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Only a few hours left to get 26 BN originals at a very good price (so far)! BN auction

Missed that one when it came out. Have still got to get it!

John Coltrane 'Live Trane - The European Tours' (Pablo)

Happy Birthday :party:

The Miles Davis gig with the Lighthouse All Stars has its moments!

ChuckStewart took the photo on the cover of the Specs Powell album on Roulette. Nice date with good solo spots (by Ray Copeland, Leon Merian, Jimmy Cleveland, Aaron Sachs, Sahib Shihab and others). Ray Copeland wrote the arrangements. Sad to hear of his passing away!

Before I went away for a few weeks, I ordered seven CDs from Caiman via Amazon. Prices were excellent. Got separate answers on the shipment of each releases. Paypal billing was superfast. Now that I am back home, all seven CDs are with me. All were shipped in sturdy envelopes from New Zealand Will order from Caiman again soon!

There is a new big box being released these days. It carries volumes 76 to 101 of the Jazz in Paris series. Nothing yet on the universalmusic.fr website.

Marceau was born in a French Alsacian jewish family (real name Marcel Mengel). His father was captured, then deported at Auschwitz where he was killed in 1944.

They are currently available at Fnac.fr Pretty hard to find discs but really worth the search...

they made another cover so chewy could have his "hmm hank looks different" moment 50 years later Most French releases at the time shunned the US original covers and had new ones printed for the local market. Fortunately Barclay used the original Verve (Clef/Norgran) covers - many of them by David Stone Martin - when they issued the albums on their Blue Star label!

Bertrand, in addition to all the sessions listed, my source (you know who I mean) also has a John Jenkins appearance on clarinet and tenor on a Washington, D.C., November 21, 1982 date by the Potomac River Jazz Club. John Jenkins appears on one track 'Cake-walking babies from home'. Doubt that it's the same Jenkins but if it's the same one, would love to hear this album!

John Coltrane 'Crescent' (Impulse, mono, orange label)

Yeah, I'd assume that too. Esquires are often beautiful, and rarer than their Prestige counterparts. If Sidewinder were around this week, we could hear from the resident expert on that! Barclay issued quite a number of Prestige albums in the late fifties, early sixties. At the time I thought their covers were a disgrace when compared to the original designs. Still dislike most of them. The US originals looked so much better (and were very hard to find even then).

A marvelous poet! He also joined the French Resistance during World War Two!

Phil Woods recorded a couple of beautiful renditions of the Nelson theme including the 1968 version with his European Rhythm Machine on the Pathé label which was reissued severalyears ago by EMI.

Hope you had a great Birthday, Bob :party:

Lester Young Complete Verve box, discs 4 and 5

The Keepnews article was linked to this thread earlier today http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry687044 A rather weak piece! The Bloomberg report was much more interesting!

That 'Questions' is very nice. From the Steeplechase sessions, I also like 'Solo Piano', 'Bebop Bebop Bebop Bebop', 'Paul Plays Carla" and 'If We May'. But there are more and I stll have to discover several of them. I also have a soft spot for 'Blues for Diane', the awkward encounter with Chet Baker!

Count Basie & his Orchestra 'The Birdland Era, volume 2' (Duke) 1952-1953 broadcasts with Lester Young and Paul Quinichette

There have been numerous mentions of Dolphy dying of a heart attack caused by diabetes disorders. The brain tumor death version was originated by Charles Mingus. Not a very reliable source for accounts accuracy! From the Wikipedia page on Eric Dolphy: After Out to Lunch and an appearance as a sideman on Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, Dolphy left to tour Europe with Charles Mingus' sextet in early 1964. From there he intended to settle in Europe with his fiancée, who was working on the ballet scene in Paris. After leaving Mingus, he performed with and recorded a few sides with various European bands and was preparing to join Albert Ayler for a recording. On the evening of June 28, 1964, Dolphy collapsed on the streets of Berlin and was brought to a hospital. The attending hospital physicians, who had no idea that Dolphy was a diabetic, thought that he (like so many other jazz musicians) had overdosed on drugs, so they left him to lie in a hospital bed until the "drugs" had run their course.[citation needed] Making the event all the more tragic was the fact that Dolphy had eschewed drugs and alcohol his entire life. The notes to the Prestige 9-disc set say he "collapsed in his hotel room and when brought to the hospital he was diagnosed as being in a diabetic coma. After being administered a shot of insulin (apparently a type stronger than what was then available in the US) he lapsed into insulin shock and died." Dolphy would die the next day in a diabetic coma, leaving a short but tremendous legacy in the jazz world. He was quickly honored with his induction into the Down Beat magazine Hall of Fame. Coltrane paid tribute to Dolphy in an interview: "Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician." Dolphy's mother, who claimed she was haunted by the memory of Dolphy practicing in her garage, gave his instruments to Coltrane. Coltrane subsequently played the flute and bass clarinet on several albums before his death in 1967.

Realized that... twas just meant to make you green with envy

No Blue Train in sight

Bennie Green - Paul Quinichette 'Blow Your Horn' (MCA/Decca Japan) Not together, one side each!