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I'd also be very grateful if someone could help me with some of his later albums, to my knowledge never reissued on CD (except for those two Kid Ory co-leaded albums included in Ory's Verve Mosaic) : -Red Allen Plays King Oliver (Verve 1025) (recorded 1960) -Red Allen Meets Kid Ory (Verve MGVS 6076) (recorded 1960) -yes, I know it's on the Kid Ory Verve Mosaic- -We've Got Rhythm (Verve MGVS 6121) (recorded 1960) -same here- -Henry Red Allen Quartet Live (Fanfare 24-124) (recorded 1961) -Mr. Allen (Prestige/Swingville 2034) (recorded 1962) -Rare Red Allen Trio Performances (FluteGroove 6) (recorded 1962&63) -Feeling Good (Columbia CS-9247) (recorded 1965)

Still searching for reasonably priced copies of those CDs, except for 1937-1941 that I have already got.

That will be a very spiritual experience, for sure! Saw him two or three years ago, solo, and it was a great concert. Hired him once for a festival gig. National broadcast, 10,000 fans waiting and the band stands for about 5 minutes in the wings. We nudge a band member and say "you have to go on". The guy says "the master is waiting for the planets to be in the correct spaces". An associate says, "Tell him the check won't clear unless he hits the stage now"! He was at the piano in 30 seconds. Now that's a strong conviction!

Just won Sam Lanin and his many bands 1923-1931 (Vintage Music Productions) on ebay.

From the NYTimes:

This Google Search shows a few Japanese sellers (supposedly) offering this disc.

Oops, sorry, just saw it's sold out!

This online seller carries a used copy (VG condition) of the Japanese vinyl (1980) for $20.00. No idea on its reliability.

And I'm afraid that, if as Lon says "this ever appears", we'll have a few of that kind of stories, mixed with some Murray-Crouch-Marsalis racial/ideological speech.

Forgot to say that he is the only one (apart from me) who knows how Buddy Bolden sounded... and that's because I sent him a copy of my cylinder.... Oh my, not your cylinder(!?). I would NEVER send him MY cylinder...

Forgot to say that he is the only one (apart from me) who knows how Buddy Bolden sounded... and that's because I sent him a copy of my cylinder....

Ghost of Miles mentioned it in another thread, and I thought it would deserve its own discussion. From Jazz Review forums: (please note this post is from April 24, 2007)

What music did I buy recently? I'd better avoid my wife knowing the pile of CDs I've bought recently!!!

That will be a very spiritual experience, for sure! Saw him two or three years ago, solo, and it was a great concert. Here: Peter Brötzmann "Full Blast Trio" on Thursday night at the CMU San Juan Evangelista.... that will be a much less spiritual experience.... again for sure! My one and only doubt is if he will be able to get a curved saxophone straight... simply blowing it!

The Complete Recorded Works Vol.3 1934-1936: Rhythm and Romance (4 CDs) Release date: November 19, 2007

Are you sure about that? To my knowledge, and though they played live together a few times, there's no commercial recording with these two musicians. Check my Tete Montoliu Discography. Best regards, Agustín

NPR program on stride pianist Luther Williams.

The second (and last) part of this Tete Montoliu interview is now available at Tomajazz. It shares cover in the November issue of this on-line magazine with a very thoughtful and profound interview with Spanish pianist and free improviser Agustí Fernández (first of two parts) focused on his "Aurora" CD.

Guess this is that date, right?: And getting back to the "Mingus Quintet meets Cat Anderson" disc, it looks like there's yet another issued Mingus-Anderson performance from the same European tour:

http://www.amazon.com/Mingus-Quintet-Meets...n/dp/B000O75K68

More Tete news... In a few days, Spanish label Contrabaix will release a CD with duo recordings by Tete Montoliu and bass player Javier Colina from August 1995. Their one week engagement at the Café Central led to this recording at the Cine Arte studio, which has remained unissued so far due to hard negotiations. Since Contrabaix has refused to send me an advance copy to write an early review at Tomajazz, I will have to wait like lesser mortals..

For those who can read Spanish.... In Tomajazz, we have re-published a very long and interesting interview with Tete Montoliu conducted by Miquel Jurado and first published in Quàrtica Jazz #1 (April 1981) (of course, with due permission from Jurado). I have added new footnotes with clarifications, additional information, discographical comments and corrections to several data. The first part was published in October, while the second part will be published in a few days. Best regards, Agustín Pérez

A couple of his discs can be found here.

As reported on Doug Ramsey's Rifftides blog, pianist Jack Brownlow passed away a few days ago. R.I.P.

Peggy Lee Discography and Videography hosted at Mike Fitzgerald's Jazz Discography website