Niko

brown rose on xanadu has the same 1956 sessions as the vogue vol 2 and the thompson/gryce (vogue vol 2 unlike the others has the trio with trunk; there is also a cd called lucky sessions with the trio plus vogue vol 1); the high note is a different session from 1958/59 with michel hausser... (there is also theJiP disc with sammy price btw...); thompson is on at least two sessions of the clarke americans cd...

stupid question, claude... which cities are really good? think i did find discosold and also wasn't too impressed, mostly cheapo stuff for 10 euros... some of the smaller ones had a better (but small) selection or a cheapo one at lower prices (i enjoy browsing those but it may not be everyones cup of tea...)

don't know what lucky in paris is (the one on high note?)... but you really should get the thompson "americans swinging in paris" disc - imho it's the best of the 1956 paris recordings and the only one you're missing... i keep hoping for the milt jackson material, or some of the other american recordings, since i have most of the french ones... You called it, the "Lucky In Paris" is the one on High Note. I'll have to check out the "Americans Swinging In Paris" disc if it doesn't overlap what I already have. check for yourself, but it shouldn't overlap, the four sessions on this one are owned by emi... quintet with emmett berry, quartet with jean pierre sasson on guitar, quintet with solal and guy lafitte, quartet with solal, four glorious sessions...

would also be interested in answers, only time i was there i was travelling in company so no time for extensive searching:) ! there were a bunch of (four or five) decent used bookstores with cd sections on rue du midi roughly between rue des bogards and rue des pierres... if you go by manneken pis into the direction away from the center the best cd shop i saw was into the second (or so?!!) street to the left on the right hand side after a few meters... (maybe bs, don't take too serious although this was the best store) generally the used cd market (no idea about vinyl though i did see some...) seemed very healthy then (a year ago), healthier than anywhere i've been in the last years.... so some goole search for music stores could be the thing to do...

don't know what lucky in paris is (the one on high note?)... but you really should get the thompson "americans swinging in paris" disc - imho it's the best of the 1956 paris recordings and the only one you're missing... i keep hoping for the milt jackson material, or some of the other american recordings, since i have most of the french ones...

nice review of the bolton album http://chancelucky.blogspot.com/2009/02/du...sic-review.html still wondering about the tracks with anthony ortega...

weird indeed, maybe they didn't anticipate that universal would get active again... (still, the mps catalogue is rich enough for two or three companies ) (also, somewhat strange that universal started again so shortly after licensing stuff to that promising music guy who make the japanese looking reissues... almost as if he got them thinking) and promising music is also selling mps stuff from universal http://www.promising-music.com/index.php?o...1&Itemid=35 here it says (in german) that promising music is a jointventure with universal http://www.jazzthing.de/news/080306/2.shtml are the candoli albums the first mps albums by the spaniards?

we are now left wondering about the unissued material free for all has heard...

It certainly does! What date was that recorded and who else is on it? from the fresh sound website... apparently, the extra material are no alternate takes but two mps albums...

the django are the april and may 1942 brussels sessions, http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/djanm2.html don't think they are that well-known (don't have the cd here, four tracks are piano/django duetts, iirc the rest feature django with two different big bands (names didn't tell me much, the big bands of stan brenders and fud candrix), one with django's rhythm section of the time, the other with a different rhythm section; one of the big bands has a string section added...)

just in case anyone hasn't started their jazz in paris collections the from belgium with love box for 9$ http://www.amazon.com/Belgium-Love-Various...8558&sr=1-2 (just 5 single cds in a cardboard box, including two of the very best Jazz in Paris discs, Rene Thomas "Real Cat" and Bobby Jaspar "At Club St Germain des Pres" plus three more which are no slouches either, Django Reinhardt "Place de Brouckere" (not so great recording quality but you get to her django on violin on two selections...), and the cds by Gus Viseur and Toots Thielemans (on guitar and occasional whistling, no harmonica... with the great georges arvanitas on piano...))

rob are you referring to Peace Treaty or If? if he refers to peace treaty, don't take him serious wish i'd have more substantial things to say, peace treaty is a very nice, comfortable hard bop session with a number of beautiful melodies, (jimmy woode's sconsolato...) (so it's all a bit prettier than a usual hard bop session); nothing exceptional occurs but shaw does play a number of solos which are perfectly good (not better, he's one of my favorite trumpet players...) (a bit like on capeverdean blues for me, otherwise it's a fine album and as an added bonus you get some (but not the full dose) of woody shaw)... guess i really rank the album similarly to capeverdean blues, both as a shaw fan and otherwise...

