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Haiti has always been a disaster area but this is beyond inhuman. The Haitian PM Jan-Max Bellerive stated today that the toll could reach more than 100,000 dead!

You mean you actually read my mind? Scary indeed

Very sad news from the British Journal of Photography. He was a member of the Magnum agency. A sample of some of his photos of jazz interest:

Chet Baker in Paris (Barclay), disc 5 Managed to locate a decently priced set of this music and very much enjoying it.

Need to get that one! Will look forward to your comments BBS!

Hi Jeff! Is the documentary you saw ''Tis Autumn'? Have heard only but good things about it. It is available on this recently released CD/DVD The accompanying CD is the Brunswick 'Skylark' Not a bad deal for €19 at Fnac.fr

I have read 'Bouncin' with Bartok', interesting and rather depressing! One that I really enjoyed was 'Traveling Blues, The Life and Music of Tommy Ladnier'. An awesome volume! Hope the authors make back the money they invested on the project so that they can produce another (and more) similar book on other musicians. Currently reading the Robin D.G. Kelley book on Thelonious Monk. Very impressed with the research that Kelley carried to complete this. Next on the list are the Herbie Nichols plus the Jazz Loft Project books. Also looking forward to read Gérard Regnier's 'Jazz et Société sous l'Occupation', a research on the state of he jazz music during the nazi occupation of France and Belgium. Recently published at L'Harmattan.

Wish I had the Swaggies! I have this Acrobat CD from England Th sound is a bit flat but the music is just fine!

Available at Amazon.fr The box originated at Sony France!

Paul Bley 'in Haarlem' 'Blood' (Polydor International) with Mark Levinson, bass, and Barry Altschul, drums

From Music Week.. BBC Jazz Wish a similar debate was held in France where the jazz radio coverage by the state-owned Radio France is not what it used to be!

Sad news! From the Patriot Ledger today. A couple of his albums:

It is. 'Nobody Else But Me' is my favorite album of his. The voice kept getting better and was constantly being used as an instrument. Splendid backing by Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond and Keith Copeland.

Eric Rohmer's death is frontpage (also 9 more pages inside) news in today's Liberation The headline reads 'To the end of the tale' Quite a change for a very discreet filmmaker. Rohmer was a very influential contributor to Les Cahiers du Cinéma and its editor in chief from 1957 and 1962. A lover and craftsman of words (this was at the center of his austere and moralistic films), his ascetic silhouette could be seen roaming the streets of Paris (he shunned cars and - unless I am mistaken - had no driver's license) until very recently. We still have his films to appreciate.

Osie Johnson 'The Happy Jazz of Osie Johnson' (Bethlehem, red label)

The signature (with its famous K logo) has appeared on so many photos of jazz and entertainment celebrities. Looks like the tradition continues... from the New York Times today. A couple of photos (Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, at left, and Cab Calloway) ...

The liner notes (by Mark Gardner) to 'The Quota' album on MPS - they are in german and my knowledge of the language is limited - indicate Red Garland was in Philadelphia in the early '60s and returned to Dallas where his mother died in 1965. He made appearances in 1966 in LA at 'The Memory Lane' and the 'It Club' then was back in Dallas where he played at the 'Club Arandas'. He returned to New York in the spring of 1971 and was contacted by producer Don Schlitten to record the two albums that came out on MPS 'The Quota' and 'Auf Wiedersehen'.

To be fair, the seller is 100% reliable and honest, and it is the mono pressing. Perhaps those are scarce? I'll just stick with my RVG CD though! This was an original pressing! AFAIK No 'Adams Apple' LPs with the plain BN label!

Looks now like the team bus was at the wrong place at the wrong time! Latest word is that the Togolese team still intends to play in the African Cup.. AP story

Chano Pozo 'El Tambor de Cuba', disc 3

The craziness is still going strong. Just from the past two weeks, here are prices reached by original BN LPs (all monos): Walter Davis 'Davis Cup' $2,000 Johnny Griffin 'The Congregation' $1,875 Kenny Dorham 'Afro-Cuban' $1,631 Eric Dolphy 'Out to Lunch' $1,524 Jutta Hipp 'With Zoot Sims' $1,338 Louis Smith 'Here Comes Louis Smith' $1,275 Louis Smith 'Smithville' $1,048 Cliff Jordan 'BN1565', $939 ...

Yes, hope he is happy wherever he is! Happy Birthday

Right! One LP only United Artists.

From the Washington Post: Top words 'tweet' was top word for 2009. 'google' for the decade. 'web' for the 1990s. 'jazz' for the 20th Century. 'she' for the millenium.

Yes, the club date originally came out on United Artists on two LPs: Vol. 1 and vol. 2. Produced by Alan Douglas. The material was later released on Blue Note LPs (Art Blakey Live Messengers) and CDs.