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not sure about the cover art of this one, why a baboon's a$$ view ??

two additions today Eddie Greene- King Cotton/Flight No 39- Savoy - West coast swing big band from 1944 Johnny Bothwell- Chelsea Bridge/ Dear Max- Signature- solos by Allan Eager, Ray Nance and Harry Carney can heard- not sure of the rest of the band, advanced swing in style. Two very good sides

Ethan's disquiet with Solal's comments seems out of proportion IMO. We all like Monk and it's pretty clear that Solal does too. Much fuss about nothing.

I ordered the Big Band CD from Positone. Arrived yesterday and it's very good indeed . Wonderful stuff

Very sad, he was a warm guy and performed in one of the best jazz concerts I have ever attended when he played with William Parker in Edinburgh a few years ago. Way too young.RIP

Lars Gullin- Aeros Aromatic Atomica Suite- EMI Sweden- a very fine LP

After a bit of hunting found Jamboree 902 to complement 900, 901, 905 in my collection of Don Byas. 902 is rather worn where as the other Jamborees are pretty much mint. It was free I should note. Don Byas All Star Quintet, Jamboree 902 NYC, June 27, 1945 Buck Clayton (tp), Don Byas (ts), Johnny Guarnieri (p), Eddie Safranski (b), Denzil Best (d) Little White Lies / You came along also got Red Saunders Sextette Savoy, Martial Solal Vogue, Skip Hall -Jamboree, Mezz Mezzrow Bluebird (Hugues Panassie production) and a very lovely mint Jimmy's Blues- JP Johnson/ Mary's Blues- Mary Lou Williams coupling on a mint 78 from Cupol (Sweden). The MLW is an Asch original I think , not sure about the the JPJ. Nice stuff and good haul I think.

A few quick Don Byas sides to start the morning These Foolish Things/Blues for Panassie- Blue Star- France Laura/Dark Eyes- American Record 1001/4- USA

I remember this being advertised in The Wire in the late 80s. That was when it was still a jazz/improv magazine !!

Jan Johansson- Jazz pa Svenska- Megalon (Sweden) , listened to both mono and stereo versions. Mono won but that's probably because it's in better condition. A very beautiful LP.

Agreed. Likewise , not heard this before and it sounds very interesting, production quality very high indeed. The CD cover needs to seen/felt to be believed.

I adore Tatum's versions of Humoresque, how does MLW's compare. Her earliest piano solos strike me a quite Tatumesque her latter material (ie 1940 on) less so.

Thoroughly recommended the well established Scottish jazz group with significant Celtic folk connections, Trio AAB, brothers Phil Bancroft ( ts) , Tom Bancroft (dms) , Kevin McKenzie (g) recorded for the now defunct Caber music label. Their music comes out of a combination of Ornette & Scottish Folk . Trio AAB

Jazz Tones -Buddy De Franco - Columbia UK Clef series 10 inch, 2 single sided mint condition test pressings, great line up of Kenny Drew, Art Blakey and Milt Hinton.

This is indeed a great set but probably what the OP had in mind, won't be surprised if we saw a Spanish edition of this set.....

I've seen Orrin Evans' name over the past few years but have yet to pull the trigger on anything by him. He seems to get very positive write ups. The NPR site had streaming audio of new big band CD last week. The audio has now gone from their site and the CD doesn't appear to be available from the usual on-line suspects. Any recommendations where to start.? I'm sold on getting the big band set as it sounded pretty damn good.

Walter 'Gil' Fuller- Tropicana/Blues to a debutante- Vogue, July 11, 1949- UK issue of Discovery material, strong booting tenor presumably Bill Mitchell (sic) I was interested to note that Michael Fitzgerald lists the personnel as follows Walter 'Gil' Fuller (ldr), Jimmy Heath, Sahib Shihab (as), Pritchard Chessman, Billy Mitchell (ts), Cecil Payne (bar), Dave Burns, Mustapha Daleel [aka Oliver Mesheux], Bill Massey, William 'Chiefie' Scott [aka Abdul Salaam] (t), Charley Johnson, Haleen Rasheed, Candy Ross, Rip Tarrant (tb), Milt Jackson (vib, p), Percy Heath (b), Art Blakey (d), Walter 'Gil' Fuller (v, con) The label however lists Dave Burns, Bill Massey Richard Cheesman, Abdul Salaam, Mustapha Daleel (tpts), Clarence Johnson, Charles Ross (tmbs) Ed Gregory, Bill Mitchell, Cecil Payne, Jimmy Heath, Jesse Tarrant (saxes) Milton Jackson (vibes) Haleen Rasheed (pno), Percy Heath (bass), Art Blakey (drums) So it appears that two of the trombonists had their first names switched ie should be Clarence Ross and Charles Johnson, Ripp Tarrant is not listed on the label and should be? And finally did Rasheed play the piano or was it Milton Jackson ? According to Jimmy Heath autobio its Cheesman not Chessman. All minor points of course but just goes to show contemporary labels can be misleading. Decent bebop sides by the way

I've these two sessions which are pretty good. For a blues beginner ( ie. me) Is the series as a whole worth looking out for. Any standouts ?

Paul Jeffrey - Mainstream (406)- 1974- funky stuff, deep this is not, but enjoyable if you need groove music

Ralph Sharon Sextet I've got you under my skin/There's a small hotel - Melodisc UK- 1950- comes from a small collection of Bop sides I got that previously belonged to the guitarist on this session - Pete Chilver. He doesn't get much room here but sounds thoroughly modern. This was his last date , he left music altogether and eventually died in Scotland in 2008 edit: to add Jimmy Skidmore is on the Tenor sax & Victor Feldman plays piano,

Pepper Adams - Ephemera- Spotlight UK

A big for the three volumes of Chet Baker Quartet Live (Pacific Jazz). I note that Volume 1 claims to have 4 tracks ( August 12th 1953-Carlton Theatre LA) not previously issued on the Mosaic set of this material. Very fine material in my view largely because Russ Freeman beefed up Chet and makes his music sound better by being more muscular.

Listened to fair few Ira Sullivan dates thanks Chuck for this fine one this is an amazing set, sounds way advanced compared to much from that time, this is a lesser item but good to hear him some years on

Horace Silver- Tokyo Blues (BN NY stereo), along with SFMF, Cape Verde Blues my favourite Silver