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I have not clicked on the above link yet, but the discussion seems to suggest that Katja spoke to Jutta. Katja never met Jutta. Bertrand.

You can also check the online Dolphy discographies, starting with jazzdisco.org. Not 100% accurate, but close enough as a good starting point.

1. What obvious stuff are you thinking of? The Larry Young set? 2. How is the Intercommunal Music record with Alan Shorter and Sunny Murray?

Oh, did not know there were going to be extras. Cool!

But the copyright holder is the only official wife, Kiko. Bertrand.

Patrick, that is indeed the plan. Hope to pin down a date in 2018 at the next committee meeting in late August. Note that it is actually the American Art Museum. Two museums in one building. I am also on a hunt for possible other charts and recordings. The fact that the live record had 4 tunes not on the studio albums, and that ejazzlines has 3 not on any record makes me think there was a lot more in the repertoire. Uptown has more DPBB than they released, but when they will come out is at Sunenblick's whim. Maybe some former members have charts. I am working through social media and other sources for this hunt, very exciting. The 3 unrecorded arrangements are killing!!! Bertrand.

Don Sickler may have been involved in the record. What songs are on there?

Yes, my friends Lena Seikaly, Christie Dashiell and Danielle Wertz were far better, but whatever. The guy who was third was good. The second place winner was dreadful.

This has been in the works for years. Starts in 1968, so if you want Herbie Nichols info, you have to go in person or ask me.

So they are putting it one CD? I assume it will fit, but they will have to leave off the 45 Man on the Moon. Too bad. Since Ornette had gotten the Masters back from Impulse, I think Denardo must be involved. Bertrand. Original masters. Sounds good.

Life is too short. Chewy had a great quote which I will dig up later. It actually convinced to go for the Paris shows!

The Library of Congress website is a hot mess. You would never know they have boxes of copyright deposit lead sheets including unrecorded songs by composers such as Wayne Shorter, Tadd Dameron, Lee Morgan, Herbie Nichols, Gigi Gryce, Duke Pearson etc., including some songs otherwise lost in the Atlantic Fire. Useless project per the Librarians since some of the lead sheets have no chord changes. 15 years of sleuthing on my part dismissed by one bureaucratic asshole in a casual comment. Bertrand.

My good friend, the great educator Charles Funn in Baltimore, purchased the Duke Pearson big band charts from ejazzlines and has been performing them with the Dunbar Alumni Band and the Dunbar High School Band. These include three charts that are not on the three Pearson big band records: Cristo Redentor, Chili Peppers and Unit 7. Fantastic arrangements, and maybe recordings will surface one day. They play one Monday a month at An Die Musik in Baltimore, and will continue incorporating Pearson arrangements into their Repertoire. Next one is this Monday 7/24, 7-9PM. Hope some of you in the DC/ Baltimore area can check out one of the shows! I am hoping to bring them to DC as well, stay tuned. Bertrand.

I splurged - will be seeing both DC shows 10/28 and 10/29, as well as in Allentown PA on 11/11. They were so great in Paris last year. Bertrand.

I would like to know which Library of Congress collection this was in and how permissions were obtained from the estate. Bertrand.

Interesting! What label is releasing this? Bertrand.

A couple of friends of mine were in the Monk vocal competition and should have come ahead of Jazzmeia Horn who is very mannered IMHO. Bertrand.

The provenance/source of some of these Left Bank tapes remains a huge mystery which I am trying to unravel, but with not much luck so far. Some come from the society's archives, some not. Bertrand.

So the Cedar CD has two trio tracks with Etta Jones recorded 2/27/72. According to Left Bank Yearbook, there were also two horn players on that gig: Hank Mobley and Charles Davis. So why did Dorn not release the tracks with Mobley? Several explanations are possible, including that only the trio tracks with Etta were actually recorded. Or perhaps Dorn was planning a separate Mobley set that never happened? I suspect Left Bank did not always record full concerts, but sometimes they did. This of course is the quintet that recorded The Breakthrough just a few days earlier. And, if there was a recording, it would be the last known Hank recording except the date with Tete Montoliu. Bertrand.

Still trying to hear the files (I am confused with all the downloads), anyone actually listened yet who can answer my discographical questions above? I reread David Weiss' earlier postings. Since we are still not sure the Fresh Sound material is really from the Both/And, I am not sure any of these 5 tracks has been released before. The fact that there is one called 'The Chief' and one called 'Meo Felia' is a tip-off that something is not right. 'The Chief' was mislabeled 'Meo Felia' on the first Fresh Sound pressing. This composition is completely different from the Maupin tune 'Neophilia'. So what composition is the tune labeled 'Meo Felia' on the tape reels? The fact that that is what is written on the tape reel is irrelevant. That person also thought 'Ceora' was called 'See Autumn', an error that is till being propagated 47 years later. SMH. This could even be one of the unrecorded Lee Morgan songs I found at the Library of Congress, although it is a long shot. I have been trying to answer the same question for all those alleged Lee Morgan Left Bank Jazz Society concerts that may or may not exist for 25 years now, and still no luck. Bertrand.

Let me ask this way. There are five songs in the George Semper reels labeled with the following titles: 1. Willow Weep For Me This is the Ann Ronnel composition, correct? 2. Something Like This This is the Bennie Maupin tune that appears on the Blue Note Lighthouse 3-CD set, correct? 3. See Autumn This is the Lee Morgan composition we all know as Ceora, correct? 4. The Chief This is the Harold Mabern composition that appeared on the first Fresh Sound pressing under the incorrect title Meo Felia, correct? The second pressing had the right title. This same composition appears as The Chief on Frank Strozier's What's Goin' On. 5. Meo Felia What composition is this? If it is actually the Maupin song called Neophilia that appears on the Blue Note Lighthouse set, then the George Semper Archives contain at least one track on neither the Fresh Sound nor Hi Hat CDs. Did Resonance understand this when they passed? I have not figured out how to listen to this stuff, or I would have figured it out myself. This is for any smart ass who replies 'just listen yourself'.

Nor whether the Fresh Sound set is from the Both/And. The reference to Howard Rumsey is not a clue one way or the other. The Chief and Meofelia are the same song. Why are BOTH listed on the tape reels? The 3 bootleg CDs have either one or the other, not both. Has NO ONE noticed this discrepancy yet? I'm going nuts here.

I still haven't figure out what the 5th track is.

Just got the Cedar Walton. I now have all 6 of the ones Dorn put out. Wish there more. Sound is not great on the Walton, but man that version of Plexus is SMOKIN'. Ridiculous that there is so much still unissued, but a lot of the mouth-watering gigs listed in the yearbooks were NOT recorded. So not clear what is still out there, and trying to find out is an exercise in frustration. I will keep trying. Bertrand.

There are yearbooks that go far beyond 1967. I have some scans which cover 1964-1989, with 1975 missing. I hope to put together a database one day. Bertrand.