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Chubby Jackson 'Live' (Mopaque) a Boris Rose release of two 1949 broadcasts by the terrific Chubby Jackson big band!

Double WOW!!! The search for that session is over! Compliments to Jordi Pujol for unearthing it

I cheated and found out She's prettier on that image than on the other photos I have seen of her.

Hope TCM France will show this soon!

Gigi Gryce/Art Farmer/Clifford Brown/James Cleveland 'The Many faces of Jazz', vol. 8 (Vogue/Mode Jazz)

Glad this was unearthed! The soundtrack was mentioned in Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald's 'Rat Race Blues'. Now where is the rest of the session?

brownie, are you sure the guy on the left is Al Hirt? On closer inspection, have to admit you may be right!

Earl Hines 'Hines Comes in Handy' (Audiophile)

Intégrale Louis Armstrong, vol. 7 'Swing That Music 1934-1937' (Frémeaux & Associés')

Jimmie Rowles 'Shade and Light' (Ahead)

Agree! I bought several of those HMVs (still have a couple of them somewhere) and found the sonics excellent. However being a snob, I prefered to get the original Impulses (the gatefold jacket was missing from the HMVs)!

A shame indeed that the Chronological Classics series dit not publish any Weatherford while the label was alive. A very hard to get CD with several Weatherford tracks from the Paris Swing sessions (plus two tracks from Calcutta) is the Jazz Piano 1925-1944 release from the excellent EMI Jazz Time series that appeared in the early '90s. But that CD came and went shortly after its release!

I have the mono original with the VanGelder stamp. Great record, great sound. Don't have a second copy and never bothered with reissues of it!

Dolo Coker 'California Hard' (Xanadu)

Those Christlieb-Marsh collaborations are wonderful! May I recommend the Lou Levy album 'Lunacy' on Verve. The CD came and went without the fanfare it should have had! Christlieb is excellent throughout.