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Durium, you should stop buying junk of this type If you want Miles Davis albums, get them from the original label which recorded them. Same thing for Freddie Hubbard albums!

Harold Danko 'After the Rain'

Booker Ervin 'Heavy!!!' (Prestige, green label) with Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown, Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Alan Dawson

Going, going, gone price was $1,309,99 With three people bidding over $1K!

Looks like a Warwick label logo on the top right side of the cover! Must be a variation on this Warwick album: That was with Herbie Hancock, Laymon Jackson and Jimmy Cobb. The session has been reissued in numerous variations. The version you posted made use of Herbie Hancock's popularity several years after the session was recorded. Not worth $76

Arnett Cobb Quartet 'Arnett Cobb Is Back' (Progressive) with Derek Smith, George Mraz and Billy Hart!

Outstanding Nothing 'foolish' about this!

Great and thoughtful article! Thanks for posting it!

Complete Verve Count Basie, disc 5

French TV top channel TF1 was on hand to videotape the celebration http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/jt/0,,3420152,00-a...w-morning-.html

I am positive it is LaRoca. The Rollins trio (with Grimes and LaRoca) played at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris from February 23 to 29. Heard them twice there. Laren is a city north of Amsterdam. The Singer concerthall in Laren

Another classic Savoy album cover from the fifties!

Other remembrances of Alan Lomax Exposing the Lomaxes

Victor Feldman on vibraphone with Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars 'Shorty Rogers, Frank Rosolino, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Stan Levey...) in 1958... Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars

Can't be Thad Jones. I also hear Clark Terry on these sides!

No appreciation for fine art

They were originally issued on the Owl label. Both are superb albums. Some of the most important sessions from these three musicians.

Oh, come on, Mike! Don't you just love that one! I do

Johnny Hartman 'Once in Every Life' (Beehive) with Joe Wilder, Frank Wess, etc...

There is a DVD with that Rollins trio performance which gives the date as February 21, 1959... http://www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.co...tistsPage8.html

Fabulous piece of video... My Rollins disco sources do not show a Laren date in the '59 tour. I do show a 2/21/59 date in Amersterdam at the Singer Concertzaal with Art Taylor on drums. That's the only concert I show with "Weaver of Dreams". Can anyone clarify? Bownie, can you doublecheck? The same video is also on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LBDbcCR-E I have no reason to doubt the accompanying description: 29 year old Sonny Rollins with just bass and drums is playing "Weaver of Dreams" in the Netherlands in the Singer Theatre in the small town of Laren in 1959. A Dutch collector was able to make me some unique video clips. In one of the opening shot of the video, there is a poster hanging in the background which announces concerts by Horace Silver and Sonny Rollins who were touring Europe at the time. Saw both Silver and Rollins at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris in early 1959.

There is no Shad Collins-led session on CD, or vinyl. He never recorded under his name One album where he can also be heard is the Paul Quinichette recording for Prestige 'For Basie' which was reissued on OJC:

The Spanish label Blue Moon has issued two volumes of the master takes of those Columbia Jam Sessions. I discarded them when I managed to get hold of the Mosaic box recently. Sound does not compare but is acceptable. If you are interested in them, let me get hold of them and they will be on their way to you!

One of the wines being featured at the bar will be 'Les Cailloux du Paradis' (Pebblestones from Paradise), an interesting wine from the Loire valley. Can't miss that! As for Sunny Murray, caught him last year. Yes he is loud but he is vital! Some of the most interesting drumming to be heard these days!

The Joe Newman 'with Woodwinds' album on Roulette is not bad at all. Good arrangements by Ernie Wilkins. It came on the Birdland series. Basie players (Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Charlie Fowlkes, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones) were on hand...