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The successful French radio station 24-hour a day TSF Jazz is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the release of a 10 CD box that came out this week. TSF Jazz Not really a fan of most of the players featured in the box but I am glad to see something working in the jazz business these days!

Been waiting for quite a long time to get that Rava/Blake duo CD!

The CD-sized Billie Holiday Columbia set is on sale here by now! Lady Day Columbia A great bargain!

Teddy Bunn !

There must have been celebrations in some Catalunyan record labels headquarters and pressing plants yesterday (with lots of bottles Freyssinet sparkling wines uncorked) after news of the Mosaic misadventure got through. I am sure it will take little time before we see some of the Mosaic sets/Selects make reappearances on those labels!

I spoke at length with Marion Brown over the phone last month. He still resides in a Florida retirement residence. His mind remains crystal clear and his spirits high!

The 'Jazz Workshop' series was a major program! Also the Al Cohn sessions! ... and so many more!

Lots of informations about the enterprise and The Jazz Loft Project book - which is scheduled to come out in November - on the Duke University website: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/jazzloft.html The book looks like a major work! Hope a good selection of the tapes will also see the light of the day!

The New York Times' obituary in today's edition.

The 3CD set was first issued in France three years ago. It has the full content of the five LPs that came out in 1976. No remastering involved.

Steve Cerra has a wonderful and informative series on Victor Feldman on his Jazz Profiles blog!

I'ld probably be a millionaire if I had not purchased all those (Classics and others) albums Not sure I'ld really be happier!

The Trésors du Jazz boxes usually come out in October. The 1958 should appear in a couple of months. The two-man operation (André Francis/Jean Schwarz) has been busy lately releasing the 'Le Monde du Jazz' series which was sold in conjunction with Le Monde daily newspaper these past weeks. Le Monde du Jazz.

As far as releasing new CDs, the Classics series are dead by now Maybe Jaffa knows more!

Did the Coltrane side of that LP scare you away? It shouldn't have... The 'Alabama' track is a classic! Got this vinyl somewhere

Very sad news! http://www.rashiedali.org/

I have been a satisfied Mosaic customer for some 25 years. I trust Mosaic and am sure I will get the box in the end... Must also add that it was not my bank account which was charged but my gift cards balance sheet! Hope the wait for that Chu Berry box will come to an end soon!

The Chu Berry box is listed as being backordered. Ordered (and paid for) this several months ago and still waiting for it! The Mosaic website says it is expected later this year Realize that the times are hard but this does not look to me as a very good way to run a business!

Up! Poppa Lou is aging very nicely... Article in Sunday's edition of The New York Times Lou Donaldson at 82

Among the items missing from that 'Complete' box is the 1969 Juan les Pins concert which was released by Sony Japan

Chronological Classics was part of the Nocturne Jazz label which had purchased the Abeille label. Now Nocturne has been purchased a few months ago by Plus Loin. It's been months since any new Classics has been sighted here. Plus Loin doe not seem to be interested in continuing the Chronological Classics saga

Oh no - what a tragedy ! Such is life... Reminds me of my folks accidentally wiping a heap of BBC jazz broadcasts I had on VHS including Jazz 625s, the Swedish jazz film 'Sven Klang's Combo' and film of Lester Bowies Brass Fantasy at Bath Festival with footage of me in the audience standing on seat. Of course, none of that was ever repeated. The tapes were a small part of my possessions (including quite a number of old Down Beats, Mad magazines, copies of the Paris Review and assorted magazines) that took the same path They had been stored there for lack of space in my place! My mother's excuse was that I was not in Paris at the time (was on assignment outside France and she could not reach me in those pre-digital days)

Mobley was 40 years ago. Morgan was 50 years ago so my memories are even less reliable. He was 20, I was one year younger. The interview took place at the hotel across the street from the Club Saint-Germain and I was given a very short time to interview all five Jazz Messengers (Morgan, Golson, Timmons, Merritt and Blakey) before they started their first et at the Club. All five were waiting their turn to answer some questions. And all five were most charming. The interview was published in 'Jazz Magazine' at the time. I enjoyed the music much better than the interview.

I recounted all I could remember from that evening in my original post on this thread. Please remember it happened 40 years ago - almost to the day - August 12, 1969. I did not have a tape recorder with me that time. I had a tape recorder when I interviewed a number of musicians (including Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, Lee Morgan, Charles Mingus among others) in the late 50's and 60's. Some were published in the French review Jazz Magazine, some were not as was the case of the Bud Powell interview because Buttercup kept interrupting whenever Bud started gathering his thoughts which were pretty confused that day! The Mingus interview was available until recently on the internet. All those tapes were piled in a room of my mother's Paris apartment. They were lost when she moved out of the place and junked those tapes! As for why Mobley asked me not to enter the place he was staying, that's because the Hospital where he was allowed a room dealt with gerontology patients which could not be disturbed. The Hospital is still where it was, quite a nice place but with a 'no public entrance' sign at the entrance gate!

The video is taken from the Sextet European 1964 tour. George Russell sextet at the time was Thad Jones on trumpet, Garnett Brown on trombone, Joe Farrell on sax, Barre Philips on bass and Tootie Heath on drums