Niko

never ordered from grooves-inc myself (except via amazon marketplace iirc) but i know quite a few people here who buy most of their cds from them and are happy with it...

can only second that - i know several people who were diagnosed only after they had spent some time in mental institutions (and who are now happily outside again without any problems...) i wish you all the best for your recovery!

fwiw here's braxton being called a genius from 1974 (so before the Arista campaign?)

i am a big fan of Alela Diane, both of her albums but especially the EP Alela & Alina

earlier guitar with Miles is on some of the Bird Dial sessions... Top 1 would be a tie between Fontainebleau, it has prime Kenny Dorham on it among others, and the Dameron half of the Clifford Brown Memorial Prestige Album, nothing wrong with Mating Call ad the RIverside Big Band album either; easily overlooked is the Chet Baker/Richard Carpenter material on those three Fantasy CDs, (iirc Dameron actually "sold" Baker who was residing with him to Carpenter...), there's about 10 Dameron compositions in there, some not recorded elsewhere

RIP and a mention of those Dodo Marmarosa/Lucky Thompson Quartets with Mills

same here, have this browser at work where i can't install another one... it's ok as long as you stay in the upper part of the posting window... together with the other issues (threads are readable only until the first post from jim, joe or randy; some threads i can't read because they "kill" IE every time i open them)... it's not the only reason but it sure is one reason why i dont spend that much time here anymore... edit to add: can't find a compatibility setting either

Are you sure you got the right Wilbur Harden? According to Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz", the first edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" and AMG (All Music Guide) the jazz trumpeter was born in 1925, while Wikipedia has December 31, 1924 as his birthday. it's good that you ask must have been a somewhat cloudy moment, obviously it's the wrong wilbur harden... sorry, folks! the human mind, mine at least... WILBUR HARDEN 31 Dec 1924 Jun 1969 10026 (New York, New York, NY) (none specified) 424-18-8092 Alab

fooled around with the Social Security Death Index a bit (no Valdo Williams in there it seems btw) and stumbled across this entry: WILBUR O HARDEN 24 Sep 1916 28 Sep 1997 (V) 36080 (Titus, Elmore, AL) (none specified) 421-01-2198 Alabama now the birthdate is the one given for our Wilbur Harden, and Alabama is plausible in so far as he was born then... but how does this go together with the death date of June 1969 given usually? "(V) " is for verified

(not my doings but) the Ronnie Singer tape now found a new home here: http://www.archive.org/details/RonnieSingerLiveInNewYorkEarly1950s

scored 23 although I was born in 1981 so I am an older member of the millenial generation; guess i should be worried :-)

thank you jsngry! haven't found anything more (sarah boatner had some "serious" jazz gigs in the 70s with the likes of Bill Saxton, Rene McLean, Jaki Byard, Gregory Herbert... ) didn't help here but this blues and jazz filmography by david meeker is still a worthy download http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/warehouse/jots/200028017/0001.pdf

will google more thoroughly tommorrow if necessary... for the moment: Liederhalle? http://books.google.de/books?q=%22art+pepper%22+stuttgart&lr=&sa=N&start=0

I have explored these 'Piano Parade' shows earlier. Very interesting broadcasts. I was disappointed with the absence of one of my piano hero Bernard Peiffer on those parades! No parades indeed, but - just in case - did you see the stuff they filed under Bernard Pfeiffer?

Django with Hubert Fol http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/audio/PHD85017108/au-club-saint-germain-avec-django-reinhardt.fr.html Sonny Stitt (sounding great) with Martial Solal, too brief though http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/audio/PHD94003915/le-saxophoniste-de-jazz-sonny-stitt-en-france.fr.html Jean Luc Ponty with Eddy Louiss and Daniel Humair http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD99276171/concert-de-jazz-au-studio-105-le-trio-jean-luc-ponty.fr.html

had paid relatively little attention to the audio material so far... besides an hour of the AEC live in 1974 I just discovered a sequence of shows named "piano parade" from the mid fifties, such as this one: http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD99268047/piano-parade-du-30-novembre-1955.fr.html (check out the beautiful Rene Thomas tune starting around minute 7 or 8) "Les meilleurs jazzmen de la scène française se sont donnés rendez vous pour ce Piano parade qui présente les prestations en studio de Stéphane GRAPPELLI, SADI, Pierre FRANZINO, Raymond FOL, René THOMAS, Marcel AZZOLA, Henri RENAUD. Ils interprètent : - Stéphane GRAPPELLI et René THOMAS : "Honeysuckle Rose" - SADI : "Les Etoiles et vos yeux" - Pierre FRANZINO : "Encore" - Raymond FOL : "Le Rag de la rue sans loi" - René THOMAS : "Rien dans les mains" - Marcel AZZOLA : "Et bailler et dormir" - Henri RENAUD : "Tentation" - Stéphane GRAPPELLI et Pierre FRANZINO : "Les Petites choses"" there are more of these shows with Bobby Jaspar and others... some of these can even be streamed in their entirety here's a link to an overview of the shows, http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?search=piano+parade&vue=Audio Bill Coleman and Don Byas in 1949 http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD86040645/troisieme-jam-session-publique-avec-bill-coleman-et-don-byas.fr.html has all this been mentioned before?

in the LOC copyright files there's only Tricrotism

Residing in . thanks! but what did he do there... (given that he was active on the Chicago Jazz Scene before and after...)[a look at the map made it plausible...]

Saxophonists Gene Easton and McKinley Easton (could be easy but is confused by things like the second one being called Gene "McKinley" Easton... in places and by the fact that they apparently (ie according to most discographies) alternated in Gene Ammons working band for a time in the mid-fifties; they're not particularly related it seems) and actually a question to americans and those in the know: when it says "Eugene O. Easton, 27, of Dayton, Ohio" in a "serious" newspaper article (this one) - is that supposed to mean "born in Dayton" or residing in Dayton" or is it unclear? (interesting part about the article is the anonymous phone call, actually...)

Guérin would pronounce - very approximately - as Gaerhiiiyn this day will be remembered as the day when Brownie was mistaken for me

I like it too. That is Ajaramu. what i hadn't known until a few minutes ago that it was also Ajaramu aka Joe Shelton, the drummer on the Sonny Stitt album with Buster and Johnny Board... I didn't know that, either. Didn't know about Ajaramu Shelton, either. MG in George Lewis AACM book it says that Gene Ammons advised Joe Shelton to utilize the more show-biz like Jerol Donavon which later became Ajaramu for afro-related resons i guess... here's a pretty interesting interview (also by Lewis) with Amina Claudine Myers partly about her time with Ammons ("I hated those jam sessions at McKie’s in Chicago"...) http://bombsite.com/issues/97/articles/2857

I like it too. That is Ajaramu. what i hadn't known until a few minutes ago that it was also Ajaramu aka Joe Shelton, the drummer on the Sonny Stitt album with Buster and Johnny Board...

here are sound samples of the four Oreil albums... purists better play those before buying (or go for Carrement...?) http://www.oreil.net/catalogue.php i like at least a good deal of the tracks...

(from here)

" I had tried to bring the New York Art Quartet to Scandinavia in the fall of 1965, but it ended up only Rudd and I getting over there. So we asked Moholo and a Danish bassist named Finn von Eyben to play with us. " http://www.johntchicai.com/rub_tchicai/page_inter.html and if you want some basic genetic information about Finn von Eyben: http://www.voneyben.dk/