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Fats Waller 'The Complete Recorded Work', vol. 1 (JSP)

I'm a fan and rate it rather high. But I would recommend Jimmy Scott recordings only to people who know a little bit about him. One excellent (and highly recommended) album to check him out is this one:

Not unlucky but just like the rest of us vinyl lovers. Most Riverside recordings were just not up to par. This has been discussed on numerous occasions in various threads before.

This 3CD set seems to be missing from the list:

Nobody seems to have mentioned this one... It did not get more noir than this Raoul Walsh classic!

Was there a Chronological Classics CD devoted to Leo Parker? They're the only ones who could handle that. Leo Parker sessions "suffer" from the fact that much was reissued under the name of (now) better known co-leaders or sidemen (e.g. Dexter Gordon). Classics did its duty:

Red Callender 'Swingin' Suite' (Crown, telesonic sound) with John Ewing, Buddy Collette, etc...

Cecil Taylor '2 Ts for a lovely T', disc 1 (Codanza)

Yes

Hank Jones 'Urbanity' (Verve Japan) The back cover of the album has been signed by Hank Jones!

Collette is excellent on this Conte Candoli date where he plays tenor throughout also on this album recorded in Italy

Another Roy DuNann stupendous recording for Contemporary is the Jack Marshall-Shelly Manne collboration 'Sounds Unheard Of' The title does not lie!

That's one I always meant to get round to, but didn't. I didn't know Muse LPs came out in mono. MG My mistake. It is stereo. And it's damn good

A favorite of mine

Joe Chambers/Larry Young 'Double Explosure' (Muse, mono)

Serge Gainsbourg, the jazz pianist (in 1964 with Elek Bacsik and Michel Gaudry All the Things You Are With Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Gainsbourg was no buffon. He acted as a bad boy in the later part of his life but never made a fool of himself. His later albums may not have sold as well but he made tons of money from his songs which is why he was bold enough to burn money on live TV. He overdid almost everything. He overdrank and oversmoked whi accelerated his heart problems. The list of the women he went with would fill a book. From Bardot to Deneuve and on and on... His fame remains intact. Fans still go regularily to his Left Bank home to add graphics on the outside wall There are talks now to turn the house into a museum!

BBC News story, with photo!

WTF??? Who the Hell is that, Paul Whiteman? Not Whiteman. It's Johnny Richards!

Billie Holiday Complete Verve box, disc 4

Roy Haynes 'Busman's Holidays' (EmArcy 10incher) with Ake Persson, Sahib Shihab, Bjarn Nerem, Adrin Acea, Joe Benjamin

Don't know about the States, but 'Laura' is not underrated but is considered a masterpiece in France. Perfect direction by Otto Preminger and superb acting by Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price! It plays regularily in art cinemas here!