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Marcus Roberts - Alone with three giants (Novus) Edmond Hall's Last Concert (Jazzology) George Wein's Newport All Stars (Collectables) Byron Stripling and Friends - If I could be with you (Nagel Heyer)

This one hasn't been reissued on CD yet:

She doesn't have any actual interest in music. But I've taken her to a few jazz concerts (mainly piano solo concerts, as she plays some piano) and we have learned to live in harmony... all of us: me, her, our two children (a third one coming soon) and my music.

And... where do you sit to listen to the music?

Here are the contents: Disc 1 September 11, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, (arr). 1 Birth Of The Cool Theme (Gil Evans) [0’18] 2 Move (Denzil Best) [4’50] 3 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’03] 4 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [4’23] 5 Godchild (George Wallington) [6’06] 6 S'il Vous Plaît (John Lewis) [4’34] 7 Darn That Dream* (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’32] 8 Why Do I Love You ?* (Kern-Hammerstein) [3’46] September 18, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost Miles Davis (tp) Mike Zwerin (tb) Junior Collins (frh) John Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bars) John Lewis (p) Al McKibbon (b) Max Roach (d) Gil Evans (arr, cond), John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan (arr). 9 Move (Denzil Best) [3’31] 10 Moon Dreams (McGregor-Mercer) [3’34] 11 Budo (Miles Davis-Bud Powell) [3’27] BONUS : March 31, 1946 - Benny Carter Orchestra, Los Angeles Streets of Paris Miles Davis (tpt) Al Grey (tb) Britt Woodman(tb) Benny Carter (as) Hubert "Bumps" Myers (ts) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (d) 12 Just You, Just Me (R. Klages-J. Greer) [3’21] BONUS August 1948 - Chicago Pershing Ballroom Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dave Burns, Willie Cook, Elmon Wright (tp) Jesse Tarrant, Andy Duryea (tb) John Brown, Ernie Henry (as) Joe Gayles, James Moody (ts) Cecil Paynes (bars) James Foreman Jr (p) Nelson Boyd (b) Teddy Stewart (d) Chano Pozo (cga) 13 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [2’28] 14 Unknown Ballad [0’32] Disc 2 September 25, 1948 - NYC Royal Roost Miles Davis (tp) Lee Konitz (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) Kenny Pancho Hagood* (vo) 1 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [5’55] 2 Chasin' The Bird (Charlie Parker) [5’55] 3 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk) [4’56] 4 You Go To My Head* (Dizzy Gillespie-Coots) [5’49] January 17, 1949 - NYC WPIX radio : All Star Jam Session Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Buddy DeFranco (cl) Lucky Thompson, Charlie Ventura* (ts) Al Haig (p) Oscar Pettiford (b) Shelly Manne (d) 5 Anthropology (Charlie Parker) [3’27] 6 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [4’19] 7 How High The Moon* (Lewis-Hamilton) [3’41] February 19, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts) Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga) 8 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [3’30] 9 Focus(Tadd Dameron) [4’03] 10 April In Paris (Duke-Harburg) [3’03] 11 Sid’s Delight (Webb’s Delight) (Tadd Dameron) [3’47] February 26, 1949 - NYC Royal Roost Miles Davis (tp) Kai Winding (tb) Sahib Shihab (as) Benjamin Lundy (ts) Cecil Payne (bars) Tadd Dameron (p) John Collins (g) Curly Russell (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Carlos Vidal (cga) 12 Miles (Tadd Dameron) [3’38] 13 Casbah (Tadd Dameron) [3’36] Disc 3 May 8 – 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel Miles Davis (tp) James Moody (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Barney Spieler (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Maurice Cullaz (speaker) 1 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [4’11] 2 Good Bait (Tadd Dameron-Count Basie) [5’55] 3 Don't Blame Me (Fields-McHugh) [4’17] 4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [3’45] 5 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’04] 6 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’20] 7 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [4’23] 8 Perdido (Wah Hoo) (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [5’33] 9 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’06] 10 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [4’00] May 15, 1949 - Paris Salle Pleyel Aimé Barelli, Bill Coleman, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Hot Lips Page (tp) « Big Chief » Russel Moore (tb) Hubert Rostaing (cl) Sidney Bechet, Pierre Braslavsky (ss) Charlie Parker (as) Don Byas, James Moody (ts) Bernard Pfeiffer (p) Hazy Osterwald (vib) Toots Thielemans (g) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) 11 Farewell Blues (Blues Final) (Traditionnel) [4’00] December 25, 1949 - NYC Carnegie Hall - The Stars of Modern Jazz Miles Davis (tp) Bennie Green (tb) Sonny Stitt (as) Serge Chaloff (bars) Bud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) 12 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37] 13 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [7’55] 14 Ornithology (Charlie Parker-B.Harris) [3’37] Disc 4 February 18, 1950 - WNYC Radio Broadcast Jazz Festival Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Stan Getz (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d) 1 Conception (George Shearing) [4’20] 2 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [6’13] 3 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [4’11] 4 Woody'n You (Dizzy