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question... didn't buy this one: "The Big Challenge" Never saw the cover before (got the Fresh Sound CD)... is this the original cover? Or are there various editions with this cover? Should I walk not run to grab it?

I'm okay, sure!

Since I'm rather sure it's an original 1956 pressing now: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book Love the music, great to have the LP as well now!

Oh, wow, that's sad! Caught her live a few years back, short but sweet concert... r.i.p.

just found this and am spinning side 1 (of 6) right now: I *so* love Fred Astaire!!!

Forgot to mention his great collaborations with Stan Getz!

Oh no, this is sad news! He was on so many great albums, played in so many great bands, from Mulligan's quartet and sextet the CJB, the Giuffre 3, the Jones-Lewis Orchestra. Love his playing! r.i.p. and thank you so much for all the great music

No one would really know which one to give to me... or care to find out either. I will however get the Phil Spector box and the Nina Simone RCA albums box... both upon my own wish

r.i.p.

Guess I won't be the one to tell you... found what I might have needed them for has to be finished too soon to get and read them in time. But if anyone has some insight about either of the books, I'd still be interested! Fox' book has appeared in various editions over the years - but then that needn't be a good sign, necessarily.

HOLY SMOKES! :excited: Top concert next to Brözzimonsteronzetett and Dylan... holy smokes! Sat two metres from Lovens (no, I definitely hadn't seen him before, I would have clearly remembered!) Fantastic concert, great tenor by Parker, and Lovens was amazing every second of it! Schlippenbach was - not unexpectedly - the weakest link, sometimes he seemed to be rumbling, often he fell into Monk clichés, but every now and then he kind of switched and was *on*, all of a sudden, spitting out stuttering lines of stark beauty, humming along and delving into a zone. As a unit the trio was fantastic, really! Forgot to add: holy smokes! (Or should I make that - seasonally fitting - constipated christ!)

ahhhh crap. I don't have it. I like the players on it, but has anyone heard it? Been diggin' it? Nothing spectacular, but nice. It's always good to hear Cohn and Kamuca. Yeah... agreed. But both have made better sessions, too.

Happy Birthday, Jim! :party:

Everyboy talkin' to clem up there but he pulled a disappearing act... how awfully sorryfully lame... (the board would certainly have a function that disallows regular members to delete posts older than... a day or something? But on topic: anyone has read either of these two books on the Apollo Theatre and can recommend them (or one of them), or anything else on that topic? Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, eds. Richard Carlin & Kinshasha Holman Conwill Ted Fox: Showtime at the Apollo: The Story of Harlem's World Famous Theater (blurbs from amazon-links)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRScRA0CPsA Keep on keepin' on, Mr. Terry!

That red one's another fun one "Plays Around with the Hits", the Trip album pictured last, is a reissue of "Recording Session" (or vice versa... discogs gives no year for either version and I don't have a clue).

I'm totally with you on both counts.

One is right here in this thread... if you open it in youtube, you'll find others, including the organ one (in very bad sound). (uhm, make that "an" organ one... thought it had been mentioned already but that must have been elsewhere)

hum, finally played some of these youtube thingies... sounds to my ears like he can hardly navigate through "Tenderly" and is pretty much lost in "Round Midnight". Nice story and all, and if he gets to have some success, that's fine with me. But for me it's "thanks but no thanks". Sounds like when my dad used to tinkle at the piano when I was a kid (dad and piano are both still around, dad just stopped the tinkling...)

Well, I saw Taborn's trio w/Cleaver a month ago - in sync indeed!

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Disc 3 by now... guess I'll play it all today, love it!

Larry -- would this be Joseph's Uptown session? Looking forward to it, whatever it may be. yes Fabulous news. Wonderful session. That's indeed good news! Got the LP but if there'll be some additional music on the CD, I'll go for it!

fun album!

Just decided to squeeze in one more concert before the year ends... Schlippenbach 3, Moods, Dec. 14, 2011 Saw Parker and saw Schlippenbach, but never together and never in that group (not sure if I've seen Lovens yet)

The extra one is a live take of "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" from a concert in Munich in April of '69. More from that concert is included as extra tracks on other discs in the set. Thanks! Looking forward a lot to x-mas when I'll get mine, then