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This came out on CD in 1992 (on Erato). No sign of a reissue so far.

Couch by Salvador Dali!

May I suggest some of the material from the duos by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake (on RCA and two Owl albums)?

Benny Bailey is credited with 267 sessions. Another BB (Buster Bailey) gets 370 sessions. Session trumpet player John Best 644!

yes, yes, yes, yes, more Jimmy Lyons... Push Pull 'Hat Hut', disc 2 (C side 'After You Left', side D 'Tortuga'

Yes, of course! Will be looking for that one. ECM was making some worthy albums back then!

Chuck was the one who would know for sure... Of course, the previously released Warne Marsh volumes 'Unissued 1975 Copenhagen Studio Sessions'. Then there's nothing that I don't already have. Too bad since it seems there is quite a number of unreleased material from the Marsh-Konitz Montmartre dates that should have been included in the 4CD set!

Andrew Cyrille Jeanne Lee Jimmy Lyons 'Nuba' (Black Saint)

From a quick look at what's inside the 4CD set, it seems all the material on the first 3 CDs has been previously released by Storyville, but CD4 looks like it has not seen the light of the day up to now!

Not only is Albert Heath a major drummer buy he is also a very interesting raconteur! Splendid interview! Thanks for bringing it to our attention! Love the photo of Coltrane and Shirley Scott...

Glad to relay good news from John Wright... From the Chicago Sun-Times: Wright honored with lifetime achievement award One of Chicago's well-known jazz artists calls Matteson home. Jazz pianist John Wright recently was awarded the Walter Dyett Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Musicians consider it to be one of the most prestigious music awards presented in Chicago. Wright accepted the award during the annual Jazz Institute of Chicago Gala at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. "I was very humbled and overwhelmed to be picked out of thousands of musicians," Wright said. "But I thought about it, and to be awarded a lifetime achievement award - you have to have a few gray hairs." Wright, who has performed around the world, is blind. Like Beethoven, who lost his hearing but continued to play and compose, Wright continues to compose and give jazz performances without his sight. He plays every Thursday at Philander's at the Carleton Hotel of Oak Park, and also performs with his quartet at other Chicago area clubs. Wright also is executive director of the Hyde Park Jazz Society. The John Wright Quartet was one of the featured performers at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in September. Wright was born in 1934 in Louisville, Ky., to a father who worked as a laborer and a mother who served as a missionary. At age 3, Wright began playing the piano at his mother's Pentecostal church. As a young man serving in the Army's Special Services in Europe, Wright came into contact with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon. "There were a lot of great musicians in Special Services," he said. "I learned a lot from them." Wright - a pianist, organist and bassist - to this day does not read music. He is known commercially as "South Side Soul." Some of his recordings include "South Side Soul - John Wright Trio"; "John Wright: Mr. Soul," and "John Wright: The Last Amen." He has recorded at Prestige, Fantus and Catz studios. Wright is retired from the Cook County Sheriff's Department of Corrections. There, he was affectionately known as "Poppy." To honor the jazz great, the department named the reference section of the Clarence Darrow Library in Division 5 the John "Poppy" Wright Library. Wright also is known for annually hosting an end-of-summer mini-festival at his Matteson home, attended by some of the best jazz musicians in Chicagoland, who also perform at the gathering. Wright has nine children, 29 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. He is a member of Chicago's Apostolic House of God. The jazz great's advice to everyone he meets: "First, love the Lord. Then love yourself - only then will you be able to love others." For more information about the Jazz Institute of Chicago, visit www.jazzinchicago.org. For more information about the Hyde Park Jazz Society, visit www.hydeparkjazzsociety.org

Same here. Except I would add the Old and New Dreams reissues to that Conference of the Birds album. Fine music, indeed!

Warne Marsh 'with Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, etc... (Atlantic/WB Japan, stereo)

Frankly, I didn't think the French team was so great! Their first half was pretty nerve wrecking to watch. Second half had Les Bleus coming together for a change. The interplay between Gourcuff and Anelka led to a deflected goal. And that's what counts in World Cup qualifiers. Best impression from the match came from the exceptional Croke Park crowd

I grabbed the only copy that showed up! The store also had one each of the Andrew Hill Solo and the Dexter Gordon at Keystone Korner Selects. €10 each, too! Added those to the Tony Williams! Went to the cash register with a happy smile I returned the next day to the store in the hope of finding more of those but came back emptyhanded!

Steve Potts also had his own album 'Pearl' on the CC label (with Richard Galliano, Jean-Jacques Avenel and Bertrand Renaudin) in 1990.

Fantastic! It is awesome being invited inside that loft and allowed to listen to the proceedings! Currently enjoying the Eddie Costa sides... and Zoot Sims, Rahsaan, Rollins and others lined up next!

