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Jean-Pierre Leloir was ubiquitous on the French jazz (and other music events) scene for the second half of the past century. Whenever anything interesting happened, Leloir's mustaches and cameras were on the scene. I think he has retired by now. Wish his book 'Du Jazz Plein les Yeux' had been better edited. Some of his excellent images are visible on his site

A more informative story from AFP Slim chance that Lance Armstrong actually goes to the trial. Would have been interesting to hear what he has to say about his relations with the notorious 'Dottore' Ferrari!

Philly Joe Jones 'Philly Joe's Beat' (Atlantic, mono) with Michael Downs, Bill Barron, Walter Davis and Paul Chambers

That's the only one Lord has in the discography. MG Found this rare item a few months ago. BirdandDizzy, for your information, Bacsik remains in background through the whole session!

Yikes... I was going to relisten to the BFT this weekend because I have been able to identify so few of the various selections. I wanted to check some albums to get a better showing but I understand the answers are being posted now. I have no further time to do this now, so here goes... 1- a West Coast aggregation I have been familiar with for a long time. First inkling was that Shorty Rogers was involved but I found out it was not the case and it was the french horn player that took me in the right direction. A very good track in not very good sound. This was included in an anthology that I discovered years ago on vinyl from a very worthwile Spanish reissue label. 2- pretty exciting players all around from. I would think these are European players but I have not been able to guess who they were. 3- a favorite side that I heard (and still cherish) on an anthology CD that accompanies a book about that piano player, my favorite Swedish pianist with a very distinctive style . He was a very creative player and this remains one of the best side I have heard from him. 4- a very together unit but then again I have failed to recognize any of the participants 5- the baritone player was not Mulligan or Chaloff. Not sure it's Lars Gullin either... Pretty interesting side that I'll want to check further, 6- another European vocalist I would say. Not really impressed with her upon first hearing but this was another one that grew on me. 7- good mix of trombone and slap bass for a short and fun contribution. Not even trying to guess who the players are... 8- liked that one after several repeats and found myself grooving to the guitarist. No idea who he is but I will look for more of his contributions! 9- Satin Doll overplayed with echo effect. I can't stand those overdone interpretations of classics. As far as I am concerned, this is the least interesting side of the BFT 10- very nice but another one that leaves me in the dark. One of the clarinetists has heard Buddy de Franco. Very good musicians from a very-together European-sounding big band 11- thought the trumpet player was very much inspired by Clark Terry this Duke-inspired interpretation. Liked the evocative aspect of the composition. 12- enjoyed that guitar side but that's one that I don't think I will return to 13- liked the piano player but he seems to be a bit short on individuality, nice backing 14- Brief but very textured. Guesses again seem to have gone the wrong way... 15- bandoneon, is that the new craze! The musicians seem to have more fun than this listener. Richard Galliano does more interesting things with it 16- the tune is from a film by the late director Jacques Becker, a jazz fan is there ever was one. I am pretty sure he would have liked this version. Thought Ran Blake had something to do with this side but a search turned blank. I'll wait for the answer! Excellent and very intriguing pick! 17- an easy one for a change. Lockjaw and the Clarke-Boland band from one of the band's best album. Classic Lockjaw getting right to the heart of the matter! And that sax section was a marvel! 18- another one that had me intrigued and searching through a number of albums. All for nothing. Still at loss on who's going through that familiar Charlie Parker tune. I'll be looking for the details... 19- I have enjoyed that French-Belgian collaboration for a long time. This was reissued a few years ago in an excellent reissues series. The guitar player was a master who remains much too neglected! So was the pianist I was lucky to hear on a number of occasions when getting a jazz education! 20- Another track that lacked individuality. Very professional playing and I can hear the influences but find the whole thing a bit empty. Could not really connect enough to enjoy it. Many thanks to Tjobbe for a very thorough compilation. I'll be going to the answers to find out who many of these musicians are!

December 15, 1960 was the final session for the Gil Evans 'Out of the Cool' album. On this thread, the album was listed on November 18 when its first session was recorded. It took four different sessions to complete the album!

