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Dear Bichos, The two parts of "Caravan" released on the label of Anthony come directly from my EP. I participated to the booklet providing information about Elek Bacsik. Best Steven Jambot congratulations, steven. than my info was useless for you, sorry. (maybe i have to read the liner-notes more carefully. sorry i don´t recordnize your name.) but thanks for the interesting informations about the great elek bacsik (one of my favourite musicians). keep boppin´ marcel

Hello, yesterday i listen to the new cd „oscar peterson/ella fitzgerald – jatp, lausanne 1953. swiss radio days, vol. 15” on the “tcb” label. It has (part?) of the fitzgerald set, (part?) of the peterson set and unfortunately only one track (lester leaps in; 4:22) with lester young! He is in fine form and his solo is superb. The liner notes are short, uninteresting and generally held about ella and peterson. Including is a bad scanned photo of ella and ray brown. No background informations about this world premier recording! But the tone quality is very good! The personal for the lester young track is listing only charlie shavers on trumpet but you can hear more instruments. That must be willie smith and flip phillips. There is only one other document from this jatp tour in march 1953 from europe known to me from paris (03.03.1953 and in not so good sound). so I´m sure there must be more of the jam set with them all together here in lausanne! I hope “tcb” brings out more of that concert. If you have a lot of ella fitzgerald and / or oscar peterson from that period, you don´t need this cd but as lester young fan you will be happy to have one more gem of the great prez. Keep boppin´ Marcel

their plan is to bring out a big box together with peter pullman´s bud powell biography, peter keepnews´ monk biography and jack chamber´s twardzik biography. a little book-shop in andorra has it. i´m sure! :-) keep waitin´ and boppin´ marcel

sorry to say that there is no version from december 1945! Some sources (including the AFRS transcription notes) suggest that "A Night in Tunisia" was also recorded on that date, and Philology Volume 8 (W 80) and Media 7 MJCD 121 include a version of this tune. It's a fake, however, as the notes to MJCD 142 observe: "We now know that it is an incredible five-part montage, taken alternately from 'A Night in Tunisia' by Dizzy, the January 1951 Birdland version with John Coltrane, and another 'A Night in Tunisia' by Parker, the February 26, 1949 Royal Roost version with Kenny Dorham." i like sarah vaughan´s version (interlude) from 1944 and also boyd raeburn´s versions featuring dizzy gillespie from 1945. keep boppin´ marcel

the two part "caravan" is released on the wonderful two-cd "i like be i like bop" on the ab fable label (abcd2-011/12). including a 96(!) page booklet. (they have wonderful releases! look here: http://www.abar.net/ ) the recording date is given as: c.december 1959 and the first release as ?c.1970 on your métropole ep. keep boppin´ marcel

yes, it´s unfortunatley only one track with lester "lester leaps in" with charlie shavers. but it´s not a few years since their last release. there was in january one with benny goodman from 1950: http://www.tcb.ch/news.cgi?list=month|id&a...2006&sort=r keep boppin´ marcel

Hello, There is a new cd on the “tcb” label “swiss radio days” series. "jatp with ella fitzgerald and oscar peterson” Rare and previously un-issued performances recorded at a Jazz At The Philharmonic concert in Lausanne, Switzerland and broadcast on Swiss radio in 1953. The concert is split in three groupings; Ella and Oscar with Ray Brown and J.C. Heard on the first seven tracks, then Lester Young performing his famous tune "Lester Leaps In" with Oscar and his rhythm section plus Charlie Shavers on trumpet. The remaining five tracks feature Oscar's famous trio with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Barney Kessel. Recorded: Theatre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, March 14, 1953. this is as far as i know totally undocumented in the "lestorian notes" discography and also in the book "you just fight for your life". i found informations here: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/ now, we are waiting for the cd-issue of the recently found atcetates of the lester jam from 1940! keep boppin´ marcel

how truely! bird lives!

so i think and hope that the long awaited dick twardzik biography "bouncin´ with bartok" by jack chambers is coming today? keep boppin´ marcel

hello all, so i think (and hope) today is the day that the long awaitet biography of dick twardzik "bouncin´ with bartok" by jack chambers is coming out? hope to get it next week. keep boppin´ marcel

and a sad one, near the end

a bird in flight

a bird in color

a happy bird (on the right side)

yeah, prez lives!! anyone contacted larry applebaum about the recently discovered live prez and a future issue? keep boopin´ marcel

thank you, claude, for answering at this thread. (i was hoping, that you can bring some light to this story). maybe i will ask celia via piadrum records. thanks again. keep boppin´ marcel

don´t worry: we two are only a little bit nutz. keep boppin´ marcel and bichos

Bad memory, not good. Thanks again Marcel.................... no problem, we all forget something sometimes...... keep boppin´ marcel

here´s another thread about it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=16980&hl= keep boppin´ marcel

ghost of miles, thanks for metioning peter pullman. maybe we have to wait for his long awaited bud powell biography. when will it come?? keep boppin´ marcel

hello, mrjazzman, yes you asked before. here is it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...3&hl=ripley keep boppin´ marcel

hello all, in the liner notes of the first volume of the ten volume set "earl bud powell" on "mythic sound" cd-ms 6001-2 (long out of print), francis paudras mentioned recordings by bud powell made between 1934 and 1939 (!) recorded by his father on a self-made recording machine worked with reels of magnetic steel wire. francis paudras writes: "i had the great privileg of hearing the first of bud´s recodings. he played bach, chopin, debussy, but also in a different register, ""tea for two"", ""how high the moon"", ""honeysuckle rose""..." ..."the privileg of hearing these recordings made between 1934 and 1939 permits me to smile......" ("how high the moon" was, i think, from the beginning of the 40´s, so this recordings are maybe dated a little bit later.) i found nothing in the bud powell discography by claude schlouch or on the web. does anybody knows about this??? are they in circulation to collectors? who can bring a little light on this story? or is this another "buddy bolden cylinder" story? mr. claude schlouch (also on this forum) maybe?? thanks in advance keep boppin´ marcel

hello all, does somebody know who the singer on the tiltle "since we said goodbye" (track 8) is? he is in the billy eckstine/earl coleman style. maybe it is earl coleman? and there is a lot of flute featured in the tracks. could it be buddy colette? he was often featured with gerald wilson´s recordings from the 60´s. i don´t think that the date of the live stereo tracks (9 - 15) is 1950! hear the m.c. at the end. he is announcing the george shearing quintet with for the first time cal tjader, toots thielemans and another name i can´t understand. so the date must be around early 1953! and before the stan getz feature gerald wilson announced: "now a young man who has for the past 5 years won the top spots of metronome and down beat magazin awards". does anybody in what year stan getz won for the first time an award? but nevertheless i think it´s great music by the great gerald wilson and a new entry in the too little wardell gray discography. keep boppin´ marcel