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August 29: 1920 - Charlie Parker birthdate (Happy Birthday, Bird!) 1947 - Django Reinhardt (Maurice Meunier, Emmanuel Soudieux, etc..) on French Radio, released on Fremeaux (Integrale Django Reinhardt, vol. 14) 1948 - Tadd Dameron Sextet (Fats Navarro, Rudy Williams, Allen Eager, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke) at the Royal Roost, released on Jazzland (Fats Navarro Featured with the Tadd Dameron Quintet) 1949 - Colemand Hawkins All Stars (Bennie Green, J.J. Johnson, Cecil Payne, Al Haig, John Collins, Nelson Boyd, Shadow Wilson) record session for Mercury 1949 - Flip Phillips (Billy Butterfield, Bennie Green, Pete Mendello, Mickey Crane, Sam Bruno, Max Roach) record session for Mercury) 1955 (also Aug. 31) - Randy Weston Trio (Sam Gill, Wilbert Hogan) record session for Riverside (Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio) 1955 - Joe Sullivan records solo piano session for DownHome (Mr. Piano Man) 1957 (also Sept. 8) - Paul Quinichette/Charlie Rouse (Wynton Kelly, Wendell Marshall, Ed Thigpen) record session for Bethlehem (The Chase Is On) 1958 - The Prestige Blues Swingers (Art Farmer, Idrees Sulieman, Buster Cooper, Jerome Richardson, Jimmy Forrest, Pepper Adams, Ray Bryant, Tiny Grimes, Wendell Marshall, Osie Johnson, Jerry Valentine) record session for Prestige (Outskirts of Town) 1958 (also Jan. 6, 1958) - Curtis Counce Quintet (Jack Sheldon, Gerald Wilson, Harold Land, Carl Perkins, Frank Butler) record session for Contemporary (Carl's Blues) 1959 (also Aug. 30 and Sept. 13) - Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes) record session for BN (Blowing' The Blues Away) 1959 - Lenox School of Jazz (Don Cherry, Kenny Dorham, Ornette Coleman,Steve Kuhn, Larry Ridley, Herb Pomeroy, etc...) concert, released on Royal Jazz (Lenox School of Jazz Concert) 1961 - Grant Green (Wilbur Ware, Al Harewood) record session for BN (Remembering) 1961 - Gene Ammons (Eddie Buster, Gerald Donovan) at the D.J. Lounge, released on Prestige (Live! In Chicago) 1962 - Dexter Gordon Quartet (Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (A Swingin' Affair) 1964 - Monica Zetterlund with the Bill Evans Trio (Chuck Israels, Larry Bunker) record session for Phillips Holland (Waltz for Debby) 1965 - Ornette Coleman (David Izenzon, Charles Moffett) in concert at Croydon, released on Philips International (An Evening with Ornette Coleman) 1969 (also Sept. 2) - Wayne Shorter (John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharock, Miroslav Vitous, Chick Corea, Jack de Johnette) record session for BN (Super Nova) 1970 - Miles Davis (Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett, Chich Corea, Dave Holland, Jack de Johnette, Airto Moreira) at the Isle of Wight concert, released on Columbia France 1982 - Carol Sloane (Don Abney, Yukinori Narishige, Tim Horner) record session for Baybridge (As Time Goes By)

Waiting for a chance to hear that new Rollins album. The last opus from him 'This Is What I Do' has become a favorite one that I return to often. Can't remember getting that much pleasure out of a Rollins album in a long time. And it's beautifully built with no let down up to the final tune, a superb rendition of 'The Moon of Manakoora'. The works of a Master!