December 15: 1940 - Jack Teagarden's Big Eight (Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Billy Kyle, Brick Feagle, Billy Taylor, Dave Tough) record session for HRS 1943 - James P. Johnson solo piano session for BN (Rent Party) 1945 - Billie Holiday with Hot Lips Page and the Apollo Theatre House Band at the Apollo, released on Jazz Archives and other labels 1950 - Sonny Stitt (Junior Mance, Gene Wright, Art Blakey) record session for Prestige 1952 - Count Basie (Joe Newman, Paul Quinichette, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey, Buddy Rich) record session for Mercury/Clef (The Count Basie Sextet) 1953 - Kenny Dorham Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Walter Bishop, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Debut (The Kenny Dorham Quintet) 1954 - Ben Webster (Jimmy Hamilton, Danny Bank, Teddy Wilson, Wendell Marshall, Louis Bellson, Ralph Burns and strings) record session for Norgran (Music For Loving) 1955 - Elmer Bernstein (Shorty Rogers, Conte Candoli, Milt Bernhardt, Frank Rosolino, Jimmy Giuffre, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Bill Holman, Jack Montrose, Ralph Pena, Shelly Manne, etc...) record music from the soundtrack of the film 'The Man With the Golden Arm', released on Decca (The Man With the Golden Arm) 1957 - Lou Donaldson (Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Sonny Clark, George Joyner, Art Taylor) record session for BN (Lou Takes Off) 1958 - Bobby Donaldson (Joe Wilder, Vic Dickenson, Buster Bailey, Seldon Powell, Ernie Hayes, Bucky Pizzarelli, Al Lucas) record session for Savoy 1958 (also Dec. 23) - Sarah Vaughan (Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Al Grey, Billy Mitchell, Ronnell Bright, Richard Davis, Sonny Payne, etvc...) record session for Mercury (No Count Sarah) 1958 - Bill Evans Trio (Sam Jones, Philly Joe Jones) record sesion for Riverside (Everybody Digs Bill Evans) 1959 (also Dec. 16) - Tal Farlow (Benny Powell, Frank Wess, Charlie Fowlkes, Dick Hyman, Wendell Marshall, Joe Benjamin, Osie Johnson) record session for Verve (Tal Farlow Plays the Music of Harold Arlen) 1959 (also Dec. 16) - Tal Farlow (Bobby Jaspar, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson) record session for Verve (The Guitar Artistry of Tal Farlow) 1961 - Don Byas (Idrees Sulieman, Cannonball Adderley, Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) record session for Columbia (A Tribute to Cannonball) 1962 (also Dec. 16) - Oscar Peterson Trio (Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen) record session for Verve (Night Train) 1964 (also dec. 4) - Kenny Burrell and Gil Evans (Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Richie Kamuca, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones) record session for Verve (Guitar Forms) 1967 - Duke Pearson's Big Band (Randy Brecker, Julian Priester, Garnett Brown, Frank Foster, Lew Tabackin, Pepper Adams, Mickey Roker, etc...) record session for BN (Introducing) 1969 - Charles Earland (Virgil Jones, Houston Person, Idris Muhammad, etc...) record session for Prestige (Black Talk) 1978 - Kenny Drew solo piano session for Storyville (Solo - Duo) 1978 - Shelly Manne and his Men (Conte Candoli, Ted Nash, Mike Wofford, John Heard) record session for East World (The Manne We Love)

Slim chance. I'm a total city rat

Jimmy Rowles and George Mraz 'Music's the Only Thing That'sd on My Mind' (Progressive)

Don't worry, Paris is big enough for the two of us... and some more and sorry Claude, you'll never see me sitting in a garden in Paris. Too many things to do and see around here for this!

Not sure what Mingus says but if it's 'Go, Danny!', then it should be 'Go, Dannie! -_-

No added-on strickers. Just a regular one with the usual blah-blah-blah! Not a word about any controversy visible from the outside...

