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Full discographies for the Mosaic Select Bechet and Mulligan are now available at the Mosaic website: Sidney Bechet Select Gerry Mulligan Select

The Complete Basie Clef/Verve set, disc 3

There is this interview: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=953

This box needs to be brought back to Paris! Widely available here but at outrageous prices! And since it comes with a recommendation from neveronfriday PM on your way, Tjobbe!

Dewey Redman 'Tarik' (Actuel/34) (Byg Gravure Universelle)

Happy Birthday Keep those Blue Notes spinning!

Bill Harris All Stars 'A Knight In The Village' with Flip Phillips and Lennie Tristano (Jazz Showcase)

Gokhan, from what I have seen the two best jazz sections at FNAC stores are the one on the Rue de Rennes (FNAC Montparnasse) and the one on the Avenue des Ternes (FNAC Ternes). Both have a wide selection and competent and friendly staff which is not usually the case at other FNACS! Did my sales shopping today at FNAC Montparnasse. Did not check the classical section which is in a different part of the store. There was a crowd today! But at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Elysees, the classics sales items were right next to the jazz ones. Got a Clara Haskill recital I had been looking for there! As for the Virgin Louvre, the jazz section is OK but nothing exceptional but the classics section is really good! They probably have sales there. I'm avoiding a visit there right now. Spent enough for the day!

Today was the first day of the Winter Sales. Went to the Virgin Megastore and one of the FNAC store for quick visits. Among the items I picked at Virgin (prices started higher than at previous sales but were still very reasonables) were Steve Lacy with Charles Tyler on Silkheart, some Sun Ras, a couple of Vandermark 5, then at FNAC (they still maintain the €3 mark) Ran Blake 'Unmarked Van' (Soul Note), Max Bennett on Japanese Bethlehem, Mary Lou Williams' 'Zodiac Suite'.

Hope that Verve still has the tapes of that Stan Getz quartet session with Scott LaFaro and will release it all. Realize that this is wishful thinking only since Verve seems to have other priorities... There is an Italian bootleg out on Raretone (Stan Getz Special - Vol. 1) that has on side B three tunes performed by the Getz Quartet (with Steve Kuhn, Scott LaFaro and Roy Haynes) at the Newport 1961 festival. This appearance was the last one by LaFaro who died in a car crash three days after this Newport concert. That Getz quartet made beautiful music!

Feel pretty sure this is an illegal release but will be looking for that one! Need more Warne Marsh...

Unless it really improves on the VHS, I'll skip it. The book by Charles Graham The Great Jazz Day is highly recommended reading!

Bob Brookmeyer/Jim Hall/Jimmy Raney 'The Street Swingers' (World Pacific Coleman Hawkins 'Soul' (Swingville) with Kenny Burrell & Ray Bryant

Louis Armstrong stage presence on those short films is just awesome! Too bad Satchmo has only a pretty heavy band to back him!

Allen Lowe should know about these two releases! I have the Naked City CD 'Zoot Sims at the Half Note'. That's the one with Al Cohn, Roger Kellaway, Bill Crow and Mel Lewis. There is also a Philology CD 'Directly From the Half Note' that includes two dates from the Half Note. First one with Phil Woods and Al Cohn (also Dave Frishberg and Jimmy Rushing), second one with Cohn, Zoot Sims, Richie Kamuca (and more Frishberg and Rushing). Love all those Half Note sessions!

isn't EKE BBB still looking for data on that release for his Tete discography? If you really need to know what those liners say, I can help you out of course! EKE BBB had the details shortly after I brought the vinyl back home! I'll pass your offer for a translation of the liner notes. My head is too confused already

Happy Birthday, Tjobbe Hope you're having a great one!

Bud Powell is the one who had his bandleader Cootie Williams introduced to Monk's 'Round Midnight'. The tune was added to the Cootie Williams band repertoire. Bud was the piano player when Cootie recorded it for the first time in August 1944. Cootie's contribution to the composition seems to be the introduction he added to the Monk tune.

Joyeux Anniversaire, Patricia

I have no idea on the number of CDs released in the series. Have none of them. From what I understand, only a few of them have been made available on special orders. None of them is included in the Philology label page: http://www.philologyjazz.it/. Got several of Clifford Brown's unissued items mentioned in the Philology article from other sources.

Melville 'Le Silence de la Mer' is hard to beat as most silent. This was Melville's first film, shot in 1947 with a very low budget. The film was based on the novel by Vercors that was published in clandestinity during World War Two. It tells of a Germany army officer housed on German orders by a French family of two (father and daughter). The father and daughter give the officer the silent treatment. Very austere film with impeccable acting by Howard Vernon as the officer and Nicole Stéphane as the daughter. As I mentioned in a previous post, another Melville film that needs to be viewed is 'Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan'. Not sure these two films are available on DVDs in the USA...

From AP:

Stan Getz + Bob Brookmeyer Sextet 'Academy of Jazz' (PolJazz) 1973 concert in Warsaw Ben Webster 'In Hot House' (HotHouse) 1972 club date with Tete Montoliu!

It went all the way to $2,600 (Reserve met) thankfully

Damn, I'm not sure I'll be able to wait for the third chorus