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Elvin Jones 'Dear John C' (Impulse, orange label, mono)

I had various exchanges with Mosaic lately. Did not have any impressions of troubles ahead for them! Long live Mosaic!

You're welcome

Bassist Donald Bailey performed regularly at concerts organized by the Baltimore Left Bank Jazz Society during the sixties. He is often listed as Donald Baily: http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/leftbank.html

Jimmy Rowles 'Shade and Light' (Ahead) with George Duvivier and Oliver Jackson

Have a very good one, Rooster

Spring has ended Grey skies over Paris with drizzles to last through most of the day!

chewy, previous thread on Minton's reopening.

I finally dug up my CD copy of 'Six Views of the Blues' where the credits and liner notes obliterate the presence of a bass player Could it really be Jimmy Smith playing those bass lines all through the session on what is presented from it? A B3 expert - and there are plenty here - might clear this up!

I would have a carefully researched collection of the Boris Rose material brought back to life in as many sets as it would need!

Same here!

Jimmy Smith 'The Singles' (BN/King Japan)

There's a constant bass line throughout the rendition and it's not coming from Jimmy Smith! In his liner notes, Cuscuna states It is rare that Smith would use a bassist, and that might explain the mediocre results from the rest of this date. So much for Don Bailey!

Vive la différence, then!

My copy of the BN/King vinyl 'Jimmy Smith - The Singles' has liner notes by Michael Cuscuna who mentions the bass player Donald Bailey on that 'Swingin' Shepherd Blues' and adds 'this is not Smith's drummer Donald Bailey on bass but another musician'. Now don't tell me you don't trust Cuscuna

Does not matter much anymore. France is winning the Tournament!

The bass player Don Bailey also showed up for another BN session on July 16, 1958. That was a Jimmy Smith date with Cecil Payne, Kenny Burrell and Art Blakey that produced 'The Swingin' Shepherd Blues'. Strangely there was another Jimmy Smith session the day before without Don Bailey but with drummer Donald Bailey!

I had some interest in the early Pink Floyd. That lasted a couple of weeks. Have not cared about their music since! Not planning to go back that road

I laughed a lot when I first read it. Perhaps digital format is reserved for truly remarkable music, and analog is for less remarkable. Time to get rid of all those Sonny Rollins analog recordings

Gilbert Rovere playing bass with the Duke Ellington Octet (Rolf Ericsson, Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, Sam Woodyard) in San Remo, Italy, in March 1964: C Jam Blues On the Sunny Side of the Street

No alto flute! The accompanying players is the standard Savoy rhythm section - a very good and a no frill one - with Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, Bobby Donaldson! I like Bobby Donaldson (he is really in the groove here) but I much prefer Kenny Clarke. Glad Klook came to France at the time but I wish he had stayed for that one!

What's this like? Excellent! Really enjoyed listening to that one. Very nice session with a lot of flutes but also plenty of solo space for Wilder, Rehak, Wess on tenor on a couple of tunes, Mann also on one! This does not seem to have been reissued (checked the list of reissues on the recent Savoy/Denon thread). Strangely, the LP also includes one number (Woolafunt's Lament) which was recorded at the 'Jazz For Playboys' album but did not make it there!

The Pete Johnson/Earl Hines/Teddy Bunn BN Sessions LP

Thanks for the link, Volkher. They have quite a number of interesting items!

Zoot Sims appearing in 1977 in the Peter Appleyard TV show in Toronto with Hank Jones, Slam Stewart and others! Shadow Waltz Lady Be Good Stompin' at the Savoy