Woody Shaw 'Love Dance' (Muse)

I'm with Chuck Nessa about Don Ellis. Promises unfullfilled. I still love his 'New Ideas' and 'Essence' albums (the Pacific Jazz vinyl still comes with a 22-Franc mark, original vinyls were pretty expensive 40 years ago!). And the various albums he made with George Russell (GR in KC, 'Ezz-Thetics' and 'The Outer View') but have still to groove on any of his big band sides. I heard his big band when Don Ellis appeared at the 1968 Antibes jazz festival but was left pretty unimpressed. Count Basie and Pharoah Sanders were also at the festival that year and the Ellis appearance seemed a downer compared to those.

OK, I like the Hi-Los better too but I got the Four Freshmen box on sale and it's throroughly enjoyable. Not all of it but there's quite a lot of good sessions inside (the FF and Five Trombones sides are still a delight!). Taken in small doses, it stands up pretty well! And Mosaic only had 3,500 copies of it. The Mosaic CD box with the lowest copies made! Tatifan, the box I have has the regular Mosaic 30-page booklet plus a single page that is mainly a tracklist.

Happy Birthday, kh1958 Hope you're having a great day!

Started acquiring Miles Davis albums before the sides with John Coltrane became available! I have now some 1OO vinyls and some 100 CDs (sets with multiple CDs not individualised!) Guess you can call me a Miles completist... until the electric Miles boots flood burst

Is this legal? ← Not sure this would get the Benny Golson seal of approval Editing the typo!

August 28: 1945 - Charlie Ventura Quartet (Arnold Ross, John Levy, Specs Powell) record session for Savoy 1946 - Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra (Reunald Jones, Trummy Young, Omer Simeon, Joe Thomas, Joe Marshall, etc...) record session for Savoy 1950 - Charlie Parker (Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes, etc...) at New Brunswick, NJ, released on Stash (The Bird You Never Heard) 1951 - Terry Gibbs (Hal McKusick, Harry Biss, Sal Salvador, Jimmy Johnston, Sid Bulkin) record session for Savoy 1953 - Clifford Brown Sextet (Gigi Gryce, Charlie Rouse, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Art Blakey) record session for BN (New Star on the Horizon) 1956 - The Modern Jazz Quartet with Jimmy Giuffre (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay) concert at Music Inn, released on Atlantic (The Modern Jazz Quartet and JimmyGiuffre at Music Inn) 1958 - Cy Touff (Sandy Mosse, Eddie Higgins, Bob Cranshaw, Marty Clausen) record session for Argo (Touff Assignment) 1959 - Benny Golson Quintet (Curtis Fuller, Ray Bryant, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey) record session for New Jazz (Groovin' with Golson) 1961 (also Aug. 29) - Cal Tjader (Paul Horn, Al McKibbon, Armando Peraza, etc...) record session for Verve (In a Latin Bag) 1962 - Leonard Gaskin Septet (Sidney de Paris, Benny Morton, Kenny Davern, Charles Queener, Lee Blair, Herbie Lovelle) record session for Swingville 'Dixieland Hits) 1987 (also Aug. 29) - Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy Quartet (Reggie Workman, Eddie Moore) at Sweet Basil, released on PaddleWheel (The SuperQuartet of Mal Waldron)

Yves, ARTE features some jazz but few concerts from the Marciac festival. The music channel Mezzo (available on cable) does have a healthy share of jazz programs including several Marciac concerts. Mezzo I'm not sure it can be seen outside France.

Wasn't he supposed to be 100 a long time ago? Happy Birthday, Neveronfriday Hope you're having a great time!

I hope I'm not one who gets to see that. ← Not to worry, Ron! I'm French and we French people know how to select our enemies

I consider Ubu a friend. You should see what I have in store for enemies

Ubu, please PM me with a list of insults I sent you recently. All I remember is 'Dirty Kraut!'. Forgot to keep them in my sent items folder. Need to renew my repertory. I'll make sure to store the next ones

Johnny Hodges 'Warm Valley' (Duke 1940) Lester Young 'These Foolish Things' Tony Fruscella 'Blue Lester' Louis Armstrong 'Cornet Shop Suey' Django Reinhardt 'Tears' Clifford Brown 'Jor-Du' (the concert version) Bird 'Embraceable You' ...and so many more...

