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Not listed yet on its link, the Andorra-based label Lonehill has released an album 'Wes Montgomery & the Billy Taylor Trio' that is chokeful (a few seconds short of 80 minutes) of rare music. The CD has eight sides with Wes and the Billy Taylor Trio (Ben Tucker and Grady Tate) plus eight additional sides from the same session with Joe Williams added. All in very good sound. It also includes four sides recorded in Holland in April 1965 by Wes with a group led by Clark Terry (with a Dutch rhythm section). Some of the sides with Billy Taylor appeared on a VGM vinyl album and the Dutch sides also appeared on obscure labels . The rest is, as far as I know, seeing its first release.

J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding 'Jay and Kai' (Columbia, six-eye)

Unless proved wrong, this was Donald Byrd's only recorded appearance on pocket trumpet. Heard him several times when he played in Paris (with the quintet that included Bobby Jaspar) just before he recorded 'Fuego' and cannot recall having seen him with that trumpet!

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday

December 12: 1928 - Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (Fred Robinson, Jimmy Strong, Don Redman, Earl Hines, Mancy Cara, Zutty Singleton) record session for Okeh ('Hear Me Talkin' to Ya', 'St.James Infirmary', Tight Like This')... ... Earl Hines then record solo piano session for Okeh ('I Ain't Got Nobody', '57 Varieties) 1928 - Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (Rex Stewart, Buster Bailey, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Kaiser Marshall, etc...) record session for Columbia 1944 - George Wettling's New Yorkers (Joe Thomas, Jack Teagarden, Hank d'Amico, Coleman Hawkins, Herman Chittison, Billy Taylor) record session for Keynote 1952 - King Pleasure (Ed Lewis, Charlie Ferguson, Ed Swanston, Peck Morrison, Herbie Lovelle) record session for Prestige 1952 - Stan Getz Quintet (Duke Jordan, Jimmy Raney, Bill Crow, Frank Isola) record session for Clef (Stan Getz Plays) 1952 - Marian McPartland Trio (Max Wayne, Mousy Alexander) record session for Savoy 1953 (also Dec. 13) - Count Basie and his Orchestra (Joe Newman,Frank Foster, Frank Wess, etc...) record session for Clef (Basie Jazz) 1955 - James Moody (Dave Burns, Pee Wee Moore, Clarence Johnston, etc...) record session for Prestige (Wail, Mood, Wail!) 1956 - Lucky Thompspon (Jimmy Cleveland, Don Abney, Oscar Pettiford, Osie Johnson) record session for ABC-Paramount (Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford, vol. 2) 1956 (also Dec. 13) - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Bill Hardman, Jackie McLean, Sam Dockery, Spanky deBrest) record session for Columbia (HardBop) 1957 (also Dec. 13) - Jimmy Cleveland Octet (Art Farmer, Don Butterfield, Jay McAllister, Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Charles Persip) record session for EmArcy (Cleveland Style) 1957 (also Dec. 13) - Blossom Dearie (Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Jo Jones) record session for Verve (Give Him the Oh La La!) 1957 (also Jan. 16, 1958) - Warne Marsh (Ronnie Ball, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for Atlantic (Warne Marsh) 1960 - Mel Torme with the Johnny Mandel Orchestra (Jack Sheldon, Frank Rosolino, Joe Maini, Teddy Edwards, Bill Perkins, Jimmy Rowles, Shelly Manne, etc...) record session for Verve (I Dig the Duke, I Dig the Count) 1962 - Dave Pike (Leo Wright, Jimmy Raney, George Duvivier, etc...) record session for New Jazz (Limbo Carnival) 1966 (also Dec. 13, 14) - Oscar Peterson Trio (Sam Jones, Louis Hayes) record session for Limelight (Soul Espanol) 1967 - The Modern Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay) record session for Apple (Under the Jasmine Tree) 1978 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Valery Ponomarev, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Watson, David Schnitter, James Williams, etc...) record session for Timeless (In My Prime, vol. 2) 1979 (also Dec. 11) - Bill Evans Trio (Marc Johnson, Joe La Barbera) at Madrid's Balboa Jazz Club, released on Ivory (Live at Balboa's Jazz Club) 1985 (also Dec. 13, 14) - Pat Metheny (Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Jack deJohnette, Denardo Coleman) record session for Geffen (Song X) 1985 - Tom Harrell Quintet (Kenny Garrett, Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Ralph Peterson) record session for CrissCross (Moon Alley)

Donald Byrd was at his creative best at the time and 'Fuego' is one of the best album he recorded then. Still have the mono original vinyl and purchased the RVG release in stereo when it came out recently. Pretty good but still prefer the mono sound!

