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BTW: "Carolina Shout" was one of Ellington´s warhorses in his early days of piano playing. The very same James P. heard him and was quite impressed. Tonight I will check "Music is my Mistress" to quote Ellington´s comments on this piece.

There are at least two more "commercial" versions of Duke Ellington playing "Carolina Shout", besides that one included in "Live and Rare", both recorded at the Theatre des Champs Elysees, broadcast on Europe 1 (30jan65): -one in the first concert [Jazz Club 124] included in "Two Great Concerts" (Accord 302 282) -and one in the second concert [RTE 710434] included in "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra En Concert Avec Europe1 Theatre Des Champs Elysees" (RTE 1503-2) There´s also another version of James P.´s masterpiece recorded on 20may64 at the Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, and included in the "New York Concert" (MusicMasters 65122-2)... but it´s Willie the Lion Smith who´s playing piano!!! BTW: despite the somehow lukewarm review, I do love "Live and Rare" (though I recognize it´s just for Ellington collectors) Agustín

ABSOLUTELY OFF-TOPIC: Great to hear back from you, P.D. !!!

With this philosophy... ... 75 new discographies have been recently added to Michael Fitzgerald´s great website!!! Click "Leaders" on the upper left corner of the main page: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/

New management for Frog Records: http://www.frogrecords.co.uk/

a tough decision between Andrzej Kurylewicz, Andrzej Trzaszkowski, Krzystof Komeda, Iancsi Körössy,... Pianists whose name or surname contains more than four consonants are not allowed...

Well I can critize a list that does not include Martial Solal... OK, let´s not start a "Best European Jazz Pianist Ever" thread.

Since we´re all criticizing this list, why don´t we start a thread listing OUR 50 FAVORITE pianists and then make a top-50 list? "OUR" regardless we´re great jazz minds or not. "FAVORITE" as opposed to "Greatest Ever" or "Most Influential". It would take some time to each one of us to go into our archives and pick 50 piano players, but it would be fun (IMHO) EDIT: to correct spelling

Once again.... thanks!

Funny to see Dick Hyman, but no James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts or Joe Turner. Stop! I can´t criticize a list that includes Tete Montoliu...

http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/Sing...data=0810856565

Since the last update on this thread, some more titles have come out or are ready to release: CLASSICS #1385 BENNY GOODMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA [1946-1947] CLASSICS #1386 RED NORVO AND HIS ORCHESTRA [1945-1947] CLASSICS #1387 COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA [1952-1953] CLASSICS #1388 JAMES MOODY [1951] CLASSICS #1389 JOHNNY HODGES AND HIS ORCHESTRA [1951-1952] CLASSICS #1390 GENE KRUPA [1952-1953] CLASSICS #1391 ERROLL GARNER [1953] CLASSICS #1392 WILLIE 'THE LION' SMITH [1950-1953] CLASSICS #1393 MEZZ MEZZROW [1951-1953] CLASSICS #1394 BUCK CLAYTON [1953] CLASSICS #1395 STAN GETZ [1953] CLASSICS #1396 BENNY GOODMAN [1947] CLASSICS #1397 ARTIE SHAW [1950] CLASSICS #1398 DUKE ELLINGTON [1953] CLASSICS #1399 OSCAR PETERSON [1952] CLASSICS #1400 BENNY CARTER [1952-1954] CLASSICS #1401 MEADE LUX LEWIS [1946-1954] CLASSICS #1402 LOUIS ARMSTRONG [1954] CLASSICS #1403 BOBBY HACKETT [1948-1954] CLASSICS #1404 ELLA FITZGERALD [1953-1954] Muggsy Spanier - 1949-54 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1405) Gene Ammons - 1951-53 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1406) Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - 1947, Vol. 2 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1407) Charlie Parker - 1952-54 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1408) Oscar Pettiford - 1951-54 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1409) James Moody - 1951-54 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1410) Art Tatum - 1949-53 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1411) Wingy Manone - 1944-46 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1412) Artie Shaw - 1951-54 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1413) Don Byas - 1952-53 (Chronological Jazz Classics 1414)

Nils Winther

Here´s an interview with Jean-Luc Ponty on Romanian 'Muzici si Faze' website (in English): http://www.muzicisifaze.com/alt_articol.php?id=28

No sexual connotation, just a (probably unintelligible) "poetic license" from an English non-native speaker.

Just discovered this website dedicated to the Lion. http://www.njn.net/artsculture/williethelion/index.html Anyone cares to comment on the "Willie The Lion" DVD?

Anycomments on "Stridemonster", Harold? Very good or excellent?

Marcel: The origins, composer credits and first recordings of "Round midnight" were discussed in the duke-lym mail group a few weeks ago. That´s where I found mention of this earlier recording of this tune. Source is a very reliable member of that list, regarding discographical issues. No idea if this is available anywhere. I´ve asked in that list.

Yes, both leader and sideman dates. Note that my list includes sessions, and not albums. For the LP era, the comparison depends on how many different recording dates are included in each album. Anyway, being a very helpful discographical tool, Lord incudes hundreds of errors, duplications, omissions.... But still more accurate than AMG, that´s for sure!

Really sad news!

Not that this proves nothing with accuracy but, according to Tom Lord Discography, there are quite a few pianists with many more sessions than Bill Evans: -Duke Ellington 1109 -Hank Jones 933 -Count Basie 609 -Teddy Wilson 557 -Fletcher Henderson 514 -Jess Stacy 489 -Herbie Hancock 464 -Stan Kenton 445 -Jimmy Rowles 444 -Oscar Peterson 412 -27 other pianists, from 379 to 242 (among them "rarities" such as Irving Brodsky, Arthur Schutt. Chummy McGregor, Bengt Hallberg or Paul Smith) ... -Bill Evans 240 With the old version (4.4), I compiled a list in Excel for all the musicians included in the index with more than 25 sessions, that I can order alphabetically, by number of sessions or by recording years (yes, I do stupid things sometimes, I know)

Mamma mia ?

Already available at amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BVNS7...&v=glance&n=130