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The program "Jazz Record Requests", referred to above, will not be broadcast again until May 1. Wagner's Ring (from the Met this time) makes one of its regular interventions. Doubt Richard would have been a jazzer.

I have more Hawk than Lester, and only more 'trane than Hawk. I know that dividing tenor players in to the two schools is simplistic (Dexter sometimes seems to belong to both), but I have a definite bias to Bean's approach.

I can recommend Double Edge (Storyville), a duet album with Beirach, a beautiful understated album which functions as a Coltrane tribute. I've just dug it out for the obvious reason. Listening to Classic Ballads (Candid) right now which has more of an ECM feel.

No disagreement from me! Might have to wait until the (selective) Basie set on Sony is nearer to deletion, altough that set is probaly aimed at a slightly different market; the "History of Art Blakey" Blue Note set came out around the time of the 1960 Messengers Mosaic for instance.

I purchased Steely Dan's Gaucho on CD in 1985. It was my first CD purchase. It still looks and plays the same in 2004 as it did in 1985. Yes, nearly 20 years. However, an Ella songbook CD I purchased in the late 1980s is now clear. You can see straight through the clear plastic. There is no remaining digital code to produce sound or tracking on the CD. I keep it just because it's strange... but I'd rather have the sound back on the CD. Given where you live Wesbed, it must be humidity which caused the problem with the Ella CD.

JSP has changed hands several times in recent years. The John RT Davies/Ted Kendall transfers were first available a decade and more ago at full price.

Best of luck Duke!

Hmm, Rooster's last post looks like it contains the photos from the Les Trinitaires CD.

The two Verve albums with Ellngton, Side by Side and Back to Back, are not in the Mosaic set.

Snap!

EKE BBB Looks like it might be Eddie Condon's. Compare the dress of Harry Lim (the guy with the stripped tie), Duke's shirt and the wallpaper. Duke Ellington 1939 Left to right: Unknown; J.C.Higginbotham - trombone; Brad Gowans - valve trombone; Juan Tizol - trombone; Hot Lips Page - trumpet; Rex Stewart- trumpet; Max Kaminsky - trumpet; Unknown behind Max; Eddie Condon Guitar. From a series of pictures staged by Life Magazine. "Unknown" figure #3 behind trumpeter Max Kaminsky is the important record producer of the 1940s, Harry Lim, who was reportedly instrumental in getting a number of classic jazz stars into memorable recording sessions - just one of which was the historic Keynote Records session featuring Lester Young and Sid Catlett. Source