Happy Birthday and all the best!

this one, it's called "up up and away" http://www.amazon.de/Up-Away-Plays-Hits-Ji.../ref=pd_sim_m_1 arrangements by quincy jones, iirc the band with gaynair rokovic and keane, but i am not sure about that.... haven't heard it... now that i am finished cooking here are some more details... no idea how "commercial" this is... surprised that it was recorded in hamburg... it's roughly the great edelhagen band they showed on tv recently Jimmy Deuchar(tp), Rick Kiefer(tp), Hanne Wilfert(tp), Shake Keane(tp,flh), Ott Bredl(tb), Manfred Gatjens(tb), Nick Hauk(tb), Jiggs Whigham(tb), Heinz Kretzschmar(sax), Manfred Lindner(sax), Karl Drevo(sax), Wilton Gaynair(sax), Kurt Aderholt(sax), Bora Rokovic(p,org,celeste), Bert Helsing(g), Peter Trunk(b), Ronnie Stephenson(dr), String section of the NDR Radio orchestra, Kurt Edelhagen(cond), Quincy Jones with J.J.Johnson(arr), Tom Scott(arr), Pete Myers(arr) '70/6/22-24 Hamburg UP, UP AND AWAY ; BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX ; DIDN'T WE ; GALVESTON ; WHERE'S THE PLAYGROUND, SUSIE ; EVIE ; SUNSHOWER ; MacARTHUR PARK ; HONEY COME BACK ; IF YOU MUST LEAVE MY LIFE ; WICHITA LINEMAN soloists: Shake Keane, Jiggs Wigham, Rick Kiefer, Jimmy Deuchar, Karl Drevo, Heinz Kretzschmar & Bora Rokovic dustygroove: thanks for the opinions on the hubbard... !

this one, it's called "up up and away" http://www.amazon.de/Up-Away-Plays-Hits-Ji.../ref=pd_sim_m_1 arrangements by quincy jones, iirc the band with gaynair rokovic and keane, but i am not sure about that.... haven't heard it...

on this list of muse releases, reissues are marked in dark red - and commitment is listed in black... no further information on the origins of the session however... http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/muse.htm sounds great indeed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2w2Q_7Wb4Y

happy birthday!

there's one more in the batch i had overlooked above ROLLIN' FREDDIE HUBBARD 1 ONE OF ANOTHER KIND 7:38 2 HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY 6:23 3 CASCAIS 10:25 4 UP JUMPED SPRING 6:37 5 BYRDLIKE 6:38 6 BRIGITTE 4:35 7 BREAKING POINT 5:26 Freddie Hubbard – trumpet & flugelhorn / Dave Schnitter - tenor & soprano saxophone / William Childs - piano & electric piano / Larry Klein - bass & bass guitar / Carl Burnett - drums recorded when i was three days old - any opinions on this one? (two more complete albums in the old series were the edelhagen big band plays jimmy webb and the dizzy)

some more discographical info, Dexter Gordon - Slide Hampton Sextet Dizzy Reece (tp -1/4,6) Slide Hampton (tb -1/4,6) Dexter Gordon (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (b) Art Taylor (d) Copenhagen, Denmark, March 10, 1969 1. My Blues MPS (G) 15230 2. You Don't Know What Love Is - 3. A New Thing - 4. What's New? - 5. The Shadow Of Your Smile - 6. A Day In Vienna - * Dexter Gordon - A Day In Copenhagen (MPS (G) 15230; MPS/BASF (G) CRM 698, 21 20698-1; Pausa PR 7058; Prestige PR 7763) dizzy reece!! ------------------------------------------ Johnny Griffin Quartet Johnny Griffin (ts, arr) Francy Boland (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Koln, West Germany, February 13, 1964 2-35491 Scrabble Philips (H) 840 447PY 2-35492 Summertime - 2-35493 Old Stuff - 2-35494 Night Lady - 2-35495 Little Man You've Had A Busy Day - 2-35496 All The Things You Are - * Johnny Griffin - Night Lady (Philips (H) 840 447PY; EmArcy MGE 26001, SRE 66001) recorded in my home town but this is not the only nice looking thing about it -------------------------------------------- INGFRIED HOFFMANN QUINTET Thomas Rene (guitar) Hoffmann Ingfried (organ) Kandleberger Helmut (bass) Weiss Klaus (drums) tracklist - only tunes where thomas plays SIDE A Au clair de la lune (Trad. Arranged by Hoffmann) Jada (Carleton) TV Swing (Kuhn) Soul Twist (Hoffmann) SIDE B Lady Be Good (Gershwin) Love For Sale (Porter) Ingfried's Blues (Hoffmann) It's A long Way To Tiperary (Judge-Willams) 3'41 4'19 4'19 6'12 4'17 4'13 8'25 3'49 _____________________________________ and for the antolini: Drums - Charlie Antolini Bass - Jean Warland Guitar - Siegfried Schwab Percussion - Berni Prock Piano - Armin Rusch Producer - Willi Fruth Saxophone - Heinz von Hermann , Herman Schoonderwalt Trombone - Rudi Füsers Trumpet - Ack Van Rooyen , Dusko Goykovich A1 Jesus Christ Superstar (7:26) A2 Handicraft (5:08) A3 Punching Ball (5:48) A4 Gringo Domingo (2:55) B1 Scratches (6:18) B2 Y Luego (6:38) B3 Skinny (6:28) B4 Gemma Ham (1:59)