Bill, planning to list this tomorrow in accordance with the December 12, 1979 recording date that shows on the original Ivory vinyls releases. The Lord also says December 12

December 11: 1928 (also Dec. 12) - Lillie Delk Christian with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four (Jimmie Noone, Earl Hines, Mancy Carr) record session for Okeh 1943 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall, released on Ember 1944 - Art Hodes Blue Five (Max Kaminsky, Mezz Mezzrow, Pops Foster, Danny Alvin) record session for BN 1944 (also Dec. 12) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Victor (Black, Brown and Beige) 1946 (also Dec. 12) - Herbie Fields (Jimmy Maxwell, Al Klink, Serge Chaloff, Marty Napoleon, Tiny Kahn, etc...) record session for Victor 1946 - Gene Sedric (Lincoln Mills, Al Casey, Slick Jones, etc...) record session for Keynote 1947 - Coleman Hawkins and his All Stars (Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson, Budd Johnson, Marion Di Vita, Hank Jones, Chuck Wayne, Jack Lesberg, Max Roach) record session for Victor 1947 - Dexter Gordon (Leo Parker, Tadd Dameron, Curley Russell, Art Blakey) record session for Savoy 1948 (also Dec. 12) - Charlie Parker Quintet (Miles Davis, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) at the Royal Roost, released on Savoy 1949 - Sonny Stitt (Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach) record session for Prestige 1952 - Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra (Emmett Berry, Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Ted Brannon etc...) record session for Clef 1953 - Illinois Jacquet (Russell Jacquet, Matthew Gee, Cecil Payne, John Acea, Al Lucas, Shadow Wilson) record session for Clef 1956 (also Dec. 13 and 14) - Tony Scott (John Carisi, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, Henry Coker Gigi Gryce, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, Freddie Green, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for RCA Victor (The Complete Tony Scott) 1956 - Bill Perkins and Art Pepper (Jimmy Rowles, Ben Tucker, Mel Lewis) record session for Pacific Jazz (Just Friends) 1959 - Red Garland and his Trio and Eddie Davis (Sam Jones, Art Taylor) record session for Moodsville (Red Garland Trio + Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis) 1961 - Donald Byrd (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Free Form) 1961 (also Dec. 12) - Johnny Hodges (Cat Anderson, Harold Baker, Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, Jimmy Jones, Aaron Bell, Sam Woodyard, Strayhorn, etc...) record session for Verve (Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and his Orchestra) 1962 (also Dec. 12) - Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson) record session for Philips (Spring Is Sprung) 1963 - Martial Solal Trio (Guy Pedersen, Daniel Humair) concert at Salle Gaveau, released on French Columbia (Concert à Gaveau) 1964 - Sam Rivers (Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) record session for BN (Fuchsia Swing song) 1967 (also Dec. 12) - Frank Sinatra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra record session for Reprise (Francis A. and Edward K.)

Don Cherry and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra 'Relativity Suite' (JCOA)

The man was an extraordinary dancer. Sad to hear that he is ailing and in bad shape. From The New York Times today:

