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This compilation album is worth some $5 ($50 would be way too much)! The seller seems to have his finger stuck on the zero button. He is asking $50K for this Basie LP (used and without cover) Forum was a budget label that reissued Roulette records!

Don't think they have been reissued on vinyl in Japan. There's nothing wrong with the vinyl pressings from the Bill Evans Complete Riverside Recordings box which saw the initial release of this session in 1984!

Tommy Turrentine (Time, mono) with Stanley T., Julian Priester, Horace Parlan, Bob Boswell, Max Roach My copy's condition would not rate a VG+ but the music is just fine!

Too bad the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis is OOP now. It had the best of that very good band in better sound than the original releases! Great Mosaic job on that one! As for the Paris Reunion Band, I don't think it managed to live up to the addition of talents there! I had the three first albums 'French Cooking', 'For Klook' and 'Hot Licks' and failed to appreciate them. Gave up after that!

Tommy Ball is a Boston trumpet player whose only record appearances were on the Transition label. The 'Jazz Downbeat' album he recorded - with Jay Migliori as leader - remained unissued except for the one track (Something's Gotta Give) that appeared on that TRLP 30. That album also included another track (Backstreet) that had Ball playing with Dick Wetmore and Pepper Adams. This seems to be all

Started buying those Bird's Eyes releases when they came out on vinyl (after the publication of the limited-series 22LP Bird Box). Piangiarelli who had produced that Bird Box put out the LPs that contained more unissued items. Volume 1 included the 1940 unaccompanied solo performances of 'Honeysuckle Rose' and 'Body and Soul' (wrongly dated from early 1937!), its initial release on commercial record. The LP proudly stated 'It's not hi-fi Bird but it's hi Bird!'. The other releases stayed true to this! I continued purchasing the CD releases when they were available to the general public and gave up when it became a mailorder venture. The whole thing was too much of a mess!

No, I don't know! It's obviously part of a US cultural territory I feel no personal need to explore

Max Kaminsky 'Max Goes East' (United Artists, mono) with Urbie Green,Peanuts Hucko, Bob Wilber, etc...

The misspelling was duly noted on this earlier thread!

Big Fucking Deal ?!?

. Michael Fitzgerald's chronology of Blakey's Jazz Messengers indicates Woody Shaw, Carlos Garnett, George Cables and Jan Arnet. Gene Santoro's book on Mingus 'Myself when I am real' says he played in June 1969 at the Village Vanguard with Bill Hardman, Charles McPherson, Billy Robinson on tenor and Dannie Richmond and had the same group at Cliff Walk Manor.

Miles Davis 'Saturday Night at the Blackhawk' (Columbia), disc 1

Dizzy Reece appears with Harold Vick, Charles Davis, Albert Daley, Calvin Hill, Michael Carvin, etc... at his New York City Jazz Festival at City Corps Center in 1979... Clip I Clip II

Obituary at eJazz News

Phineas Newborn 'Piano Portraits' (Roulette, stereo) with John Simmons and Roy Haynes

The number on my copy was machine-stamped. Very much doubt there were that many copies pressed! The machine probably performed under a logic of its own

I have quite a number of Classics. I know the producers took great pains in not duplicating sessions. If there were some, these must be rare occurrences. What a shame the label has gone out of business

Aha - I think I know it. Thanks. Recorded April 7/8/9, 1977. I wrote the liner notes, and have record number 0001. Very nice job you did! My copy shows number 404332! Wasn't this supposed to be a limited edition

It's not listed in the Lord Discography either! The Lord lists a Mojo album (Jimmy Smith '75) also recorded in Israel in 1974 with the same musicians but including different titles. Mojo was Jimmy Smith's own label.

'Serendipity' was earlier (late 70s) released on Interplay Records

I had no idea the New York Jazz Quartet had dedicated an album to the French president. Bertrand. Blues for SARKA is the title for this album. Sarko would not rate high on any jazz musician's list. One of his early fumble was issuing a very official eulogy of Art Davis when news of Davis' death was reported in August 2007 while he was vacationing with his then wife Cecilia at the Bush estate in the USA shortly after his election. Sarkozy obviously had never heard of Art Davis and probably confused him with Miles!

Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass 'Big Band Jazz' (Umbrella), disc 1 Special Limited Edition - Direct Disc Recordings