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Le Monde carries this report - in French only - on the death of Derek Bailey (in London) on its website: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-725095,0.html

Yes, we need Christiern back on this Board! Not the same without him

Joyeux anniversaire, Monsieur Elan

Of the Membran releases I have only the 10CD boxes of Astor Piazzola (loved that one, discovered about all the music inside!), the Artie Shaw and the Duke Ellington. The Shaw and the Ellington material obviously comes from the Chronological Classics releases. Sound is not really good (specially on the Ellington box but so were the Classics:). The boxes are in my car and are used for play-along-while driving! At 9,99 euros ($12) a box, I will not complain... Have not touched any of the other releases!

Claude Nougaro 'Femmes et Famines' (Barclay) with a sideman appearance by Ornette Coleman Nat Pierce 'Kansas City Memories' (Coral) with a great lineup of Joe Newman, Bill Harris, Hal McKusick, Oscar Pettiford, Freddie Green and Jo Jones

I don't think the MGM 'Hot vs. Cool' and 'Cats vs. Chicks' has been reissued in full since their original vinyl releases.

These reissues seem to have the exact tune listings as the original releases. And what a surprise, all of those originals were recorded more than 50 years ago! No idea yet how they sound like...

Quite a number of interesting CD releases from the German label Membran (the label that provided us with excellent 10CD series of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bird, etc...) at very cheap prices) Original longplay albums Some rare albums (Hot vs. Cool, Cats vs. Chicks, from MGM, the Jimmy Giuffre Capitols, Herb Gellers, etc...) are in the initial batch. No idea if these are bootlegs...

Zoot Sims/Al Cohn/Phil Woods 'Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note' (UA, stereo)

Michael Fitzgerald has this Kenny Barron discography on his Jazz Discography site!

You volunteering for this ?!? I may post some additions from time to time... Merry Xmas!

This thread was started exactly one year ago. It was fun building it up. Gary is the one who had the brillant idea for this. Thanks should go to him and also to all the various people who contributed to it! The thread should turn out to be a pretty useful reference link!

December 24 1923 - King Oliver (Louis Armstrong, Honore Dutrey, Johnny Dodds, Charlie Jackson, Lil Hardin, Baby Dodds) record session for Paramount ('Mabel's Dream', 'Riverside Blues', etc...) 1939 - Second Spirituals to Swing concert (Count Basie and his Orchestra, The Kansas City Six, James P. Johnson, the Golden Gate Quartet, etc...) at Carnegie Hall, released on Vanguard 1941 - Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra (Joe Newman, Fred Becket, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet, Milt Buckner, Irving Ashby, etc...) record session for Decca ('Southern Echoes', 'Nola', etc...) 1947 - J.J. Johnson's Bop Quintet (Leo Parker, Hank Jones, Al Lucas, Shadow Wilson) record session for Savoy 1947 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (The Liberian Suite) 1949 - Charlie Parker (Red Rodney, Al Haig, etc...), Stan Getz (Kai Winding, Al Haig,etc...), Lennie Tristano (Warne Marsh, Billy Bauer, etc...) Christmas Eve concert at Carnegie Hall, released on various labelsl 1953 - Sal Salvador (Frank Socolow, John Williams, Kenny O'Brien, Jilmmy Campbell) record session for BN (Sal Salvador Quintet) 1953 - King Pleasure (John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige ('Parker's Mood', 'What Can I Say, Dear') 1954 - Miles Davis All Stars (Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige ('The Man I Love', 'Bag's Groove', etc...) 1956 (also Jan. 6) - Thad Jones (Frank Foster, Jimmy Jones, Doug Watkins, Jo Jones, etc...) record session for Period (Mad Thad) 1958 (also Dec. 26) - Woody Herman and his Orchestra (Nat Adderley, Ernie Royal, Billy Byers, Frank Rehak, Dick Hafer, Eddie Costa, Charlie Byrd, Jimmy Campbell, etc...) record session for Everest (Moody Woody) 1959 - David Young Jazz Loft (Jerry Lloyd, Zoot Sims, Pepper Adams, Bob Brookmeyer, Dave McKenna, Bill Takas, Jerry Segal, etc...) jam session at David Young's Loft, released on Jazz Magnet (David Young's Jazz Loft) 1963 - Brother Jack McDuff Quartet with Orchestra (Danny Stiles, Billy Byers, Bob Northern, George Benson, Richard Davis, Mel Lewis, etc...) record sesion for Prestige (Prelude) 1964 - Wayne Shorter (Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones) record session for BN (Speak No Evil) 1965 - Don Cherry (Gato Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell) record session for BN (Complete Communion)