These websites gave some of the information you require: Both Sides Now Mike Fitzgerald Jazz Record Label listing Scott Yanow's notes from the AMG (not up to date) American Music George Lewis, Jim Robinson, Wooden Joe, Nicholas, Natty Dominique, Kid Shots Madison, Kid Thomas Valentine, Big Eye Louis Nelson and Baby Dodds ... Audiophile as Maxine Sullivan, Marlene Ver Planck, Polly Podewell, Chris Connor, Mike Campbell, Barbara Lea, Dick Haymes ... Circle Baby Dodds, Chippie Hill, George Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton ... GHB Burt Bales, George Lewis, Chris Barber, Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Art Hodes, Louis Nelson, Sammy Rimington, Graeme Bell, Kid Thomas Valentine, Pete Fountain, Ernie Carson, Captain John Handy, Ken Colyer, Oscar Celestin, Percy Humphrey. All part of the George H Buck group. Arista Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Randy Weston and Marion Brown ... These albums were Arista-Freedom releases, which were subsequently absorbed in to the Black Lion catalog (now DA Music incidentally) or part of the Arista-Novus series (now BMG). Candid Phil Woods, Charles Minges, Buell Neidlinger Cecil Taylor, Clark Terry, Steve Lacy, Richard Williams, Don Ellis, Nancy Harrow, Booker Ervin, Abbey Lincoln, and bluesmen Otis Spann and Lightnin' Hopkins. ... Choice Eddie Daniels, Joanne Brackeen, Lee Konitz, Adam Makowicz, Zoot Sims, Flip Phillips, Bruce Forman Candid was purchased by Alan Bates (formerly the owner of Black Lion) c1988 and revived as an English based label. The Choice catalog has been acquired/leased by Bates and much has been reissued. Commodore Mosaic records have put out some box sets. Eddie Condon, Coleman Hawkins, Hot Lips Page, earl Hines, Wild Bill Davidson The Gabler label was acquired by GRP/MCA shortly before the Universal/Polygram marriage. [American] Decca Louis Armstrong, Chick Webb, Ella Fritzgerald, the Mills Brothers, Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Andy Kirk, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum Purchased by MCA in 1957, now Universal; the link to its British parent having been dissolved. British Decca now also Universal. Flying Dutchmen Oliver Nelson, Gato Barbieri, Bobby Hackett, Bud Freeman, Leon Thomas, Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong Flying Dutchmen was one of Bob Thiele's label passed to BMG, who reissued some on the Novus imprint over a decade ago. Folkways Zez Confrey, Roy Bargy, James P. Johnson, Joe Sullivan, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams Smithsonian Gennett Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael Reissued by Riverside in the 'fifties and Fantasy subsequently. Gennett was not dedicated to Jazz totally; its birdsong recordings were acquired by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Keynote Lester Young, Dinah Washington, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Cozy Cole, the Kansas City Seven, Charlie Shavers, Rex Stewart, Red Norvo, Jonah Jones, Willie Smith, Chubby Jackson, Bill Harris, Bud Freeman, Benny Carter, Red Rodney, Lennie Tristano Purchased by Mercury in 1948, now Universal. Landmark May have been absorbed by Fantasy. Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgomery, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Elvin Jones, Ralph Moore ... Savoy Since muse doesn’t own the session anymore, not sure what label owns the rights. The list of artists is huge. Here are just some. Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner Signal Phil Woods Gigi Gryce, Duke Jordan, Cecil Payne Landmark briefly passed through the hands of Fantasy, who had distributed the label thanks to their Keepnews connection. Signal only had a brief existence before it was bought by Savoy. Nippon-Columbia owns all these labels. Okeh Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke Pre-1931 US rights passed to Columbia, but because Columbia was briefly owned by the Gramophone Company (later EMI) they held the rights until the European copyrights expired. Red Baron Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner Bob Thiele's last label, always under the Sony umbrella as I understand it.

Congratulations!

The Final Sessions show that Elmo's playing style had not stood still; it is not so far from contemporaneous McCoy Tyner as one might have thought..

Elmo Hope's Final Sessions (OJCCD 1765 & 1766) were leased and are now OOP. They have resurfaced though, on Evidence as a 2CD set. I found the Japanese editions (cheaply) a year or so ago, and if you are keen on original artwork they may still be around. Incidentally, the tracks are not cut on the CD editions, as they were for the LPs.

Chris in the NRA! The Sahara will become an ocean first.

Curtis Fuller's last date was the Together in Monaco album from 1996, which AMG dismisses. Any reports on Fuller's recent playing?

Avoid the British Museum at weekends, too crowded.

The video was shot on the same day as the Copenhagen concert on Jazz Records JR12CD, but is the content the same set/compositions?

No, no that shut down the BNBB.

Not cheaper than Amazon at present, but you could register the book as a want: http://www.abebooks.com/

They are in Lord and also the Goldmine Collectible Jazz Records 2nd ed of 1994.

I don't recall it gaining any coverage on American websites (pacé the wider media), but Paedophiles have been the source of much hysteria in the UK; it isn't something the UK could be said to be lax about. In one notorious incident, the external walls of a Paediatricians apartmernt had the word Paedo sprayed on to it.

On the Amazon site in the UK, the Los Angeles Times quote is identified as being by Leonard Feather: "The most devastating, provocative, and enlightening work of its kind ever contributed to the annals of jazz literature." Feather, as we know, had a habit of settling scores; but not here. Perhaps it would have seemed too absurd. As some restitution, before the comment is removed, I've voted against its usefulness on the Amazon.com site (it reads like one of HB's efforts); thankfully it has not spread to the UK version. It would be unethical to suggest that anyone else does the same...

Brownie, Lewis Porter interviewed Bob Weinstock for his Coltrane biography. After an unsatisfactory take the tape was rewound and reused. Weinstock asserts that this was for ethical reasons.