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I hate to read those type of stories. Awful and totally sickening!

This week's listing in the Week in Music section of the Sunday edition of the New York Times website!

Art Pepper 'The Complete Galaxy Recordings' (Galaxy), discs 2 and 3

The Complete Sidney Bechet 'Volumes 1/2 (1932-1941)' (French RCA Jazz Tribune)

No Doubles from Vogue France. I remember getting the Vogue Jazz Doubles that reissued Phineas Newborn's two abums for Roulette (the originals were hard to get at the time). They have not been mentioned yet but they were good: the Jazz Tribune twofers from French RCA. Lots of interesting material (Hines, Morton, Moten, Bechet, Waller...) all reissued from their Black and White series.

Very glad to see this book finally come out, whichever its publisher! The Amazon entry Next one (hopefully ) should be Peter Pullman's book on Bud Powell...

The lonely woman on the Atlantic/London cover was top model Sondra Peterson . Saw her a number of times when she was French jazz radio broadcaster (and director of Jazz Magazine) Daniel Filipacchi's companion. Filipacchi later headed Hachette Publications in France and the USA.

Lou Donaldson 'Good Gracious' (BN Japan/Toshiba)

NPR is livestreaming from the festival... NPR Newport reports The Los Angeles Times.

The Complete Bud Powell (Verve), discs 4 and 5

The Gil Evans/Gary McFarland vinyl two-fer is an Impulse "Dedications" series two-fer. It the only time that Gary McFarland's Impulse album "Profiles" has ever been reissued, to this day, to my knowledge. "Profiles" has never come out on CD and has had no other vinyl reissue. The Gil Evans BN twofer was entitled 'Pacific Standard Time' and reunited the two PacificJazz albums by Evans. Colinmce wrote: One more nod to the Bluebird chronological sets which issued more or less the complete recordings of Goodman, Shaw and Miller; I have the Goodman and Miller series which set me back less than $20. Still looking for the Shaws all in one place. Bechet, Henderson, Hines and Tatum were also represented in smaller sets; there is also the classic Hampton box set. Any others? There was also a Complete Bunny Berigan series of twofers.

Wardell Gray 'Out of Nowhere' Straight Ahead) The September1952 live date at The Haig with Art Farmer, Hampton Hawes, Howard Roberts, Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne

Among the first twofers I purchased back in the 70s were the French CBS Complete Duke Ellington series, the BNs (with unreleased material by Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Nichols...), the Savoys (Don Byas, Brew Moore, Curtis Fuller, Dexter Gordon, etc.). I still have many of those!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Chu Berry box, discs 6 and 7

and thanks for bringing so much joy to so many people!

Duke Ellington 'Live from the Hotel Sherman, Chicago' (Jazz Supreme), vol. 1 Volume 2 to follow... A mystery is how come those September 1940 broadcasts have not been reissued since their appearance on that Italian bootleg label? Audio is not really high but the band was in top form!

The Folkways Records release of this concert dates from 1983. It was a double LP box. The Salem concert was on one LP. The second LP had April 1952 concerts from Olympia, Wash., and Yakima, Wash. 'Original recordings made in the field by Wally Heider. Remastering by Jack Towers'. Glad to see a version of the full concert coming out!

Gil Evans 'Parabola' (Horo, LPs 1 and 2)

Stumbled on this... Schaap's auctions Looks like Wynton Marsalis added his signature on major items!