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My Liberty vinyl of 'Tenors Head-On' still has a $8,50 sticker from NY's 'Academy' store when I bought it several years ago. It was a good price for that one. Condition was OK!

Sonny Criss commited suicide on November 19, 1977. He suffered from stomach cancer and it seems the pain was too much to endure. There is part of a chapter on Criss in the indispensable book 'West Coast Jazz' by Ted Gioia.

The Verve reissue program will be taken care of from Andorra! Those Andorrans will do a better job, I'm sure!

Late to the party! Trust you had a Great Birthday Congratulations for the happy news!

No problem with Buffon. His WC performance was outstanding!

Listenable? Very! It's a very structured album with oustanding Gilmore explorations! Have the 'monaural Solar-fidelity' original.

Clem, what kind of a list is this Just in sports, where are Jesse Owens, Sugar Ray Robinson and above all Joe Louis? And I won't comment on the jazz greats missing: Bird, Prez and above all Satchmo!

Great players all! But... ...that Zidane-Materazzi WC confrontation was ridiculous! Zidane was just plain stupid! Selecting Cannavarro as best player in the world was ridiculous too! But not stupid! Thierry Henry should have gotten the title! He has been much more creative than Cannavarro all year long.

Sun Ra 'Other Planes Of There' (Saturn, orange label)

Happy Birthday, Alexander

Never heard of that one! Pacific Jazz PJ-11 was 'Chet Baker Sings'!

chewy, that's one to get! Philly Joe and Elvin play together thru the album. As Ira Gitler writes in the liner notes: 'Throughout most of the album, both drummers keep time together, but one is usually more active than the other, playing fills and accenting more heavily while the other stays closer to ''straight time''. Also when one drummer plays a long solo, the other keeps time on the high-hat'. On stereo Philly is on the right channel and Elvin on the left one. I have the mono version

From an AP interview with Quincy Jones on the 'Jazz Icons' DVD series: 'The producers hope to release a second series of DVDs in 2007, pending clearances, by such jazz greats as Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Cannonball Adderley.' Hoping these will be from rarely seen videos too!

Two of the items from Italy went over the 1K mark... 'Saxophone Colossus' reached $1,413 'Candy' reached $1,081 Same day KD's 'Quiet Kenny' went up to $1,259 (via another seller)

Back in 1949, Dial issued one of the very first LP, a ten-incher, that had alternates of sides recorded by Charlie Parker for the label. That was 'The Bird Blows the Blues', Dial LP nr. 1!

Paul Gonsalves and his All Stars (Barclay) with Cat Anderson, Norris Turney, Prince Woodyard, Joe Benjamin, Art Taylor

Maupin is on side B of 'Serenade to a Soul Sister', Stanley T is on side A! Maupin is also on 'You Gotta Take a Little Love' and shows up on the front cover

Previous thread on the Lee Morgan at the Lighthouse variations!

$821 for this rare Jackie McLean without its cover Jackie McLean The New Tradition

Great! I'm glad I did not buy the hardcover after reading some of the comments here when it caùe out. The paperback version is more than welcome! Bravo Bertrand

Pee Wee Russell 'A Chronological Remembrance' (IAJRC)

Mais oui! Forgot about those two! I have that Pettiford stored somewhere! Passed the Buddy Rich while it was available

Prince and Miles Davis

Attila Zoller & Jimmy Raney 'Jim & I' (L+R)

Those Jazz Off the Air vinyls from Spotlite were easy to find when they came out. No idea if they are hard to find these days! Volume 1 had one side from a Junior Jazz At The Auditorium 1946 concert with Howard McGhee, Lucky Thomson, Red Callender, etc and one side from a 1947 WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session with Fast Navarro, Bill Harris, Allern Eager, Charlie Ventura, etc.., Volume 2 (with Art Pepper, Teddy Edwards, Wardell Gray, etc...) you have, Volume 3 had 1944-1948 broadcasts by Benny Carter and his Orchestra. with Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson, Dexter Gordon, Lucky Thompson, Barney Bigard making short solo appearance, Volume 4 had 1943-1946 broadcasts by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, with Ike Quebec. Don't know of any other volumes.