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Uncorking champagne now! Nicolas Feuillate brut Grande Réserve is the one for tonight. ..

There is a 'Art Pepper Live in Toronto, 1977, Volume 1)' from that gig that one of our members put out several years ago (Naked City Records CD 010). Still waiting for volume 2...

Joyeux Anniversaire, Flurin!

I have had the original Jazz Helvet CD since its release back in 1990. My only regret is that it features Lucky Thompson on soprano more than on tenor.

Vadim's films have not stood the test of time well. I am not sure his best one - 'Sait-on Jamais' rates really high these days. Vadim was a much better womanizer (BB, Jane Fonda, Catherine Deneuve, Marie-Christine Barrault... than a film director. If 'Et Dieu Créa la Femme' was viewed favorably by New Wave people, he was never accepted as a full time member. There even was a trial back in 1962 that opposed Vadim to François Truffaut (Vadim won).

The great photographer Don Hunstein who made many memorable lbum covers for Columbia Records (including Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Glenn Gould, Duke Ellington...) died on March 18. He was 88.

I confirm the 'Complete School for Pianists Recordings' is not included in the French-Dutch CBS but the rest of the set is pure joy and that includes the various material. With a few exceptions, most of the tunes that include alternates stick to a couple of takes (OK 7 alternates of China Boy is a bit much!). But those Teddy Wilson solos are plain magnificient.

Missed the Teddy Wilson Piano solos 3LP box after I sold my vinyls several years ago. Was glad to find that double CD reissue recently, complete with John Hammond interview. Both LP and CD were produced by the late Henri Renaud.

'Des Femmes Disparaissent' fares worst as a movie even if it remains visible in a highly dated period way if you are in a masochistic mood... and you can close your eyes and just listen to the music of Blakey's Messengers at their best!

At long last! The film plays pretty often on French TV. It has aged. It includes à small portion of the music originally taped. Pretty sûre the music stood the test of time much better.

A great loss! He was always providing interesting music!

All the best' Rooster!

Heard this sad news yesterday. Terrones was a real fan who was always looking to help. He is going to be very much missed...

Happy Birthday! And come back from wherever you are!!!

Happy Birthday, FFA!

CRESCENT is the one!

Bravo, Niko! Jacques Crepineau, it was!

When there was no publicity or audience rating. BBS, I do recall Averty Cinglés partner but can't trace the man's name?

The brilliant French TV director Jean-Christophe Averty died Sunday. He was 88. Averty directed most of the jazz shows on French television from the 1960s on. Among the highlights was the John Coltrane quartet 'A Love Supreme' concert from the 1965 festival at Antibes-Juan les Pins. He also directed many music shows including the Serge Gainsbourg-Jane Birkin opus 'Melody Nelson'.

Always impressed by his musicianship and even more impressed by the courage he showed throughout his life. R.I.P.

Great film with awesome music. Roswell Rudd and Phil Woods were among the musicians playing during a party sequence.

Happy Birthday Mike!

Missing your posts too! Happy Birthday!

A very Happy Birthday!

One of Vander's best was his trio date with Luigi Trussardi on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums for the Dreyfus label.