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no, there is no footage of charlie parker together with lester young. the film you mean is norman granz´ promotion film "improvisation" from his j.a.t.p. group in the fall of 1950. prez is on two numbers, "pennies from heaven" and "blues (up-tempo)" together with harry edison, bill harris, flip phillips, hank jones, ray brown, buddy rich and ella fitzgerald. this movie forms a whole with a performance of coleman hawkins and bird with jones, brown and rich (at gjon mili´s not sound proofed photo studio), playing "ballade" and "celebrity". but prez and bird together on film, unfortunately not! (and i don´t know what 52 seconds means the other). the other with sound is the famous "hot house" with dizzy. and than there is only one more silent from sweden, november 21. 1950. keep boppin´ marcel

this is a good sampler of bird material for people who doesn´t have much of bird´s music. the booklets are always excelent and i suppose that the sound is the best as possible. frémeaux & associés are always high quality! in this second volume is (for me) a highlight: the wonderful live recording of dizzy and bird from billy berg´s 1945. (and i don´t mean the jubilee performances that sometimes labeled as from billy berg´s!). in "52nd street theme" bird quotes at 0:58 "sly mongoose" (imagine: seven years before the other only known recording of that tune with him!) and at 1:12 "tico tico"! he plays very strong and with "verve" on this amazing, astonishing, historic live recordings. and to my knowledge this recording was first on one of phil schaaps "bird flight" broadcasts, than trading in collector´s circles, later on "philology", bird´s eyes vol. 73, later on one of the andorra labels and now here. so this is rare!this are for me one of bird´s best recordings!!! here are bird and diz at billy berg´s at the time of the recording!! keep boppin´ marcel

also this year, a happy birthday, free for all! keep boppin´ marcel

king ubu, that´s the right one! it has the complete carnegie hall concert with basie, bird, lady day, prez, sassy from september 25, 1954 (lady day and also bird are not in good form) and five tracks from birdland (basie with stan getz) from december 16, 1954. keep boppin´ marcel

a fine birthday, noj! keep boppin´ marcel

another from art ford´s jazz party: "jumpin´ with symphony sid", 25th september 1958. coleman hawkins and lester young together!!!!!! keep boppin´ marcel

"tcb" records has released in their "swiss radio days jazz series" now vol. 23: "bill coleman/don byas at théatre bel-air, lausanne february 11, 1949". a new item in the discography of byas. he was together with coleman and michel de villers, geo daly, bernard peiffer, jean bouchety, roger paraboschi and pops whitman on tour in this days. toghether with the concerts at the ina archive and here it´s one concert more from this band on tour. keep boppin´ marcel

well, there are in fact four more out-takes of the tunes "i´ve got you under my skin" (9:06); "no more" (6:30); "darn that dream" (11:41) and "you go to my head" (10:42) with false starts, laughter from the audience and so on (richie powell on piano on all of them) that are not included in any issues. it was "issued" on brownie´s eyes, vol. 25, on the "philology" label. look here: http://www.jazzhot.fr/telechargement/disco%20brown%20off.pdf keep boppin´ marcel

both takes can be heard at "masters of jazz" complete edition of dizzy gillespie, volume 4 (1943-1944) mjcd 86. the master take is the wayne intro with sachs and the alternate is the wayne intro with dizzy and then sachs. keep boppin´ marcel

oh, that´s luck! was it the paris jazz corner? i was there 17 years ago (i don´t remember the name of the street but i remember that it was something with fats "navarro" -guide-ane-) comes out it was rue de navarre. i think i come out of the shop with 30 or so lp´s....... keep boppin´ marcel

it seems that vol. 9 is coming now: covering the years 1938-1941. a happy new year and keep boppin´ marcel

oh, what a wonderful album by my all time favourites "jackie & roy"!! everything they made is wonderful and that was the sound of the 70´s. btw it has nothing to do with alec wilder (this time not). all compositions are by roy kral. one is with richard druz and one with jackie cain. keep boppin´ marcel p.s.: it´s a shame that there is only one(!) video of them in the world wide web on youtube..

I love Bird. I also love Fats - to me the greatest of the bop trumpets. I have heard people say something like the quote above before concerning Fats, but I have never really heard it myself in his playing. I know the Prestige date with Lanphere pretty well, which has take after take on the same head, but to me each of Fat's contributions are different. Again with the well known "Nostalgia" on Savoy, there are 2 superb variations on the same tune which are profoundly different. I'm not trying for a putdown, but I am genuinely interested as to what you had in mind when you say that ... Q No, I don't take this as a putdown, and I didn't mean my comment as a putdown to Fats. It's just a different way of approaching a solo. What I'm talking about is probably best heard in the Blue Note recordings with Tadd Dameron's group. For instance: The Chase - Fats starts both takes with the exact same phrase, and several other phrases show up in both takes. The Squirrel - Fats' first two choruses are very similar on both takes - obviously from the same mental template. Lady Bird - Fats starts both takes with the same phrase; after that the solos go in somewhat different directions. There are other examples, but that's the kind of thing I was talking about. Let me be clear that I in no way think there's anything "wrong" with this; it's just a different approach than Bird usually took. I just listened to Bird's Dial session with J.J. Johnson, and Johnson played more or less the same solo on different takes of some of the tunes. When you've got some good melodic ideas, no sense in wasting them. Hell, think about all the Ellington soloists who played the exact same solos every night for years. Fats is also one of my favorite trumpet players, and the fact the he sometimes repeated melodic ideas on different takes in no way detracts from his brilliance. speaking about fats; by the way: here is a good book about fats navarro: the music and life of theodore "fats" navarro, infatuation by leif bo petersen & theo rehak, scarecrow press, 2009. a good book! keep boppin´ marcel

here you can see lester young in the sax section of basie´s band in april 1944 from an armed forces film http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675032041_Count-Basie_Orchestra-performs_Count-Basie-plays-piano_band that´s great, isn´t it? keep boppin´ marcel

also this year: a happy birthday to you, jsngry! keep boppin´ marcel

but i think that this is not from a german tv program. the subtitles are danish (?). keep boppin´ marcel

thanks for the link. so his archive is not lost and it is known where it is. i think i read that nobody knows where his recordings are. call the national jazz museum in harlem. they can make the deal together with mosaic records and issued the entire collection together with the savory collection as a big double box..... keep boppin´ marcel

thanks, even see his face for the first time! boris rose, thanks for all the great music you have saved. keep boppin´ marcel

congratulations, hope you have good music at your wedding! keep boppin´ marcel

shit! youtube blocked this video! it is not available in my country because it contents material from umg. (whatever this means....) something with copyright, i think. what a pity! keep boppin´ marcel

christiern, just read this! this is so wonderful! thanks a lot for posting it! is brownie really not soloing on the two tunes? keep boppin´ marcel

happy birthday, paul secor, and all the best to you!! keep boppin´ marcel

there is also billie holiday live from 1958! last week it was possible to see the entire 5 minute clip.... keep boppin´ marcel

ga russell, a happy birthday to you!! all the best. keep boppin´ marcel

tatum is there with the titles: "the man i love"; "i got plenty o´ nothin´"; "it ain´t necessarily so"; "tabu"; "someone to watch over me"; "i know that you know"; "sweet lorraine"; "i got a feeling i´m falling"; "ghost of a chance"; "hallelujah". the date is given as 1951. attention: the track "blue ´n´ boogie" is a spliced track of two versions of "night in tunisia": from january 6, 1951, birdland, dizzy gillespie quintet (without bird!) and from february 26, 1949, royal roost, parker all-stars. this must be a boris rose "production". (liner notes by e. s. spoe!) keep boppin´ marcel