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Anybody heard her new album? Indestructible! Interesting lineup with Joe Wilder, Roswell Rudd among others. One album too many? too late?

Jackie McLean's music is very much alive!

Joe Puma 'Shining Hour' (Reservoir) with Hod O'Brien and Red Mitchell

A nice 'entrée' before the upcoming World Cup indigestion should be this evening's Champions League final at the Stade de France in suburban Saint-Denis. Barcelona with Ronaldinho playing against Arsenal with Thierry Henry is bound to be a thrilling confrontation. Hordes of joyous Barcelona and Arsenal fans have invaded the French capital and from what I have seen the Catalan fans should outnumber the British ones. No favorite team here despite the fact that Arsenal has a good contingent of French players. Let the best team win! My apologies to the O. posters who asked me for tickets for this final. Was late at the starting gate and the researches went nowhere. I'll be watching the game on TV tonight

Horsehair pickers at work...

From AP:

MG, that album was scheduled to be released originally as BN 4241 but it remained unissued until the 1986 appearance of BST 84435. This one had the following tracks: Side 1: 1 Straight No Filter 2 Chain Reaction 3 Soft Impression Side 2: 1 Third Time Around 2 Hank's Waltz 3 The Feelin's Good

Richie Kamuca 'Drop Me Off In Harlem' (Concord) with Dave Frishberg, Herb Ellis and Ray Brown

Orchestra U.S.A. 'Jazz Journey' (Columbia, stereo) with soloists John Lewis and Coleman Hawkins

We could go on and on with this... I'll try to wait until the World Cup gets underway. Hope I will not have to complain too loud when it gets going!

Jean Echenoz's 'Ravel' a short, obsessive and intense novelization of Maurice Ravel's final years from the date he traveled to the United States in 1928. Ravel died ten years later. Great work of fiction by one of the current French literary masters. Echenoz is also a jazz connaisseur and has been inspired by the music in previous books. I also like the fact that he has remained true to the venerable Editions de Minuit literary house which have their covers look like Blue Note labels:

Benny Golson's 'New York Scene' (Contemporary mono) with Art Farmer, Jimmy Cleveland, Sahib Shihab, etc... One of Golson's best album!

RVG remasters get the Reuters treatment...

That would really have been interesting to hear Dave Young. Loved his contributions to the pre-Dolphy George Russell albums he took part in. A passionate voice! If he ever shows up at one of the gigs you're covering, would like to get your impressions!

Nice photos, Mark! Must have been a really nice evening!

Carmell Jones 'Jay Hawk Talk' (Prestige)

It's mostly Anelka's fault that he is not on the team. Even if he did play well for France in the games he was picked for, he has proven so many times to be too erratic. Domenech had to choose between Anelka and Ribery, I have no argument with his decision.

'Coltrane' (DeLuxe Edition)

Marcus, the French team does make some sense! However I wish Domenech had made up his mind earlier about Ribery and Chimboda and given them a chance to play matches with the national team. The Barthez selection makes sense also since if Domenech had had the guts to pick the logical goalkeeper Gregory Coupet, he would have had to fight every day of the tournament with Barthez who would never would have accepted being in the nr. 2 position. Let's hope for the best now!

Most of us suffer in silence

Marion Brown 'Geechee Recollections' (Impulse)

I understand the Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris sessions (with Bud Powell) among others) should also be included in the set.

A very warm welcome , Ed! Catching on your first posts, you're going great!

I have lived with the original vinyls of these sessions for half a century, loved the music and the sound. Never felt the urge to get any reissue. But I am tempted to get this set just to listen to the music in the sequence it was recorded!

Couple items on John Jackson (he never recorded under his name)... From an interview with Jay McShann (http://www.tonyspage.com/jay_mcshann_visits.htm): ''"At one time, Bird came to me and said, 'Man, this John Jackson (the other alto player) is readin’ rings around me.' We had a lot of new music at the time. He says, 'I gotta go in the woodshed for a couple of days. And when I come out the woodshed, if I don't cut that stuff by sight, you can fine me.' Bird came out and Bird cut it better than anybody." The Jay McShann sax section in 1941. John Jackson is supposed to be the alto player next to Parker.