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Surprised it took one month for this sad news to appear on this forum. News of his death was announced on the internet a couple of days after he died!

Film music composer Maurice Jarre died in Los Angeles this weekend! Maurice Jarre obit

Barney Wilen in Japan, 1990

A rare TV appearance by Bobby Jaspar and other jazz greats: 1958 TV show

Hilton Ruiz, piano, Mattathias Pearson, bass, Lawrence Killian and Samson Verge, percussions, were with Rahsaan when he played at the Ronnie Scott club in September/October 1974.

I like some Charles Davis albums better than others. That one is among the very best: Charles Davis on tenor with his quartet in 2006 in New York for Fresh Sound (bless Jordi Pujol!). Had never paid much attention to the music of the late Bent Jaedig previously. He died in 2004. I am a great fan of him now that I have heard some of his compositions!

Opening later this week at the Musée du Quai Branly near the Eiffel Tower, in central Paris, is the major exhibition 'Le Siécle de Jazz'. Le Siécle du Jazz The exhibition was earlier shown in Italy and will be on display in Barcelona later this year. A not to be missed event! People who will not be able to attend this, the exhibition catalogue is worth acquiring (in French only) http://www.amazon.fr/Si%C3%A8cle-jazz-musi...2065&sr=1-1

The series lives on... Three new double CDs out this week by the delightful Anachronic JazzBand, Henri Crolla and Alain Jean-Marie.

Both complete sessions are included in this recent release: Another excellent reissue from FreshSound!

Absolutely. I'll second Paul's recommendation to that beautiful and inspired duo session. Been getting various shipments from Jazzmusicdepot and have yet to run into a problem.

Rare Records was the best!!!!!!!!!! I'm still friendly with Rod and Diane. Good people, those two. Wow, I wonder if our paths ever crossed there. I used to go there all the time. Great people indeed, Rod and Diane! Made the place more than friendly. First time I visited the store back in 1994, Rare Records was in Teaneck! Went there a dozen times. What was the name of the guy who rented a records storage room one flight up? He had some incredible collection and was very knowledgeable about collectables. Ran into him when Dmitry and I visited the WFMU record convention several years ago. Dmitry (where is he now?) bought some albums from him!

Time to celebrate! January 6, 1939, Alfred Lion booked Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis in a rented studio in New York and produced the first record session of a new label. We are forever grateful!

The Sun Ra All Stars (with Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, John Gilmore, Philly Joe Jones, etc...) at the Berlin Jazz Festival October 29, 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBltHzzoywU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KdK9-RQ-Y...feature=related

Was at some other sessions but no really famous ones. However I was present - among other ones - at the Club Saint-Germain back in 1958 when Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers were recorded there by RCA, also at 'The Great Concert of Charles Mingus' in 1964 (both shows at the Salle Wagram and Théatre des Champs-Elysées), the 1966 Cecil Taylor 'Student Studies' concert at the Maison de l'ORTF plus various concerts by Miles Davis, also John Coltrane, in Paris that were later released.

Don Joseph's passing away was noted in the Obituaries section of the October/November/December issue of Cadence. He died on July 22 in Celina, Texas. If you google his name, you get a couple of items which refer to him as 'the late Don Joseph'.

Wasn't Brownie there at that one? No! I was not in New York at the time. But I was at the 'Spirits Rejoice' session sometime later... Other photos I took that day illustrate the liner notes to the ESP CD reissue of the session. THE session I wish I could have sat in: the Jones-Smith Inc. session in Chicago, November 9, 1936

Don Joseph! 'One of a Kind'

Drove past the place when I visited the now defunct Rare Records shop on Hackensack's Main Street on several occasions back in the '90s. It was always a kick to enter the city of Hackensack. But I had Thelonious Monk in mind more than RVG. The Rare Records was one of the best record shops in the area, as good as the Princeton Record Exchange.

At least one of the Haden Naim project was released on vinyl. Very interesting album! In excellent sound!

chewy's search for liberty's jazz, take 1

Thought Sidewinder would have mentioned that one (to refer to his latest BFT)

It took Le Monde a full week to report Jimmy Gourley's death! Better brush up your french... http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2008/...31298_3382.html For an encore, here is Gourley with Lucky Thompson, Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke at the Blue Note club in Paris back in December 1959 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_U_QwOAl20

The four were recorded for the Okeh label! Caution Blues and A Monday Date were recorded on December 9. I Ain't Got Nobody and 57 Varieties were recorded on December 12. Some serious music!

Much longer and better videos from the Stars of Jazz show (and it was Stan Levey...)

Sad to report that guitarist Jimmy Gourley passed away this weekend in suburban Villeneuve-Saint-Georges where he resided. Gourley came to Paris in the early '50s and adopted (and was adopted by) the country. He played and recorded with most of the jazz greats including Lester Young, Clifford Brown, Bud Powell, etc... Gourley's French Wikipedia entry. Watch and listen to Jimmy Gourley (with Barney Wilen, Philippe Combelle...)