December 14: 1937 - Quintette du Hot Club de France (Philippe Brun, Alix Combelle, Michel Warlop, Stephane Grappelli, Django and Joseph Reinhardt, etc...) record session for La Voix de son Maitre 1938 - Louis Armstrong (Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, Fats Waller, Bob Spergel, Pete Peterson, George Wettling) radio broadcast, released on Palm Club and other labels 1939 - The Varsity Seven (Benny Carter, Danny polo, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Sullivan, George Wettling, etc...) record session for Varsity 1944 (also Dec. 20) - Erroll Garner solo piano session at Timmie Rosenkrantz apartment, released on BN (Overture To Dawn) and other labels 1945 - Kai Winding (Kai's Krazy Kats) (Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, Shorty Allen, Iggy Shevack, Shelly Manne) record session for Savoy 1952 - Bill Harris (Charlie Mariano, Harry Johnson, Sonny Truitt, Chubby Jackson, Morey Feld) record session for Mercury (The Jackson-Harris Herd) 1952 - Flip Phillips (Hank Jones, Buddy Rich) record session for Mercury 1952 - Charlie Parker (Joe Gordon, Dick Twardzik, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes) at ther Boston Hi Hat Club, released on Uptown (Boston 1952) 1953 (also Dec. 16) - Buck Clayton (Joe Newman, Urbie Green, Benny Powell, Lem Davis, Julian Dash, Charlie Fowlkes, Sir Charles Thompson, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones) record session for Columbia ('Moten Swing', Sentimental Journey') 1953 - Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Ron Crotty, Joe Dodge) concert at the College of the Pacific, released on Fantasy (Jazz at College of the Pacific) 1953 (also Dec. 22) - Chet Baker Ensemble (Herb Geller, Jack Montrose, Bob Gordon, Ruyss Freeman, Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne) record session for Pacific Jazz (The Chet Baker Ensemble) 1954 - Gene Krupa (Eddie Shu, Bobby Scott, Wendell Marshall) record session for Clef 1954 - Harry Carney (Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Tony Miranda, Leroy Lovett, Billy Bauer, Wendell Marshall, Louis Bellson) record session for Clef (Harry Carney With Strings) 1954 - Gerry Mulligan Sextet (Jon Eardley, Bob Brookmeyer, Zoot Sims, Red Mitchell, Larry Bunker) concert at the San Diego Moore High School, released on Pacific Jazz 'California Concerts) 1955 - Max Bennett (Nick Travis, Carl Fontana, Charlie Mariano, Jack Nimitz, Dave McKenna, MLel Lewis) record session for Bethlehem (Max Bennett) 1956 - Jackie McLean (Bill Hardman, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor) record session for New Jazz (McLean's Scene) 1956 - Red Garland Trio (Paul Chambers, Art Taylor) record session for Prestige (Red Garland's Piano) 1956 - Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra (Trummy Young, Edmund Hall, Hilton Jefferson, Lucky Thompson, Billy Kyle, Barrett Deems, etc...) record session for Decca ('This Young Generation', 'In Pursuit of Happiness') 1958 - Lou Donaldson (Herman Foster, Peck Morrison, Jimmy Wormsworth, Ray Barretto) record session for BN (Lightfoot) 1961 - Sonny Red (Blue Mitchell, Barry Harris, George TRucker, Lex Humphrires) record session for Jazzland (Images) 1961 (also Dec. 15) - Milt Jackson Quartet (Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Connie Kay) record session for Impulse (Statements) 1961 - Tadd Dameron (Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Julius Watkins,Sam Rivers, Cecil Payne, Paul Chamùbers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for BN (The Lost Sessions) 1972 (also Dec. 15) - Ronnie Foster (Garnett Brown, Seldon Powell, Bernard Purdie, etc...) record session for BN (Sweet Revival) 1981 - Freddie Hubbard (Harold Land, Billy Childs, Larry Klein, Steve Houghton, Buck Clarke) record session for Pablo (Born To Be Blue)

50 today? A very Happy Birthday The very best to the very best!!!

Now playing: Paul Gonzalves/François Guin 'Avec Les Swingers et Les Four Bones' (Riviera) next: Warne Marsh Meets Gary Foster (EastWorld)

They don't make girls like that anymore

Dan, I think French Vogue issued this as CD several years ago but don't sue me if this is proved to be inaccurate

There were a number of stickers (including a couple from the store highlighting this was a 'special offer') but I did not read the others carefully. The store is within walking distance from my place. I'll try to go and check tomorrow.

