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A Great Day in Harlem (photo by Art Kane) Among those smoking are Charles Mingus, Rex Stewart, Lester Young (cigarette not seen), MaryLou Williams, Stuff Smith, Coleman Hawkins. Also Willie The Lion Smith who was enjoying a cigar while sitting on another stairs and was out of camera range!

To complete the list: The Third Herdsmen/Jay Cameron International Sax Band Henri Renaud-Al Cohn Quartet (shame on you for not mentioning that one ) Henri Renaud Trio, Sextet & All Stars Henri Renaud All Stars (with Jay Jay, Cohn, etc...)

Totally missed this! I was away from the Board at the time!

Bill Grauer produced 'A Harold Arlen Showcase'. Keepnews produced the Harry Warren, and also the Jerome Kern that Chuck mentioned. The Kern is in a similar vein but it came out on Riverside. Was it recorded first with the other two getting released (earlier or later) on a parallel label?

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If it's as good as Lewis Porter's book on Lester Young, this should be an interesting read: http://gsn.newark.rutgers.edu/jazz/lewis_p...r/publications/ Details when one clicks on 'Order Now'.

There was at least one non-black release I'm pretty sure there was a complete list of the series somewhere in the archives here.

I am not enough into musicial composition to judge Nadia Boulanger's achievements. She certainly was a major influence on a lot of excellent composers. A formidable teacher! Somehow I am not sure that jazz musicians really benefited from the experience. She was a very charming Mademoiselle. I remember spending a day taking photos of her back in 1967 in Fontainebleau.

Happy Birthday, Dmitry :party: Hope you're doing fine... wherever you are!

Phil Woods (with cigarette) and Belgian musician Guy Dossche

Donald Byrd lost his soul (most of it at least) after he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Fontainebleau, south of Paris, back in 1963-1964. An excellent and imaginative jazz musician before that, he never managed to recover his spontaneity once he got back to the States.

James Moody by Herman Leonard

So Tommy Flanagan and Hank Jones are on the firing lines! Who's next Johnny 'Plays Pretty' Hodges?

Never heard that one, but I bought a Japanese Riverside reissue of Drew and Ware playing Jerome Kern tunes, and I remember it being much like your description of the Warren/Arlen recordings. I didn't keep the Kern record for long - sounded like something that might have been made for use as muzak. But why Drew and Ware? Very strange. The two Drew/Ware albums on Judson were 'A Harry Warren Showcase' and 'A Harold Arlen Showcase'. Judson was one of Riverside's subsidiary labels. It specialized in easy-to-listen music. Other albums on the label included 'Dance Time' (Chauncey Grey and his Orchestra play Gershwin, 'Dancing in the Dark' by Lenny Herman, 'An Evening with Offenbach', 'Chansons Populaires Françaises' by Françoise Prévost, 'Folk Music for People Who Hate Folk Music' by Herb Strauss, accompanied by Mundell Lowe and his Friends, etc... Nice offbeat covers by Paul Weller/Paul Bacon. Don't think these two Drew albums ever passed for strict jazz sessions.

There's also that duo album with Marc Fosset on Djaz but it's been OOP for some time and very hard to get by now!

Really good contributions from Eddie Bert (also from Urbie Green) on the album:

Happy Birthday, Ghost! :party:

Good to have a second book on Lee Morgan available!

The early BN LPs still get top prizes: $1,225 Gil Melle $1,125 Kenny Dorham

One of my eternal regrets was not being able to free myself from work obligations when I was asked to meet Ayler and is group when they were to fly through Paris after their performances at the Maeght foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence. From what I remember the group changed its plans (probably because none in the group spoke french) and did not travel through Paris airports.

Was very much into Stockhausen years ago. Saw him perform in Paris in the early '70s. Sad news...

Wilbur Ware exploded in my ears when I first listened to him on the Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard BN album. Even wrote an article about him (and another bass newcomer Scott LaFaro) back in 1959 for the French review 'Jazz Magazine'.