Doggett's 'Honky Tonk' was the background music for this very high profile advertising campaign for Prafa perfumes. Prada L'Eau Ambrée

Roy Eldridge 'The Complete Verve Studio Sessions', disc 3

Always enjoyed that one: Wish Verve would issue the unreleased album that Grant Green recorded - two sessions - in 1965

Interesting! Why not? Anybody really knows¨?

Some more recent RLR releases: RLR88647 Charlie Parker Quintet - Complete Live at Birdland, May 17, 1950 RLR88648 Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins & Don Cherry Quartet - New York 1962. Stockholm 1963. RLR88649 Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong - Live in Japan 1953 RLR88650 Fats Navarro - Complete Last Studio Session, September 20, 1949 RLR88651 Clifford Brown Clifford Brown - The Lost Rehearsals 1953-1956 RLR88652 John Coltrane The 1962 Milan Concert RLR88653 Chet Baker Chet Baker Live in Copenhagen 1955 RLR88654 Clifford Brown Clifford Brown Plays Trumpet & Piano - The Complete Solo Rehearsals RLR88655 Charlie Parker Complete Bird at the Open Door

From the AP: OFFICIALS TO RESTORE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT JOHNSON By Shelia Byrd(AP) JACKSON, Miss. — The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work. There's the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunting guitar intonations. There's the dispute over where he died after his alleged poisoning by a jealous man in 1938. Three different markers claim to be the site of his demise. His birthplace, however, has been verified. The seminal bluesman came into the world in 1911 in a well-crafted home built by his stepfather in the Mississippi town of Hazlehurst. Now, 71 years after his death, local officials want to restore the home in hopes of drawing Johnson fans and their tourism dollars to Copiah County, about 100 miles from the Delta region that most bluesmen called home. Johnson's life and music have been the subject of multiple books. And producers are shopping a script in Hollywood about him penned by Jimmy White, the screenwriter for the Academy Award-winning film, "Ray." "It's amazing that after all these years, people still talk about Robert Johnson on the level that they do," said the bluesman's grandson, Steven Johnson. Johnson's influence can be heard in the works of numerous artists, from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton, who covered 14 of the bluesman's songs on his 2004 album, "Me and Mr. Johnson." The house is an important piece of Johnson's legacy, said Grammy-winning pianist George Winston, who will headline a fundraiser for the restoration Monday at the Belhaven College Center for the Arts in Jackson. "Everything with Robert is mysterious, but the more we can demystify, we can get down to the truth," said Winston. "He was an inspired musician. He took a quantum leap." The story goes that Johnson didn't play all that well at first, then left town for awhile. When he returned, his music had undergone a transformation. "He came back and everybody couldn't believe how well he played," Winston said. That's likely what gave rise to the soul-selling rumor, a transaction purportedly taking place at the crossroads of U.S. 61 and U.S. 49 in the Mississippi Delta. Johnson's birthplace was verified in a letter from his half-sister years ago, said Janet Schriver, executive director of the Copiah County Office of Cultural Affairs. The 1,500-square foot home now owned by the county has fallen into disrepair, but it still bears evidence of craftsmanship. Johnson's stepfather, Charles Dodds, was a furniture maker and a prosperous landowner. The house had a double-parlor, a long front porch and a pump that allowed water to flow into the kitchen, a modern convenience unheard in most homes occupied by blacks in the early 20th century, said Schriver. Schriver said the county is trying to raise $250,000 for the restoration project, which coincides with efforts to get Johnson's life story to the screen. White was commissioned by HBO about three years ago to write the script, but the production company's management changed and the project was scrapped, said Cathy Gurley, who handles publicity for the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation. HBO confirmed Thursday a project had been in development, but subsequently producers were allowed to take it elsewhere. Gurley said "we're currently shopping the project." White, who is based in Santa Monica, Calif., said he was moved by the "sheer genius" of Johnson, who was self-taught on the guitar. "He was so good that he would literally turn his back when they were recording him. He didn't want the other musicians to see his fingering technique," White said. A restored Johnson birthplace would offer his latter-day fans something rare: a tangible relic linked to the long-dead musician. Few personal artifacts from Johnson's life remain. Only two photographs of Johnson are known to exist, one known as the "studio portrait" made for Johnson by Hooks Brothers Studios in Memphis, Tenn., and the other referred to as "the dime store portrait" or "the photo booth self portrait" taken by Johnson himself. White spent months researching Johnson's life and interviewing other blues artists, including David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who knew Johnson. Little known in their prime, outside of the audience for "race music," the bluesmen created an enduring musical legacy. "As a writer, it was exciting for me because nobody has been able to crack the code of how to tell the story of a blues singer from that era, especially the legendary one who sold his soul to the devil," White said. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.