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Let me join in the celebration... Happy Birthday, Nate :party:

I should also have pointed out that the piano is out of tune. Most probably the same piano that was later transferred to the Five Spot in New York for the Eric Dolphy date with Booker Little and Mal Waldron

It's all talks but you'll enjoy it. You really were lucky with that one. Searched for it for years and never found a decent copy. A good man from the Organissimo forums early days - he has not posted here in a very long time - burned a copy for me. Bill Grauer and Paul Bacon did the interviews. Hawkins was in good spirits and he tells some very interesting stories...

Dexter Gordon 'Complete Studio Recordings' (SteepleChase), disc 2

These are really jam sessions. Since it reunites musicians I love, I find them wonderful. The sound is adequate to use a word from Mark Gardner's liner notes: 'The music was captured on a non-professional but adequate tape recorder and a single mike and consequently the niceties of ideal balance are absent, but Nils Winther spent many hours of studio time enhancing the raw sound to achieve very listenable results'. So don't expect high fidelity and your ears will not be offended. Just be happy to be able to attend a jam session with these musicians!

Don't think this Freddie Hubbard concert was available before... Freddie Hubbard Hubbard, part 2 at the Maiso de la Radio in Paris in 1973 with Junior Cook, George Cables, Kent Brinkley and Michael Carvin!

Both tracks are there. They just get new names... 'Courage' turns up as 'Racquet Blues' 'All Right' turns up as 'Loot to Boot'. Don't ask me why

'The Inimitable Teddy Edwards' (Xanadu) with Duke Jordan, Larry Ridley and Freddie Waits.

Those sides were originally released on Groove Merchant. They are all incorporated on this Illinois Jacquet CD 'Loot to Boot' from LCR:

I obviously skipped the second post

Ginseng CD is available on eBay: Ginseng

This does not seem to have been reissued on CD? A wonderful LP indeed!

You're referring to the 'That's the Way I Feel' album from Hal Willner. This thread is about that other Monk tribute, a 4CD set:

Gene Ammons 'The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons' (Prestige/Moodsville) with Patti Bown, George Duvivier and Ed Shaughnessy. Liner notes by LeRoi Jones.

Always thought it was part of the poetic charm of his music

Happy Birthday, MartyJazz Keep on enjoying life!

Trumpet player Rusty Dedrick died on Christmas Day at his home in Summitville, NY. From the Poughkeepsie Journal: Lyle "rusty" Dedrick SUMMITVILLE, NY - Lyle "Rusty" Dedrick of Summitville, NY passed away at home on December 25, 2009. He was 91. He was the son of the late George and Edith Dedrick, and was born in Delevan, NY on July 12, 1918. With a career spanning over seven decades. Rusty made a unique contribution to the world of Jazz. As a trumpeter, solo brilliance was his hallmark, in addition to his creativity as an arranger and composer. Rusty studied at Fredonia College and was tutored by composers Paul Ceston and Stefan Wolpe. He played with several prominent "Big Bands" including Dick Stabile, the Red Norvo/Mildred Bailey Orchestra, Ray McKinley, and the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Rusty had a long career in the New York City Jazz music field. His credits include writing and/or playing with Don Elliot, Urbie Green, Maxine Sullivan, Lee Wiley, Lionel Hampton and others, as well as radio and television work with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, Sid Ceasar, and more. At the same time, Rusty was recording his own LP's. In 1971, Rusty joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music as Director of Jazz Studies. As a pioneer in Jazz Education, his jazz band charts for the education field received acclaim for their creativity and accessibility by musicians of all ages. Throughout his jazz education career, Rusty continued to arrange and play, and in 1996 he was the musical director of the prestigious Smithsonian Institute American Songbook Series tribute to Fats Waller and Andy Razaf. Rusty completed the writing, arranging and recording of Music of America in 2007, which was a decade long project. Survivors include his wife, best friend, and soul mate of 64 years: Patricia Dedrick at home; his daughters: Doreen Dedrick and her husband Mark Lonergan of New York City, and Karin Dedrick and her husband George Piskoz of Kingston, NY; his son: Jeff Dedrick and wife Gail Dedrick of New York City; a sister: Ruth Taber of Belfast, NY; as well as many nieces and nephews. Rusty will be remembered for his love of family, nature, the New York Yankees, music and more than words can express. He was a gentle soul who left this world all too soon. A memorial service for family and friends will be held in the Spring. Arrangements under the direction of the VanInwegen-Kenny, Inc. Funeral Home of Wurtsboro. For additional information please visit www.kenny funeralhome.com. Published on December 30, 2009.

Your mother must have been some woman! My condolences to you and your family for this loss!

Marian McPartland has been made a member in the Order of the British Empire! Article in The New York Times today! Don't think she gets the Lady title for this! She is a Lady in the heart of jazz fans!

Good to get fresh news from Louis Smith: From the Ann Arbor.com website today: Louis Smith tribute

Art Pepper The Village Vanguard Sessions!

'Last Train from Overbrook' was available on that Chess CD reissue: 'A Great Day' was included on this Spanish Lonehill CD: Not sure about CD releases of early Moody material. I have a number of this on vinyls. I also feel together with your assessment of 'Feeling It Together'. Love that album (on vinyl, again!)

Recorded Live at the Lighthouse and released on Contemporary Records:

Russ Freeman, a not really obscure pianist but this recently (2005) unearthed trio recording did not get the attention it deserved! Recorded in Vancouver back in 1959.

Add Terry Pollard and Bob Willoughby to that much too long list!