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not 14 October 1960? ← Various sites - and the Lord - indicate October 13. Mosaic and Claude Schlouch say October 14. I won't fight those two Editing now... It will be back tomorrow

Peas in a pod. ← Oooh yes... Yours is bigger than mine I blame my parents

Wish I could share your enthusiasm. The only action I'll probably remember from yesterday's match with be Zidane's opening goal. A masterpiece! But seeing the French team fighting to the last minute for its place in the World Cup in one of the less difficult qualifying groups leaves me little hope for our chances in Germany! Hope I'll be proved wrong

October 13: 1937 - Count Basie and his Orchestra record session for Decca ('Out the Window', 'Don't You Miss Your Baby') 1950 - Red Norvo Trio (Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus) record session for Discovery 1957 - Sonny Clark Trio (Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for BN ('The Sonny Clark Trio) 1957 - Frank Foster (Donald Byrd, Henry Coker, Ronnell Bright, Eddie Jones, Gus Johnson) record session for Savoy (Jazz Is Busting Out All Over - Two Franks, Please) 1957 (also Oct. 6 and 7) - Tony Scott and the All Stars (Joe Thomas, Red Rodney, Jimmy Knepper, PeeWee Russell, Coleman Hawkins, Tommy Flanagan, George Wallington, Oscar Pettiford, etc...) record session for Coral (52nd Street Scene) 1958 - Cecil Taylor Quintet (Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes) record session for UA (Hard Drive) 1960 - Miles Davis Quintet (Sonny Stitt, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) concert released on Dragon (Live in Stockholm) 1960 - Lennie McBrown Quintet (Don Sleet, Daniel Jackson, Terry Trotter, Jimmy Bond) record session for Riverside (Eastern Lights) 1960 -Dexter Gordon Sextet (Martin Banks, Richard Boone, Dolo Coker, Charles Green, Lawrence Marable) record session for Jazzland (The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon) 1962 - The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkin, Bill Dowdy) record session for Verve (Blue Genes) 1966 - Charles McPherson Quintet (Lonnie Hillyer, Barry Harris, Raymond McKinney, Billy Higgins) at the Five Spot, released on Prestige (The Quintet! Live!) 1967 - Houston Person (Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, Lennie McBrown, Ralph Dorsey) record session for Prestige (Trust In Me) 1971 - Ornette Coleman (Dewey Redman, Charles Haden, Ed Blackwell, Billy Higgins, etc...) record session for Columbia (Science Fiction) 1972 - Jimmy McGriff, Lucky Thompson (Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes, etc...) and others at Cook County Jail, released on Groove Merchant (Friday the Thirteenth)

The lineup tells it all: Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons (Stockholm), Walter Davis (Lausanne), Jymie Merritt, Bu. Lausanne official recording by Swiss national radio, Stockholm official recording by Swedish national radio. Do I need to add more??

October 28: Andy Bey (same year, too!), Bill Harris Also born thay day: Jonas Salk, Bill Gates, Julia Roberts

Even with a 4-0 victory over Cyprus, France failed to impress. But at least they qualified for the World Cup

It's still halftime now. Going back to sit in front of the TV set to watch that second half...

Outstanding photo by Jim Marshall who was on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine back in 1971. I still have a copy of the issue with the Miles Davis spread somewhere. Miles at the gym

Japanese Warner reissued this a few years ago. Not Jordan's best. 'These Are My Roots' on Atlantic from the same era is the one to get!

Rene Urtreger Trio with Paul Rovere and Al Levitt (Versailles, Japanese Sketch reissue)

More photos from a true giant of Photography W. Eugene Smith The link includes the portrait of Thelonious Monk which was on the cover of the Columbia album 'Monk.'

The Big Heat is worth checking out for sure... http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:5428~C ← 'Big Heat' is a must-see film. With a number of incredible scenes and great acting (love Gloria Graham in that one!). But most of the films Lang directed in Hollywood are highly recommended. Lang started very strong when he went there. 'Fury' (with Spencer Tracy) and 'You only Live Once' (with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sydney are gripping indictement of the judiciary system. The war films ('Hangmen Also Die', 'Cloak and Dagger' with a superb performance by Gary Cooper, and 'Ministry of Fear') are genuine masterpieces too. Skip 'American Guerrilla in the Philippines', a rare bad one from Lang. More masterpieces are the two films he directed by Joan Bennett 'The Woman in the Window' (with Edward G. Robinson) and 'Scarlet Street'. And my favorite of them all: 'Moonfleet' with Stewart Granger and George Sanders, a late film in his career but one of his more personal epic.

