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Willie 'The Lion' Smith and Jo Jones 'The Lion and the Tiger' (Jazz Odyssey)

A very Happy one to you and many more to come!

Was that in the fall of 1986 perhaps? I caught that group In New York at the Mark Morganelli club on 23rd Street. Must have been in the early '80s. Walter Bishop was on piano, Leroy Williams on drums. Can't remember who was on bass! Very nice band. The Hardman-Cook group were regulars at the place! And I was privileged to enjoy the brand new Horace Silver group with Cook, Blue Mitchell and a very young Louis Hayes when they played at the Club Saint-Germain in 1959. Cook and the Silver bandmates were really cookin'...

Jazz 'n Emotions (RCA France), the Paul Bley disc

Lawrence Brown is also on Jackie Gleason's 'Opiate d'Amour'. Much less interesting than 'Lazy Lively Love'. More romantic, less jazzy. Besides Brown, other musicians include Andy Fitzgerald, Romeo Penque (on 'oboe d'amour'!), Bernie Leighton and Al Caiola.

A video of a 1929 short showing Jack Johnson (THE Jack Johnson) leading a jazz band through 'Tiger Rag'. The clarinet player is Bobby Sands who later played tenorsax in the Claude Hopkins Orchestra. Tiger Rag

That Cornell University concert sounds promising. Hope it's as good as the Town Hall concert (April 4, 1964) that Charles Mingus released on his label!

It's very good! From the same Mingus group that recorded this America session three days later...

Eddie Preston, trumpet, Charles McPherson, alto, Bobby Jones, tenor, Jaki Byard, piano, Mingus, bass, Dannie Richmond, drums.

I doubt that Marks & Spencer now will renew their contract with Bryan Ferry!

Johnny Hartman 'Johnny Hartman' (Musicor)

Happy Birthday, Majesty