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This looks like the start of another great day (and another great year)! Many, many thanks to all

Joe Maini 'Small Group Recordings' (Lonehill), discs 3 and 4

Dave McKenna 'McKenna' (Chiaroscuro)

Idiotic time frame. Nothing wrong with the timeframe. The Quintessence double CD series are meant as introduction to the music of important artists. The 26 tunes included are carefull selected (with good liner notes) representations of the Ducal music up to the Blanton years.

He did. I have a beaten up copy somewhere... Hope it turns up soon on this Archeology site, along with his other volumes such as the ones on Chu Berry, Hawkins, Budd Johnson, Bill Coleman, Frankie Newton, etc...

Hope you are having a great day

I have the vinyl release and the Jazz Door CD 'Hot Stuff from Brazil' (same as the WestWind CD). 'Halley's Comet' is by Al Cohn and Zoot Sims (from the same concert as 'Red Door'. 'Night in Tunisia' is by the full ensemble (with Dorham, Fuller, Mann, etc...). The rest of the other titles that appear on the CD versions only are by Chris Connor with Ronnie Ball, Ben Tucker and Dave Bailey.

The Jazz Modes 'The Most Happy Fella' (Atlantic, mono, black label) Cover photo by Jerry Schatzberg, design by Marvin Israel

The Frémeaux catalogue is a wonderful cornucopia of CD releases dealing with music, philosophy, litterature, history... Frémeaux & Associés

That's how they show up on the Bibliothèque website. They show only some contact sheets! I have found a way to enlarge those

The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic 1944-1949 box (Verve), discs 4 and 5

Great photos of the Charlie Parker Quintet (with Kenny Dorham), the Tadd Dameron Quintet (with Miles, Moody, Klook) and the Hot Lips Page orchestra (with Big Chief Russell Moore and Don Byas) on stage and backstage at the Salle Pleyel during the 1949 Paris Jazz Festival. Paris Jazz 1949 The photos were taken by Pierre Delord, a scientist and a talented amateur photographer who donated his collection to the Discothèque municipale de Villefranche-de-Rouergue, a beautiful southern France city. Several of the Miles Davis photos were shown at the 'We Want Miles' exhibition a couple of years ago. Miles, Moody and Tadd Dameron: Hot Lips Page and Miles:

Gretsch Drum Night at Birdland, vol. 2 (Roulette, mono)

Bopland 'The Legendary Elks Club Concert LA 1947' (Savoy)

I have acquired several volumes from the Jazz Solography series by Jan Evensmo in the past and found them quite useful. Recently, Evensmo opened a website that features a number of his documents. Jazz Archeology One of the best site of its kind!

Bill Hardman 'Home' (Muse)

A list (pdf file) of Status releases: Status

The great actor Vittorio Gassman in Hamlet's Monologue. On piano: the great Duke Ellington! Filmed in Milan in January 1966: