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From AP:

Like the music, hate the cover...

'Om', 'Cosmic Music', 'Selflessness', 'Transition', 'Sun Ship' were the next Coltranes released after hiss death.

François Tusques !

European piano players you should explore include Martial Solal, Bernard Peiffer, Georges Arvanitas, Maurice Vander, Stephan Oliva, Jean-Michel Pilc among others from France. Other Europeans (there are many more) you should explore are Jan Johansson from Sweden, Tete Montoliu from Spain, etc.. Most of them have their own threads. Just do a search for any of those. Good luck!

Hope you enjoyed the photos inside the booklet. They're from a series I took during the recording session -_- Sorry to report there are no photos in the inside booklet of this new ESP-DISK cd. Just text. The official ESP reissue of the session is the one with this cover The liner notes include the photos!

Too bad Savoy could not get Dexter Gordon to ride on that horse

One of my happiest jazz memories is having been allowed to attend the rehearsal sessions for the Quincy Jones Orchestra with that bone section (plus others...) days before the band made its first public appearance at the Alhambra musichall in Paris. Melba was as lovely as you could get!

Phineas Newborn Jr. 'Solo Piano' (Atlantic)

Hope you enjoyed the photos inside the booklet. They're from a series I took during the recording session -_-

Still remember the pain when I caught the news as it came off the AP wire that evening forty years ago The pain is still here!

Happy Birthday :party:

Happy Birthday, Tom :party:

Horace Silver 'Silver's Blue' (Epic, mono)

Looks like I tend to be away from the Board whenever Barak has a birthday... ...so belated birthday wishes to the White Lithning! Hoping you will have a peaceful yea r

Happy Birthday to a great Guy! Well I hope it was a happy birthday anyway!

Happy Birthday, Agustin! I'm sure I am not late since Spanish people tend to celebrate way after the appropriate day. And they're damn right!

Good to see Raymond Fol getting some recognition. An excellent pianist and a very nice person. Duke Ellington thought highly of Fol who was always around when the Duke was in Paris. Ellington had Raymond Fol play a tune at most of his concerts in Paris. Fol makes nice contributions to a couple of Guy Lafitte that were reissued a couple of years ago by French RCA 'Blues in Summertime' and 'Sugar and Spice'. Raymond Fol was also the piano player who was hired for a short while by Chet Baker right after Dick Twardzik passed away.

This was the setting for Bertolucci's "The Dreamers", right? Yes, several scenes were set at and outside the Cinémathèque. Porcy62, I happen to have been young once

Ernie Henry 'Presenting' (Riverside, mono, blue label)

Eddy Louiss also made major contributions to some of the best recordings by Claude Nougaro and Serge Gainsbourg.

I once had the original Riverside vinyl original. The sound was excellent. I have no problem with the sound of the Japanese Victor reissue from the 70s I have.

C'mon Brownie, because of Henry Langlois almost every movie is considered a masterpiece in France. At least we take our cinema seriously over here. And Langlois was one of the reasons for this! I must admit that I never belonged to any organization, never. But I was once a card-carrying dues-paying member of the Amis de Henri Langlois reunion that was founded back in 1968 when then Ministre de la Culture André Malraux tried to dismiss Langlois as director of the Cinémathèque Française. The riots that followed the dismissal preceded by a few weeks the May 1968 students confrontations.

Sonny Stitt 'Stittsville' (Roost, stereo)

Riverside was founded by Bill Grauer and Orin Keepnews. Problem with sound reproduction of many original sessions from the label was the mastering. Recording quality ranged from good to excellent. From what I understand, things went wrong with the mastering process. Even the usually excellent Japanese vinyl reissue pressings from the 70s presented the same deficiencies. Christern would be the one to know about those problems. He produced a number of sessions for Riverside.