Gillespie) [5’57] June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Brew Moore (ts) Tadd Dameron (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey (d) 5 Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best) [11’20] 6 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [11’31] 7 Embraceable You (Gershwin) [4’15] 8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [6’31] Disc 5 June 30, 1950 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Charlie Parker* (as) Brew Moore (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p) Curly Russell (b) Art Blakey, Roy Haynes° (d) 1 Hot House (Tadd Dameron-Bregman) [10’20] 2 Conception / Deception* (George Shearing / Miles Davis) [11’16] 3 Eronel / 52nd Street I (Thelonious Monk) [14’14] 4 52nd Street II°(Thelonious Monk) [5’04] February 17, 1951 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d) 5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’57] 6 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [6’07] 7 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [7’58] 8 Tempus Fugit (Bud Powell) [6’34] Disc 6 June 2, 1951 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Tommy Potter (b) Art Blakey (d) 1 Down (Miles Davis) [7’38] 2 Half Nelson (Miles Davis) [8’00] 3 Move (Denzil Best) [6’34] September 29, 1951 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) Eddie « Lockjaw » Davis, Big Nick Nicholas (ts) Billy Taylor (p) Charles Mingus (b) Art Blakey (d) 4 The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron) [9’14] 5 Move (Denzil Best) [6’46] 6 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [5’57] April 25, 1952 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Beryl Booker (p) Chuck Wayne (g) Clyde Lombardi (b) Connie Kay (d) 7 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) [3’37] 8 All the Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [4’37] 9 The Squirrel* (Tadd Dameron) [3’25] May 2, 1952 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d) 10 Out of the Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’47] 11 Confirmation* (Charlie Parker) [5’53] < Disc 7 Spring 1952 - St. Louis, MO The Barrelhouse Club Miles Davis (tp) Jimmy Forrest (ts) Charles Fox (p) John Mixon (b) Oscar Oldham (d) unknown (cga) 1 A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [8’24] 2 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [10’39] 3 What's New ? (Burke-Haggart) [7’29] 4 Perdido (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) [9’24] 5 All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) [10’06] 6 Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) [7’24] 7 Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) [6’43] 8 Ow ! (Dizzy Gillespie) [4’07] 9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Guller) [8’36] Disc 8 May 3, 1952 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Don Elliott (vib, mellophone*) Gil Coggins (p) Connie Henry (b) Connie Kay (d) 1 Wee Dot* (Jay Jay Johnson) [6’31] 2 The Chase (Miles Davis) [6’26] 3 It Could Happen To You (Burke-Van Heusen) [4’43] 4 Out Of The Blue (Evance) (Miles Davis) [5’46] Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d) 5 Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [1’48] 6 Tune Up (Miles Davis) [6’57] 7 Dig (Miles Davis) [8’02] 8 Darn That Dream (De Lange-Van Heusen) [4’28] 9 Ray's Idea (Ray Brown-Gil Fuller) [7’12] 10 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin) [5’36] 11 Wee Dot (Jay Jay Johnson) [5’57] Disc 9 Beginning of 1953 - Boston, MA Hi-Hat Club (cont.) Miles Davis (tp) Jay Migliori (ts) Al Walcott, Bob Freeman* (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Jimmy Zitano (d) 1 Alone Together (Schwartz-Dietz) [5’26] 2 Well, You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) [9’50] 3 A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) * [7’49] 4 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Lester Young) [2’07] May 16, 1953 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis (tp) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll* (vo) Candido Camero° (cga) 5 Move (Denzil Best) [5’37] 6 Tenderly (Lawrence-Gross) [4’44] 7 A Night in Tunisia° (Dizzy Gillespie-Paparelli) [5’56] 8 Dig° (Miles Davis) [3’51] 9 I Got Rythm* (Gershwin) [4’51] May 23, 1953 - NYC Birdland Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Sahib Shihab (bars) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Al Jones (d) Joe Carroll (vo) 10 The Bluest Blues (Gary McFarland-Charles Thompson) [6’39] 11 On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Fields-McHugh) [2’52] Disc 10 September 13, 1953 - Los Angeles, CA Miles Davis, Rolf Ericson* (tp) Bud Shank (as, bars) Bob Cooper (ts) Lorraine Geller (p) Howard Rumsey (b) Max Roach (d) 1 Round Midnight (Monk-Williams-Hanighen) [5’44] 2 Night In Tunisia* (Gillespie-Paparelli) [11’59] 3 Infinity Promenade* (Shorty Rogers) [12’17] July 17, 1955 - Newport, RI Newport Jazz Festival Miles Davis (tp) Zoot Sims (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bars) Thelonious Monk (p)Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) 4 Introduction by Duke Ellington [1’14] 5 Hackensack (Thelonious Monk) [8’09] 6 Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [6’09] 7 Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) [8’46] November 18, 1955 - NYC Basin Street Club, TV broadcast « The Steve Allen Tonight Show » Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (d) 8 Max Is Making Wax (Charlie Parker) [3’04] 9 It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers-Hart) [2’55] 10 CDs - ADD - Mono