a bunch of new reissues is coming out in this series tomorrow, don't know whether these are all, but great that they seem to switch to reissuing complete albums: Dexter Gordon - A Day In Copenhagen Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard (more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hub_of_Hubbard it has eddie daniels, roland hanna, richard davis and louis hayes) Charly Antolini - In The Groove The Singers Unlimited - Sentimental Journey Ingfried Hoffmann - Hoffmann's Hammond Tales Friedrich Gulda/Klaus Weiss - It's All One Johnny Griffin Quartet - Night Lady (with boland/woode/clarke) Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Chariots Of The Gods? looking forward to the griffin and to the hoffmann which has rene thomas on guitar...

two sonny simmons recommendations, here http://www.andyhamilton.org.uk/andy_pdfs/Sonny_Simmons.pdf is a fine article by andy hamilton, originally published in the wire, quite a bit of the information is already in cliffords great aaj interview, but other things were new to me (for instance that gavin bushell was a teacher of dolphy and simmons in the early sixties) plus i recently got simmons' "the traveller" on jazzaway records and enjoy it a lot, it's simmons plus strings, but the strings are more arranged like, say, in a bartok string quartet than on charlie parker with strings; this somehow allows to build up high levels of energy without the usual, more brutal ways of powerful playing ( ); the best "new" jazz album i got in years (not that i heard many...) have ordered one of the other jazzaway releases by simmons but it's not here yet... sound samples are here (most of them without simmons but you get an idea of the setting): http://www.jazzaway.musiconline.no/shop/di...um.asp?id=29650

never got around to checking out more than the one i'v read (missionary stew) but he is indead a pretty good alternative to chandler (or maybe ambler?)

got a bunch of nice fresh sound cds lately... Jr Monterose - Jaywalkin' (have mosly played the first session under bill bradleys leadership with monterose and phil sunkel - bought quite a bit of stuff in the hope it would be like tony fruscella's recordings - this session comes much closer than most) Toots Thielemans - The amazing sounds of toots thielemans (two albums from the 1950s with a similar concept, one third quartet, one third quartet plus trombone section, one third quartet plus sax section - the second album has the bigger names, sims, cohn, arranged by ralph burns, but both albums are full of great swinging music) Anthony Ortega - Earth Dance (this is his album "jazz for young moderns", one side with a great swinging band arranged by nat pierce, the other side more experimental with woodwinds (and no rhythm section except for a bass) and arranged by bob zieff, interesting but the first side grabbed me more... as a bonus there are two tunes with corny string arrangements which don't keep ortega from shining...) Cecil Payne with Duke Jordan (Payne's Savoy/Signal Album with quartet on one half and kenny dorham added on the other half; even better is the third session on the cd, jordan's half of the charlie parker records lp east and west of jazz, with johnny coles (haven't heard him better elsewhere) and payne...) Sonny Criss with Georges Arvanitas Trio (just what you would expect, nice one!)

French. (Born in Liege.) wondered the same thing about jacques pelzer this morning - "pelzer" doesn't sound french at all (?) Doesn't it? What about Claude Luter (say it "lut-air"), celebrated French trad band leader of my youth? i really don't know... ending stuff with "er" is of course very french but "lz" doesn't feel french too me (in german - so maybe also in dutch - "pelz" is fur, so a "pelzer" could be someone who makes coats (but it is not a common word though))

French. (Born in Liege.) wondered the same thing about jacques pelzer this morning - "pelzer" doesn't sound french at all (?), while jacques (and also his daughters name "micheline") sound clearly french...strange culture that is at the same time very segregated and very mixed (first step in antwerp was figure out that while people understood french better than english they stayed friendly only if we used english (second step was to speak english to each other in public - didn't fool many people i guess but did fool those who were seriously offended by hearing german around them))