Victor Christensen

Greeting to you all for your nice answers, here is a list of what I have with Buddy Stewart alone and together with Dave Lambert: 1) What's This - Stewart and Lambert with Gene Krupa's Band. 2) Hot Halavah and In The Merry Land Of Bop - Stewart and Lambert with Blossom Dearie, Allan Eager, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Green, Al Haig, Clyde Lombardi, Charlie Perry. 4) Shawn - Stewart with Eddie Bert, Wardell Gray, Buddy Greco, Clyde Lombardi, Sonnu Igoe. 5) Hot Havalah and Bopelground - Stewart with Kai Winding, Al Epstein, Al Haig, Clyde Lombardi, Charlie Perry. 7) Cherokee - Stewart with Teddy Edwards, Erroll Garner, John Simmons, Chuck Thompson. 8) Bebop Spoken Here - Stewart and Lambert with Charlie Barnet's Band. 9) Knockout - Stewart with Kai Winding, Brew Moore, Gerry Mulligan, Jerry Floyd, George Wallington, Curley Russell, Charlie Perry. 10) Just You, Just Me, Synthesis, Perdido, How High The Moon, Pennies From Heaven. All With Charlie Ventura, Kai Winding, Lou Stein, Bob Carter, Shelly Manne. All the above burned to me by my good friend BeBop. I furthermore have: Deedle, What's This, Royal Roost Bop, Cheryl - Stewart and Lambert with Charlie Parker, Live From Royal Roost Hurry Home - Stewart with Charlie Parker, Live From Royal Roost. Synthesis, Soothe Me, Pennies From Heaven, Eleven Sixty, East Of Suez, Baby, Baby All The Time. All with Stewart and Charlie Ventura's Band. A lot of Greetings to you all, I will try to post more in the future. Then Finally a little information, but sadly enough only for them who can read Danish (Like Chris). Yesterday came out a book about The Old "Jazzhus Montmartre", it has been underway now for 5 years. A real Coffee Table Book, I spend a couple of hours Yesterday with the former owner Herluf Kamp Larsen, he has just turned 89, great guy, I have know him for almost 5o years.

Seems everybody here is too young to remember who Buddy Stewart was lol love you all Vic

I have one burned CD with him (courtesy of my friend Bebop) from different LP's, but would like to have more, are there anything floating around somewhere.

Stan Kenton live Concert (double CD) Paris september 1953 with the band he had with Zoot Sims and Lee Konitz

Charlie Ventura Bop For The People, disc 4: The Legendary Pasadena Concert

I have a copy of Rollins Concert in Copenhagen November 1965 With him, NHOP and Alan Dawson, it's bootlegged radiotransmission and the sound is very good. Playlist: There Will Never Be Another You Sct. Thomas Oleo Darn That Dream Three Little Words Great Concert, I was there. Rollins was amazed over NHOP's Bass Playing.

I still come by from time to time, even if I have not posted for a very long time, but please don't delete me. The best board I know. Vic

Hi Guys Many thanks for your good wishes, and a very special thanks to BeBop, Lon and Gunnar (alias Chris Albertson). I'm not happy about being 70, but when I think of the alternative, then it is OK. Right now am I spinning a birthday present "Billie Holiday, The Complete Verve Master Studio Takes", what an awfull package, it reminds me of my lunch box from my school days. Cheers Vic

I know, I'm using some "dirty" recommedations. On Definitive, Spanish "Bootleg" Company, you can get "The Original American Decca Recordings" (3 CD's) and "The Complete Columbia Recordings 1941-1951" (3 D's), but they are cheap. I will also recommend "The Atomic Basie" on Roulette with The New Testamet Band from 1957, and also "Count On The Coast" vol. 1 and 2 from 1958, it's a live date on The Swedish Label PHONT, very, very GOOD. Vic

This might be a tough one, but what about 02-16-36, is that possible ? Vic

Nothing on records with Dex compares to Dex live in "Jazzhus Montmartre", where I've heard him at least 200 times, with either Kenny Drew or Tete Monteliu on piano, always NHOP on bass, and either Alex Riel, Art Taylor or Tootie Heath on drums. Sometimes there also were jamsessions with visiting guys on tour, I remember one especially with Dex, Don Byas and Paul Gonsalves, the room was on "fire". Jazzhus Montmartre was not a big place, when the house was packed it could seat maybe 75 people. When Dex really was going, for maybe 15 choruses, he bend down in his knees and moving his legs from side to side, complety absorbed into the music. He was also a very witty announcer of the tunes and bandmembers. I got to know him well, and we became friends, not close friends though. He was a guest at my first wedding in 1963, and we have been together at many private parties, where he usually got pretty drunk or high on other substances than alcohol, but always nice. I could tell many stories about Dex or "Ben Gordonsen from Valby" as he sometimes announced himself as (Valby is a suburb in Copenhagen, where he had a little house). Vic

Danish Violinst and Vibraharp player died from cancer a week ago, three weeks after his 70th birthday. Probably not many of you have ever heard of him, but he was a great and major player on the danish jazzscene. About a year and a half ago he celebrated his 50th anneversary as a pro muscian with a concert at Jazzhouse here in Copenhagen, some concert it was with him, Kenny Barron, NHOP, Alvin Queen. I was there with my american friend David Perry, who had come all the way from the states for just that one concert, so some americans know Finn Ziegler, and I bet that Chris Albertson knows him too. R.I.P. Finn Vic

