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  1. Lou Donaldson with Red Garland Trio 'Fine and Dandy' (LOB)
  2. Reminds me of the film 'The Harder They Fall' based on a Budd Schulberg novel on the boxing world. That type of story! It was also Humphrey Bogart's final film
  3. Woody Shaw 'Song of Songs' (Contemporary, stereo)
  4. Dmitry, there were at least two sessions (one with Gene Shaw on trumpet and another where Shaw had to be replaced by Bill Hardman). Understand some of the tunes were edited!
  5. Norah probably found out that Orson Welles was not available to play against her in the remake of 'Lady From Shanghai'
  6. From AP: Hope this will make our King Ubu happy. He is a great fan of Wong (and Norah?!?)
  7. One tune (My Ideal) from the Tatum/Webster album was featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen's 1987 film 'September', not Allen's best by far!
  8. None of the producer/engineer information appears on the original Bethlehem LP issue. There may have been a producer assigned for the session but it looks like Mingus was in charge throughout. Gene Santoro's biography of Mingus 'Myself When I Am Real' has a note stating that the session cost $1,247,99. The note is from the Mingus Archives at the Library of Congress.
  9. Volume 2 is very absorbing. The kind of music that grasps you and rewards each time you relisten to it!
  10. Jo Jones 'Vamp 'Til Ready' (Everest, mono) with Harry Edison, Bennie Green, Jimmy Forrest, Tommy Flanagan, Tommy Potter
  11. Horace Silver 'and the Jazz Messengers' (BN Lexington)
  12. The French TV cable music channel will have a full jazz evening program tomorrow with a special show of Dawkins music being sung by schoolchildren of suburban Clichy-sous-Bois at the Banlieues Bleues festival in 2003. Will be interesting to watch it! Clichy-sous-Bois was the city where the riots that rocked the French suburbs last November started!
  13. The Storyville label is currently releasing a series of Art Tatum live recordings. Details can be found here I have several of these releases and they are all superb!
  14. The only flaw with the remarkable Olympia May 1961 Messengers albums is the sound which lacks the dynamics that is so obvious in the performanced played by Blakey and his men. I have the original double CD on the Europe 1 Trema label and the audio is damn flat. One of the lesser sound from the whole Europe 1 series. Sound on the Part 3 release - issued several years after parts 1/2 - is slightly improved but still misses the brillance of the sound generated by the Messengers! Too bad it could not be improved...
  15. Gold medal in the men's downhill went to Frenchman Antoine Dénériaz which seems to have stunned almost everybody including favorites Michael Walchhofer and Bode Miller except his fans and Dénériaz himself. Dénériaz prepared his Olympic race very thoroughly and was confident enough of his victory that he had champagne ordered yesterday to celebrate his win. Dénériaz won with a near prefect run! Let's play La Marseillaise
  16. Yes, I remember the shop. Tried to visit the place but every time I went there, found it closed
  17. Yes 'McLean's Scene' is beautiful but my favorite McLean Prestige would be 'Makin' The Changes'. The version there of 'What's New' is one of the tunes that keeps playing in my head! Those McLean Prestiges have come under fire too often. I find them stunning!
  18. brownie

    Funny Rat

    And I'll second Clifford's recommendation for the Alan Silva Eremite Treasure Box. Interesting music, and packaging! I get more surprised and happy with it at each listen!
  19. Medjuck, 'Manuel de Saint-Germain des Prés' was completed in 1950 but was first published posthumously in 1974.
  20. Brownie, if it's Pee Wee, I'll listen to it. Looks like a terrific collection. The group was called The Rhythm Cats. When Shoestring released this for the first time in 1979 it came out under Pee Wee Russell and the Rhythm Cats' name with a large photo of Pee Wee on the front cover. Marvelous group! Now spinning: Jackie McLean 'McLean's Scene' (New Jazz, mono) with Bill Hardman
  21. Pee Wee Russell 'and the Rhythm Cats' (Shoestring) the complete 1938 transcription session with Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, etc...
  22. Hope you're having a great one! Happy Birthday
  23. Same here. Yes, I met him when I started writing for 'Jazz Hot'. At the time, he was one of the main contributors there. I was asked to write an article with him on Frank Sinatra who was then turning out those great albums with Nelson Riddle for Capitol. I went to his place (right behind the Moulin Rouge) a couple of times to get this off the ground. He was very, very busy by then with his record executive career, songwriting career. He was also at the start of his singing career. Too busy! I was also busy with my highschool career In the end, the Sinatra article was written by Marcel Romano ! With a small contribution by myself!
  24. Kenny Dorham set the standard for the Jazz Messengers trumpet playing. The albums he recorded with the JM (Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, The Jazz Messengers at Café Bohemia) have yet to be surpassed! And I love Lee Morgan! KD ruled!
  25. Brandon Burke tricked me into doing this! When he contacted me last year, I thought the magazine where it was going to be published was a poetry review and I agreed. Later I found that Wax Poetics was not exactly that. But I had a look at the content of past issues and I noticed quite a number of published articles that were right down my alley. Wax Poetics looks like being a mighty interesting magazine! I have yet to see a copy of it. The just published #15 is on its way here and I look forward to read it. Brandon did a fine job. Thanks to him!
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