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I wondered about that as well, but I can't find anything on the web... Another one that I think hasn't been mentioned here: ESP' Disk AAJ article

some others: James Dean, of course... NEW YORK - Refugees aboard a ship in New York Harbor, 1951. © Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos NEW YORK—People protest outside the trial of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951. © Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos

Sad news. I've not seen many of his photos, I think, but some of these are icons! Love the one of Pres on sitting on the bed, had that one on the wall for some time.

seconded, i am really not following German jazz much, but this is a great record! Are the first two similarly good? Does my description give an idea of how the music sounds?

Very nice video - and a smart move to chose this calypso tune for such a tv show, I guess...

wonderful box, isn't it? Whoah, this is scary! I quoted brownie's post before he actually posted it!?

wonderful box, isn't it?

Thanks! That early one (video #17 I think) is quite amazing, too bad the guitar is so low in the mix, and the general volume is too low for my computer speakers, too! Who's the pianist there?

Thanks for reporting, Michael! Good to know Lateef still has it down! He appeared in Paris with Archie Shepp (and Shepp's band: Tom McClung, Wayne Dockery, Steve McCraven, with Leon Parker added on percussion) in September. A recording is in circulation but I haven't come around to it yet. His album with the Belmondo brothers also yielded a few fantastic live concerts, though again I only heard some of it on the radio, alas. That was in 2006.

Yes, Jazzcraft... sorry for being too lazy to read that up! That was a nice series of Storyville discs there! Wyands, Turk Mauro, Benny Bailey... and one more very nice trio set: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.aspx?tabID=2633&productId=26763&state_2838=2 (it's a single disc, the price listed there is ridiculous!) Bob Cranshaw played upright bass again after all those years, and Ben Riley is on drums!

just found this in the sales bins yesterday - after having known a few live sets from dime, it's nice to own something by these guys and the gal: Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer - [em] 3 I find it hard to put in words what they actually do... it's quite European to say the least, it's groovy (but not of the EST kind, which always bored me to death), it's impressionistic and it goes into some strange harmonic/melodic fields now and ten. Yet it's not at all difficult music I find, and at the same time it's pretty rewarding.

This is just a shot in the dark... I have a spare copy of the Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Mosaic Select and am looking for the Pacific Piano Trios Select. Anyone?

Weird and getting weirder... anyway, I'm not compelled to buy anything (besides whatever new official/legit release may turn up).

Thanks for the alert, bought me a copy of today's "Liberation"!

Thanks for spreading the news, I'll be looking for that new release! I saw some kind of 2CD (DVD?) package of "Electric Ladyland" from MCA recently, what was that, also some kind of making of thing? I think it was a CD plus a DVD, but I can't remember.

r.i.p. I think all I've heard is one of those Concord discs, but I can't even remember its title. I'd love to hear the Riverside one, looks like a great one, with that line-up!

Alain Jean-Marie - Lazy Afternoon (rec. 1999 with Gilles Naturel & John Betsch) Reissued on the second disc of "After Blue" (Jazz in Paris "Hors série 5"): I think his solos are better though... I'm only just discovering his own recordings, really, though I've had his excellent set from the "Jazz 'n (e)motion" box for several years. That one's from 1997 and includes a few wonderful songs related to films (inclduing "Touchez pas au Grisbi", "The Connection", "A Felicidade", and several each from "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music"). The solo disc on the above 2CD set is titled "Afterblue" and was recorded in 1998. It also includes a few interesting songs, such as "Some Other Spring" and one more Irene Kitchings tune, "Ghost of Yesterday", as well as many originals by Jean-Marie. As this is off-topic here, I think I'll rather start a thread about him!