First a little correction "Jazz At Highschool" with Dexter G. is not recorded in Sweden but in Denmark. Next, they way Storyville started was in a very small way. "Knald" re Karl Emil Knudsen was at that a fulltime employe (in 1952) by the local phone company, but in his sparetime he was coming around select musicstores, with his briefcase full of 78rpm's records of New Orleans Music and trad. english bands. I can remeber it quite vivedly, as so can Chris (I won't reveal his real first name), whom I also can remember from then (in the early start of the fifties). There is one guy though, that nobody has mentioned, namely Anders Stefansen, who has produced so many of the Storyville's for the last 15 years, and have done a great job. I know Chris knows him, and Anders was the guy that turned me on to jazz, when I was 14 (he was 17), and I am forever gratefull to Anders for that. I am 69 now and he 72 and still at it. Vic

"Musik Genom Fyra Sekler" is a very good twofer, but rather different. It is all swedish folkmusic with all kinds of instruments, some rare and odd. I would not really call it jazz, but it is very fascianating music. Vic

Clifford Jordan is also one of my favorite tenorplayers. I' amazed that only once have "Royal Ballads" been mentioned, it is one of my favorite CD's: Clifford Jordan (tenor), Kevin O'Connell(piano), Ed Howard(bass), Vernell Fournier(drums). Lush Life; Pannonica; Royal Blues; Little Girl Blue; Armando; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Everything Happens To Me; 'Round about Midnight. CrissCross CD 1025, it is a must for everybody that dig Clifford Jordan. Recorded 12/23/1986 by Van Gelder, Vic

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis disc 1 and 2 Great music, what a band Vic

I have heard all of the greats live, except Bird. He played at a concert here in Copenhagen in 1950, but I was not allowed to go because I was only 13 at that time. What a shame, he is my alltime favorite. He is genius in jazz besides Louis A. and "The Duke". Some of the greats were on the downslide when I heard them, like Lester, Billie H. and Hawkins. Vic

Thanks Tjobbe I have just ordered it from CD-ON together with "Jazz In Blåton", great prices. Vic

Hi I tried the link to ginza.se, but they told they don't sell to Denmark. They had a great selection of Lars Gullin at very cheap prices, but no luck. I guees I should be thinking about taking a trip to Malmoe, just across the sound and opposite Copenhagen. It's really a pain in the a.. that it shall be so difficult. I already have 11 CD's with him, but I want more. I know him from when he lived here in Copenhagen in the beginning of the sixties, He was a sad figure, a totally junkie, but he could play. Vic

I've just watched on danish TV a memorial that lasted for one hour, and after that a concert recording from 1965 here from Copenhagen with him, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Drew, Alan Dawson, he was only 18 at that time. It all brought tears to my eyes, I've have know since he was a kid, what a waste. I will attend the service, if it's not going to be just for the family and close friends. Vic

I became so sad today, when I heard about it (no circumstances given about the cause of death). I've have known him personally since he was 14 and a child prodigry playing bass with Bent Axen quintet in the since long gone jazzplace "Vingården" (The Vinegarten) here in Copenhagen in 1960. He was always a very straight person, no booze or drugs, always just left after his gig was finished. Happily married for many years and had two daughters, lived out in the suburbs of Copenhagen (Ishøj) just opposite his childhood friend Ole Koch Hansen (Piano, Arranger, Composer). They grew up together in small village named Osted. Last time I've heard him live was last year at Finn Zieglers (danish violin and vibraharp player) Anniversary Concert together with Kenny Barron, NHOP. Alvin Quen. I shall miss him so much. If it will not be a private burial, then I shall go to it. Vic

Hi Are there any swedes on this board, who could give me the link to swedish online record store, where I could purchase the reissue of Lars Gullin's "The Artistry Of Lars Gullin, Fine Together". I have tried here in Denmark, but it seems that it's only available in Sweden. It's on Universal. I would love to get my hands on it. Vic

Here is my favorite: Teddy Wilson Sextet: The Complete Associated Transcriptions 1944. Storyville STCD 8236. Great CD with Emmett Berry, Benny Morton, Edmond Hall, Teddy Wilson, Slam Stewart, Big Sid Catlett. Vic

I had about 125 BN original LP's, but have traded almost all off them, but I still have 3 left: BLP 1562 "The Stylings Of Silver", BLP 1565 "Cliff Jordan", BLP 4007 "Off To The Races", all in mono and the BN address: 47 West 63rd Street, New York 23. What are they worth today ?, they are all original pressings. Should I sell them ?, I have all three on CD. Vic

Well Guys Nothing on records compares to Dexter heard live and in person in his heydays in the mid sixties, that was something else. I know he became very popular after his return to the States, but in my opinion his playing was on the downpath after that. BTW he was a great guy as a person, even though a little bit unriliable when it came to holding appointments. I miss him. He was a guest at my wedding, and I have been to several parties at his very small house here in Copenhagen. Also BTW Kenny Drew was pretty good live with Dex, but my personal prefence for a pianist with Dex is Sonny Clark or Carl Perkins. Vic