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Listened to that one earlier today (hadn't spinned it in quite a long time) and it IS good. Specially like the Lonnie Smith solo that concludes 'Spinning Wheel'. Can't stand that tune anymore but Liston Smith brought a new dimension there! Liner notes are by Stanley Dance. Can't remember Stanley Dance doing other liner notes for BN!

More sad news! He was one of these unheralded and utterly reliable musicians!The ones who delivered!

When will there be a similar selection of jazz recordings? From The New York Times today.

Françoise Dorléac She was superb in François Truffaut's 'La Peau Douce'!

Anita O'Day 'Anita' (Verve, mono) with Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman

I'm not scan-equipped! Yet! Getting a scanner is among a number of items on my ever-growing shopping list and ever-shrinking money power

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chewy, I had a brief one-way love affair with Catherine Deneuve Met her when she was a sweet little 16 (she was a brunette then). Good friend Marcel Romano introduced me to her and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac when the two were taking a walk opposite the Club Saint-Germain back in 1959. Romano (he is the one who brought Miles Davis, the Art Blakey Messengers, Bud Powell and so many others to the Club) had plans to direct a film and wanted the Dorléac sisters to have a major part in it. The film never materialized! I was drafted shortly after and sent to Algeria where I remained until the end of that war in the Summer of 1962. Being a bad soldier, I was never allowed to return to France during the full length of military service. Was only allowed a couple of short leaves in Algiers. On my very first leave I noted that one of the cinema houses showed a film with the Dorléac sisters. A pretty bad one called 'Les Portes Claquent'. But I was so enthralled with Deneuve that I watched the films several times! At that Albert Ayler concert, she was there with her then husband David Bailey. No idea how she liked the music!

Very sad day! http://www.anitaoday.com/

She died today http://www.anitaoday.com/

They're going cold turkey

Another one from the grey market (most surely Boris Rose origin). But it comes with a yellow-tinted front cover and a pink-tinted back cover plus blue record labels.

My wife did mention salmon's mousse when she talked about Christmas dinner the other day Welcome back, Porcy62!

John Lewis 'A Milanese Story' (Atlantic, white promo label, mono) with Bobby Jaspar and René Thomas

Exactly, that's why I like it so! But seriously, as Chris has already noted, La Marseillaise is like a breath of fresh air compared to its mostly sullen sounding peers. Its appearance in Casablanca further reinforces this image. Not to mention Albert Ayler's variations on the anthem in 'Spirits Rejoice'

No mercidonnant celebrations in this country but I'll have Lon and Aric on my mind. Wishing both of them the best in the hope that everything will turn OK!

Sorry, chaps! From Reuters:

Apologizes I see it now. Should have seen it earlier. You're a man of taste

Archie Shepp 'Fire Music' (Impulse, orange label, mono)

Is Charlie Parker forgotten to the extent that he does not rate a mention? My favorite Mosaic - the one I really waited for for months on before it finally came out - was the Dean Benedetti recordings set! And despite the flaws, it's still one of my favorites!

Benny Golson 'The Modern Touch' (Riverside Japan, mono) with Kenny Dorham, JJ Johnson, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Max Roach

The box is plastic, not wood. And the music is definitely not plastic. chewy if you're not really familiar with Ayler's music, I suggest you start listening to disc 3 or 4. The truth will be marching on!

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Got two DVDs from the Impro-Jazz series: - Chet Baker Torino 1959 (with Lars Gullin) and Stuttgart 1988 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk in Europe 1962-1967 that has a video of Rahsaan with Tete Montoliu, Tommy Potter and Kenny Clarke. All this material seems to have been unissued so far!