December 10: 1929 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (The Jungle Band) record session for Brunswick ('Wall Street Wail', 'Sweet Mama', etc...) 1930 - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra record session for Victor ('Mood Indigo', 'What Good Am I Without You?', etc...) 1945 - Bud Freeman (Charlie Shavers, Vernon Brown, Edmund Hall, Gene Schroeder, John Simmons, Dave Tough) record session for Keynote 1945 (also Dec. 13) - Dinah Washington with Lucky Thompson's All Stars (Karl George, Milt Jackson, Wilbert Baranco, Charles Mingus, Lee Young, etc...) record session for Apollo 1947 - Gene Ammons (Gail Brockman, Junior Mance, Gene Wrtight, etc...) record session for Mercury 1947 - Rex Stewart (Hubart Rostaing, Django Reinhardt, Ladislas Czabanyck, Ted Curry) record session for Blue Star 1948 - Hal Singer (Chippy Outcalt, George Rhodes, Walter Page, Bobby Donaldson, etc...) record session for Savoy 1948 - Billie Holiday (Bobby Tucker, Mundell Lowe, John Levy, Denzil Best, etc...) record session for Decca ('Weep No More', 'My Man', etc...) 1948 - Tony Fruscella Quintet (Chick Maures, Bill Triglia, Red Mitchell, Dave Troy) record session for Century 1950 - Stan Getz Quartet (Horace Silver, Joe Calloway, Walter Bolden) record session for Roost (The Sound) 1951 (first of several sessions) - Eddie Condon (Wild Bill Davison, Cutty Cutshal, Edmund Hall, Gene Schroeder, Bob Casey, Buzzy Drootin) at Eddie Condon's, released on Savoy (Ringside at Eddie Condon's) 1952 (also Nov. 2) - Billy Taylor Trio (Earl May, Charlie Smith) record session for Prestige (Billy Taylor Trio, vol. 2) 1954 - Lester Young Quintet (Jessie Drakes, Gildo Mahones, John Ore, Connie Kay) record session for Norgran (It Don't Mean a Thing) 1954 - Charlie Parker Quintet (Walter Bishop, Billy Bauer, Teddy Kotick, Art Taylor) record session for Verve (Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter) 1956 (final session) - Lennie Niehaus Octet (Frank Rosolino, Bill Perkins, Pepper Adams, Red Michell, Mel Lewis, etc...) record session for Contemporary (Zounds) 1959 (also Jan. 19, 1960) - Ray Bryant Trio (Tommy Bryant, Oliver Jackson) record session for Columbia (Little Susie) 1959 - Jimmy Forrest (Harold Mabern, Grant Green, Gene Ramey, Elvin Jones) record session for Delmark (All the Gin Is Gone - Black Forrest) 1962 - Ted Curson (Gildo Mahones, George Tucker, Roy Haynes, Montego Joe) record session for Prestige (Fire Down Below) 1962 (also Dec. 11) - The Bossa Rio Sextet with Cannonball Adderley ( Paulo Moura, Sergio Mendes, Dom Um Romao, etc...) record session for Riverside (Cannonball's Bossa Nova) 1978 - Martial Solo piano session for PolJazz 1986 (also Dec. 11, 12) - Stanley Turrentine (Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Foster, Abraham Laboriel, etc...) record session for BN (Wonderland)

Happy Birthday, Dmitry! And do come back here to post

Yes, France fared better than Holland. Holland will have a tough time in that Group C

I'll wait a few days and get the Miles Davis Cellar Door box! Hope it comes out before the end of this year

Looks like France was lucky with its draw in Group G. It will face Togo, Switzerland and South Korea. Even if the French team does not play at its best level, it has a good chance of going to the second round! Groups B and C are murder!

Charlie Parker 'Plays Cole Porter' (Verve original trumpet label) with Walter Bishop, Billy Bauer, Roy Haynes, etc... next: The Great Jazz Trio ' Direct From L.A.' (EastWind, Direct Mastering) with Hank Jones, Ron Carter, Tony Williams

But remember: you should pay me high fees for bringing you the light! I saw the light well before... I'll probably be hitting the trail when I'll feel the need to laugh my way to the bank

Really should consider hitting the ebay trail one of these days. I have quite a number of these original albums, some in better condition!

