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Sad news indeed! Thanks for the music, Freddie! RIP

Jon-Erik Kellso - Blue Roof Blues (Arbors)

Ruby Braff - Bravura eloquence (Concord)

Don Ewell - Meets Pamela & Llew Hird with the Sidney Stompers (GHB) Kenny Davern & Ralph Sutton - Revelations (Nif Nuf) Kenny Davern - The hot three (with Art Hodes) (Jazzology)

Omix is Ximo Tebar's label. Is he on that album? And, by the bye, how do you pronounce a double L at the beginning of a word in Spanish? Is it anything like the Welsh double L? MG Nope. No Tebar on that date. It's a trio disc, with Coloma on piano and Hammond XB-2, Josemi Moraleda on double bass and Ramón Díaz on drums. "Lluis" is a Catalan name, to be pronounced as in Spanish "lluvia". Remember: "la lluvia en Sevilla es una pura maravilla".

Last night: Lluis Coloma Trio at the Café Central (Madrid) Boogie-woogie and blues Catalonian player. Spirited and hyper-vitamin piano playing. Lifts the spirit in a col night! Best of: -his technically demanding version of Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the bumblebee", based on an arrangement from the 40s -his fully-equipped bag of boogie-woogie tricks (repeated notes and chords in the upper register; locked hands with fortissimo dynamics; sweeps up and down the keyboard with one, two... any number of fingers, with his fist...; wonderful and varied left-hand boogie patterns...) -a very wide and non-tyring repertoire Only flaw: his stride piano passages on a couple of tunes. Bassist was playing eight-to-the-bar, drummer was playing... I don´t know what he was playing!, and Coloma, though playing the oom-pah, oom-pah (octave-stride-chord), didn't get the right pulse, IMHO...

From ebay: -Earl Hines with Wallace Davenport - In New Orleans '75 (Giants of Jazz) -Engelbert Wröbel's Swing Society - Sophisticated Swing (Arbors) Directly from Lluis Coloma at his concert last night: -Lluis Coloma - Remember (Omix) -Lluis Coloma - Boogie portraits (Swing Alley) -Lluis Coloma - Lonely Avenue (Swing Alley) From a member of this board: -Dick Hyman - Plays Duke Ellington (Reference) -Count Basie & Oscar Peterson - Satch and Josh... Again (Pablo/OJC) -Les Brown - Best of the Capitol years (Capitol) -George Auld - Hommage (Xanadu) -Woody Herman/Buddy Rich - Battle of the bands (BMG)

PM sent re: Georgie Auld, Homage, Xanadu, $10 Count Basie, Satch And Josh … Again, Pablo, $8 Les Brown, Best Of The Capitol Years, Capitol, $9 Woody Herman/Buddy Rich, Battle Of The Bands, BMG, $6

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington (Reference)

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington (Reference)

Bob Wilber & Friends - What Swing Is All About (Nagel-Heyer)

On the other hand, Solal's latest album Longitude (CamJazz, 2008) is a very good one. In a trio album with the Moutin brothers, he deeply explores the possibilities of the piano trios. As Dan Morgenstern points out in the liner notes "“There are few greater pleasures in a jazz lover's life than listening to the music of Martial Solal. At 80, Solal seems to find as much joy in the creation of his unique artistry and transmit just as much of a sense of discovery to the listener as ever in his long and brilliant career." I couldn't agree more with Dan, as I own 40+ Solal discs and I have yet to find one that I don't consider, at least, as quite good. With my own parameters, of course...

Just won a copy of this CD in a contest at Rollins website. http://sonnyrollins.com/contest.php Really looking forward to listening to that one soon!

Martial Solal Trio - Longitude (CamJazz)

Tonight: Clean Feed Night: FOUR CORNERS Adam Lane (b); Ken Vandermark (ts, bs, cl, bcl); Magnus Broo (tp); Paal Nilssen-Love (d)

Agreed, Flurin!

Yes, Harold, he looks very different from the covers where he wore a beard... and now he's a man in his eighties! BTW, Chris, many thanks for sharing all this material. Many familiar names in that International Voting Pannel... though funnily I've never been in touch with the Spanish member (Julio Martí)!

You can now order Ellington in London 1958, the 2 CDs set issued by the Ellington 2008 Conference people, with the concert at Gaumont State, October 25, 1958, previously available only as a double LP (limited edition from the Ellington '88 Conference). Ellington 2008 Conference website

Ellington in London 1958, 2 CDs issued from the Ellington 2008 Conference people, with the concert at Gaumont State, October 25, 1958.

And yet another, by David Schiff (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1995): >>>FULL ARTICLE<<<

Another one, this time written by Francis Davis and published in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1987: >>>FULL ARTICLE<<<

The Atlantic Online brings back an old article on Duke Ellington "the man", written by Irving Townsend and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly (1975): >>>FULL ARTICLE HERE<<<

On his "Thinking Big" disc for Arbors (1997) he plays clarinet and bass clarinet; C-melody, alto, tenor, baritone, soprano, bass and contrabass saxophones; theremin; and contrabass sarrusophone. Wonderful disc, BTW. And he is also a master playing valve trombone and trumpet!

George Lewis - Doctor Jazz (Good Time Jazz) George Lewis -The Beverly Caverns Sessions (Good Time Jazz) George Lewis & his New Orleans Stompers (Blue Note)