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Curtis Fuller 'Four on the Outside' (Timeless/JVC Japan) with Pepper Adams, James Williams, etc...

Added The Vinyl District app to my iphone. It locates record stores in various places! The Vinyl District Hope it gets improved with more stores and cities added!

Sad news! John Levy was one of those rare persons you never read anything bad about them! Jazz Wax interview

Mirrors (Bobby Hutcherson) Mirror Man (Ricky Ford) Mirror Mirror (Joe Henderson) Mirror Image (Bennie Maupin) The Sound Mirror (Sun Ra) Next up: GARDEN

Zoot Sims/Al Cohn/Phil Woods 'Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note' (US, stereo, gatefold cover)

How about J.R. Monterose? Don't know how they would have gotten along but the musical interaction might have proved positive for both!

The sequence was filmed by Greek-born director Robert Manthoulis (a French resident these days) who also made the outstanding documentary on the blues 'Le Blues Entre les Dents' in the late '60s and early '70s. Le Blues Entre les Dents

Hang It on the Wall (Charley Patton) Prison Wall Blues (Gus Cannon) Wall Street Rag (Dick Hyman) Wall to Wall (Jimmy Heath) Up Against the Wall (Frank Wright) Next up: CAKE

Bertrand, you should have enjoyed these two discs for a long time. Don't miss out on those.

Booker Ervin 'Down In the Dumps' (Savoy/RCA Germany)

Sad to see the current state of the property Really hope it gets fully restored!

Walter Schaap and Charles Delaunay were very good friends ever since Schaap was in Paris to study at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in the 30s until 1939 when Schaap returned to New York. They remained in touch. Schaap helped Delaunay as his NY representative to write contracts for musicians sought by Delaunay for the 1949 Paris Jazz Festival. Bird led a group (with Kenny Dorham) at the festival.

Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington) So Much In Love (Johnny Hodges) Too Much (Lionel Hampton) Too Much Mustard (Wilbur DeParis) Much Too Late (André Prévin) Next up: BROADWAY

Giant Steps (John Coltrane) Giants (Joe Magnarelli/John Swana) The Little Giant/Orient Line (Tubby Hayes) Giant Flies (Jay Leonhart) Giant Panda (Bobby Sherwood) Next up: SKIES

George Russell 'Ezz-thetics' (Riverside/Fontana Holland, mono)

does france still have the lovely stream playing many really old old(circa 1920) jazz classics? If there is one, it's not on my radars!

The Leap (Miles Davis) Little Willie Leaps (Charlie Parker) Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) Leap Frog (Louis Armstrong) Leap Here (Metronome All Stars) Next up: JOY

Ashes (Bobby Bradford) Ashes on my Pillow (Hot Lips Page) Ashes to Ashes (Joe Sample) Ashes and Dust (Ernest Dawkins) Ash Wednesday (Don Joseph) Next up: MONDAY

Wynton Kelly 'Someday My Prince Will Come' (VeeJay)