The original 4CD Europe 1/Trema release has the correct date, Monday March 21, 1960. Delta must have been careless. A reminder also this was no bootleg but an official release from the Europe 1 radio station that organized this (and many other) concerts!

Buck Clayton and his gang (Emmett Berry, Dicky Wells, Earl Warren, Buddy Tate, Sir Charles Thompson, Gene Ramey and Oliver Jackson) backed Witherspoon that evening. Crowd must have been thin because several French Army regiments held a mutiny in Algeria the same day and there was a call of arms in Paris in the evening for fear of an attack from paratroops regiments. The rebellion ended four days later after most of the Army refused to join in. Missed the Olympia concert cause I was a soldier in Algeria at the time (rebelling against the rebel units)

Damn right!! I did say it was my favorite record store. They obviously manage to work some deals with US exporters. When the Thelonious Monk-Coltrane BN was released, they had a load of copy-controlled EU-made copies. I told the people in charge of the jazz section that I would wait for a non-copy controlled release. Later on the same day, I got a phone call from the store to announce that they managed to get three clean copies from the US. I told them to hold one copy for me. Rushed there and can now enjoy a non-controlled copy of the Monk/Trane!

Imports from the USA!!

Several sets of the Cellar Door release were on display today at my favorite record store. Imports all. Price was €95 ($115) a box I'll wait until I can get the box from Amazon.fr which still lists it at €62,19 (with a January 30, 2006 release date).

December 13: 1927 - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (Kid Ory, Johny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr) record session for Okeh ('Savoy Blues', 'Hotter Than That') 1934 - Benny Carter and his Orchestra (Russell Smith, Benny Morton, Keg Johnson, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, etc...) record session for Vocalion 1935 - Bunny Berigan and his Blue Boys (Edgar Sampson, Eddie Miller, Cliff Jackson, Grachan Moncur, Ray Bauduc) record session for Decca 1939 - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra (Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Earl Warren, Lester Young, Jack Washington, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones) record session for Vocalion 1940 (also Dec. 17) - Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France (Hubert Rostaing, Alix Combelle, Joseph Reinhardt, etc...) record session for Swing ('Swing 41', etc...) 1952 - Roy Eldridge Quintet (Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, J.C. Heard) record session for Clef (The Roy Eldridge Quintet) 1952 (also Dec. 15) - Count Basie (Reunald Jones, Joe Newman, Henry Coker, Marshall Royal, Paul Quinichette, Charlie Fowlkes, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey, Buddy Rich) record session for Clef 1954 - Illinois Jacquet (Russell Jacquet, Matthew Gee, Ben Webster, Leo Parker, John Acea, Al Lucas, Osie Johnson) record session for Clef 1956 - Zoot Sims Quintet (Nick Travis, George Handy, Wilbur Ware, Osie Johnson) record session for Riverside (Zoot!) 1957 - Red Garland Quintet (Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, George Joyner, Art Taylor) record session for Prestige (Dig It! - High Pressure) 1958 (also Dec. 14) - Stan Getz (Bent Axen, Marcel Rigou, William Schiopffe) record session released on Olufsen Records (Stan Getz in Denmark) 1960 - The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins, Bill Dowdy) record session for BN (Here We Come - It Just Got To be) 1961 - Willis Jackson (Jack McDuff, Bill Jennings, etc...) record session for Prestige 1961 (also Dec. 14) - Ella Fitzgerald with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra record session for Verve(Ella Swings Gently) 1963 - Andrew Hill Quartet (Richard Davis, Eddie Khan, Roy Haynes) record session for BN (Smoke Stack) 1965 (also Dec. 14) - Count Basie and his Orchestra with Arthur Prysock record session for Verve (Count Basie and Arthur Prysock) 1966 - Teddy Edwards Sextet (Walter Davis, Phil Orlando, Paul Chambers, Billy Higgins, Montego Joe) record session for Prestige (Nothin' But the Truth) 1971 (also Dec. 14) - Grant Green (Marvin Stamm, Harold Vick, Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Grady Tate, etc...) record session for BN (The Final Comedown)

This one? F Yep, that one!