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Mentioned in another thread... Freddie Redd 'Everybody Loves a Winner' (Milestone) A really nice session!

Another smashing version of 'New Orleans' is the one that opens the 'Stardust Memories' Carmichael tribute on ARecords, the one sung by Bob Dorough.

chewy, that Webster/MJQ session was taped during a Birdland show in February 1953.

Tubby Hayes 'For Members Only' (Miles Music)

Excellent idea! That's a lifetime endeavour. And you'll have a very hard time finding a bad album among the hundreds he recorded

The non-believer in me loves this kind of stories... From Reuters:

Wish I had this reissue from Argentina

Finally managed to view the 1961 film 'Aimez-Vous Brahms' (Goodbye Again) directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Anthony Perkins. Heard there was a club scene that had Lucky Thompson playing in a short sequence. The first hour went did not carry much interest. Except for good acting by la Bergman as a 40-year old unmarried woman and Anthony Perkins as a young fortune heir plus Yves Montand at some of his worst! But then there is indeed a scene in a Paris nightclub that opens with a full view of Kenny Clarke at the drums then the camera pans back and Lucky Thompson is also on stage playing tenor. Pierre Michelot is along on bass and Maurice Vander on piano. The sequence is really damn short with Diannah Carroll performing the movie title song, not by Brahms but by Georges Auric. Looks like the scene was filmed at the long gone La Calavados club off the Champs-Elysees. Pianist Joe Turner played there every night for years but he does not appear in the film. There was a soundtrack album released of Auric's music but from what I understand Diannah Carroll sang a version of 'Goodbye Again' to the accompaniment of Ferrante and Teicher

Elmo Hope 'Here's Hope' (Celebrity, exact replica vinyl from VSOP) with Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones

can/there/be/ANY/other/kind/inspired/by/Paul? ive/heard/Auster/translates/to/French/well/by/way/of/explaining/his/appeal/there... (tho/he/is/fluent/in/French/thats/NOT/at/all/evident/in/his/writing.) i/happen/to/think/almost/ALL/Auster/is/lightweight. (his/poetry/is/execrable...some/novels/OK...light.) new/keyboard/today! merci, clementine/redacteur Monsieur le redacteur, I refrained consciously from using the word lightweight to describe Paul Auster. The two go together. Auster's popularity in France eludes me! His novels might be a choice read while taking the sun at the beach and may explain his fame here. I usually do my best to avoid this non-activity And yes pls I do hope you get a new keyboard On the subject of jazz and non-lightweight litterature, did you ever see a copy of Jazzuela which came out a couple of years ago? It has the jazz content of Cortazar 's 'Marelle' and features an excellent CD with most of the tracks mentioned in the novel. It's in French. If you don't have it and can read the native language, let me know and I'll do my best to get a copy for you. A very nice CD book! Jazzuela

It's really better than good! Very impressed with this one!

On Riverside : "This is New" (kenny drew) On Atlantic Elvin : Elvin and Philly Joe "Together" I may forget other titles.... Mobley is also featured on the Elvin Jones 'The Midnight Walk' Atlantic album.

Stumbled upon an advance copy of Stephan Oliva's 'Miroirs'. This will be released in late October. It will be one to get. The disc renewed my faith in Oliva's talents after the disappointing 'Coincidence' CD that came out several months ago on the La Buissonne label. 'Coincidence' was a lightweight affair inspired by writings of Paul Auster. 'Miroirs' is a reflection on several jazz themes where he reworks standards like 'Naima', 'La Plus Belle Africaine' and 'Solitude' among others. Linda Sharrock adds to the brillance of the reworkings with her unique voice. One of those albums which you know when listening to it for the first time - which is my case right now - that it will be played, and played again! Stephan Oliva has his own website now: http://www.stephanoliva.com/

Next on my DVD to purchase list is this just released item: a double DVD set (looks like it is available in France - and probably in Europe - only for the time being) that gathers the short films that the great photographer filmed during the Spanish civil war, at the end of WWII and in the USA plus several films that dealt with HCB's photographies. Saw some of the films HCB made at a Paris Cinematheque retrospective quite a number of years ago and never has a chance for a second look. Looking very much forward for a fresh view of them!

Prestige's Bob Weinstock might have been that one. Mobley recorded quite a number of session for Prestige in the late '5Os. Besides his two leaders dates, there were the following albums he took part in: - Elmo Hope 'Informal Jazz' - Jackie McLean '4, 5 and 6' - Tenor Conclave - Art Farmer 'Farmer's Market' - All Night Long

Moose, taking note of the book you are reading, Appell would translate as 'roll call'. It's a french word which refers to the roll call which was one of the dreary start of daily routine at WWII prisoners camps (also at concentration camps where the appels was turned into daily ordeals). No idea why the french word 'appel' was used instead of the german word for it.

Hi Clem! Like the Mobley/Simenon connection Still trying to catch up on various threads!

The Jay McShann All Stars 'Going to Kansas City' (MJR) with Buddy Tate, Julian Dash, etc...

... and Verve, Riverside, Epic, Mercury, Argo, United Artists, Atlantic, Actuel....

Some favorites: Louis Armstrong 'Snowball' The Boswell Sisters 'Charlie Two Step' Charlie Parker 'In The Still of the Night' Jimmy Rowles/Stan Getz 'Skylark'

The JSP Eddie Condon box is quite amazing but it is not complete. The liner notes does not mention it is a 'complete' set. Missing for instance is the first Commodore session from January 1938 (a Condon-led group with Bobby Hackett, George Brunis, Bud Freeman, etc...), and there is only 'Embraceable You' from the second Commodore date. One of the best JSP compilation.

No matter what, I'll keep my stainless Lexington copy of the KD at Cafe Bohemia. A favorite album from years ago!

Nick Brignolia 'Baritone Madness' (Beehive)

Did my best to stay off a record buying spree for the past month, however could not resist getting the following vinyls when I came upon them in a small shop in southern France: - an original copy (without its cover) of the Thelonious Monk piano solo 10-incher on the Swing label, - Nick Brignolia's 'Baritone Madness' (with Pepper Adams, Ted Curson, etc...) on Beehive. I had an original (complete with cover) of the Monk solo album which I was stupid enough to trade for various LPs in one of my first visit to the Jazz Record Center in New York a long time ago. Sound on the Swing Monk is still unmatched!

The French Columbia 'Jazz A Gaveau' was the original release of this date. The copy I have says the concert was recorded in mono and stereo but I hear no stereo spread on my copy. The sound is excellent.