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Henry 'Red' Allen 'Mr. Allen' (Prestige/Swingville, mono, red label) Very nice album which still carries a $14,00 price tag from NYK's Academy Store. Worth every cent (and much more)! Side A has a Prestige/Swingville label, side B has a Prestige/Bluesvile label)!

Lee Konitz 'Timespan' (Wave, stereo)

Good ol' Sonny Sharrock!

That 'A Smooth One' twofer was also released in France by ¨Polydor/Verve in 1979 with the same cover that Marcello posted. Discarded it when the Mosaic box came out much later!

Brain failure here Was I thinking Buddy or Ingmar!?!

'This guy Bregman ?' is Robert M. Bregman who co-authored the Charlie Parker Discography that was published in 1993 by Cadence Jazz Books before the internet killed most of those books Bregman also was very much involved with the Bird's Eyes series from Philology Records! Respect for Monsieur Bregman

Very nice batch! I already have the ones I'ld be interested in! What I noted were the Verve Japan reissues from the David Stone Martin 10inch series. Can't recall having seen those DSM covers before: Great covers

The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble 'Congliptious' (Nessa, stereo) Still gets kicks listening to that old favorite!

Guy, Where was this previously listed as a Brew Moore date? In the Walter Bruyninckx Discography it is listed under Moore's name, other personnel unidentified, with the tracks that Michael Fitzgerald has. Actually saw that in the book edition of Tom Lord's Discography (under Brew Moore). I find the listings in the Bruyninck books too complicated for my aging brain and did not check there...

I'll second that. Great record! (I have that Black & Blue vinyl!

Keepnews is not mentioned anywhere' in the liner notes (by Chris Albertson)! Maybe Chris knows more about it?

The Complete Sidney Bechet Vol. 5 Plus Ladnier/Mezzrow/Newton (Jazz Tribune), LP 2 (the Panassié sessions)

Bechet is on the LP1 of that twofer (side 1 and half of side 2), these are the New Orleans Feetwarmers sessions of October 1941 (with Chazlie Shavers) and December 1943 (with Vic Dickenson). The remaining material is from the Panassié sessions (no Bechet on those).

The second LP of the Complete Sidney Bechet plus Ladnier/Mezzrow/Newton Jazz Tribune twofer has all 3 of those Panassié sessions (including the takes mentioned in John L's current last post on this thread). Plus the full January 13, 1939 RCA Panassié session by Frankie Newton (with Mezzrow, Pete Brown, James P. Johnson...). All the takes from those Ladnier-Mezzrow sessions are also included in the disc that was released with the wonderful 'Traveling Blues - The Life and Music of Tommy Ladnier' two years ago.

The main problem with 'All American' is the adaptation of the show tunes. Not the best from Broadway. Nat Hentoff starts his liner notes with this 'polite' indication: This one surprised all the musicians concerned. The composers of All American (and before that of Bye Bye Birdie) are Charles Strouse and Lee Adams. Both are knowledgeable writers for the current state of the Broadway musical, but no one would claim that either of both has more than a peripheral acquaintance with jazz. The album's positive aspect are the various solos (from Terry, Budd Johnson, Eddie Costa mainly). Even Duke Ellington had problems making a successful album out of the show material!