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Another Tina Brooks LP on the way up! True Blue And four more days to go up...

Happy Birthday, Dat Dere and don't hesitate to post more often...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers 'The Big Beat' (63rd DG mono) One of the very best Messengers albums!

I saw them all and still have several of them, including the two Errol Garner twelve-inchers 'Overture to Dawn' and 'Yesterdays'. The series was produced by good friend Gilles Gautherin who was working out of the United Artists offices less than a block from the place where I was working in. The releases of the Garner sides brought him trouble with the head office (probably after Martha Glaser made threatening call to UA over the reissues). Other reissues from the series which were very welcome because the originals were very hard to get were the Tal Farlow 'Early Tal' (early BN sessions), the Bill Perkins 'Tenors Head-On' (from Liberty) and the Marsh 'Jazz of Two Cities'.

Coleman Hawkins went solo as far back as 1945. Check his recording of 'Hawk's Variations'. Available on thisClassics

The Blakey - Live Messengers is glossy!

Bertrand, Andrew Hill/One For One Side 1: - One For One - Diddy Wah - Without Malice Side 2: - Poinsettia - Illusion - Fragments Side 3: - Euterpe - Erato - Pax Side 4: - Eris - Calliope Side 1 was coupled with side 4. Side 2 was coupled with side 3. Et voila!

November 18: 1934 - Coleman Hawkins (Stanley Black, Albert Harris, Tiny Winters) record session for Parlophone 1941 - Jay McShann Orchestra (Buddy Anderson, probably John Jackson, Gene Ramey, Gus Johnson, etc...) broadcast from Chicago, released on various labels 1949 - Joe Morris ((Johnny Griffin, Elmo Hope, Al Jones, etc...) record session for Decca 1952 - Gene Ammons (Johnny Coles, Lino Murray, etc...) record session for United 1952 (also Dec. 10) - Billy Taylor Trio (Earl May, Charlie Smith) record session for Prestige (Billy Taylor Trio) 1953 - Zoot Sims (Frank Rosolino, Henri Renaud, Jimmy Gourley, Don Bagley, Jean-Louis Viale) record session for Vogue (Jazztime in Paris) 1955 - Kenny Drew (Jack Sheldon, Joe Maini, Leroy Vinnegar, Lawrence Marable) record session for Jazz West (Talkin' and Walkin') 1957 - Lee Morgan Quartet (Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor) record session for BN (Candy) 1958 - Johnny Hodges (Horst Jankowski, Russ Garcia, strings) record session for Verve (Johnny Hodges With Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin) 1960 (also Nov. 30, etc...) - Gil Evans and his Orchestra (Johnny Coles, Jimmy Knepper, Bill Barber, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, Elvin Jones, Charles Persip, etc...) record session for Impulse (Out of the Cool) 1961 - John Coltrane Quintet (Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) concert at L'Olympia, released on Magnetic (The Complete Paris Concerts) 1963 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (Coltrane Live at Birdland) 1964 -Donald Byrd (Jimmy Heath, McCoy Tyner, Walter Booker, Joe Chambers) record session for BN (Mustang!) 1968 - Houston Person (Billy Gardner, Ivan Boogalo Jo Jones, Frankie Jones, etc...) record session for Prestige (Soul Dance) 1975 - Duke Jordan (Richard Williams, Charlie Rouse, Sam Jones, Al Foster) record session for SteepleChase ((Duke's Delight - Lover Man) 1985 - Mal Waldron Duo (David Friesen) record session for Soul Note (Dedication)

June 1954 is probably when the photos were made and that session was held. The 'Now's The Time' book has a cover shot of Rolleiflex-equiped Marcel Fleiss taking a closeup shot of Thelonious Monk practising at the piano during the 1954 Jazz Fair (Salon du Jazz). Monk was one of the festival stars. The book incidentally has several unusual shots of Monk taken at the time of the festival including one showing him at Fleiss' Paris home caught reading what must be the European edition of the then New York Herald Tribune. Monk is seated on a couch with Sacha Distel on one side and drummer Frank Isola (who was playing with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet) on the other side. Too bad that the session with Joe Harriott never surfaced!

Count Basie Clef/Verve, discs 7 and 8. Knew all this stuff but I really did enjoy relistening to those marvelouis sides. Also found the liner notes by Chris Albertson to be full of insight and interesting informations. Excellent job overall!

After warning people to wait some time for a first taste of the 2005 Beaujolais, I did succomb to the brouhaba! Got a bottle pf Beaujolais Village Nouveau from Joseph Drouhin which turned out to be quite enjoyable. With no (or at least very little) chemistry enhancement. Pretty true to what the wine should taste. It went down with Saucisson from Lyon and other unmentionable charcuteries.

Tjobbe, got mine this morning. Looking forward to listen to it!

