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Yes, hoping everything is OK! Happy Birthday

That one and 'Pithycanthropus' will be going on deck later. It's a good one too. Good blowing session! Looks like a lot of people here enjoy these albums! Now spinning: Andrew Hill 'Black Fire' (BN, mono)

Went to the second Paris show. It was my first opportunity at seeing and listening to Patty Waters live and am glad I attended this. Henry Grimes and Patty Waters shared the back of the cellar where the show was being performed. Patty Waters looking very frail and wearing a black floorlength gown which made her look like a fragile rescapee from the Peace and Love generation. Grimes took the stage first with one of his long solo that builds on spîrit plus virtuosity with a mix of bowing and plucking. You rarely catch bass solos that last so long (more than half and hour) and yet manage to grab your attention and grab it and on and on.... Also the place was so small that the listener becomes really part of the whole musical performance. You're sitting right next to the musicians. Patty Waters stood in a corner behind Grimes smiling and digging it all the time and when Grimes finished his solo section gently moved to the front and went into one of her tormented vocalizing. From the moment she started to sing, her smiling face turned into a tortured expression that matched her vocalizing. Her repertoire included songs like 'Nature Boy' and 'Black is the Color of My True Love Hair' and her singing was more reminiscent of her two ESP albums than her more recent recordings. Musings that reach deep inside the listener. Wish her two Paris shows had gathered more publicity. The events were not announced in the main media outlets. It was just lucky that both were attended by small enthusiastic audiences. Henry Grimes had a stupendous improvisation in the second set that I wish had been recorded!

A very Happy Birthday to you, Free For All

Roy Haynes gets the Listening With treatment in The New York Times today: The New York Times picked the right photographer to illustrate the article: Lee Friedlander

Mais oui, it's out! and it is excellent Have enjoyed this for the past couple of weeks. Best Bunky Green album I have heard so far!

Due out next May 28 from the University of Michigan Press... If it's as good as the books Frank Buchman-Moller wrote about Lester Young, it will be on my Must Read list.

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Recorded and released in Japan only. Nice 1977 concert with Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins!

Currently re-reading 'Django, Mon Frère' (Editions Losfeld, 1968), Charles Delaunay's recollections of Django Reinhardt. The book was the basis for most biographies of the gypsy guitarist!

Good question. Last time he posted was February 10

Charles Mingus 'Blue Bird' (America)

Quite a remarkable album. One of Hill's most rewarding album in years. I wish though there had been a wider range of moods. Melancholy is the word for the overall feeling on this one. If that's how Hill feels nowadays he obviously has plenty of reasons for this! That 'Malachi' tune is just beautiful. A melody that haunted me as soon as I had heard it! Anybody know why this was recorded at Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ? Englewood is RVG's place. Wasn't RVG available? Or does this goes deeper?

George Russell Sextet 'At Beethoven Hall - Guest Artist Don Cherry' (Saba)

Looks like the discs are reaching the participants now. Let's wait until Monday before starting a discussion!!

How sad

OK, looks like two wise guys already identified the opening track No big deal! I used this very short tune as a somewhat grandiose opener for the rest of the BFT. Thought it was a smart idea. Fell flat on my face I'll be more impressed when the rest of the tracks are identified And this does not include the two male vocal tracks. These were added as a bonus!

A 1999 article from Mike Zwerin in the International Herald Tribune. Still valid, except that Zwerin is no longer with the IHT but works now with Bloomberg News A good example of Classics completeness is their Cab Calloway series. Most of the sides included in the various volumes from the series had never been reissued in any form since they were came out on 78s decades ago. The Classics people made a thorough search of whatever was available to complete the volumes. An incredible achievement!

..... and he's properly credited for engineering this on the CD inlay. I have the Japanese Toshiba vinyl reissue from 1984 of this album. The cover has no indication wether it's mono or stereo. But the label (Blue Note 1561) indicates STEREO and stereo it is! Recording by Rudy Van Gelder, says the back cover!

It's also spelled Byriste on the Warwick mono original I have. And there's no Stardust on that one either.

Yes. Dizzy and Rollins each made recordings there. There also was a George Wein and the Storyville Sextet album released on Bethlehem that was recorded at MOMA in the summer of 1960. The Storyville sextet had Harold Baker, Tyree Glenn, PeeWee Russell, Wein, Bill Crow and Mickey Sheen. The album (Metronome Presents Jazz at the Modern) was produced by Teddy Charles and engineered by Peter Ind!

Gordon Parks' most famous image (American Gothic, 1942) Gordon Parks images

Bertrand, I did not say there was no organ at the Fishing Cat. All I said was that I did not see (and hear) one. But I was not there as often as I had wished and may have missed if and when one organ was brought down to the cellar! As for André Francis, he has indeed retired but keeps busy with the 'Trésors du Jazz' CityJazz series he produces.

Toure died of bone cancer. He has been paralysed for several months!

I have several Michel in mind. I'll try to find out more! Not familiar with Maurice-Louis Blanc. As for Larry Young on organ, I heard that Woody Shaw/Nathan Davis group at a party at the Club Saint-Germain (can't remember when exactly, probably 1967!?!) and Larry Young was playing organ then! They probably could also have squeezed the organ at the Chat Qui Pèche but I missed that