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RIP. I wish he recorded more, considering his excellent performance with Kenny Dorham's band, but he must have had a long and full life. A fine example of Mr. Edghill's tasteful drumming. I wonder where the unreleased tapes of this session have gone?

Everybody(I guess) loves Fire Eater! At least I love it!

Oscar Pettiford's (just 21 years old) solo in the latter's The Man I Love is unforgettable. Even his intense breathing is recorded. This album was both my introduction to Dexter Gordon and my introduction to jazz. I think it formed in my mind an inescapable image of what jazz is.

Cobb & Jacquet, with Dex, Buddy Tate and Budd Johnson (and Hank Jones Trio)...very saxy! Everybody seem to have a ball.

Chico Freeman has been a bit of enigma for me...Chico plays really great when he is playing with Cecil McBee (Spirit Sensitive is a good example). Playing slow or fast, he is howling at the world, a tenor man with a presence that rivals his father's. But without Cecil, he seems to be just another member of the band. I don't know why there is such a difference even though this is the same person.

I think Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 can do that.

All performances from July 26, 1963 are released in a bootleg called "Another In Europe" (So What). July 27, 1963 is the official "Miles In Europe" (CBS). From July 28, 1963, only 2 tunes ("If I Were A Bell" "So What") are released in "Another In Europe". So the other 2 are newly unearthed. Actually, the July 25 performance in Paris was also recorded, but the tape is missing in the ORTF archive. I hoped they could locate it, but well... Both sets from October 1, 1964 are released in a bootleg called "In Paris 1964" (So What). But the sound quality is terrible (I guess it's from radio airchecks), so I hope they could improve it (hopefully with master tapes from ORTF). So, well, maybe 90%? BTW, the music is a top notch.

These are good performances, I think they originated from ORTF.

I like UCC's Oishii Caffeineless Coffee, but I think it would be difficult to buy abroad...

I had not paid much attention to the Clifford Jordan Big Band that Jordan led in his final years, but when I heard it recently, it was quite good. Jordan's ability to compose/arrange music is well represented. In the year of this recording, he led his big band to Japan, but Jordan was already very ill and could not conduct or play tenor saxophone (Dizzy Reece conducted in his place).

Speaking of personnel, I'm sure that it is “Philly” Joe Jones playing drums on this album, but it appears to be “Papa” Joe Jones on Discogs and elsewhere. I wonder which one it is?

Some time ago I read Lewis Porter wrote about this TV show. I didn't know that "Earl" in "That's Earl, Brother" is for this Earl Wilson, the host of this show. https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/every-film-of-charlie-parker-10-the

Very good one! Compassion, recorded the next day at the same place and with the same lineup, is also excellent, but for some reason it does not seem to have been released on CD or streamed. I thought all Enja discs were released on CD, but obviously am wrong.

I don't call the organists after Jimmy Smith as something like clones of Jimmy Smith; just as Bud Powell doesn't resemble Bud Powell's followers, Jimmy Smith is very individualistic and resembles no one. And the organists who came out after Smith's success--Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Richard Groove Holmes, Freddie Roach, Reuben Wilson, Larry Young and others--were all unique and distinctive. Personally, I prefer Prestige to BN's organ stuff because they are more earthy, but, well, that's probably just a matter of taste...

I just noticed that it came out this year and this is very good!