The introduction of the new server has been excellent except for that particular point. When anybody PM'ed with the former setup, the message went directly to the person's send message file. If you did not want to keep it, you just deleted it. Now when you PM, you type your message then before sending it you have to make sure you store it before sending it away. If not, there is no trace of the message having gone away I must confess I do not automatically store it. Just forget to go through the procedure from time to time Any way of going back to the former setup on this? All sent PMs would be automatically stored and we just delete those we don't want to keep.

One of the most reliable jazz book I keep handy (Dictionnaire du Jazz) has the trumpet solo on Georgie Auld's 'Co-Pilot' attributed to Freddie Webster. I have nowI relistened to the track and have to agree it sounds very much like Dizzy!

August 27 1947 - Kenny Hagood with the John Lewis Orchestra (Elmon Wright, Ernie Henry, Howard Johnson, Cecil Payne, John Lewis, Nelson Boyd, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (incl. in 'The Be-Bop Boys) 1950 - Wardell Gray (Clark Terry, Sonny Criss, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Bunn, Billy Hadnott, Chuck Thompson) at the Hula Hut Club, released on Prestige (Wardell Gray Memorial) 1951 - Gerry Mulligan New Stars (Nick Travis, Jerry Lloyd, Phil Wilson, Allen Eager, Mac McElroy, George Wallington, Phil Lashin, Walter Bolden, Gail Madden) record session for New Jazz/Prestige (Mulligan Plays Mulligan) 1954 - Charlie Parker with Strings (Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter or Teddy Kotick, Roy Haynes) at Birdland, released on Ozone and various labels 1954 - Buddy Rich (Harry Edison, Milt Bernhardt, Willie Smith, Gerry Wiggins, Joe Comfort, etc...) record session for Norgran 'The Swingin' Buddy Rich) 1955 (also Oct.4) - Mundell Lowe Quartet (Dick Hyman, Trigger Alpert, Ed Shaughnessy) record session for Riverside (The Mundell Lowe Quartet) 1956 (also Aug. 29) - Dorothy Ashby (Frank Wess, Wendell Marshall, Ed Thigpen) record session for Regent (The Jazz Harpist) 1956 (also Aug. 28) - Buddy de Franco with the Russ Garcia Orchestra (Don Fagerquist, Sonny Clark, Howard Roberts, string section, etc;..) record session for Verve (Broadway Showcase) 1961 - Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt (Joe Houston, Buster Williams, George Brown) record session for Verve (Boss Tenors) 1962 - Dexter Gordon Quartet (Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Go!) 1962 - George Russell (Don Ellis, Garnett Brown, Paul Plummer, Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca, Sheila Jordan) record session for Riverside (The Outer View) 1962 (also Aug. 28) - Stan Getz & Gary McFarland (Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, Hank Jones, Jim Hall, Tommy Williams, Johnny Rae, etc...) record session for Verve (Big Band Bossa Nova) 1968 - Charles McPherson (Nasir Rashid Hafiz, Cedar Walton, Pat Martino, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins) record session for Prestige (Horizons) 1968 - Johnny Griffin (Benny Bailey, Ake Persson, Sahib Shihab, Francy Boland, Jimmy Woode, Kenny Clare, Kenny Clarke) record session for German Vogue (Lady Heavy Bottom's Waltz) 1970 - Dexter Gordon Quartet (Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Roy Brooks) record session for Verve (Boss Tenors)

The album has entered the Billboard Jazz Chart... From PlaybillArts:

Ellis Larkins 'Ellis Larkins' (DGTL). Beautiful album by a master pianist!

All this was also included in the original vinyl edition, the Japanese Baybridge 2LP! Thanks for identifying Bill Henderson!

Bill, the Lord has Aug. 28, 1956 as the date for this MJQ/Giuffre Music Inn album.

The Meritt liner notes were pretty thorough usually but those on the twofer 21/22 (Chu Berry -The Calloway Years 1937-1941) do not shed any light on this.

August 26: 1930 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Victor ('Ring Dem Bells', 'Old Man Blues', etc... 1951 - George Lewis (Alvin Alcorn, Alcide 'Slow Drag' Pavageau, Paul Barbarin, etc...) record session for Circle 1954 (also Aug. 30) - Paul Bley Trio (Peter Ind, Al Levitt) record session for EmArcy (The Paul Bley Trio) 1955 (also Aug. 25) - Kid Ory (Marty Marsala, Darnell Howard, Cedric Haywood, etc...) record session for Norgran (Dance with Kid Ory - Just Listen) 1955 - Buddy Rich (Harry Edison, Sonny Criss, Jimmy Rowles, John Simmons) record session for Norgran (The Swinging Buddy Rich) 1955 - Maynard Ferguson (Conte Candoli, Milt Bernhardt, Herb Geller, Nino Tempo, Bob Gordon, Ian Bernard, Red Mitchell, Gary Frommer) record session for EmArcy (Dimensions) 1955 - Buddy de Franco (Sonny Clark, Tal Farlow, Gene Wright, Bobby White) record session for Norgran (Cooking The Blues) 1956 - Sonny Criss (Sonny Clark, Larry Bunker, Buddy Clark, Lawrence Marable) record session for Imperial (Sonny Criss Plays Cole Porter) 1957 (first of several sessions) - Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross (Nat Pierce, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones, Sonny Payne) record session for ABC-Paramount (Lambert/Hendricks and Ross Sing A Song of Basie) 1958 - Stan Getz (Benny Bailey, Ake Persson, Erik Nordstrom, Lars Gullin, Jan Johansson, Gunnar Johnson, Lon Schipffe) record session for Karusell released on Verve (Imported from Europe) 1958 - Mae Barnes (Buck Clayton, Ray Bryant, Aaron Bell, Jo Jones) record session for Vanguard (Mae Barnes with the Buck Clayton Quartet) 1961 - Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt Quintet (Joe Houston, Buster Williams, George Brown) record session for Argo (Dig Him), later released on Prestige (We'll Be Together Again) 1965 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, JimmyGarrison Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (Sun Ship) 1965 (also Aug. 27) - Chico Hamilton (Jimmy Cheatham, Sado Watanabe, Gabor Szabo, Albert Stinson, etc...) record session for Impulse (El Chico) 1966 - Cannonball Adderley (Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Victor Gaskin, Roy McCurdy) record session for Capitol Japan (Cannonball in Japan) 1968 - Richard 'Groove' Holmes (Rusty Bryant, Billy Butler, Herbie Lovelle) record session for Prestige (That healin' Feelin') 1969 (also Aug. 28) - The Three Sounds (Buddy Collette, Gene Harris, Henry Franklin,Carl Burnett) record session for BN (Soul Symphony) 1969 - Archie Shepp (Woody Shaw, Matthew Gee, Clarence Sharp, Cecil Payne, Cedar Walton, Wilbur Ware, Joe Chambers, China-Lin Sharp) record session for Impulse (For Losers) 1969 (also Aug. 27/29) - Albert Ayler (Bobby Few, Stafford James, Bill Folwell, Muhammad Ali, Mary Maria) record session for Impulse (Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe - The Last Album) 1970 - Wayne Shorter (David Friedman, Gene Bertoncini, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Alphonse Mouzon) record session for BN (Odyssey of Iska)

It's 'L'Equipe' which got hold of the report from the Chatenay-Malabry anti-doping lab and published it. The Lab confirmed the reality of its report. The findings of the report are not being contested. And since we're talking about dope, I must say I am starting to OD on this Lance Armstrong story. To me the case is closed and I'll try to go cold turkey on it