Among the concerts that will be broadcast early next year by France-Musique radio, two that should be musically rewarding:

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis LP, disc 6

Claude, tous mes meilleurs voeux pour toi et les tiens! Guy

London should not have won the 2012 Olympic Games bid over Madrid and Paris. Whoever is responsible for the blunder gets my blessing! Let London suffer through the Games! From AFP:

December 23: 1938 - Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall (Count Basie and his Orchestra, The New Orleans Feetwarmers, Big Bill Broonzy, Ida Cox, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson, The Kansas City Five, etc..., released on Vanguard 1944 - Coleman Hawkins' Swing Four (Eddie Heywood, Oscar Pettiford, Shelly Manne) record session for Signature ('The Man I Love', 'Sweet Lorraine', etc...) 1947 - George Shearing Trio (Curley Russel, Cozy Cole) record session for Savoy 1947 (also Dec. 31) - Lennie Tristano Trio (Billy Bauer, Arnold Fishkin) record session for Baronet 1952 - Warne Marsh Quartet (Hampton Hawes, Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne) at the Haig, released on Xanadu (Warne Marsh Live in Hollywood).. same day - Hampton Hawes Trio (Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne) at the Haig, released on Xanadu (Hampton Hawes Memorial Album) 1952 - Teddy Charles (Jimmy Raney, Dick Nivison, Ed Shaughnessy) record session for Prestige (New Directions, vol. 1) 1954 - Modern Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige (Django) 1955 - Charles Mingus Quintet (Eddie Bert, George Barrow, Mal Waldron, Max Roach) at the Cafe Bohemia, released on Debut (Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach) 1957 - Max Roach (Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, George Morrow) record session for Mercury (Max Roach Plays Charlie Parker) 1958 (also Dec. 29 - Johnny Pace with Chet Baker (Herbie Mann, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, etc...) record session for Riverside (Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace) 1959 - Sonny Stitt Quartet (Lou Levy, Leroy Vinnegar, Stan Levey) record session for Verve (Sonny Stitt Swings The Most) 1959 - Benny Golson Quintet (Curtis Fuller, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor) record session for New Jazz (Gettin' With It) 1960 (also Jan. 10, 1961) - Terri Thornton ( Clark Terry, Britt Woodman, Earl Warren, Seldon Powell, Freddie Green, Sam Jones, Jimmy Cobb, etc...) record session for Riverside (Devil May Care) 1961 - Grant Green (Sonny Clark, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes Ike Quebec) record session for BN (Gooden's Corner) 1968 - Harold Mabern (Blue Mitchell, George Coleman, Bill Lee, Hugh Walker) record session for Prestige (Rakin' and Scrapin') 1969 - Charles McPherson (Barry Harris, Buster Williams, Roy Brooks) record session for Prestige (McPherson's Mood) 1985 - Ted Brown Quintet (Jimmy Raney, Hod O'Brien, Buster Williams, Ben Riley) record session for Criss Cross (In Good Company) 1986 - Clifford Jordan (Kevin O'Connell, Ed Howard, Vernel Fournier) record session for Criss Cross (Royal Ballads)

Actually, the Free Jazz session started at 8PM and went on to 12.30AM according to this Eric DolphyDiscography. With the 'Far Cry' session being held earlier in the day! Quite a day for Eric Dolphy, indeed!

Hartman is superb on that date! My favorite one of his (after the album with Coltrane).

