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Yolande Bavan on To Tell The Truth. Weird show, but hard to turn away from it. Her talking voice is a fair amount different than her singing voice.

Almost 15 years later, and still good reading in this thread. I really, really wish the complete Half Note sessions could have been released. Or, at the very least, add "Creation" to the 2-disc set we have. For me, that's Coltrane's finest solo (of those I've heard).

Fingers crossed! (The cancelled Coltrane title was Live At Temple University, I think? It would have been interesting to see what the Japanese market used for cover art.)

I'd never seen what Tucker looked like before this video. He really gets into the music.

If you can find it, maybe try this one as an alternative. It has 8 Blue Note tracks (master takes only) + sessions on H.R.S, Savoy, Signature, and Regent. It's a really good compilation in decent to very good sound.

Pony with Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan: Melba's Blues (at 15:10) Bam. Man, Bavan isn't given enough credit for her role in that group.

Satchmo "Dan" Anda was Géza Anda's second cousin, and somehow related to the more renown Satchmo as well.

I saw that change, too. That doesn't seem to happen too often.

Same! (I thought the Japanese market would've returned to this material, at least once, since 1999, but I guess not — at least so far.) But maybe in 2039! Until then, I'll let this pink-and-black disc spin ...

Finally, a reissue of Lord of Rose! (Alice had an extensive rose garden in the backyard of the Dixon Hills home.)

It'd be cool if that cover was resuscitated (with color appropriately added to the black-and-white scan) and added as the 16th Marte Röling Fontana cover. (Even though we already have the music.) Ayler lives!

Once you pointed that out, I couldn't not be disturbed by that hand. It was all that purple radiation. What was the artist who drew that hand thinking?

Good to know. Your edition is indeed not on Discogs. That's the edition to have! My copy is annoying. (I ripped it to digital files and then separated the tracks onto a CDR, but the track beginnings are still clipped.) Some day the Japanese market will get to this album once again. Then I will pounce!

There's also this Japanese set, with a lone Vic Dickenson Blue Note track on it:

And check out this 1990 Japanese Blue Note "SP Days" set:

1999 Japanese "Jazz Classics on Blue Note" Series You get Benny Morton, Jimmy Hamilton, and Sammy Benskin Blue Note sessions on this disc: And Clyde Bernhardt ... Are these the Blue Note tracks? Don't Tell It Chattanooga

I'd love to see that box too. This should be the cover! (Same typeface.) And I just now realized that he plays on Dewey Redman's Look For The Black Star. D'oh! Good record, though I could do with a little less vocalizing.

Bump, to go with this thread.

Same label, MUZAK. They're legit as far as I know. Manufactured in Taiwan for the Japanese market. The mini-LP jackets aren't as thick as most Japanese mini-LP's. The remastering, in my experience, is good to excellent. I don't know, however, where the transfers come from (original tapes, etc.) Marte Röling - 15 titles total? Do you have the George Russell Fontana? There was also supposed to be an Albert Ayler record with a Röling cover. Found here.

Wu Tong. Great playing. Here he is a few months ago with Yo Yo Ma.

A previous thread on the Japanese series of this music.