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Here I am, ready to go. Sorry - I changed my job, moved again, my life has been a big mess. But I am back for my BFT

Chris, here's my mail: luca.conti@gmail.com

Btw, the Zappa version (on Broadway the Hard Way) isn't bad at all. Nice trumpet solo by Walt Fowler. Funny how at the end of the tune the band starts to play The Police's Murder by Numbers, with Sting as a guest singer

It's a Conn Multivider. Electronic gizmo or not, however, to me some of Frank's performances in this CD are among his best ever. His solo in "Misty" is incredible (and the rhythm section is a pleasure to hear)

This is quite good: Frank Rosolino The Last Recording SeaBreeze 3080 1. Misty (Radio Edit) 2. I Thought About You (Radio Edit) 3. Waltz For Diane (Take Two) 4. Misty 5. I Thought About You 6. Waltz For Diane (Take One) w/Larry Willis (piano), Kevin Brandon (bass) and Billy Higgins (drums). Recorded August 1, 1978

Yes, it's really a shame. That's why I kept my Swing LP (that was a great reissue program, btw).

This is a very nice session: Date: February 22, 1956 Location: Paris Label: Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) Lucky Thompson (ldr), Emmett Berry (t), Lucky Thompson (ts, a), Henri Renaud (p), Benoit Quersin (b), Gérard 'Dave' Pochonet (d) a. LD433a Thin Ice - 4:52 (Lucky Thompson) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson b. alt. tk. Thin Ice - 5:58 (Lucky Thompson) c. LD488c A Minor Delight - 2:49 (Lucky Thompson) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson d. LD489a Takin' Care 'o Business (Takin' Care 'n Business, One Cool Night) - 4:20 (Lucky Thompson, Emmett Berry) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson e. alt. tk. Takin' Care 'o Business (Takin' Care 'n Business, One Cool Night) - 4:10 (Lucky Thompson, Emmett Berry) f. LD489c One Cool Night - 3:46 (Lucky Thompson, Emmett Berry) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson g. alt. tk. One Cool Night - 3:53 (Lucky Thompson, Emmett Berry) h. Sophisticated Lady - 6:22 (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) EP: 460V219 i. LD489b These Foolish Things (Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) Swing (Fr.) LP 12": SW 8404 - Paris 1956, Vol. 1 Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": D 93098 - Thompson Plays for Thomson Ducretet-Thomson (Fr.) LP 10": 250V024 - Thompson Plays for Thomson All titles on: - JazzTime (Fr.) CD: 8272172 - Good Luck to Paris (1956) - EMI (Fr.) CD: 7243 5 39651 2 9 - Lucky Thompson: Americans Swinging in Paris - Nothing But the Soul h, i performed as medley. Omit Emmett Berry (t) on a, b, h. Omit Henri Renaud (p) on a, b. Another title, "Blues for Frank," was recorded at this session but Lucky Thompson does not perform on it. Part of this session may have been recorded on February 21, 1956. Tracks h and i constitute a ballad medley of 6:22 in duration. On some issues, these tracks appear separately.

I seem to remember that Eddie had also written an instructional book on how to play the reed trumpet (which he held the U.S. patent to). Maybe it's still available from his website.

I particularly like Questions, an earlier Steeplechase with Jesper Lundgaard (b) and Aage Tanggaard (d).

Try to find (maybe it's still available) his quintet CD for 9Winds, In the Air, with John Carter, Vinny Golia, Ken Filiano and Alex Cline

IMHO, the new ECM is a great album. I think you might as well give it a chance

Here's the complete tracklist (it seems that a couple of CDRs are floating around somewhere...): Disc 1 1 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 0:08 2 Never Subject to Change (J. Owens) 4:05 3 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 5:45 4 The Jazz Galeo (J. Owens) 10:24 Solos: Mangelsdorff, Lenz, Kriegel 5 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 2:45 6 Blue Mist (L. Hampton) 9:28 Solos: Van Rooyen, Barbieri, Hampton, Kühn 7 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 1:00 8 Western Meaning (J. Kühn) 11:24 Solos: Kühn, collective, Kühn 9 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 2:12 10 And When We're Young (P. Woods) 7:56 Solo: Woods 11 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 2:25 12 We Are Going Up (J. Owens) 8:34 Solos: Kühn, Woods, Owens, Barbieri 13 Unknown Title 7:08 Disc 2 1 String Tales 1 (G. Lenz) 4:52 Solos: Kriegel, Hampton 2 String Tales 2 (G. Lenz) 3:04 Solo: Lenz (g) 3 String Tales 3 (G. Lenz) 3:58 Solos: Kriegel, Lenz (g) 4 Tribute to Louis (L. Konitz) 6:49 Solos: Woods/Konitz, Hampton/Barbieri, Owens/Van Rooyen 5 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 3:51 6 Caen '68 (G. Barbieri) 7:48 Solos: Barbieri, Kühn 7 Introduction (Hans Gertberg) 1:00 8 Milan is Love (J. Owens) 4:17 Solo: Owens 9 Introduction (Hans Gertberg and Joachim Kühn) 3:19 Gertberg talks about the music then introduces Kühn, who describes the piece 10 Present and Future (J. Kühn) (inc) 10:11 Solos: Barbieri, Kühn (org), Kriegel NDR Jazz Workshop No. 57 - "Present and Future"; produced by Hans Gertberg. "Never Subject to Change" and "Tribute to Louis" are included on the LP NDR Jazzworkshop '68/'69 (NDR 654 057).

