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Up for no particular reason!

This thread at AAJ may be of interest here: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=9390

That means that YOU have completed and corrected the discography, right? ← Well, let´s say that he has used our discography to correct and add a few things here and there. Under permission, of course! And to be fair that is an infinitesimal part of all he has helped us with his first-hand knowledge on Tete Montoliu. He was by his side many years, travelled with him in many of his gigs and was present in many of his recording sessions.

Here´s the official presse release (as part of the Bienal Tete Montoliu): EDIT: sorry, no English version in the SGAE website

Last night, as part of the events in the Bienal Tete Montoliu, the book “Tete: Casi autobiografía”, by Miquel Jurado, was presented in its Spanish edition. Just a few months after Tete´s passing in 1997, Miquel Jurado published a book that he called “almost-an-autobiography”, with a biographical sketch of the life of Tete Montoliu, based mostly in their countless conversations through many years of friendship. It was written in Catalan and, though he made the translation into Spanish shortly after this Catalan edition, and due to diverse publishing troubles, the Spanish edition had been eternally delayed. Now, seven years after, a revised and expanded Spanish edition has just been published. Jurado has not changed the text significantly, though, among other things, an interesting article written by Tete in defense of bebop back in the fifties and an interview with the pianist when he was just 17, have been included. The graphical facet of the book is the main improvement: it´s a better printed edition with new photos and covers of almost all of the first edition issues of the discs by the Spanish genius. The discography (it´s a issue-oriented discography, not a sessionography, and only includes commercially issued recordings) has been completed and corrected. I´ve been sent a copy by the editors, but still haven´t received it. Thus, all my previous comments come from my talking with Miquel Jurado.

Has anybody ordered from http://www.puppyjazz.com? Is it a reliable on-line distributor? I´ve seen quite a few interesting discs on Arbors and Jazz Connaisseur labels there, for very reasonable prices. Thanks in advance! Agustín PS: do you know any other distributor for Jazz Connaisseur CDs other than their highly priced website, http://www.jazzconnaisseur.ch/frames.asp? ?

Bought yesterday, at the concert:

Double session in the XXII Festival de Jazz de Madrid: Javier Vercher Quartet / Dave Holland Quintet

Lord lists "A child is born" recorded on December 9, 1969, from "Muses for Richard Davis", a MPS disc with bassist Richard Davis and pianist Roland Hanna. No idea if that´s "our" "A child is born", as I haven´t heard it.

Two new releases are now available: Django Reinhardt - The swing sessions vol.3 (DGF59) Sunshine Special: Texas 1927-29 (DGF60) Complete catalogue on first post updated.

Thanks for the clarification, Chuck. It was simple curiosity. I´m in touch with Nils Winther, who has helped me a lot with the Tete Montoliu discography.... but I wouldn´t dare ask him such kind of question! In fact now I realize that you answered this question in your previous post: This implies he was once married to her!

So Lissa may be his sister or some relative. In any case, there´s a Lissa Winther appearing in "Photographs by ..." in quite a few Steeplechase releases.

Updated.

What's the duration? The most most recent Lee Morgan Conn ("Sonic Boom") was not copy-crapped due to long duration - seems that discs of a certain lenght (76? 77 minutes?) cannot be released in crappy versions for lack of space on the disc. ← Probably this is the case, Flurin. Can´t give exact running time now, but it´s surely over 75 minutes. Thanks!

I recently bought a few Connoisseurs ("Elmo Hope Trio & Quartet", "Booker Ervin - Tex Book Tenor" & "Ike Quebec - Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions", all released in 2005, all European EMI/Blue Note issues), that I found quite cheap (probably misspriced) in some Spanish megastore. Surprised to see that the Elmo Hope was not copy-protected, while the other two were (as every new Blue Note CD I´ve seen round here in the last two or three years). Could anybody bring some light on this?

I´m going to see the Tord Gustavsen Trio next week. Apart from "The ground", any more recommendations?

That´s probably one show I´ll attend! And sorry, no politics here.... . . . . . . . . . .

http://www.esmadrid.com/festivaljazzmadrid/jsp/

Has anyone already got this one? http://www.baudoinjazz.com/chronologie/chronologie.html It looks like a wonderful book! Many colour pictures from the book can be seen here: http://www.baudoinjazz.com/chronologie/chrono_couleur.html

¡¡¡ FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS !!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GREAT GUY!!!

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Thanks for your input, Marcus and Mark (funny coincidence, btw!)

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