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The Berlin concert does not seem to have been videotaped. Karlsruhe was and this is it! One of the last appearances of the quintet wearing tuxedos and fashion-conscious Miles in an Italian suit... Thanks Dmitry for digging this up!

The Austin jazz crowd obviously did not pay enough visits at the place

What do you mean "still"? The original notes are included in the new RVG booklet before the usual Bob Blumenthal essay that puts the album into a historical perspective. The 1988 CD reissue had the Nat Hentoff liner notes that were on the back cover of the original vinyl issue. My vinyl copy of 'Toccata' is the mono original. Bought the CD reissue when it came out to listen to the stereo version. When I want to listen to the session, I stick to the mono vinyl! I'm staying away from any other reissue!

A rare track featuring Hawk playing 'Body and Soul' with organ only in background is included in this double CD which went unnoticed when (and after) it was released in 1994. The double CD features music recorded at Doug Duke'sd club in Rochester, NYK, in the late '60s. Some of the other featured players showing up in the double CD are Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Bobby Hackett, Ray Nance, Charlie Byrd (singing and playiong Bessie's 'Empty Bed Blues'!).

I have the 1988 CD reissue which still have the liner notes that Nat Hentoff wrote for the original release. Notes do not contain any of the errorsmentioned.

Does that mean that those of us who were toying with our scruples have had it? MG If you're thinking of acquiring the Sonny Stitt, here is a note which has been added to the Mosaic website:

Mais oui, Joyeux Anniversaire Martial!!! 79-year young and doing fine Waiting for his next records and appearances!

Yusef Lateef recorded a number of albums for Savoy in the late fifties/early sixties. Chas posted the various covers. Lateef was also leading album sessions for Prestige and Verve among others at the same time. Nothing essentially different in the various sessions. Most of them were very good! Savoy reissued some of the sessions in that double CD and announced there would be more to come. Still waiting for the others!

I'ld walk Miles away from this... From a PRWeb release today.

The Riverside Jazz Stars 'A Kazz Version of KEAN' (Riverside stereo) Blue Mitchell, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Julius Watkins and the Bobby Timmons Trio are the main Stars!

My TV set keeps feeding a daily dose of film classics to satisfy my filmwatching habit. French cable TV channels provide an incredible number of great films that would be pretty difficult to watch anywhere else even in movie-crazy Paris! Also helpd me keep an eye on news and some sports events

GoM, Betty Roche is first mentioned in the Day By Day book when Ellington tried a trio of girls (Phyllis Smiley, Joya Sherrill and Roche) as Ivie Anderson left the band in August 1942 during an appearance at Chicago's Hotel Sherman. 'Betty Roché, the only one of the trio to stay, had previously worked with the Savoy Sultans...' The book mentions her as singing with the band on August 21, 1942 at the Chicago Oriental Theater.

Al Cohn/Art Farmer/Hal McKusick/Kenny Burrell (Earthy' Prestige, OJC)

From Reuters today.

Thanks for printing the Shorter piece, Larry! Very interesting read. The DB server refuses to print this despite various attempts!

This is wonderful news! Long overdue. Bout time I got rid of my various Black and White vinyls from French RCA that were issued several decades ago! Kept away from the Fats Wallers Classics when I found out about the poor sound on those releases. Let's hope Ted Kendall will do justice to the audio of these sides!

This was the cover for the original issue (vinyl BST 84432) back in 1985. Grant Green photo by Chuck Stewart

That Mosaic box was worth every penny! One of the best releases from the Stamford folks The sound has that unique 'you are there' quality!

In the liner notes to the MetroJazz LP, Leonard Feather wrote that 'Falcon Lair, the spacious mansion where these tracks were recorded, is the Beverly hills home of Doris Duke, a dedicated patron of jazz and longtime friend of Joe's (Castro). The house, already immortalized by Oscar Pettiford in one of his compositions (The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair) was recently fitted with stereophonic recording equipment and many free-wheeling, unpretentious blowing sessions have been recorded there, of which this is the first to be released'. A search for those tapes could be more than interesting! Maybe some Mosaic releases in the future One can always dream

The Brown-Roach clip was used by Ken Burns for his Jazz series. There was an interview of Soupy Sales in Cadence magazine (February 2003) where he recounts he kept videos of all his shows. Soupy says he gave a copy to 'a jazz organization in California' and adds 'Clifford's wife LaRue, and his - Clifford Brown - kids, get a percentage of the proceeds. His kids had never seen any footage of their father until they received that clip'. youmustbe, I have watched Preminger's 'Carmen Jones' a number of times and never caught sight of Clifford Brown in the sequence where Max Roach plays behind Pearl Bailey

More West Coast jazz on Liberty:

Art Pepper 'with the Sonny Clark Trio', vol. 1 (Straight-Ahead)

Lester Young is nowhere in sight Vince Guaraldi is there but where is Bud Powell???

Joe Rosenthal's photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, february 23, 1945.

Joe Rosenthal who took the image of US Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima died Sunday. The AP story: I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Rosenthal when he came to Perpignan, in southern France, for the Visa Pour l'Image newsphotos show some fifteen years ago. Rosenthal and photographer Nick Ut who took the dramatic photo of a napalm-burned Vietnamese girl running for safety were sharing an exhibition there. The warm personality of Rosenthal endeared him to everyone he met. He won numerous friends in Perpignan and he was invited back to the next festivals as a special guest. He was made an honorary citizen of the city. Joe and I became friends over the years. Unfortunately his falling health prevented him from flying from California to France in his final years. He is being dearly missed.