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Oops, now I can see that BIG photo, GOM!

Thanks, guys! Catesta: just came home after having a few of those Cruzcampo beers... cold as ice, of course! David: looks like that Bix photo from Albert Haim´s site is not showing. Anyway... Bix lives!

Mmmm, just another keyboard without "ñ".... Thanks a lot, Mike!

Thanks, Flurin. Yes, we´re in our new (bigger and with a lot more room for CDs ) appartment. We survived the removal and have basically settled... just a few dozens of boxes to be opened in our lumber room...

Thanks to all! In fact my birthday celebration started yesterday, as my wife had secretly prepared an intimate dinner at a nice restaurant we like a lot. (worst thing has been getting up early today and coming to work...)

Mount Everest Mount Harissa Billy Strayhorn

Heart of Gold Neil Young Lester Young

Shane McGowan Pogues Vogue

Toots Thielemans Bob Thiele Alex Riel

No jazz versions of "Sad-Eyed...", according to Tom Lord Discography.

Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster Paul Francis Webster

Neil Young Neil Sedaka Sedajazz Big Band

Duke Ellington Mercer Ellington Johnny Mercer

Andy Summers Andy Kirk Mary Lou Williams

Don´t miss this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXK1NXVbAI4&search=eldridge Sidney Bechet: Sweet Georgia Brown (1958) ... and look who´s playing drums!

BTW: Line-up was: Ornette Coleman (as, t, v) Tony Falanga (b) Al MacDowell (el b) Denardo Coleman (d)

Thanks all for your input. It was a great concert. Ornette´s blowing was powerful, with his particular phrasing and his incisive tone. Ballads, blues, latin rhythms, some classics ("Lonely Woman", "Turnaround"...) and some "outter" stuff. Denardo Coleman´s unsubtle drumming was the worst part of the concert (happily, the volume was quite reduced for the drums!). Not just a piece of nostalgia. A REALLY GOOD performance (imho)

Fra Lippo Lippi Sandro Botticelli Piero della Francesca

Wise advice from Paul. It has also happened to me: in fact I am now trying to avoid "collecting" (except for a few musicians, Ellington and Montoliu among them) and trying to focuse on "listening". Successfully, I hope.

Actually, and I know it's hard for someone unaccustomed to early recordings to hear this at first, but the ODJB Victor recordings are very well recorded given the technology of the time. Just compare them with any Paramount recording from six or seven years later...

Plenty of discussion on Helen Merrill can be found here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...topic=3989&st=0

Carrie Christine Dolores Claiborne

http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige/

Cannonball Adderley Nat Adderley Nat Pierce

Vido Musso Benito Mussolini Romano Mussolini