October 12: 1939 - Lionel Hampton (Henry Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Earl Bostic, Clyde Hart, Charlie Christian, Artie Bernstein, Sidney Catlett) record session for Victor 1945 - Art Hodes Hot Five (Wild Bill Davison, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, Fred Moore) record session for BN 1949 - James Moody (Arne Domnerus, Gosta Theselius, etc...) record session for Metronome ('I'm in The Mood For Love', etc...) 1951 - Jazz At The Philharmonic (Joe Newman, Bennie Green, Sonny Criss, Eddie Davis, Bobby Tucker, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clarke) concert at the Shrine Auditorium, released on Pablo under the name of Sonny Criss (Intermission Riff) 1954 - Phil Woods Quintet (Jon Eardley, George Syran, Teddy Kotick, Nick Stabulas) record sesion for Prestige Phil Woods New Jazz Quintet) 1954 - Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Bob Bates, Joe Dodge) at Basin Street, released on Columbia (Jazz, Red, Hot and Cool) 1955 (also Oct. 17) - Herbie Mann and Sam Most (Joe Puma, Jimmy Gannon, Lee Kleinman) record session for Bethlehem (Herbie Mann/Sam Most Quintet) 1956 - Zoot Sims Quartet (Johnny Williams, Knobby Totah, Gus Johnson) record session for Argo (Zoot) 1957 - Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz (Lou Levy, Ray Brown, Stan Levey) record session for Verve (Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz) 1959 - Oscar Peterson Trio (Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen) record session for Verve (Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy and Bess) 1960 - Wes Montgomery (James Clay, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes) record session for Riverside (Movin' Along) 1961 (also Oct. 13) - Herb Ellis Quartet (Victor Feldman, Leroy Vinnegar, Ronny Zito) record session for Verve (Softly... But With That Feeling) 1961 (also Oct. 20) - Leo Parker (Dave Burns, Bill Swindell, John Acea, Stan Conover, Purnell Rice) record session for BN (Rollin' With Leo) 1962 (thru Oct. 15) - Anita O'Day and The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkin, Bill Dowdy) record session for Verve (Anita O'Day and The Three Sounds) 1962 - Charles Mingus (Clark Terry, Richard Williams, Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Mariano, Zoot Sims, Pepper Adams, Toshiko Akyoshi, Jaki Byard, etc...) concert at Town Hall released on UA (Charles Mingus Town Hall Concert) 1970 - Houston Person (Virgil Jones, Grant Green, Jimmy Lewis, etc...) record session for Prestige (Person to Person)

I won't even deny that 'Metropolis' is a masterpiece. Just that its content cannot be overlooked. Hope the new Paris Cinematheque will show this soon. My first viewing of the film was at a Fritz Lang retrospective at the Cinematheque of Henri Langlois days. I was stunned by the film...in various ways!

From the Ravi Coltrane interview on the release of the Half Note material on Impulse in The New York Times today: It is evident that Ravi Coltrane is more interested in getting money out of the family's jewels than in providing his father's music to fans. I have spent enough money on purchasing the originals, then the reissue with a couple of additional tracks, then the re-reissue with the additional alternates. I won't spend money on this Impulse issue and will keep enjoying the much more complete bootleg material I have from Trane at the Half Note. To hell with Ravi

'M' is a true masterpiece. I have strong reservations about the content of 'Metropolis'. No wonder that one of the first items on Joseph Goebbel's agenda after Hitler took power was to meet Fritz Lang and ask him to direct more of this type of films. From what I remember of past readings, Lang left Germany soon after this appointment.

I'd rather put it differently: the sound pretty much sucks, but you can make out the instruments... -_- ← OK I was trying to be polite about it. The sound indeed sucks but I get all excited when I listen to treasures like that. ...also you have digital-atuned ears I was raised on clicks and pops and getting kicks out of those Charlie Christian recordings from the Minton's or Monroe's

I have no doubt about it. That's Dolphy! At his formative stage but the style is qui recognizable...

