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it's the cover of the booklet of the VME digipac

5, 7, 9, and 19 May 1955, according to this ebay auction

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up for this rare nugget. Buddy Collette (alto, flute), Oscar Valdambrini (trumpet), Gianni Basso (tenor sax), Renato Sellani (piano), Giorgio Azzolini (bass), Gianni Cazzola (drums). Collette is great, but those Italians ain't nothing to sneeze at either. Azzolini is a beautiful bass player.

1952, session for Debut with Jackie Paris, Paige Brook, John Mehegan, Jackson Wiley, Charles Mingus and Max Roach (Autobiography in Jazz) 1954, Hans Koller (w/ Joe Zawinul) records for Austroton (These, Koller's Idea, Zero, MSK) 1956, Lee Konitz - Inside HiFi (Atlantic), ctd 1o days later 1957, June Richmond & Quincy Jones Orchestra record for Barclay (reissued in JiP series) 1964, Roland Kirk - I Talk With the Spirits (Limelight), ctd the next day 1966, Don Cherry - Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note)

My wife likes this album a lot. She tends to put it on on a Sunday morning every now and then. Excellent music for that time of the week. Nice and relaxed and no stress. Have a long breakfast with a nice cup of coffee, read the paper...

1938, Billie Holiday records for Vocalion 1976, Dizzy Gillespie records for Pablo (Dizzy's Party), ctd the next day

I had some tracking problems with the disk skipping through some parts and the track index not being fully functional, but I managed to hear most of it anyway, so here goes een: nice old fun stuff. not a clue as to the players, but this is friendly and spreads good vibes. that bassist is slapping hard! twee: big broad grinning smile and rolling eyes betty boop music. more fun and more good vibes and more of that slapping it around. drie: very nice smooth swinging tune with a lot of restraint and decency. very well suited for dances and for listens. these guys are smoking pillars, but their dinner jackets hide it all. which is not necessarily a bad thing really. vier: typical kind of swing with an unmistakeable rhythm and w/ Prez to boot (or is it Evans? nah) vijf: heheheh. pretty recent recording with lots of grins and funniness. fits with a doopey face and silly dance steps with the knees bend. good trumpet. zes. caffeine! Slam on bass. Pianist may be Tatum, but then again it's a bit tame for him. unless he only had tea for breakfizz. zeven: nice and easy, no clue, no guesses. acht: that's Duke with Blanton, right? admittedly, it was Duke I recognised... absolutely fantastic bass playing negen: klengelengelengkleng with tasty tenor recorded in the hallway behind the kitchen. strange balance on this recording, plus it keeps skipping ... tien: dunno, some plucks remind me of Mingus, some certainly not. sounds like Hamp at the door. let him in! elf: Lou! Bu! with Curley, Horace and GOD on trumpet live at Birdland. Donaldson is on FIRE here, Clifford burns down the house. Horace does his patented theme weaving. Amazing stuff. twaalf: and it doesn't stop for here we have the high priest on the ivories tickling them till they laugh his funny tales. dertien: ah, it's Slime! drip, drip. some of his stuff I can actually stand veertien: nice trumpet stuffs. second horn sounds like the notes are sucked instead of blown. what device is this? the theme is a bit silly, but let's just like it because of that. vijftien: early bop with plenty of swing. the ice seems a bit too slippery for the tenor. the bass walks like one of those mad and fast walking guys at the olympics with the shaking hips, cool sunglasses and foaming mouths. zestien: some spiffy playing here, but it leaves me a bit chilly, sounds too much like it is supposed to sound somehow. zeventien: nice piano! this valve trombone? nice light tune that didn't grab me much, but ey. achttien: PC and a great tenor. Who dis? Byrd on trumpet, ja? Good stuff if turning a deaf ear on PC's pitch. negentien: oy! this is great! what is this? pity the guy at the door is humming louder than the door creaks. trumpet sounds like Thad Jones. not sure if I can fit in a listen to the second disk, which I only gave a cursory listen thus far, but thanks a bunch for this disk one, it was a great ride!

what happended to the afro hairdo?

September 13: 1937, Billie Holiday records for Vocalion 1948, Tadd Dameron records for Blue Note (feat. Fats Navarro) 1950, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn record for Riverside (Piano Duets, Great Times!) 1953, Chet Baker and the Lighthouse All Stars - Witch Doctor (Contemporary) 1953, Miles Davis and the Lighthouse All Stars - At Last! (Contemporary) 1955, Shelly Manne and his Men Vol. 1 (Contemporary) 1956, Louis Prima records for Capitol 1959, Horace Silver Trio records for Blue Note (Blowin' The Blues Away) 1959, Ben Webster records for Black Lion (The Jeep is Jumping) 1967, Booker Ervin records for Pacific Jazz (Booker 'n' Brass) 1968, Lee Morgan records for Blue Note (rejected session, three tunes included on the CD issue of The Sixth Sense) September 14 1956, Sonny Stitt - New York Jazz (Verve) 1967, Booker Ervin records for Pacific Jazz (Booker 'n' Brass)

1940, Billie Hilday records for OKeh (I'm all for you, I hear music, The same old story, Practice makes perfect) 1955, Barney Kessel records for Contemporary (Kessel Plays Standards) 1958, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Shirley Scott record for Prestige (various issues) 1961, Frank Strozier - Long Night (Jazzland) 1961, Stan Getz & Bob Brookmeyer - Recorded Fall 1961 (Verve), ctd the next day 1967, Booker Ervin records for Pacific Jazz (Booker 'n Brass) 1969, Lee Morgan records for Blue Note (Lee Morgan Sextet, issued c/w The Procrastinator and c/w Sonic Boom [CD]) 1988, Helmut "Joe" Sachse - Solo (Amiga), ctd thru 15 Sept.

correct

Jaywalkin' (Monterose) 4:40 Spice (Wade Legge) 2:39 Bradley's Beans (Wade Legge) 3:19 Sugar Hips (Wade Legge) 3:23 Brainwasher (Phil Sunkel) 2:43 My Old Flame (Coslow-Johnston) 4:52 The drummer is listed as "Bill Bradley" on the Freshsound CD

1954, Cal Tjader records for Fantasy (Tjader Plays Mambo) 1956, Art Tatum records for Pablo, feat. Ben Webster 1957, Bobby Jaspar & Sacha Distel record for Versailles (reissued in the JiP series) 1973, more by Cal Tjader for Fantasy (Last Bolero in Berkeley)

similarly...

actually, this one is pretty sad...

easily beaten by this one:

Ted Heath in Swingtime (Decca)

1952, Hampton Hawes records for Discovery 1954, Ken Colyer - Back to the Delta (Decca) 1957, John Jenkins & Donald Byrd - Jazz Eyes (Savoy) 1963, Roy Haynes - Cymbalism (New Jazz) 1970, McCoy Tyner - Asante (Blue Note) 1973, Cal Tjader records for Fantasy (Last Bolero in Berkeley)

Phoenix? I blame catesta! (still!)