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I love this... Ronnie, Louis and Dinah are splendid

The vinyl fanatic in me refused to purchase CDs when they appeared. Did not like the sound. Gave in in the late 80s when Blue Note Japan released CDs of favorite albums with bonus tracks. That was in pre-TOCJ days! It's been a losing battle ever since and now I have managed to squeeze hundreds of CDs in my place.

French Columbia released a series of five CDs 'The Complete Duke Ellington 1947-1952' in its Jazzotheque series... etc...

Chet Baker 'Baker's Holiday' (Limelight, mono)

Yes! With bonus tracks: Mosaic Hardbop

Certainly not among Chet's best but it is not really THAT bad. A bit too respectful IMO (same goes for Jimmy Mundy's arrangements). I have the gatefold Limelight mono original vinyl and am not bothered by microphone placements The liner notes fail to give the name of the engineer who recorded this.

Looks like Art Blakey was not signed to any label in the mid-50s. Albums under his name appeared on various labels (EmArcy, Columbia, Pacific Jazz, Elektra, Vik, Bethlehem, ...) at the time.

Looks like what you have is the English release of that Dolphy album, on the Transatlantic label.

Volume 9 will include a number of broadcasts including the ones with Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman and Fats Waller and also with the Benny Goodman Sextet (and Charlie Christian). Details

Bud Shank 'New Groove' (Pacific Jazz, mono)

Happy Birthday :party:

Don Pullen Select, disc 1

Lou Levy 'Tempus Fugue-It' (Interplay)

Nice article on the Melody Maker which turned 85 today! A Magazine for Musicians I have not read it in quite a long time but I remember looking for any issue I could lay my hands on in the '50s (that was before the swingin' 60s). The weekly was pretty jazz-oriented then!

That's the one to get THE original Jacquet solo!

The Vladimir Simosko book on Serge Chaloff includes a small biography and a full discography of Leo Parker.

That is damn sad! Notice at the Jassed website.

Roy Eldridge 'At the Arcadia Ballroom - 1939' (Jazz Archives)