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The box is out. And it is good. Of course, some of the sessions are not complete but since I am slim on pre-1956 Tubbys, there is a wealth of material on those 4 discs that makes this very worthwhile. Plus that previously unissued January 1955 session. Keeping the set for weekend enjoyment!

John Lewis 'The John Lewis Piano' (Atlantic Japan) with Jim Hall, Barry Galbraith, Percy Heath and Connie Kay (copy has autography from Kay)

Now that will teach me for saying something nice about an ECM album

Very interesting interview! Ornette Coleman is at long last receiving a very deserved recognition! AP also had an interview with him:

Americans seem to have a problem reconciling their passion for the Superbowl and their sexual hangups From Janet Jackson nipple to Prince phallic guitar... What will next year's Superbowl bring

you mean it's longer?

Michel, I know what you're saying. I get this feeling from quite a number of ECM releases. BUT this one worked for me and I had no problem getting into Crispell's music. I'm also a big fan of Annette Peacock! As they say, nobody's perfect

Sheila Jordan still sings brillantly! Have not heard Helen Merrill recently. Wish I had!

RDK, consider yourself lucky to be discovering this now

Let's derail this thread back to Bird and chewy! So chewy, which version of 'The Street Beat' did you get? The one from Birdland?

Grew up with Frankie Laine's interpretation of 'High Noon'. Tex Ritter may have sung this in the film by Fred Zinneman (with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly) but it was Laine's version which was a hit on French radio at the time.

Highly recommended Crispell is the ECM album 'Notghing Ever Was Anyway' where she - with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian - go deep into the music of Annette Peacock! Another interesting album from her is the duo she recorded with Irene Schweitzer 'Overlapping Hands:Eight Segments' on FMP.

Dexter Gordon 'Complete Steeplechase Studio Recordings', disc 4

From AP today:

Prince and his guitar at Superbowl half-time: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250581,00.html

I have two of those: the French issue of it (on Vega, if I remember well) and later managed to get the original on ABC! Are we even? Mike, thanks for the Weston offer. I'll wait for the FreshSound release!

What where the Newport tracks paired with? Haynes with Weston, that's at least interesting, and anyway good to see another disc out with Haynes! The Randy Weston set was paired with a Lem Winchester set on the MetroJazz vinyl 'New Faces at Newport'. Mikeweil has been taunting me with claims he is the proud owner of that rare vinyl!

Yes, I have my eyes on that Randy Weston Trio & Sextet too! At long last I will be able to listen to those Randy Weston at Newport sides. Never could find a copy of that MetroJazz album at a reasonable price. The sides with Ray Copeland and Frank Haynes were issued on a Trip vinyl that I never saw.

Sidney Bechet 'Olympia 1.OOO.OOOe Disque ', disc 2 (Vogue, blue label)

There was this battered album from Sidney Bechet '1.000.000e disque' in a small pile of leftovers in the record shop I visited yesterday. This is the album that Vogue France released after the celebrated Olympia concert in 1955 which saw thousands of Bechet fans riot inside the music hall. The front cover was missing a couple of protective cardboards but the full cover black and white by Jean-Pierre Leloir was nearly intact. So were the two heavy vinyls inside. Price was €8 ($10). When I examined the album after I got home, I was happily surprised to find the album (numbered 3,731) included liner notes with more photos by Leloir plus signatures of Bechet and French bandleaders Claude Luter and André Réwéliotty. The vinyls play fine - except for a couple of clicks each - after getting a quick cleaning.

Details from the Joe Holiday release are available at the FreshSound site. Click on Holiday for Jazz

Joe Holiday's 'Holiday In Jazz' was a Decca album where the leader had interesting players (Blue Mitchell, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, Eddie Bert, Cecil Payne, etc...) along. OJC did release a CD 'Mambo Jazz' that gathered the five sessions Holiday led for Prestige that still seems to be available

Duke Pearson 'Sweet Honey Bee' (BN, mono)

Billie Holiday in 1950 with Count Basie's sextet (Clark Terry, Wardell Gray, Freddie Green, Jimmy Lewis, Gus Johnson. It's Buddy de Franco playing clarinet but he was not allowed to appear on screen and was replaced by Marshall Royal http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIj6w8Pv9dg

Hank Jones 'Compassion' (Black & Blue) with George Duvivier and Alan Dawson