record. LC

Yes. It's on "Doctor Jazz" (Good Time Jazz GTJCD 12062). LC