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A rare glimpse of the opening night of the ill-fated Harold Arlen's 'Free and Easy' musical at the Paris Alhambra theater in 1960 with Harold Nicholas and the Quincy Jones Orchestra Free and Easy

BBS replied very neatly to AllenLowe's question. I like my jazz books factual more than interpretative (with rare exceptions) and the Ladnier opus suits me fine! The tracks are MP3s, are they not? As such, the disc isn't really intended to be played on a CD player at all, is it? It's just that some CD players do have the decoding device added, I think. I have a cheap portable CD player that will play MP3s, and an expensive component one that won't. Given the age of the Ladnier recordings, they should be well-enough served by MP3 qualilty. (I still sit and wait delivery...) The CDR plays fine on my computer which was the only device that accepted to digest it

From the SF Chronicle: Donald Bailey's woes Best wishes to a fine player!

The Musicians index is unfortunately not complete. For instance, no mention of Lucky Thompson's (and others including Louis Armstrong, Bobby Jaspar and the Bob Shots, Rex Stewart, Mezz Mezzrow) appearance on this audio from the 1948 jazz festval in Nice: http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD85024562/conste...de-nice.fr.html A very interesting audio!

Baker, the book is a softcover but a very sturdy softcover. You will not have any problem with the binding unless you give it an undeserved very, very rough treatment. As I mentioned earlier, this is a very professional job. The book author-publisher is a typograph by trade and it shows!

Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff 'Kirk's Work' (Prestige, yellow label)

Sorry, Conn! Got a brand new copy for all of €10 yesterday at my favorite Paris shop!

Hans Koller with the Michel Hausser quartet in 1960 more Koller and Hausser. There are a couple more videos available of tis quartet!

Stan Getz and Paris fashions in 1969. The Getz group includes Stanley Cowell on piano, Miroslav Vitous on bass and Jack deJohnette on drums. Stan Getz with Michel Legrand with Georges Arvanitas on piano. More Getz with Michel Legrand Stan Getz with René Thomas and the 1971 superb quartet with Eddy Louiss and Bernard Lubat

Jimmy Rushing with Guy Lafitte and Georges Arvanitas on piano in 1958 Jimmy Rushing with Maxime Saury and Jean-Claude Naude on trumpet

Happy Birthday, Paul Hope your day will be brighter than this...

Received today the CDR with the 189 tracks recorded by Ladnier. Just a bit of warning, this may be difficult to play except on a late-generation CD player. It should play on the computer...

I have the BN CD. If Ghost is still looking for that one, a PM will do!

From the New York Times today... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/06d....html?ref=music What a great place he managed!

They are from Nica's book... Three Wishes

This would have to be from 1967. I'm wondering if the Hank Mobley gig is the one Nica photographed ("Three Wishes"): p. 78 Hank Mobley, Charles Tolliver, John Ore p. 144 Billy Higgins p. 159 John Ore p. 277 Hank Mobley, Bobby Hutcherson, unidentifiable pianist Might just be! The year 1967 would be my guess, too! I was there in October of that year and the bands lineup was pretty similar (no Mobley, though). Saw Jackie Mac and Sun Ra gigs that month. Cecil Taylor was there as an interested visitor...

More Lucky Thompson... in 1957 with the Christian Garros trio (Maurice Vander on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass and Garros on drums) Lucky Thompson/Christian Garros, 1 Lucky Thompson/Christian Garros, 2

This is the Fondation Maeght. A museum in a beautiful setting on the French Riviera. The Maeghts have been very open to contemporary art. Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra are among the artists who played there and were royally treated during their stay there. The World needs more people like Aimé Maeght! What the heirs do with what belongs to the Fondation is their business! I am pretty sure the videos of the concerts will be released some day...

That sale went dead! No bidder...

Nothing on Ayler from INA. There was no TV camera at his concert at the Salle Pleyel in 1966. The Maeght foundation did film the 1970 Ayler concerts 'Les Nuits de la Fondation Maeght' but the films are being kept secure by the foundation and they are not handing them out!

The time machine...

The book has been several years in the making, I'ld say you can wait several weeks to open it. You'll enjoy it even more by then... Merry Christmas

'Mr Blues Pour Flirter' period? Most probably. Never saw them and hope they will turn up some day. For the time being, looks like INA has unloaded all they intended to put on the web from their jazz vaults!

many short clips are available for free but most of them have to be purchased. You have to register with INA but need to read french to do this. Nobody's perfect! [i havea question- did these musicans always like the european rhythm sections they were playing with, and did they ever miss not being able to take part in what was happening in america] when they played with pianists of the caliber of Martial Solal or René Urtreger, everything went fine. More problematic were a number of drummers but with people like Kenny Clarke and later Art Taylor and even later Philly Jo Jones, the matter was solved!

From AFP... Jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano injured in Spain (AFP) – MADRID — American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano has been taken to hospital in Spain after injuring his shoulder in a fall, organisers of the Madrid Jazz Festival said Wednesday. Lovano, 56, considered one of the best saxophonists around today, cancelled a concert he was to have given to open the festival Wednesday night. He suffered a slight injury to his shoulder in a fall in the northeastern city of Barcelona, the organisers said. The November 4-28 Madrid Jazz Festival features a 50th anniversary tribute to Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" album with the participation of Jimmy Cobb, the only surviving member from the original recording. Others scheduled to perform are saxophonist Roy Hargrove, pianist Brad Mehldau and singers Madeleine Peyroux and Cassandra Wilson. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved