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The last one was MJCD 202, Billie Holiday, Vol. 17: June-September 1949, released 27 May 2002 "7" ← Volume 18 of the Billie Holiday series was scheduled for release but I don't think it ever made it to the stores. I have never seen a copy of it. The final Masters of Jazz to be issued were volume 7 of the Wardell Gray series and volume 5 of the Getz. That was it

This Billie Holiday discography could be of help: http://www.billieholiday.be/

That's from a January 1945 concert in Los Angeles. It was issued on the Masters of Jazz CD vol. 14 of their Billie Holiday series. This one! Out of print by now. And pretty hard to get...

October 8: 1924 - The Wolverines (Bix Beiderbecke, George Brunis, Vic Moore, etc...) record session for Gennett 1946 - Lennie Tristano Trio (Billy Bauer, Clyde Lombardi) record session for Keynote 1950 - Sonny Stitt (Matthew Gee, Gene Ammons, Junior Mance, Gene Wright, etc...) record session for Prestige 1951 - Shorty Rogers and his Giants (John Graas, Gene Englund, Art Pepper, Jimmy Giuffre, Hampton Hawes, Don Bagley, Shelly Manne) record session for Capitol (Modern Sounds) 1953 - Gigi Gryce/Clifford Brown Sextet (Henri Renaud, Jimmy Gourley, Pierre Michelot, Jean-Louis Viale) record session for Vogue (Clifford Brown in Paris) 1958 - Eddie Barclay et son orchestre (Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, etc...) record session for Barclay (Confetti) 1959 - The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andy Simpkins, Bill Dowy) record session for BN (Standards) 1959 (also Oct. 8) - Ornette Coleman Quartet (Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins) record session for Atlantic (Change of the Century) 1963 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) at Birdland, released on Impulse (Live at Birdland) 1964 - A.K. Salim (Johnny Coles, Pat Patrick, Yusef Lateef, etc...) record session for Prestige (Afro Soul Drum Orgy) 1965 - Andrew Hill( Freddie Hubbard, John Gilmore, Cecil McBee, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers, etc...) record session for BN (Compulsion!!)

He just couldn't take attacks from Pasta anymore

More Lucky Thompson, with Milt Jackson... Now spinning: Milt Jackson 'Second Nature, The Savoy Sessions' (Savoy twofer)

Milt Jackson 'Plenty, Plenty Soul' (Atlantic black label) Hadn't listened to that one for several years. What a magnificient album!

Strange, I feel like I am starting to understand some spanish But let's not start a 'who complains more' competition now. As I stated at the beginning of my post, I really think this is a very well done selection...

Cecil Taylor "Unit structures" and Bud Powell" Jazz Giant are on the 40 "Complementaries" list. ← Yes, but they are on the second list, somehow like second-class citizens while people like Marsalis, Steve Coleman, Jarrett ride first class. Those - and a couple of others - are not high on my jazz totem pole. CT, Bud Powell and Prez are right at the top! I just wish they had been given preference...

I should say Uptown does not have it. I have not heard it but I know who has it. Clunky, the Fru 'n' Brew Uptown project is still possible but not a current priority. ← All I hope is that it surfaces some day so that everybody can enjoy it!

Marcus is currently enjoying Paris. I ran into him this morning (Paris can be pretty provincial!) and told him about the thread. He is away from computers while traveling through Europe but he will be back posting when he gets home! If he can make it... From what he told me, he is buying tons of CDs.

Thanks to EKE BBB and Fer Urbina for the comments on the selection. This must have been a difficult task. Some brief reservations: I do not agree with some of the selected releases. I'm fine with JSP but then why not include Catalunyan or Andorran CDs? But that's minor. Problem is the post-1960 picks. No Cecil Taylor? Or the AEC (the Bowie is good but not up to some of the best AEC material). Are they less acceptable (or palatable) than Keith Jarrett or Steve Coleman? Not to speak of Marsalis. I can guess at the reasons these were included but we're dealing with 'some of the best jazz recorded'. Do the selected records from them really qualify? Or did I miss something? And the near absence of Lester Young (at least he is on Basie and Lady Day selections) and Bud Powell (nowhere in sight) sides is a major flaw! That said! I can see the difficulty in the pickings from the various eras. Hey, I'm French and French people always complain

Chuck, did you listen to it? Is this as good as the Fruscella Atlantic album? I'm pretty sure it is. And if so, is there any way this can be released legally? On Atlantic,? Rhino? Uptown? Anywhere else?

October 7: 1924 - Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green, Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Kaiser Marshall, etc...) record session for Columbia ('Manda', 'Go 'long Mule') 1946 - Jazz at the Philharmonic (Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, Willie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Flip Phillips, Kenny Kersey, Buddy Rich, etc...) concert at the Philharmonic, released on Clef/Verve 1949 - Arne Domnerus Favourite Group (Leppe Sundevall, James Moody, Gosta Theselius, etc...) record session for Metronome 1953 - Sonny Rollins (John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige (Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet) 1957 - Warne Marsh Quartet (Joe Albany, Bob Whitlock, Red Martinson) at Dana Point, released on VSOP (Live at Dana Point) 1957 - Teddy Wilson (with the Joe Lippman Orchestra) record session for Verve 1959 - George Lewis Band (Andy Anderson, Bob Mielke, Joe Robicheaux, Alcide 'Slow Drag' Pavageau, Joe Watkins) record session for Verve (Blues From the Bayou) 1960 - Lem Winchester Quartet (Richard Wyands, George Duvivier, Roy Haynes) record session for Moodsville (With Feeling) 1962 - Eric Dolphy (Ed Armour, Herbie Hancock, Richard Davis, Edgar Bateman) at the Gaslight Inn, released on Ingo and various labels 1964 - Gary McFarland (Jimmy Cleveland, Seldon Powell, Patti Bown, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kenny Burrell, Richard Davis, etc...) record session for Verve (Soft Samba) 1965 (also Oct. 8 and 9) - Count Basie and his Orchestra (Sonny Cohn, Al Grey, Eddie Davis, Eric Dixon, Freddie Green, Norman Keenan, Rufus Jones, etc...) record session for Verve (Basie's Beat) 1966 (also Oct. 14) - Esther Phillips (Lou Blackburn, Gabe Baltazar, Sonny Criss, Jay Migliori, etc...) record session for Atlantic (Confessin' the Blues) 1995 - Sonny Rollins (Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, Al Foster) record session for Milestone (Sonny Rollins + 3) 1997 (also Oct. 8) - Llew Matthews (Jackie McLean, Stan Gilbert, Albert Heath) record session for Key'stone Japan (Nathalie)

Brad, Jerry Newman was the man!

Some unexpected surprises over the past few years: - the Jimmy Lyons box on Ayler Records, - the Albert Ayler 'Holy Ghost' Revenant box, - the various releases from Uptown (Sonny Clark, Serge Chaloff, Charlie Parker, Lee Wiley, Dodo Marmarosa, etc...), - the Bill Evans 'Turn Out the Stars' VV 1980 recordings, and more...

Zoot Sims Quartet 'At Ease' with Louis Bellson and Hank Jones (Famous Door Japan) Milt Hinton completes the quartet!

October 6: 1949 - Clyde Bernhardt and his Kansas City Buddies (Sam Taylor, Dave Small, Eal Knight, Rene Hall, Gene Ramey, Gus Johnson) record session for BN 1952 - Teddy Wilson Trio (Yngre Akerberg, Jack Noren) record session for Metronome (Piano Pastries) 1954 - Carmen McRae (Herbie Mann, Matt Mathews, Mundell Lowe, Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke) record session for Bethlehem 1955 (also Oct. 7) - Red Norvo Trio (Tal Farlow, Red Mitchell and strings) record session for Fantasy (Red Norvo with Strings) 1958 - A.K. Salim (Joe Wilder, Nat Adderley, Phil Woods, Seldon Powell, Sahib Shihab, Eddie Costa, Oscar Dennard, George Duvivier, G.T. Hogan) record session for Savoy (Blues Suite) 1958 - Max Roach Quintet (Booker Little, Ray Draper, George Coleman, Art Davis) on TV show 'Jazz Casual', released on Calliope 1961 (final session) - Johnny Carisi (Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Eddie Costa, Barry Galbraith, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for Impulse, released under the name of Gil Evans (Into the Hot) 1964 (also Oct. 7 and 8) - Thelonious Monk Quartet (Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley) record session for Columbia (Monk) 1964 (also Nov. 2) - Donald Byrd (Jimmy Heath, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, Bob Cranshaw, Grady Tate, etc...) record session for Verve (Up With Donald Byrd) 1964 - Stan Getz (Gary Burton, Gene Cherico, Helico Milton, Astrud Gilberto) at the Cafe au Gogo, released on Verve (Getz au Go Go) 1965 - Freddie McCoy (Charles Wilson, Steve Davis, Rudy Lawless) record session for Prestige (Spider Man) 1966 - Cecil Taylor (Bill Dixon, Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille) record session for BN (Conquistador) 1972 (also Nov. 10) - Horace Silver (David Friedman, Bob Cranshaw, Mickey Roker) record session for BN (In Pursuit of the 27th Man)

It takes a real 'artist' to con Chuck Nessa out of $400!!!

Don't really care but I'm always interested in listening to alternates from successful sessions. When it comes to sessions by some of the giants, I want the alternates to be included in the order they were recorded so as to catch the work in progress and be amazed at the way they improvise and put order to their ideas. This goes for dates by Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Charlie Christian... I also love the 'Control Booth' series of the Billie Holiday sessions from 1940-1941-1942 that were released by Jazz Unlimited. These were in recording order. Same goes for the Stan Getz 'East of the Sun/The West Coast Sessions' that Verve issued a few years ago. Wish there were alternate takes or control booth-type material from the Armstrong Hot Five/Seven, the Ellington/Webster/Blanton sides, the Jones-Smith 1936 session by the Basie small crew! All in sequential order! Fascinating to hear giants as they create. Also goes for painters. Those films showing Pablo Picasso ('Le Mystère Picasso') or Jackson Pollock at the moment they work on their paintings are magical...

The Milcho Leviev Quartet 'Blues for the Fisherman' (Mole 1) with Art Pepper, Tony Dumas and Carl Burnett. Great quartet caught live at Ronnie Scott's...

80? Probably getting some respect at that age! Hope he will have even more reasons to celebrate!

Every time I travelled to London (not that often) I made a point to visit the store. Got a number of those great Japanese imports there. Mole seemed to have more - and a wider variety - of those than what was available in Paris.

Saw today this recently released photo book (brochure would be the appropriate term) by Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughy. It's called 'West Coast' and has a selection of some of the most famous Willoughy took while covering the jazz scene in the '50s. It's being published by Filigranes. The photos were part of an exhibition of Willoughby photos gathered this Summer in Enghien, north of Paris. Never heard of it and missed the show... Some of the photos are visible on this link (in French): http://artazart.com/fr/index.htm Click on 'photo' on the left side of the page and go to 'Filigranes éd.', then go down to the near bottom of the page. Click on West Coast (the Gerry Mulligan photo). You can view some of the photos when you click on 'Cliquez pour voir plus'. Enjoy! There is a striking (and awesome) photo of Miles Davis in a relaxed pose that I had never seen before. Still intrigued by the other photo of Miles on the left side. I have seen that one before. It is supposed to have been taken at a 1950 JATP in Los Angeles. The tenor player is Budd Johnson and the piano player might be John Lewis. Did not know that Miles had played with the Jazz at the Philharmonic at the time. Willoughby was a photo giant. He retired years ago and is currently residing in southern France.

Jack Teagarden on Roulette, disc 2