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Fellow musicians pay tribute to Trudy Pitts in The Philadelphia Inquirer today!

I have very mixed feelings about the book. I do not think it is the right tribute to Leloir's talent. It is badly edited. Some of Leloir's best photos are not there. I also was hoping to see some of his unpublished material. That's not there. A missed opportunity

Damn!!! I'm really getting old these days

A pipe-smoking Jean-Pierre Leloir (without his cameras) greets Miles Davis (with camera) and his then wife Frances Taylor at the Paris Saint-Lazare railway station in July 1963. http://www.ina.fr/video/CAF90031375/arrivee-a-paris-de-miles-davis.fr.html

French photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir who for the past six decades recorded images of jazz musicians on the Paris scene died Monday evening at his Paris home. The news was announced by his daughter. Some of his most famous photos can be seen on his site. A book of his jazz photos 'Portraits Jazz' was published two months ago:

Beverley Kenney 'Sings for Playboys' (Decca Spain/FreshSound) with Ellis Larkins at the piano Joe Benjamin, bass

One of the best film soundtrack ever, for a film noir: Henri Mancini's superb score for Orson Welles' superb movie!

Kenny Dorham 'Jazz Contemporary' (Time, mono)

WINTER SALE... ... Buy 1, get 1 free offer from Ayler Records

Count Basie 'America's #1 Band' (Columbia/Sony), disc 2

Damn

Grachan Moncur 'New Africa' (Byg/Actuel)

I have never been happy with the sound of the Monk BN albums. Never heard the original Lexington release of 1511. Best sound I heard from those Monk sessions were the Toshiba vinyls that came out in 1985. The RVG CDs are not bad either!

Herb Geller 'Fire in the West' (Jubilee, stereo)

Don't think FreshSound had access to the original masters, otherwise thet would have included more material in their Dauntless reissues. But the sound I have heard on their reissues from that catalogue is excellent.

Nothing hokey about it. Very fine piano duo session. It was reissued by FreshSound which had anagreement to reissue material from the Dauntless label.

65 boxes by now! Two more should come soon

Great indeed and many thanks for posting this! Just wish our Prez was heard soloing on that clip!

Duke Ellington Small Group Sessions, disc 4