There are several good recreations of 'Creole Love Call' by the Ellington band. I have a special fondness for the 1949 version (with Kay Davis, Hodges and Ray Nance) because it's one of the very first Duke I heard and loved! It's available on this Classics You can sample the audio...

← Hi Art! Lo Fi! That one is plain excellent. The great quintet caught live in an on night. And a rare opportunity to hear Richie Powell at length! The audio is a mess but this is one rare opportunity to listen to music from this creative band at its best!

October 11: 1924 - The Sioux City Six (Bix Beiderbecke, Miff Mole, Min Leibrook, Frank Trumbauer, Rube Bloom, Vic Berton) record session for Gennett 1935 - Stephane Grappelli and his Hot Four (Django Reinhardt, Joseph Reinhardt, Baro Ferret, Louis Vola) record session for Decca 1944 - Walter 'Foots' Thomas All Stars (Jonah Jones, Eddie Barefield, Hilton Jefferson, Coleman Hawkins, Clyde Hart, Milt Hinton, Cozy Cole) record session for Joe Davis 1948 - McGhee/Navarro Boptet (Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro, Ernie Henry, Milt Jackson, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke) record session for BN 1953 - Gigi Gryce and his Orchestra (Clifford Brown, Jimmy Cleveland, Anthony Ortega, Clifford Solomon, Quincy Jones, Marcel Dutrieux, Jean-Louis Viale) record session for Vogue 1955 - Chet Baker Quartet (Dick Twardzik, Jimmy Bond, Peter Littman) record session for Barclay 1955 - John Williams Trio (Ernie Farrow, Frank Isola) record session for EmArcy (The John Williams Trio) 1957 - Herb Ellis (Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz, Ray Brown, Stan Levey) record session for Verve (Nothing But the Blues) 1957 - Sonny Stitt (Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown,Stan Levey) record session for Verve (Only the Blues) 1957 - Yusef Lateef Quintet (Wilbur Harden, Hugh Lawson, Ernie Farrow, Oliver Jackson) record session for New Jazz/Prestige (The Sounds of Yusef - Other Sounds) 1957 - Roy Eldridge and the Russell Garcia Orchestra record session for Verve (That Warm Feeling) 1960 - Wayne Shorter Quartet (Cedar Walton, Bob Cranshaw, Art Blakey) record session for VeeJay (Second Genesis) 1960 - James Clay (Nat Adderley, Victor Feldman, Gene Harris, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes) record session for Riverside (A Double Dose of Soul) 1960 - Miles Davis Quintet (Sonny Stitt, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) concert at the Paris Olympia, released on Trema and various labels (En Concert Avec Europe 1) 1966 (also Oct. 12) The Jazz Corps (Tommy Peltier, Roland Kirk, Bill Plummer, etc...) record session for Pacific Jazz 'The Jazz Corps under the Direction of Tommy Peltier) 1966 - Sam Rivers Quartet (Hal Galper, Herbie Lewis, Steve Ellington) record session for BN (A New Conception) 1968 - Andrew Hill (Charles Tolliver, Joe Farrell, Victor Sproles, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Dance With Death) 1980 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Billy Pierce, James Williams, Charles Farmbrough) at Bubba's Jazz restaurant, released on Break Time

Phililogy released that practice years ago (before CD time). He plays 'Cheerokee' on trumpet, also on piano. Even as a Brownie completist, I would not recommend it. Forget about it and save your money The rest of the documents unearthed by Philology is much more interesting.

I heard them. The Clifford Browns (not the Ornette). The Eric Dolphy session is a rehearsal tape for the Brown-Roach Quintet with Harold Land and Richie Powell. And it is just that. Sound is not very good, but acceptable. Dolphy shows up on two tracks on the Philology material I heard (very briefly on a short duo track with Clifford Brown on piano and longer on the final track). This looks and sounds like one of the Eight Wonders of the World but it is not. Does not compare with the Booker Little/Eric Dolphy night at the Five Spot or the Brown-Roach concert released on Gene Norman. Those musicians are just jamming and trying several tunes. For Brownie completists. I am one