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I will disagree with this! I still remember when the CD technology was introduced and hailed as perfection brought to music reproduction. I have since watched numerous steps brought to that 'perfection' and am still waiting for the next ones

Some melted snow falling over here at daybreak

Interesting the mention of Andrew Hill. I thought I could hear traces of Hill (also Dickerson) on Bobby Timmons vibraphone playing on that 'Chicken' album.

The idea is pretty hot but it just did not happen. Mobley was at two of the Archie Shepp sessions for Byg because Shepp invited him to participate. The idea did not originate from the Byg people. Beside wasn't Hank Mobley still under contract (or at least loyal to) with BN at the time?

An old favorite! According to the liner notes to the CD reissue, the session was Buck Clayton's idea. He admired Laine's singing!

FWIW, they are available at eremite.com for $14 -- worth every penny. Thanks for the information!

Bobby Timmons 'Workin' Out!' (Prestige, mono) with Johnny Lyttle, Keeter Betts, William 'Peppy' Hinnant

'Holiday Soul' is nice with all these Christmas songs! Have this on vinyl only!

You wouldn't happen to have one additional copy available? -_-

Bobby Hutcherson 'Components' (BN, mono)

Did search for an original when I was assigned to Algiers during my journalism days in the 70s and failed to score a copy in the local record stores

Ebenezer Paul, a bass player who took part in those famous jam sessions at Clark Monroe's!

Thanks for the info, EKE BBB Too bad they did not add material from the session on that CD. Hope there will be a volume 2. In the meantime, will look forward to that release! Never had enough Donald Lambert!

Gave that 'Chicken' & Dumplins' vinyl a spin. It's not really as bad as Peter A ascertains. Timmons seems to have several articulation problems but he still manages to produce lively piano (and vibraphone on two of the cuts). His best years were behind him at the time of this session (1965). Certainly not his best. I much prefer his Riverside albums. Bob Porter in his liner notes remains noncommital about the session and instead delves on Charlie Parker's music!

Sheridan lists the following venues (obviously a partial one): August 2, 1963 - Landskrone, Sweden August 30 - Palace of Egmond, Brussels, Belgium August 31 - Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany September 6 - Sportpalast, Berlin September ?? - Manchester early October - Paris That September 3 Berlin date is not listed.

Cecil Payne 'Zodiac' (Strata-East, Dolphy Series 3) with Kenny Dorham, Wynton Kelly, Wilbur Ware, Al Heath

chewy, you blind drunk?!? Here is your Street Beat Unless it's that version from Birdland: http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/BirdSessions.aspx?s=500517

The mention of Jimmy Rushing intrigued me... Checked the indispensable Count Basie A Bio-Discography by Chris Sheridan. There was an European tour by the Basie band with Jimmy Rushing (replacing the regular band vocalist Sonny Craven) in August-September 1963. Sheridan lists the full band for that tour: Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Don Reder, Flip Ricard, tp, Henry Coker, Bill Hugues, Grover Mitchell, tb, Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Eric Dixon, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, sax, Basie, p, Freddie Green, g, Buddy Catlett, b, Sonny Payne, dr.

You don't have to feel bad about these older men. I'm one of them and sat in front of Blakey at the Club St.Germain in 58. Was young, rather poor and rather ignorant at the time! I know how Boubet can be helpful! He is a class act

I took that route too and had the same problem The PJC website is a separate operation from the record shop even if they are linked. Did not want to pay shipping charges when I could have walked to their website operation to pick up the item I was looking for!

Georges Arvanitas Trio 'Cocktails For Three' (Pretoria, mono) with Gene Taylor and Louis Hayes

Yeah, I was in his shop and thought about getting it there. I think he was selling it fairly cheaply. Anyway the mentality of this guy prevents me from buying anything from him. Thay guy is Sawano. Never had problems with him. I knew where he was coming from and avoided getting some of his hot items. We made several interesting exchanges. Missed the vinyl reissue of the Shihab Oktav but grabbed the Oktav CD reissue as soon as it came out. Cost me a few euros only Sawano closed his Mobydisque shop on the Paris Left Bank a while ago. He is still searching for rare albums for Japanese collectors but is also now involved with real estate. Sawano's vinyl reissue of the René Urtreger Versailles is a beauty! I started buying albums more than half a century ago. I had the two Arvanitas Pretorias. Lost one of the covers and gave the vinyl to Arnaud Boubet as he was starting his current Paris Jazz Corner shop. Nothing much to it, Arnaud had been very helpful - and not greedy at all - when I met him when he was still selling his jazz records off one of the bouquiniste stands above the Seine River quais. That was 20 years ago!

Yes. He was named after his father. Monk's birth certificate indicates he was christened Thelious Junior. His father's name was Thelious Monk. A copy of that certificate of birth appears in the book 'Blue Monk' by Jacques Ponzio and François Postif. The book was published in French in 1995.

Another favorite is his All Stars album from 1960 with Shorty Baker which came out on Swingville and was reissued by OJC with one 1935 session with Bunny Berigan and extracts from a Leonard Gaskin-led date:

Did it come with the Richard Avedon portraits of the Fab Four? Otherwise it's worth nothing