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Wow! Many thanks to all! Today is going to be a low-key affair (but with good music, food, wine, cigar et al!). The real affair will be held in Bordeaux where my better half and I travel at the end of the week to help our son move into his new place!

The Discoveries CD is listed here: http://www.soundcity2000.com/cd_az/cd07/T0763.HTML

Frank Butler 'Wheelin' and Dealin'' (Xanadu)

Some of the prices quoted from the PJC website tend to be on the expensive side but the quotes in the Cote Européenne book look pretty accurate. By the way Clifford, Ichecked the book for a couple of Brotzmann FMP vinyls. They are listed in the €21-30 range which seems OK.

October 27: 1930 - The Jungle Band (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra) record session for Brunswick ('Wang Wang blues', 'Home Again Blues') 1952 - Bengt Hallberg (Arne Domnerus, Ynegeve Akerberg, Jack Noren) record session for Metronome 1953 - Chet Baker Quartet (Russ Freeman, Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne) record session for Pacific Jazz, released on the Mosaic Complete Chet Baker PJ Studio Sessions set) 1954 - Oscar Peterson Quartet (Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson) record session for Clef (Recltal) 1955 - Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for Columbia (Round About Midnight) 1955 (also Oct. 28) - Cannonball Adderley (strings, Richard Hayman) record session for EmArcy (The Lush Side of Cannonball Adderley) 1957 - Modern Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay) concert at Donaueschingen, released on MPS (The Historic Donaueschingen Jazz Concert) 1957 - Kid Ory (Marty Marsala, Darnell Howard, Cedric Haywood, etc...) record session for Verve (The Original Jazz) 1959 (also Oct. 28, 30) - Bev Kelly (Harry Edison, Jerome Richardson, Jimmy Jones, Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Roy Haynes/Osie Johnson) record session for Riverside (Love Locked Out) 1959 - Bill Henderson (Booker Little, Bernard McKinney, Yusef Lateef, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for VeeJay (Bill Henderson Sings) 1961 - Grant Green Quartet (Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (First Session) 1962 - Max Roach (Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron, Eddie Khan) record session for Fantasy (Speak Brother Speak) 1965 - Booker Ervin and Dexter Gordon (Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman, Alan Dawson) record session for Prestige (Settin' the Pace) 1965 - Booker Ervin (same rhythm section) record session for Prestige (The Trance) 1967 - Lou Donaldson (Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Ponder, Leo Morris) record session for BN (Mr. Shing a Ling) 1968 - Al Cohn and Zoot Sims (Dave Frishberg, Victor Sproles, Donald McDonald) concert at Baltimore's Famous Ballroom, released on M Records (Live at the West Bank) 1969 - Miles Davis Quintet (Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack de Johnette) concert at at Rome's Teatro Sistina, released on Moon (Double Image) 1969 - Sonny Stitt (Don Patterson, Pat Martino, Randy Gelispie) record session for Prestige (Night Letter) 1972 - Sam Rivers Trio (Richard Davis, Warren Smith) concert at Oakland University, released on Impulse (Hues) 1977 (also Oct. 28) - Zoot Sims Quartet (Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz, Mousey Alexander) record session for Pablo (If I'm Lucky)

The French Fontana operation was part of the Philips conglomerate. The Miles Davis soundtrack to the film 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud' and the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers soundtrack to the film 'Des Femmes Disparaissent', also for 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' originally appeared with the Fontana imprint. A number more of jazz interest albums also came out on French Fontana.

Paris Jazz Corner does not have copies of this any more, from what I remember. If I run into a secondhand copy (I have seen a couple of those), I'll PM you

The Complete Johnny Hodges Verve 1956-61, disc 2... ... next disc 3

You mean the 'Cote Europeennedu Jazz' book that came out in 2002? Written by PJC headman Arnaud Boubet. I find that one pretty accurate and obviously the people dealing with vinyls use the book as reference from what I see in secondhand shops and record conventions.

The Columbia session took place on October 27, 1955 and will be included tomorrow 'Sweet Sue' was recorded on October 10, 1956. All infos from the Jan Lohman Miles Davis discography.

Absolutely, it's been changed to the proper year now!

Only 3 left now. My set is on its way to Paris

Teddy Wilson 'I Got Rhythm' (Verve mono) (with Gene Ramey and Jo Jones)

You must have it by now

Pasta, for what it's worth, a number of Mainstream albums were released in France - in parallel to their US appearances -via the Sonopresse distributors with lookalike (but glossy) covers.

October 26: 1926 - Blythe's Washboard Ragmuffins (Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Blythe, Jimmy Bertrand) record session for Paramount 1927 - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (Bubber Miley, Joe Nanton, Otto Hardwicke, Harry Carney, Wellman Braud, Sonny Greer, etc...) record session for Victor ('Creole Love Call', 'Black and Tan Fantasy', etc...) 1944 - James P. Johnson's Blue Note Jazzmen (Sidney de Paris, Vic Dickenson, Edmund Hall, Jimmy Shirley, Al Lucas, Arthur Trappier) record session for BN 1945 - Django Reinhardt and the Air Transport Command Band AFN radio program released on Vogue and various labels 1956 - Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for Prestige (Cookin' - Relaxin' - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet) 1958 (also Oct. 27) - Chico Hamilton Quintet (Eric Dolphy, Dennis Budimir, Nathan Gershan, Wyatt Ruther, string) record session for WB (With String Attached) 1959 - Randy Weston (Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis/Roy Haynes) at the Five Spot, released on UA (Randy Weston at the Five Spot) 1959 (thru Oct. 29) - Phineas Newborn Trio (John Simmons, Roy Haynes) record session for Roulette (I Love a Piano) 1960 - Lightnin' Hopkins (Sonny Terry, Leonard Gaskin, Belton Evans) record session for Bluesville (Last Night Blues) 1961 - Jackie McLean (Tommy Turrentine, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (A Fickle Sonance) 1962 - Charles Mingus (Ed Armour, Don Butterfield, Charles McPherson, Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond) at Birdland, released on Ozone 1964 (also Oct. 29) - Lionel Hampton (Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson) record session for Impulse (You Better Know It!!!) 1972 (also Oct. 28 and Nov. 4) - Dave Brubeck (Paul Desmond, Jack Six, Alan Dawson) at the Paris Olympia, released on Atlantic (We're All Together Again For the First Time)

Happy Birthday, Daniel Wishing you great success with your endeavours!

Still listed for Oct. 30 release here:Amazon.fr

They sound good to me but I'm no audiophile! ← I'm being tempted

Sonny Rollins 'Movin' Out' with Thelonious Monk/Kenny Dorham (Prestige 50th St.)

The looks are good but I have no idea how they sound. I have stayed away from their releases so far. The Gambit albums I have seen are an odd mix from various sessions and from various labels (Verve, BN, Pacific Jazz, UA, Decca, etc...). I'm usually pretty open about these Spanish-Andorran releases but these Gambits are quite an odd mix and do not feel right!

You may! Quality boots... but boots!

When King Japan reissued those Contemporary vinyls, they stuck to the original designs of the 12". What a great set of reissues these were! The King reissue LP I have has that color shot of Kessel by William Claxton.

The one on the right is the original 12" release (sorry, Jim and hoping, I won't be proved wrong...). Always pretty difficult to identify a genuine Contemporary original release. My take on this is that if you have problems pulling out the vinyl from the album cover and reinserting it back, it is an original Always had problem with those original albums and I was afraid of tearing the jacket apart every time I pulled the vinyl out. The later issues had slightly larger jackets.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers at Club Saint-Germain (1958, RCA) should be on the list.