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More Prez and Herschel (and others) discoveries unveiled via Newsweek: More treasures...

Enjoy! Sounds like Roy Eldridge subbed for Jo Jones...

James Moody 'Feelin' It Together' (Muse) with Kenny Barron, Larry Ridley and Freddie Waits

Here's hoping that Moody's recovery will be quick! Best wishes to a great musician!

Still going on... AP report

From The Daily Telegraph! Wouldn't be caught dead in that one

Christian Chevallier 'Le Prince du Jazz' (EMI France), disc 1

EMI France is releasing a three-CD set that compiles several sessions led by composer/arranger Christian Chevallier. The set comes under the rather grandiloquent title of 'Christian Chevallier Le Prince du Jazz'. A rather sloppily assembled box that contains no discographical details and lacks several key dates, including the two 1956 sessions with Billy Byers and Allan Eager and only four tracks from the soundtrack of the 1959 film by Jean-Pierre Melville 'Deux Hommes dans Manhattan' (the liner notes even fail to give Martial Solal co-credits for it). Most of the sessions are not in chronological order. However it does include various sessions plus the following excellent albums (with participation musicians like Roger Guerin, Bobby Jaspar, Jean-Louis Chautemps, Tony Scott, David Amram, Maurice Vander, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke, etc...: - Formidable - 6 + 6 - Kenny Clarke Plays Christian Chevallier Also some non-jazz sessions with several uninteresting singers. Full list here.

These four boxes will be out later this week... The four new boxes will be out later this week...

Jackie Paris 'The Song Is Paris '(Impulse Japan, stereo)

I very much doubt that Charly records had an official imprimatur to release the Strata-East material. As far as I know, most Charly releases were non-authorized!

Also Tina Brooks 'Back to the Tracks' (not only a split date but a forgotten session until its resurrection in the '80s; And Ike Quebec 'Blue and Sentimental'!

Don't forget

Charles Mingus 'The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach' (Fantasy, Debut series)

OK... it happens to the best of us

You're entitled to leaves of absence as long as you keep coming back here!

Shelly Manne & His Men 'More Swinging Sounds, vol. 5' (Contemporary, mono)

Editorial in The New York Times Sunday edition Free That Tenor Sax