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Thanks, gentlemen! Knowledgeable as always. Much appreciated (and thanks to Couw for the extra info)

Yep, I have the second one with Never Let It End and A Jazz Tune I Hope, a smoking 1978 session with Elvin... good stuff. (By coincidence, I was listening to these discs the morning I found out Albert had died) These sets came out in 1995 (cat no. for the second one is MPS 529090-2); never came across the first one and I can't imagine they stayed around too long. Pity, these discs are great enough to convince me I need more Mangelsdorff in my collection.

One for the football fans... ... oh alright, soccer http://www.a-love-supreme.com/

Can anyone help on this? The booklet to the CD Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Clef) lists the recording dates as July 26 & 27, 1955. Five tracks definitely originate at the session listed yesterday (where some of the April in Paris album was recorded) which leaves four tracks: Everyday I Have the Blues The Comeback All Right, OK, You Win In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) Process of elimination would place these on July 27; however this Joe Williams discography gives the date as May 17, 1955 And I can't find a good Basie discography online to confirm. Any help on this appreciated. -_-

July 27th 1942: Count Basie records for Okeh 1944: Coleman Hawkins records for Regis 1955: Thelonious Monk- second session for Plays Duke Ellington (Riverside) 1969: Miles Davis at Antibes, unissued by Columbia; a single track included in Chick Corea's Music Forever and Beyond box 1979: Herbie Hancock & VSOP in Tokyo- issued as the second disc in the new issue of Live Under the Sky (Columbia) 1981: Herbie Hancock- With Ron Carter & Tony Williams (CBS Japan)

You been eating cheese before going to bed?

Also July 26: Same day, with Cannonball Adderley replacing Richardson and Paul Chambers replacing Marshall- Presenting Cannonball Adderley (Savoy) Also from the same sessions with the addition of Joe Williams- Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Clef) 1979: Herbie Hancock & VSOP in Tokyo- Live Under the Sky (CBS Japan) 1989: Miles Davis in Rome, a single track from Live Around the World (Warner Bros)

Nobody knows! The session was for a Mercury single (!) but the rest of the session (including a seventh track, an early take of 'Hip Chops') went unissued until the box set. Details, as far as they're known, are: Roland Kirk Quartet: Kirk (ts, manzello, stritch, fl, siren, vcl); others unidentified. May 26, 1964 31609-7 Japan 31609-9 Japan 31609-10 Japan 31610-7 Berkshire Blues Mercury 72325 31611-9 Dirty Money Blues - 31611-11 Dirty Money Blues 31612-1 Ad Lib (Hip Chops) Dan Morgenstern's notes speculate that the personnel is Kirk's working band of the time, which were: Horace Parlan (p); Michael Fleming (b); Steve Ellington (d); Hope this helps!

Just noticed this on the Blue Note website... September 27th release date!

Sad news... I was listening to Three Originals earlier on today! A true original. RIP

Now I think about it... 5 times for the Birth of the Cool On LP in the late 80s On CD early 90s On CD in 1998 (the 'Complete' version with the airshots included) On CD in 2001 (the RVG edition) and at some point the 'Young Miles' Proper box.

July 25: 1960: (25th & 26th) Gerry Mulligan- Concert Jazz Band (Verve) 1963: Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith- Blue Bash! (Verve) 1980: (25th- 27th) David Murray Octet- Ming (Black Saint) 1981: Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams- Quartet (Columbia) 1998: Peter Brotzmann & Die Like a Dog- From Valley to Valley (Eremite)

This is the cover to that mid-80s reissue... what were they thinking?!

KOB: 4 times- on LP around 1984, CD probably a couple of years later (the version with the crappy circa 1969 photo-in-reverse... where's that thread about things being in original artwork?), Gold CD from early 90s, Miles & Trane boxed set. GS: 3 times- on LP around 1985 (French reissue with a different sleeve), CD from early 90s, Atlantic boxed set

Well, I've just played it through, twice in a row, and I have to say... WOW!!! Awesome! I knew it was going to be good and it certainly lives up to all expectations; the recording, the playing, the package... all first class! The sense of excitement amongst players and audience is palpable; Parker is Parker. Beautiful. Dizzy is mercurial. Al Haig ain't no slouch! Great drumming from Max & Big Sid. The feeling between these guys is electric. Can you imagine actually hearing this in 1945??! History being made. I can't believe I'm actually listening to this, 60 years later! Kudos to everyone involved (including our own Mr. Nessa, of course!). This one's going to get a lot of play! The Monk/ Trane set has a tough act to beat! Might put it on again, right now...

Just got my copy today... am just about to unwrap it.... Oh, the anticipation!!!!!

July 24: 1938: Artie Shaw records for Bluebird, including one title with Billie Holiday 1967: Cannonball Adderley- 74 Miles Away (Capitol) 1974: Dexter Gordon- The Apartment (Steeplchase)

Ok, never done one of these before... so why not? Count me in!

She'd have to lose the snake...

More for July 23rd: 1940: Bud Freeman & his Famous Chicagoans (Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, etc) record for Columbia 1946: Oscar Peterson records for RCA Masters (Canada) 1955: Dave Brubeck Quartet at Basin Street, NY- Jazz: Red Hot & Cool (Columbia) 1968: Don Rendell & Ian Carr at the Antibes Jazz Festival- 1964- 68 (Spotlite) 1970: Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett- Burton & Jarrett (Atlantic) 1977: Herbie Hancock & VSOP in Tokyo- Tempest In the Colosseum (CBS Japan)

Yeah, I'd have to agree with that. The weakest of the Mercury (well, Limelight) albums. A minor blip on an otherwise fine box.

I believe the trombonist was Slide Hampton * * This joke may only work in England!

I actually liked Future Shock (although the follow-ups were increasingly formulaic), maybe not as a Herbie album per se, but it was a genuinely creative piece of (then) contemporary electropop. I still remember hearing 'Rockit' for the first time and being blown away! (It's still an astonishing pop record) I've always cut Herbie some slack for his pop stuff, possibly because at the age of 12 or so Herbie's disco records were my introduction to him, but mostly for the fact that he manages to keep his 'jazz' career going simultaneously (if only the same could be said for George Benson!). Plus I think they're genuinely part of Herbie's artistic make-up. It never seems like these projects are done simply to make a fast buck and, much like Louis Armstrong's recordings of the 1930s, there's usually some little flash of improvisatory genius to remind you- hey- you're not listening to just anybody here.

I'm certainly not going to be making any non-essential trips into town (I live about 20 miles outside London) for the forseeable future. Which is, of course, what these mofos want. Fear and panic. But you gotta live your life, right?

Yeah, good writing, folks...