December 9: 1928 (also Dec. 12) - Earl Hines records piano solo session for Okeh 1952 (also Dec. 10) - Gene Krupa and his Orchestra (Charlie Shavers, Kai Winding, Lennie Hambro, Johnny Smith, etc...) record session for Clef 1953 - Joe Holiday (Billy Taylor, Earl May, Charlie Smith, Jose Mangual, Ubaldo Nieto, Machito) record session for Prestige (Mambo Jazz) 1953 - Dizzy Gillespie - Stan Getz (Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Max Roach) record session for Norgran (Getz and Diz) 1954 - Jonah Jones Sextet (Vic Dickenson, Edmund Hall, Kenny Kersey, Pops Foster, Osie Johnson) record session for Bethlehem (Jonah Jones Sextet) 1955 (also Dec. 23 and 30) - Billy Byers (Bernie Glow, Urbie Green, Al Cohn, Moe Wechsler, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for Victor (Jazz Workshop) 1957 (also Dec. 2) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (The Girl's Suite and the Perfume Suite) 1957 - Chet Baker (Jim Buffington, Gene Allen, Russ Saunders, etc...) record session for World Pacific 1959 - Ernie Wilkins (Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Jones, Eddie Costa, Eddie Jones, Charles Persip) record session for Everest (Here Comes the Swingin' Mr. Wilkins) 1959 - Frank Strozier (Booker Little, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Vee Jay (Fantastic Frank Strozier) 1960 - Kenny Dorham Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Garrison, Art Taylor) record session for Time (Showboat) 1961 - Billy Byers (Ernie Royal, Joe Newman,Clark Terry, Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Eric Dixon, Patti Bown, Milt Hinton, etc...) record session for Mercury (Impressions of Duke Ellington) 1961 - Ike Quebec (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton, Al Harewood) record session for BN (It Might As Well Be Spring) 1963 - Milt Jackson Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones, Bob Cranshaw, Al Heath) at the Village Gate, released on Riverside (Milt Jackson Live at the Village Gate) 1963 (see also Nov. 29) - Freddie Roach (Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, Eddie Wright, Clarence Johnston) record session for BN (Good Move) 1964 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (A Love Supreme) 1964 (also Dec. 14) - Milt Jackson Jimmy Heath, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Connie Kay) record session for Limelight (In a New Setting) 1968 - Kenny Cox (Charles Moore, Leon Henderson, Ron Brooks, Danny Spencer) record session for BN (Introducing Kenny Cox) 1975 - Sam Rivers (Ted Dunbar, Dave Holland, Barry Altshul, Warren Smith) record session for Impulse (Sizzle) 1981 (thru Dec. 15) - Sonny Rollins (Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Broom, Bob Cranshaw, Tony Williams) record session for Milestone (No Problem) 1983 - Mal Waldron Trio (Reggie Workman, Ed Blackwell) record session for PaddleWheel (You and the Night and the Music)

More about Kenyon Hopkins with lots of audio samples!

Joyeux anniversaire, David Wishing you a very good one

Gil Evans 'Where Flamingos Fly' (Artists House/King Japan)

The book has not been published in France. Looks interesting. Hodeir always has fresh perspectives on the developments of jazz!

Strange that the new releases cannot be shipped by now. The usual record stores in Paris all carry the new releases.

December 8: 1928 - Earl Hines records piano solo session for QRS 1932 - Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra (Louis Bacon, Charlie Green, Edgar Sampson, Don Kirkpatrick, Chick Webb, Mezz Mezzrow, etc...) record session for Victor ('That's My Home', 'Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train', etc...) 1947 (also Dec. 9 and 10) - Rex Stewart (Sandy Williams, Don Gais, Ted Curry, etc...) record session for Blue Star 1952 (thru Dec. 13) - Charlie Parker (Joe Gordon, Bill Wellington, Dick Twardzik, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes) at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston, released on Charlie Parker Records 1953 - Ben Webster (Harry Edison, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Alvin Stoller) record session for Norgran (The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster) 1955 - Gene Quill (Dick Sherman, Dick Katz, Teddy Kotick, Osie Johnson) record session for Dawn (Jazzville 1956, vol. 1) 1956 - Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) at the Blue Note, Philadelphia, released on Teppa and other labels 1956 - Doug Watkins Sextet (Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Duke Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Art Taylor) record session for Transition (Watkins at Large) 1957 - Miles Davis (Barney Wilen, René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) concert at the Amsterdam Councertgebouw, released on Celluloid (Amsterdam Concert) 1957 - The Sound of Jazz (Cound Basie All Stars, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Giuffre, etc...) appear on the 'Sound of Jazz' TV show, sountrack released on Pumpkin (The Real Sound of Jazz) 1957 - Sonny Clark Quintet (Clifford Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Pete LaRoca) record session for BN (Sonny Clark Quintet) 1959 - Paul Smith Trio (Leroy Vinnegar, Stan Levey) record session for Verve (The Big Men) 1959 - Frank Wess (Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller, Charles Fowlkes, Hank Jones, Eddie Jones, Gus Johnson) record session for Savoy (Opus de Blues) 1960 (also Dec. 16) - Les Spann (Julius Watkins, Tommy Flanagan, Sam Jones, Al Heath) record session for Jazzland (Gemini) 1960 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merrit) in concert at the Theatre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, released on TCB (Lausanne 1960) 1965 (also Jan. 26, Feb. 11 and 16, 1966) - Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Gene Wright, Joe Morello) record session for Columbia (Anything Goes) 1973 (also Dec. 11 and 18) - Lou Donaldson (Joe Venuto, Derek Smith, Richard Davis, etc...) record session for BN (Sophisticated Lou) 1985 - Paul Bley Trio (Jesper Lundgaard, Billy Hart) record session for SteepleChase (My Standard)