Definitely not Texier or Humair! Can't identify the other musicians although I think I recognize Stu Martin on drums but can't be certain about it. The pianist might be Joachim Kuhn! May 31, 1968 Studio 10, Grosser Sendesaal des NDR Funkhauses, Hamburg And When We're Young (Phil Woods) Jimmy Owens (tpt, flh); Ack Van Rooyen (tpt); Slide Hampton (tb, arr); Lee Konitz (as); Phil Woods (as); Gato Barbieri (ts); Volker Kriegel (g); Joachim Kühn (p, org); Günter Lenz (b, g); Barry Altschul (d); Aldo Romano (d)

Well, the second track is Ornette's "Latin Genetics", even if the CD says "all compositions by Paul Bley"...

I have the Columbia double LP (C2 38232) issued in 1982. Here's the tracklist: 1. The Time and the Place 2. The Shadow of Your Smile 3. One for Juan (aka Far Away Lands) 4. Nino's Scene 5. Short Cake 6. Make Someone Happy 7. On the Trail 8. Blue Bossa 9. Is That So? 10. Dailey Bread 11. Satin Doll 12. Misty The last two do not belong to "The Time and the Place" session, but are unissued (and short: 6 minutes total) studio tracks from "The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits".

The LP that Warren recorded in 1973 for English RCA is quite good (it's only one side, unfortunately - however, he shared the LP with the Buddy Tate group , which is no bad thing). Nothing from this series has ever been reissued, as far as I know, which is really a shame (a Mosaic box would be nice): there was a Vic Dickenson, an Eddie Barefield, a JPJ Quartet (Budd Johnson), an Eddie Durham, the split Warren/Tate, three anthologies with unissued tracks from the above LPs, and maybe something else. I have also a Muse LP from 1985 under Warren's name, a quintet with Eddie Durham on trombone, which I have always found nice even if a little ragged in spots.

I use Foobar, a very good player that can handle 99% of music file formats and runs a very good internal converter, which allows you to burn CDs without resorting to an external burning software. Unfortunately, it works with Windows only (I do not know your OS - I run Vista).

Just look at what has happened here in Italy with Berlusconi. A Prime Minister who owns national TV channels, national newspapers, the biggest Italian publishing house, big insurance companies, banks and so on.

A remarkable talent, indeed. He had his share of hard times, unfortunately. IIRC, his daughter died in the TWA 800 crash, together with Wayne Shorter's wife - Lucien was married to Maria Booker, Walter Booker's ex-wife and Ana Maria Shorter's sister.

The point is that Trane was looking forward, whereas Marsalis is looking backwards, acting like a sort of a museum curator. That's the main difference, I think. At that time, there was hope of changing things. Now, it's only a matter of taking the money and running away (sorry, of taking the money without even thinking of going away, so that you can take some more).

Who plays on that one? Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson in five tracks (imho, one of the greatest rhythm sections ever); three tracks are played by a larger group w/ Teddy Charles and Ronnie Boykins.

Well, wasn't the "Kulu Sé MaMa" whole operation supposed to raise funds for Juno Lewis' "Afro-American Art Center"? In that album's liner notes, Nat Hentoff writes just that. And Juno Lewis says in his "poem" that "Coltrane moves in that direction... A man who knows (that) directions for the future depend on how we artists of today cut the road". I mean that someone had been toying with the "institutional" idea of a jazz art center for quite a long time, and that Coltrane had already been spotted as the right man to convey such institutionalizing energies. Just my two cents.

Looks interesting. What is it?

Hadn't listened to this 1989 CD (on Nimbus) for quite a while, but the music is obviously very good, and the transfers (by Morris Hunting) are excellent. A great job, easily recommended. "this import disc of late-'20s highlights qualifies as one of the best ways to dive into some classic jazz. Giving up a side's worth of material to Earl Hines and Tiny Parham, the mix also includes two cuts apiece by the Missourians, Charlie Johnson, Jungle Town Stompers, and Musical Stevedores. And while the early incarnation of Hines' big band is impressive, the real highlights come by way of the Missourians' flag-waver "Ozark Mountain Blues" and the Stompers' beautifully arranged "African Jungle"; the fine banjo player Elmer Snowden is featured with both the Stompers and Musical Stevedores." Stephen Cook, All Music Guide. 1. Sweet Ella May - Earl Hines 2. Everybody Loves My Baby - Earl Hines 3. Blue Nights - Earl Hines 4. Monday Date - Earl Hines 5. Chicago Rhythm - Earl Hines 6. Good Little, Bad Little You - Earl Hines 7. Beau Koo Jack [unissued Take] - Earl Hines & His Orchestra 8. Jungle Crawl - Tiny Parham & His Musicians 9. Dixieland Doin's - Tiny Parham & His Musicians 10. Cathedral Blues - Tiny Parham & His Musicians 11. Black Cat Moan - Tiny Parham & His Musicians 12. Nervous Tension - Tiny Parham & His Musicians 13. Ozark Mountain Blues - The Missourians 14. Market Street Stomp - The Missourians 15. You Ain't the One [unissued Take] - Charlie Johnson 16. Boy in the Boat - Charlie Johnson & His Paradise Band 17. African Jungle - The Jungle Town Stompers 18. Slow as Molasses - The Jungle Town Stompers 19. Happy Rhythm - Musical Stevedores 20. Honeycomb Harmony - Musical Stevedores