Has anybody heard this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Live-Reco...4/dp/B000IXZ7GG Looking at the contents of this 10 CD box, it's not complete at all (no Charlie Parker-led group recordings, not all the Benny Carter orchestra recordings are included...).

I will have to wait for several weeks but....

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Jim!

Very sad news. A true original (much in the way Pee Wee Russell was) has gone. Here's Steve Voce's obituary for The Independent:

Very sad news. My sincerest condolences to his family.

PM sent.

According to Tom Lord Discography, he didn't.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituar...1&cset=true

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...al/16187797.htm

Sad to report that former Ellington drummer Dave Black died yesterday at his home near Petaluma CA. He was with Duke's orchestra from 1953 to 1955. R.I.P.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23853

Specially if brownie offers you one of his "wine specialties"!

Was this material reissued on the mammoth 24-cd Centennial box? Yes, Greg. "RCA 22/15" quote means "RCA Centennial Edition, disc 22, track 15"

Recently published and recommended (see specific thread) is the "Creole Rhapsody" 2CD compilation on ASV/Living Era. And, besides the Duke Ellington: 1936-40 Small Group Sessions (#235) Mosaic box set, there's more Ellington coming in the scheduled Various Artists – The Jazz Piano (MCD-1012) Mosaic single CD: Guess this is: June 20, 1965. Pittsburgh. Concert at the Civic Arena. Jazz Piano Workshop. Duke Ellington & Earl Hines: Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, p; Larry Gales, b; Ben Riley, d. TPA3356 RCA LPM-3499 RCA:22/15, L&R:1/15.2 and SDT:19 House Of Lords -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This recently released 2 CD compilation on the ASV/Living Era label is highly recommended as an approach to the music of the orchestra in the 30s (a period very poorly covered on CD so far). Sound is very good (very "vivid", with the separation of the instruments very clear, and the remaining surface noise doesn't bother me at all) and the selection is great... though you can't go wrong with 30s EKE. Duke Ellington: In the Thirties - CREOLE RHAPSODY

I don't have it, but here's the cover:

From Tom Lord Discography:

From The Independent: