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Interesting! What's your source for this, chewy? Edited to add: Our good friend Anatol Schenker says about the same in his liner notes to the recently released Chronological Classics Hawkins 1953-1954 CD. Should have checked this first. The liner notes indicate Les Strand on organ, piano and guitar, Leo Blevins on bass and Buddy Smith on drums!

Nothing much is known about Bean's accompanying musicians on that one. Except for Buddy Smith being the drummer. The musicians were locals.

The full personel was listed on the original Decca release! I still have the mono copy Hey, welcome back, Shrdlu!

I have added several missing items to the list!

Previous Bunky Green thread!

Howard McGhee Sextet 'Live at Emerson's' (Zim) with Frank Wess, Charlie Rouse, etc...

jazzypaul, wherever it happened your grandmother seems to have had a fascinating life. She obviously was a grand old Lady!

Quite a lot of bad news but the good news offset this mightily! Don't want to quibble but this does not sound right... The German troops never invaded Algeria during WWII. Algeria was run by the infamous Vichy government of France until the November 1942 allied invasion of North Africa. General de Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers a bit later.

It's out on Giant Step. A double CD that gathers early sessions by Harriott. Anybody heard this yet?

The Complete BN Forties Recordings of Ike Quebec and John Hardee, LP 3

A really excellent session. One of those albums that were taken for granted when they came out because those musicians were around and producing but half a century later they're all gone - or almost - and the music lives on! Listened to it a while ago and enjoyed it tremendously!

Doubt there was an official distributor but those Crowns made their way over here. Even got the two Coleman Hawkins albums they released, the ones with Thad Jones and Eddie Costa! Did you pick these when you visited the police stations (not to speak of the whorehouses)?

There was also the 'Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section' This was the 1979 Savoy Jazz reissue of the Savoy/World Wide original. The sax section was from the Basie band: Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster and Charlie Fowlkes. Can't think of any other session.

Erroll Garner 'Gone, Garner, Gonest' (Columbia, mono, red label) Garner's version of 'Yesterdays' continues to floor me!

The Crown LPs had little distribution over here. Can't remember seeing but very few of their jazz albums. For some reason, their blues albums were more visible. Bought a bunch of their B.B. King and John Lee Hooker in their time. Cheaply made and cheaply sold! They went out of sight very quickly.

One more expensive Candy!

Alas, not much. I saw them at FNAC when I was in Paris the end of June. I didn't look too hard because, first, I don't collect jazz DVDs, and second, I figured they'd be SECAM or PAL, and that wouldn't work on my DVD player anyway. I do remember that they appeared to be single DVDs in standard-sized DVD packaging with the artist on the cover in the "Jazz in Paris" font/colors. I imagine some of our French friends here can say a lot more about them than I can! Sorry!

Chu Berry 'The Calloway Years 1937-1941' (Merritt twofer)

Sad news Philippe Gras died following an an aneurysm last week ! He was 64. His site has been withdrawn unfortunately. His photos of Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, the Art Ensemble of Chicago were among the very best. Gras who was one of the nicest and most sincere man in the jazz photo world also had a passion for Asia and published a book of photos on Angkor with a beautiful text by philiosopher Michel Butor. Some of his most celebrated photos are the ones he took for the Actuel/Byg label. Dave Burrell's 'Echo' and Don Cherry's 'Mu, second part' are some examples of the quality of his images. Philippe is sorely being missed!

'One O'Clock Jump' if from an April 29, 1947 concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Line-up is Howard McGhee, Vic Dickenson, Benny Carter, Wardell Gray, Erroll Garner, Irving Ashby, Red Callender and Jackie Mills The Garner 'Little Girl' (also known as 'Lavande') is from another Pasadena Civic Auditorium concert. Summer of 1949 this time. John Simmons is on bass and Chuck Thompson on drums. Not sure about the rest.

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul 'Be-Bop?'(Musica) with Jean-Pierre Debarbat, Siegfried Kessler and Jacques Vidal

Julius Watkins was also co-leader (with Charlie Rouse) of the Jazz Modes group that recorded some very enjoyable albums for Dawn and Atlantic.

Greg M, you're right about the Fohrenbach! It was a double CD from the Hors Serie list. The CD list is complete so far! Missing from the list - and now very unavailable - is the 10-in LP 'Cool Jazz A Saint-Germain des Prés' with tracks by Armand Migiani and Michel de Villers. This was a limited edition release that came out in December 2005. There was also a DVD title 'Jazz in Paris Remixed' that is still available.

Wow! Joe Wilder, Phil Woods... Kenyon Hopkins regulars These impressions of France sound pretty interesting! Hope I'll run into a copy one of these days Thanks TtK for brigting it to our attention!

Never saw or heard that one! Any jazz interest? Another big fan of Kenyon Hopkins here!