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Details on the two newly-discovered Lester Young tracks on that INA release (not out yet): Lester Young with the SDR Big Band, Lester Leaps In Lester Young with René Urtreger, piano, Pierre Michelot, bass, and Christian Garros, drums, Jumpin' with Symphony Sid. Both from the October 13, 1956 'Jazz aux Champs-Elysées' concert at the Théatre de Chaillot. The INA disc also includes sides with René Thomas, Guy Lafite, Blossom Dearie, Lucky Thompson and also with Donald Byrd and Bobby Jaspar (with Jacques Diéval at the piano), Walter Davis Jr., Chet Baker with Catherina Valente, a Daniel Humair group (with Jimmy Deuchar, Roger Guérin and Derek Humble!), Stan Getz with Michel Legrand, Stéphane Grappelli and more...

That French edition of the Cookers Cast the First Stone is out. Saw copies of the Plus Loin Music release today.

I purchased Blue Minor when it came out. Have liked it every time I have relistened to it! That Live at the Jazz Bakery is really cooking! One of Williamson's very best!

Hank Mobley Complete BN 50s Sessions, disc 5

Available from Amazon.fr Great session!

Very interesting the mention that Scott Wenzel is working on a Jimmie Lunceford set! Last phrase from that Michael Cuscuna interview (thanks MellowT for linking it Scott Wenzel is working on ‘30s Ellington and Lunceford sets at the moment.

Tootie Heath 'Kawaida' (Trip) with Don Cherry, JimmyHeah, Herbie Hancock Tootie is mispelled Toudie Heath on the record cover and labels!

Wayne Shorter during his concert in Toulouse, southern France, last night... Photo by Didier Pouydebat.

Happy Birthday

Looks like more trouble at ESP. Hope ESP keeps on doing what it has been doing for so many years! Good luck to the Northern Spy crew! But my loyalty remains with Bernard Stollman!

My Membran sets are kept in my car and are being used for on-the-road listening. The sound quality is good enough for that!

Warne Marsh in Norway 'Sax of a Kind' (Hot Club Records)

RED NOTE

Art Yard is releasing this from a 1971 concert at the Théatre du Chatelet. Have not heard it yet!

Documents is part of the German outfit Membran Membran box sets Also check the Jazz/Blues link. Handy and cheap sets that come without any liner notes or discographies. Many of those sets are ripoffs from the Chronological Classics series!

Eddy Gaumont was free and so out that I have no idea what became of him. A most promising drummer who bypassed the reputation that would have been coming to him. He was Dominique Gaumont's brother. The guitar-playing Dominique who was hired by Miles Davis! Then who was playing drums in Lugano 1967?

Marion Brown 'Juba-Lee' (Fontana)

Brief mention in a Washington Post blog... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/10/rip_jazz_great_marion_brown_ki.html Actually, Marion died early yesterday according to the assisted living facility where he had retired.

The Small Group sides were on this Chronological Classics CD (now OOP) Harry James 1937-1939 (the first 16 sides only) The first eight sides had Harry James and Buck Clayton, tp, Eddie Durham, tb, (on the first four, then Vernon Brown), Earl Warren, as, Hershel Evans, ts, Jack Washington, bar, Jess Stacy, p, Walter Page, b, Jo Jones, dr. Hele Humes, voc. The next four sides had Harry James, Ziggy Elman, Vernon Brown, Dave Mathews, Adrian Rollini, Harry Carney, Stacy, Thurman Teague (b), and Dave Tough. Next was the boogie-woogie session. No alternate takes on the Classics CD (it was against their policy!).

The Marion Brown Quartet in Lugano in 1967 with Beb Guerin on bass, an unidentified drummer... probably Jean Fresnay on piano.

Marion Brown 'Sweet Earth Flying' (Impulse)

Yes... not a word!

That's terribly sad news! Marion was a very good friend. He confronted his ordeal in his final years with dignity and courage. It was good to learn that he felt happy - and was very well treated - in the Florida assisted living facility where he moved after facing the health problems that changed his life. I just hope that the packs of Gauloises Bleues cigarettes that he insisted I send him whenever we spoke on the phone brought him some relief and did not contribute to his passing away...

The Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions box, disc 3