November 17: 1943 (also Dec. 15) - James P. Johnson piano solo session for BN (Rent Party) 1952 - Don Elliott (Kai Winding, Phil Urso, Danny Bank, Jimmy Lyon, Arnold Fishkin, Sid Bulkin) record session for Savoy 1955 - Johnny Coates Trio (Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (Johnny Coates Jr. At The Piano) 1957 - Billy Ver Planck (Joe Wilder, Clyde Raesinger, Bill Haris, Phil Woods, Seldon Powell, Gene Allen, Eddie Costa, George Duvivier, Bobby Donaldson) record session for Savoy (Jazz For Playgirls) 1958 - Benny Golson Quintet (Lee Morgan, Ray Bryant, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones) record session for UA (Benny Golson and the Philadelphians) 1959 (also November 18) - Philly Joe Jones (Blue Mitchell, Julian Priester, Bill Baron, Pepper Adams, Dolo Coker, Jimmy Garrison, etc...) record session for Riverside (Showcase) 1959 - Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Hodges Quintet (Claude Williamson, Buddy Clark, Mel Lewis) record session for Verve (Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges) 1960 (also November 21, 23) - Kai Winding (Ephie Resnick, Tom Studd, Ross Tompkins, Bob Cranshaw, Al Beldini) record session for Impulse (The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones) 1961 - Shirley Scott Trio (Henry Grimes, Otis Finch) record session fpr Prestige (Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver), then... ... Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine (George Tucker, Otis Finch) record session for Prestige (Hip Twist) 1962 - Lee Morgan Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, Spanky DeBrest, Al Heath) at Birdland, released on Ozone and other labels 1965 - Sonny Murray (Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Henry Grimes, Lewis Worrell, Amin Baraka) record session for Jihad (Sonny's Time Now) 1966 - Blue Mitchell (Julian Priester, Junior Cook, Pepper Adams, Cedar Walton, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor, Mickey Roker) record session for BN (Boss Horn) 1967 - Blue Mitchell (Julian Priester, Junior Cook, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Gene Taylor, Al Foster, etc...) record session for BN (Heads Up) 1974 - Oscar Peterson Trio (NHOP, Jake Hanna) concert in Tallinn, released on Pablo (Oscar Peterson in Russia)

The enf of the Turkey vs. Switzerland match in Istanbul turned ugly when Turkish players turned bad losers and attacked Swiss players in the stadium tunnel on their way to the locker room, after Turkey won 4-2 but failed to qualify on goals differentials. From the AP story on the incidents:

Another good one goes away

John, there is an interesting article in today's edition of Le Monde that mentions Duboeuf's woes: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...6-710762,0.html If I remember well, you have no problems with the french language so the story should go down easy! As for drinking Beaujolais Nouveau, short of drinking it right out of the barrel, a trip to the area of to the good city of Lyon is always quite an experience. Too bad that the local winegrowers produced too many doctored bottles to suit the taste of new customers. There is still good Beaujolais being made, but you have to be very selective about it. Beaujolais land never produced great wines but kept putting out for decades bottles that were so enjoyable to drink. A pity these are hard to find nowadays.

Still available at Amazon.fr One to get. Expensive but so much MUSIC inside!

A bit early for Beaujolais Nouveau but just about time for Chateau Margaux 1975. Excellent year which should be drunk by now. Wish I could drink from that one

THe memories of the Benny Goodman appearance are a bit lost in a fog. I took photos from the set and most of them show Doc Cheatham play with a mute!

Pinky Winters! Six albums only in a very long career. All very hard to get but very much worth the search!

The 2005 Beaujolais Nouveau wine goes on sale at 2300GMT today. Beaujolais Nouveau parties will be going through the country tonight. It will make a nice change from the recent car-burning competitions! The year's crop should be good. Just a reminder that there is no need to rush to taste the Nouveau wine. Much too early. Wait a couple of months before enjoying it! There are a lot of older wines to be tasted while waiting It's been a bad year for Beaujolais winegrowers with sales of their wines on the down side. The area winegrowers - most of them at least - have only themselves to blame after inflating prices of their wines, adding sugar to 'improve' the taste, or deliberately cheating like Beaujolais top grower Georges Duboeuf who is facing an inquiry for selling wines with the Beaujolais labels that included wines from non-Beaujolais areas. Very strictly prohibited in the French wine trade! I'll enjoy wine later today, as I have for so many years. But no Beaujolais Nouveau right now!

Eddie Costa 'House of Blue Lights' (Japanese reissue of Dot LP)

In a photo book I recently purchased on photographer Marcel Fleiss ('Now's The Time', Editions Bleu Outre-Mers) there are two photos from a record session made in Paris (no date, but obviously around 1953). Photos show Joe Harriott, with a French-British group that include pianist René Urtregrer, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, drummer Jean-Louis Viale. Any idea if the session was ever issued?

Can't say when precisely but 'Soul Station' was released on schedule after its 1960 recording date. The 1987 date probably refers to one of the several rereleases of the album.

Bertrand, just hope that Fred Jackson is still alive! All I know he is not playing anymore and that is what I miss!