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Many thanks Quasimodo for the details on the Jazzbank Billy Bauer anthology. I have that Interplay LP. Only three tracks are missing. I'll live with that!

It's going to be a flexicover book. Size: 16.8x22.6 cm, 6.6x8.9inch. 400 pages. The book will include interviews with Rudy VanGelder, Creed Taylor, Michael Cuscuna, Bob Ciano (the CTI label designer), and Ashley Kahn.

Happy Birthday, SS

Al Hibbler with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra 'Monday Every Day' (Discovery)

That Billy Bauer looks intriguing. Wish my Japanese was better!

Lonehill Jazz is one of several labels that appeared several years ago in Spain, mainly in the Barcelona area. At some point they carried (most probably for tax reasons) an Andorran adress which made them know as 'Andorrans'. From what I can see here, they now carry an EU adress.

Ben Webster 'Blue Light' (Polydor Germany, stereo) with Kenny Drew, NHOP, Alex Riel

Clifford, the Ambrose Jackson I knew (nice guy by the way) was a trumpet player! I was taking that the alto players mentioned in this thread were still living!

Small item in today's Boston Globe: Other deaths August 14, 2007 POMEROY, Herb -- In Gloucester, Saturday, at 77. A virtuoso trumpet player who taught generations of musicians, Mr. Pomeroy was considered a leading force in Boston's jazz scene. They obviously had not prepared a proper obituary! Trust that will come later...

Roscoe Mitchell... Marion Brown.. Bud Shank (yes, Bud Shank!)...

Jimmy Rowles 'Mediacom Special' (Mediacom/CBS Special Products) a Henri Renaud produced LP that was pressed for visitors at the 1981 Mediacom convention

Haven't seen a copy of this CD in recent years. Located a second copy after I mentioned the album here and the CD was promptly on its way to one of the posters here!

Roosevelt Sykes 'The Honeydripper' (Bluesville original) with King Curtis, Robert Banks, Leonard Gaskin and Belton Evans

Another one One of the last musician who could claim having played with Bird!

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (New Jazz, mono orginal)

Charles Tolliver Select, disc 3

The Spanish company Absolute Distribution has these Xavier Cugat CDs in their catalogue: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/search.ph...p;artist_id=210

Charles Mingus 'Tonight at Noon' (Atlantic, mono, red and purple label)

... and our friends at Freshsound also released a double CD (Black and White sessions on disc 1 and live performances on disc 2) of Earle Spencer 'Sensation of the Year 1946 Note: apologies to Eloe Omoe and Big Beat Steve for having missed their earlier mentions of this Earle Spencer 2CD. Also Jordi Pujol's carefully documented 's liner notes correct previous discographies of the band that mention Lucky Thompson participation in some of these sides. Lucky was not on those!

Vincent, Paris who has not posted here for quite a long time had a page with a discography on James Spaulding at his website

Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Verve, disc 4

I'm rather fond of Spaulding's latest opus 'Down With It' on Marge It was recorded in July 2006 live at the Sunset Club in Paris. Well worth looking for!

Stumbled upon this Joe Zawinul CD 'Mauthausen. Had never heard about it. The brand new copy was on sale for a few euros. This is what AMG says about it: Mauthausen mauthausen - album reviews A little-known anomaly in the Joe Zawinul discography, Mauthausen was a multimedia event in which the Austrian-born composer/keyboardist tried to come to terms with some of the darkest hours in his country's history. It is a troubling, at times eloquent electronic tone poem that depicts life within the concentration camp near the small Austrian town of Mauthausen, where approximately 120,000 people lost their lives between the years 1938 and 1945. Anticipating limited appeal for such a project, ESC released the album only in Austria and a handful of other Central European countries. Originally presented in the camp itself in 1998 with holograms, lighting effects, and 50 speakers placed around the audience, Mauthausen is mostly a one-man show on CD; Zawinul commanding his symphonic arsenal of keyboards, with occasional narrations in German by actor Frank Hoffmann. As have a number of recent Zawinul albums, this one opens with a deep, moody pedal point in the bass, but the mood stays dark and threatening most of the way through -- a stark contrast to the bubbly, life-affirming rhythms that Zawinul had been pumping out on his jazz/world music recordings of this time. Once in a great while, a semblance of the Zawinul groove breaks out, but always in a subdued way. Mixed in are collages of storm-troopers, trains carrying the prisoners to the camp, prison doors slamming, commands of the guards, and other sound effects from wartime. As in Zawinul's symphonic poem Stories of the Danube, echoes from his jazz past turn up; this time, we hear spliced-in recordings of "Walking on a Nile" from Zawinul's Dialects. and "The Orphan" from Weather Report's 8:30 album. The latter insert is particularly appropriate, with Wayne Shorter's tenor sax and a children's chorus shouting "No More! No More!" contributing beacons of hope before Zawinul's final hymn of benediction. Obviously, for non-German speakers, some of the meaning of the piece will be lost; the booklet contains no English translations other than a brief history of the camp and the titles of the selections. But the inhumane, brooding atmosphere of the camp comes through powerfully enough in the music via a stereo CD. Although Mauthausen is not something one is likely to pull off the shelf too often, it is essential for those who want to understand all of Zawinul's long musical odyssey, and it deserves a wider release. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide mauthausen - track listing track# song name track time 1 Introduction to a True Story 2 Tragedy 3 Life in the Concentration Camp 4 Orchestra 5 Interlude 6 Torture 7 Night 8 Executioners 9 Prayer 10 Saturday Night in the Camp 11 Wey Doo 12 Sunday in the Camp 13 Christmas 1944 14 Break Out 15 No More, No More 16 Mauthausen: In Memoriam Will give it a listen later... when I feel more like it!

The U.S. Army is more tolerant than some U.S. Churches

Duke Ellington 'Unknown Session' (CBS Europe)