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Guy, I would not worry that much. I'm sure you will get what you paid for. Label Bleu is a small operation. I have not heard any bad stories about the label. Surface mail from the US to France takes several weeks (three weeks is fast, eight weeks can be normal) and I suppose it works the same way from France to the USA. Just be patient!

One of the best book on the record covers art was 'Jazz Album Covers, the Rare and the Beautiful' by Manek Daver It came out in 1994 in english and japanese. OOP and pretty expensive these days. It had special sections on David Stone Martin, Gil Mellé, Herman Leonard, Pierre Merlin, Frank Gauna, Andy Warhol and others.

Dannie Richmond 'Jazz A Confronto (Horo) with Jack Walrath, George Adams, Don Pullen, etc...

Lee Morgan at least recorded half a session for Roulette. The three tracks (with Wayne, Timmons, Jimmy Rowser and AT) that made up side B of 'The Best of Birdland, Volume 1 LP of the Roulette Birdland Series. Side 1 belonged to the John Coltrane Quartet. Teddy Reig is credited with producing the sessions but does not mention them in his biography.

Had plans to get the book! Tom's posts here are more good reasons to purchase this! Looks like some serious business

Her hit song 'Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean' was the deciding factor in the start of my love affair with r&b - along with the Ray Charles songs - back in the fifties! Ruth Brown's voice remains very vibrant here!

Don't think this has been posted here before! This is the 33 minutes program recorded for Belgian TV at Liege on April 19, 1964 by the Charles Mingus quintet with Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Jaki Byard and Dannie Richmond. Opening of the video shows the musicians arriving by coach from Paris where they had appeared two days before at concerts that have been released as The Great Paris Concert. Mingus Liege 1964

At that price, the two reunited albums are a giveaway! The Saxes Inc. is a very interesting gathering with all the required sax greats. The Trombones is not as successful but still makes a satisfying date!

An image that will live forever!

Sad to hear that! Superb singer!

Sam Rivers 'The Quest' (RedRecord) with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul

Same here. Must pay compliments to Columbia for doing a real good job with reissues of these Duke Ellington post-50s sessions

Charles Tolliver Select, disc 2

Harold Land 'Eastward Ho!' (Jazzland, French lookalike reissue) with Kenny Dorham

James Brown was dynamite! And the funkiest showman ever! He did not have to hit his musicians and dancers for the required $5 fine for mistakes that day! Thanks for the links

The original cover (on New Jazz) of 'Far Cry'

Chubby Jackson 'Live' (Mopaque) a Boris Rose label that had two broadcasts from the Royal Roost by that firy Chubby Jackson big band with Tiny Kahn on drums!

One of the giants among the best soccer players of all time. During the World Cup this summer, there were several retrospective of the great players of the game and Puskas was prominently featured. Outstanding sportsman. The videos showed their age, Puskas' actions did not!

A more adventurous session with PQ is this Sunny Side: with a strong lineup (Curtis Fuller, John Jenkins and Sonny Red Kyner, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins and Ed Thigpen)

Those 1962 Olympia concerts were organized in collaboration with the Europe 1 radio station. There is a strong chance the tapes are still there. I was at those concerts, first time I heard Coltrane live!

Anybody read this book? Alive at the Village Vanguard The lady has had an interesting life and she was married to Alfred Lion and Max Gordon. Beside the gossip, is this a good read?

Update on the story. From Reuters:

Bill de Arango - Art Mardigan 'Renditions' (EmArcy Japan) Don Joseph, Al Cohn and John Williams play on the Mardigan sides

Had a close look at my UA copy. It has the 'Like Who' cover - looks more like 'Like Wha' actually - but the labels read 'Like Basie'. The spare labels that came along read 'Like Who' Wonder how much this is worth nowadays

On my way to finish the 903-page first novel by American writer Jonathan Littell 'Les Bienveillantes' (The Kindly Ones) that won the prestigious Goncourt literary prize last week. Started reading this several weeks ago and still slowly making my way through this brutal saga of an unrepenting SS Nazi officer who journeys through the darkest episodes of World War Two. The novel was written in French by Littell. It created a sensation when it was published two months ago and had already sold 260,000 copies by the time it won the Prix Goncourt!