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I remember seeing the original vinyl when it came out but I had bought enough Lateefs (Savoy, Prestige...) at the time and let that one go! Stupid me! I bought the CD reissue as soon as it was reissued.

There was at least one vinyl reissue of the Rollins/Edwards in Japan.

Great to have this series available again!

Enrico Rava always provides masterful trumpet playing!

Too bad Michael Cuscuna did not include that 'Me 'n My lover' when he reissued the 'Sunset Eyes' album in the West Coast Classics series from PacificJazz. There was plenty of space available in that reissue!

'New York Jazz' is an outstanding album! Stitt could be very good, good or pretty bad but when he recorded for Norman Granz, he always turned out the best in him. There are quite a number of beauties in his Verve output. Would be worth a Mosaic box. It would be even better than the Stitt Roost one.

Billy Higgins was the drummer on eleven BN albums recordings in 1965. Might be hard to beat. Felser, BN did not release 13 Jimmy Smith in a single year. They recorded a lot of sessions which came out several years after they were taped. BN was careful not to overflow the market with new albums by artists they had contracts with.

The Paul Desmond Quartet 'Live' (Horizon, twofer)

No soul

Sad news!

Wish I had seen this! Hope that BBC International will show this! The loss of so many photos by Herman Leonard is tragic!

There is a slightly different clipping (from the Camden Courier-Post) on the mugging in the Buddy de Franco biography that was published in 2002 by Parkside Publications. The book was written by Fabrice Zammarchi and Sylvie Mas with the full cooperation of De Franco. A splendid book! De Franco gives an account of the mugging. The band 'uniforms' were in fact the zootsuits that were the fashion trend in those days! He says five sailors - not two- attacked him and Marmarosa. Dodo was in the middle of writing a letter on the subway station when the musicians were attacked by the sailors! De Franco also recounts that Charlie Ventura and some Italian friends heard about the incident and started a demonstration the next dayat the gates of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

I have quite a number of these (great Sam Rivers, Ran Blake, Archie Shepp, Lee Konitz/Martial Solal, Max Roach albums there). One of my regrets was not purchasing the Sun Ra albums when they were available. There were so many Ra albums coming out at the time that I could not afford to buy all of them!

Hank Mobley was a member of the Max Roach quartet when the gig with Bird and Stitt was recorded. I have heard some of the tape. Sound was pretty bad (lot of tape hiss!) and Mobley's solos seemed to have been cut off, at least on the tunes I heard!

Freddie Hubbard 'The Black Angel' (Atlantic, stereo) with James Spaulding, Kenny Barron, Reggie Workman, Louis Hayes, 'Patato' Valdes

I began acquiring these boxes soon after Mosaic got started. I started strong but slowed down lately. I have 49 of the sets by now!

More Mosaic gold... the 3 Commodore boçxes reach 1.5K Commodore 1, 2, 3

Frand Strozier Sextet 'Remember Me' (SteepleChase)

Actually, the photos I took of Cecil Taylor (in New York, France and Holland) are the ones I am really happy with! Enough material for a book. If anybody is planning on publishing a book on CT, I may pitch in! On the photo side, I have Been pretty busy lately helping coordinate an exhibition at the Visa pour l'Image show next month in Perpignan of images taken by Henri Huet, one of the great photographers of the Vietnam War. Henri Huet The exhibition looks very good!

The 'Miles Davis In Stockholm 1960 Complete' 4CD set from Dragon had plenty of new tracks from the quintets with John Coltrane and Sonny Stitt!

There was also a Prestige vinyl reissue of the album in 1964 with notes by Martin Williams and a cover photo by Don Schlitten. Prestige 7326...

Glad you liked this, EKE BBB! Not sure a book of jazz photos can really be envisioned at this stage. There is some talk about it but the scope would be a bit limited since I took jazz photos for a relative short period. Know the scene was pretty active and quite amazing then. Glad I was a witness to it. I stopped taking photos because of work comitments and also because I am really a jazz fan at heart. Concentrating on taking photos made listening to the music very difficult. Gave up taking photos to listen to the proceedings!

Another photo of Bird playing the plastic saxophone

Duke Ellington 'The Duke at Cornell', vol. 1 (Desor) Rare 1948 concert.

You've already been told not to worry about the car. No need to rent a big one. You'll enjoy the slow drive! Just to add a piece of advice on a couple of places you should aim on visiting. When you travel northward from Ullapool, don't skip the western road going thru Lochinver and Drumbeg. Lots of spectacular sceneries up there. Also do try to visit Skye! Reallyt worth a special trip!