Lou Donaldson 'Sonny Side Up' (BN/King) Johnny Hartman 'Once In Every Life' (Beehive)

December 22: 1924 - Red Onion Jazz Babies (Louis Armstrong, Charles Irvis, Sidney Bechet, Lil Hardin, Buddy Christian, Josephine Beatty/Alberta Hunter) record session for Paramount (Cake Walking Babies from Home, etc...) 1947 - The Metronome All Stars (Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris, Buddy de Franco, Flip Phillips, Nat King Cole, Billy Bauer, Eddie Safranski, Buddy Rich, Pete Rugolo, the Stan Kenton Orchestra) record session for Capitol ('Leap Here', 'Metyronome Riff') 1947 - Art Blakey's Messengers (Kenny Dorham, Sahib Shihab, Walter Bishop, etc...) record session for BN 1947 - Dexter Gordon and his Boys (Fats Navarro, Tadd Dameron, Nelson Boyd, Art Mardigan) record session for Savoy 1947 (thru Dec. 29) - Woody Herman and his Orchestra (Shorty Rogers, Earl Swope, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Stewart, Serge Chaloff, Don Lamond, etc...) record sessions for Columbia (The Thundering Herds) 1948 - Joe Morris (Mathew Gee, Johnny Griffin, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones) record session for Atlantic 1952 - Marian McPartland Trio (Eddie Safranski, Don Lamond) record session for Savoy 1952 - Charlie Ventura (Gene Kutch, Ace Tesone, Chuck Keeny) record session for Clef 1952 - Modern Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige (The Modern Jazz Quartet) 1954 (also Dec. 24) - Helen Merrill (Clifford Brown, Danny Bank, Jimmy Jones, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Quincy Jones) record session for EmArcy (Helen Merrill) 1954 (also Dec. 23) - Al Cohn (Joe Newman, Billy Byers, Frank Rehak, Hal McKusick, Gene Quill, Sanford Gold, Jimmy Raney, Billy Bauer, etc...) record session for Victor (Mr. Music) 1956 (also Dec. 29) - Lester Young (Idrees Sulieman, Sinclair Raney, Gene Ramey, Willie Jones) broadcast from Cafe Bohemia, released on Ambrosia and other labels 1957 - Billy Eckstine (Don Fagerquist, Bud Shank, Gerry Wiggins, Red Callender, Pete Rugolo, etc...) record session for EmArcy (Imagination) 1958 (also Dec. 24) - Melba Liston and her 'Bones (Benny Green, Al Grey, Benny Powell, Kenny Burrell, George Joyner, Charles Persip, etc...) record session for MetroJazz (Melba Liston and her Bones) 1958 - Shorty Rogers and his Orchestra (Conte Candoli, Don Fagequist, Bob Enevoldsen, Bud Shank Bill Holman, Richie Kamuca, Pete Jolly, Mel Lewis, Red Norvo, etc...) record session for RCA (Chances Are It Swings) 1964 (also Dec. 23, 24) - Count Basie and his Orchestra record session for Reprise (Pop Goes Basie) 1965 - Miles Davis Quintet (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) at the Plugged Nickel club in Chicago, released on Columbia (Miles Davis at the Plugged Nickel) 1967 - Erik Kloss (Jimmy Owens, Kenny Barron, Bob Cranshaw, Alan Dawson) record session for Prestige (We're Goin' Up) 1967 - Jackie McLean (Woody Shaw, Lamont Johnson, Scotty Holt, Jack deJohnette) record session for BN (Demon's Dance) 1969 - Johnny 'Hammond' Smith (Virgil Jones, Rusty Bryant, Bernard Purdie, etc...) record session for Prestige(Black Feeling!) 1970 (also Dec. 23) - Count Basie and his Orchestra (Paul Cohen, Al Grey, Jimmy Forest, Eddie Davis, Cecil Payne, Harold Jones, Oliver Nelson, etc...) record session for Flying Dutchman(Afrique) 1977 - Nick Brignolia (Ted Curson, Pepper Adams, Derek Smith, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes) record session for Beehive (Baritone Madness) 1977 - Ray Brown & Jimmy Rowles record session for Concord (As Good As It Gets)

Phineas Newborn Jr. 'Solo Piano' (Atlantic)

You're confusing sides once more. You're the one who was whining in the original thread that you conveniently deleted. To quote myself: If there's a stalker around here, you're the one! And others are finding out now! I'll go back and ignore you and enjoy my life and leave you to your pathetic one! Up, over and out, as they say!

Ted Brown Trio 'Free Spirit' (CrissCross)