Several favorites have been mentioned - Don Friedman (the albums with Attila Zoller added are great as well!), the Wolfgang Dauner on L+R (a recent discovery here, too!), Buster Williams' "Houdini", and the John Williams trio disc on Fresh Sound! Another one I just heard for the first time: Roy Haynes - Just Us (with Richard Wyands and Eddie de Haas) Richard Wyands has a fine trio disc available on Storyville, too (with Lisle Atkinson on bass!), "Then Here and Now": Other favourite piano trios, of the more open kind, included Colin Vallon's trio and BraffOesterRohrer (their website should be here: http://www.braffoesterrohrer.com/ but it's been hacked, it seems, Braff's page is here: http://www.malcolmbraff.com/): Colin Vallon Trio - Ombres (Unit Records) & Ailleurs (hatOLOGY) BraffOesterRohrer - Walkabout (Unit Records) Both are Swiss, both have the great Samuel Rohrer on drums. You can check out Braff's album here: http://www.malcolmbraff.com/mp3/?p=BraffOesterRohrer%20%28A-Trio%29/Walkabout

He had a long career and was making films until recently... haven't seen many though (and skipped his last one, which didn't sound very interesting). Anyway, when I'll get a chance to see some of his films on the big screen, I'll certainly catch it (I missed out on his last retrospective here... I think something else was running at the local cinematheque at the same time, forcing me to make picks...) Le Monde's obit: http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2010/01/11/mort-d-eric-rohmer-legende-du-cinema-francais_1290329_3382.html#ens_id=1290326

Oh, and for historical reissues, definitively the Getz/Barron "People Time" box! Oh, and for historical reissues, definitively the Getz/Barron "People Time" box!

So did they finally come up with the 100TB ipod or what?

You're welcome! I had to think a while to remember where I read about that Asch story...

Gee, am I the only one of the non-review-writing people here that has hardly any 2009 release in his collection at this point? To me, discs from 2007 and 2008 are still brand-spakin'-new, I just can't keep up! I got the latest Threadgill (not listened to it yet though), a recent release by BraffOesterRohrer (though the recording is from a few years ago), and I know I'll love the Von Freeman disc Chuck put out (I've known the recording for a few years and am happy to see it officially released). Other than that, some other recent ones that would come to mind are all older than 2009 (Steve Kuhn's Blue Note disc from 2007, Charlie Haden's fine "Rambling Boy" from 2008, I think?) ok, going through the lists... I also have most of Chuck's 2009 reissues, as well as the Lucky Thompson, but this being mainly about new releases... I'll definitely get the Halvorson/Redding hatOLOGY disc some day, though (and I'm going to look at it as brandnew when I'll eventually do so, in a year or two ) And I also have the Freddie Hubbard disc...

These two titles are at the end of disc 2 of the 10CD JATP 1944-1949 box set - all the following info is taken from the CD booklet: Joe Guy, Howard McGhee (t), Willie Smith (as), Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Ventura (ts), Garland Finney (p), Ulysses Livingston (g), Red Callender (b), Gene Krupa (d) February 12, 1945, Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles. Oh, Lady Be Good (11:57) How High the Moon? (13:57) Announcement by Al Jarvis (0:24) 78s: Asch 453-1, Stinson 543-1 (parts 1 & 2 of How High the Moon) Asch 453-2, Stinson 543-2 (part 3 of How High the Moon, part 1 of Lady Be Good) Asch 453-3, Stinson 543-3 (parts 2 & 3 of Lady Be Good) 10" and 12" 33 RPM: Stinson LP 23 from John McDonough's "An Introduction to JATP": *) March 5, 1947, Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh (with Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, Willie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Flip Phillips, Kenny Kersey, Benny Fonville, Buddy Rich on "How High the Moon", the same minus Hawkins on "Bell Boy Blues", and the Kersey-Fonville-Rich trio on "Boogie Woogie Cocktail" and "Sweet Lorraine". "How High the Moon" was Clef 107 (parts 1 and 2) and 108 (parts 3 and 4) and Merc/Clef 11009 (parts 1 and 4) and 11010 (parts 2 and 3) "Bell Boy Blues" was Clef 2001 and Merc/Clef 10016, and the trio cuts were on CLef 8948 (and Clef EPC 125). The whole concert was on Merc MGC 508, MGC 608, Clef MGC 608, Verve MG Vol. 1, VSP/VSPS 15 (all 12" 33 rpm).

Happy Birthday, David! :party: