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Back in the days when I was paying attention to rock, thought Mick Taylor was the last really worthy addition to the Stones! Heard the band live in 1970 when they played the Palais des Sports here and MT was the best of the lot. His blues affiliations were a very welcome bonus to the overall sound of the Stones!

That's NOT Horace Silver on the left!

George Coleman 'Amsterdam After Dark' (Timeless)

Chet Baker in Paris 'The Complete 1955-1956 Barclay Sessions', CD 6

The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn/Volume 2 'Guest Artist: Sonny Rollins' (Atlantic/Japan)

Sad to hear this!

Doubt that a book will ever see the light. Not sure there is enough of a market for a top quality volume of jazz photos which is what I would want. What I would not want would be to have one of those photo books with badly reproduced images.

I spent the day in London yesterday, I was in town for a social event. Went there via Eurostar and since I was a little early before boarding the evening train back to Paris, I went out to check the Mole Jazz location on Grays Inn Road in the station vicinity. What a sad sight it was! The once busy corner looks almost abandoned. Nothing seems to have been done to that corner for the last few years. Sad also to really realize that the mole has returned to obscurity!

Happy Birthday, Chris :party: And keep them coming...

Sonny Rollins 'Our Man in Jazz' (French RCA Victor)

Spent a few hours in the family cellar - it's a jungle down there - in the hope of recovering various objects that I had not seen in years. Managed to locate various film negatives from a long lost era. Here are a couple of images I found (photos taken during the Paris Jazz Festival in November 1968 backstage at the Salle Pleyel: Hank Mobley sharing a joke with Art Blakey. In the back Dizzy Gillespie talks to actor-dancer James Campbell. Lady at left might be Elvin Jones' then companion Keiko. (Copyright: Guy Kopelowicz) From left: Sahib Shihab, Elvin Jones, ?, Hank Mobley and Art Blakey (Copyright: Guy Kopelowicz) Mobley did not play that evening but seemed to have a good time!

Non US vocalists trying to sound native!

Happy Birthday :party:

Ths Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, vol. 6

Chet Baker 'The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/65' (Colpix, mono)