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So Monaco's been cancelled Good thing for chewy. The city is horribly expensive and the cops there are wild. And they don't waste time messing around with people of chewy's caliber. They take them to the local precinct before expelling them to neighboring France, the land of Freedom!

Will be looking for that Tubby Hayes Proper -_- I probably have quite a lot of the material there but they seem to have included items I'm still looking for. I like those Proper boxes. They're cheap and it's OK with me! I'm cheap, too! When I want real quality, I go to Mosaic. But won't be tomorrow that we'll have a Tubby Hayes set from them. In the meantime, I'll indulge in Propers...

Art Farmer 'Modern Art' (United Artists, stereo) with Benny Golson, Bill Evans, Addison Farmer and Dave Bailey

Electric recording started in 1925. The Louis Armstrong Hot Five sessions were among the first to benefit from electrical recordings. About any Sun Ra with Fletcher Henderson recordings, John L. is right. Unfortunately. The Sun Ra discography by Robert L. Campbell does not include any session with Fletcher Henderson!

Recommended compilation of many of Hawk's best contributions to the Fletcher Henderson band. Henderson Days From the SagaJazz series now being produced by the people who were in charge of the late Masters of Jazz CDs.

Robert Bregman, one of the authorities on all things Charlie Parker, has some 60 tapes of rare Bird material up for auction on eBay. Rare music of Charlie Parker tapes

Nine minute sequence from the film 'A Song Is Born' from 1948. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton are in the band, also Mel Powell, Louis Bellson, Harry Babasin and many more... http://youtube.com/watch?v=PywGJ4UpU9w

The switch from yellow to blue labels for Prestige vinyls occured in 1964.

Great fan of Fresh Sound for years! BUT one to avoid is the Stan Getz-Chet Baker Live at the Haig 1953 CD. The PacificJazz double CD release of the same date (with added material) was much better!

A slightly better view of the Shelly Manne Checkmate cover on Contemporary Records/OJC:

Johnny Hodges 'The Eleventh Hour' (Verve, stereo) Arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson

Yes, the FS set comes from the Both/And Club. Bob Belden writes about the Both/And tapes in his introduction to the liner notes of the BN 3CD set!

Portions of that August 1946 concert is on Volume 1 of that 'Jazz Off the Air' series. Tunes might be different from the LP chewy refers but it's the same line up from a Junior Jazz at the Auditorium concert. On the Spotlite LP, the tunes are: Ornithology 5:08 Hot House 08:00 Allen's Alley 10:00 Lover 6:20 Very worth getting this if you want to hear fine Lucky Thompson! The Spotlite LP is completed with two sides from a WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session from April 12, 1947 with Fats Navarro, Bill Harris, Allen Eager, Charlie Ventura, etc...

Have not heard this soundtrack album but I'm happy with this Shelly Manne Contemporary: (with Conte Candoli, Richie Kamuca, Russ Freeman and Chuck Berghofer)

Ellis Larkins At The Piano 'Manhattan At Midnight' (Decca, mono)

Don't think so . Guy , I'm surprised you haven't posted the cover in the sexiest covers thread Thought that the googled images did not render justice to the quality of the original cover! Stroboscope effect by the late French photographer Fernand Fonssagrives. Cover design by Fran Scott. Fran Scott (who was then married to Tony Scott) designed some of the best jazz album covers. Her work for ABC-Paramount was awesome!

Sad to hear of Wetmore's passing! He was really good! Too bad that practicaly none of the records he made are available. The ten-incher he made for Bethlehem is a rather rare item! Never heard it. It was briefly reissued in Japan. But I heard and still enjoy Vinnie Burke's 'String Jazz Quartet' on ABC-Paramount where Wetmore was featured! Did it ever make it to CD? The Burke album has Wetmore on violin, Calo Scott on cello, Kenny Burrell on guitar (also Bobby Grillo and Paul Palmieri on guitars) and drummer Jimmy Campbell playing brushes on the Manhattan telephone directory!

Turns out 'Hustle' was showing on one of the film channels this weekend. Watched it for less than half-an-hour and gave up. No magic in the Reynolds-Deneuve partnership. One of Robert Aldrich's last films and one of his most forgettable

WAIT WAIT CHEWY! YOU'RE MIXING APPLES WITH ORANGES! THE BUD SHANK ALBUM HAS TUNES COMPOSED BY BY MICHEL LEGRAND! WE'RE SPEAKING OF CHICO HAMILTON AND 'REPULSION'... The soundtrack to 'Repulsion' does not seem to have been released on disc. But the soundtrack is there. Ifg one wants to listen to it, Repulsion DVD

To add to EKE BBB list of Mercer sessions, in his book 'The Jazz Years', Leonard Feather wrote about the Ellington/Strayhorn date: 'The eight duets have been reissued often. There could have been four more, but Duke insisted that we begin the first date by using the pianos to back his not very inspired vocal protégé, Jimmy McPhail, in four songs. They were never released; the masters, along with everything else we made for Mercer, were destroyed in a fire, though fortunately most survived because spare copies of the tapes had been sent overseas'

Still hoping that Mosaic will tackle a Complete Mercer sessions box... The Ellington/Strayhorn sides are available on this OJC: Various other Mercer sessions with Strayhorn are included in that other OJC CD:

Jess Stacy 'The Return of Jess Stacy' (Hanover, mono, label says 'Prismatic Fidelity' )

He solos on 'Evidence' and walks the bass - with Thelonious tickling the ivories along - in 'Blue Monk'. Come on, unseal it and enjoy

Johnny Griffin & Matthew Gee 'Soul Groove' (Atlantic, mono) with Hank Jones, Johnny Patton on organ, Art Taylor, etc...

Yes chewy. That one! Directed by Roman Polanski, music by Chico Hamilton! Guess you did not pay attention to Chico's music cause you werbe too absorbed with Catherine Deneuve's wardrobe