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Howard McGhee 'Jazzbrothers' (Jazzcraft)

Grant Stewart

In Alameda, CA, on June 8. Charlie Parker saxophone The Bird saxophone was left in the care of Bill Hood.

Very sad to hear this. He was a giant!

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces (Pablo) the Tatum-Benny Carter sides. Splendid!

Herb Ellis 'Ellis in Wonderland' (Verve, trumpet label) The cover of the LP I have is orange not yellow...

Da Da

Donna Summer dies

Blue Mitchell 'Step Lightly' (BN)

I'ld be happy sharing a table with some that went away much too young: Clifford Brown Fats Navarro Sonny Clark Scott LaFaro Jimmie Blanton Might turn into an interesting evening

Thanks for mentioning this one, Bill. Definitely will pick it up. Joining the queue... This album came out when there were so many sessions with Shepp being released! Some I appreciated, some I felt did not do justice to his talent. I just ignored that one with NHOP. Will give it a hearing very soon!

Charlie Mariano (Bethlehem/Polydor Japan)

Count Basie 'At Newport' (Verve, mono)

Article in Forbes on the making of the film. Looks like it will be as difficult to see it as it is listening to that damn Buddy Bolden cylinder

A superb series. I was lucky to purchase most of those CDS - at €10 each - a couple of years ago. I remember posting about those BN Classics at the time but can't find the actual thread. I hesitated grabbing those CDs because I already had all the material on Mosaic boxes. I am glad to have them now, they are much easier to enjoy them - in excellent sound - than those Mosaic vinyls!

Yes, Horst was one of a kind... the only Hitler Jugend I ever had respect for! Obituary in this week's The New Yorker.

Johnny Hodges and son Johnny Junior (drummer on couple of tracks of 'Everybodfy Knows'. Gil Evans and son Miles.