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If we're talking about the 1961 Sankei Hall concert, I'll agree with Dan on this one! Very good even if there are better datesby this group!

The Chatenay-Malabry just say they cannot link the results to Lance Armstrong or anybody because they work 'blind'. That's the rulee. There is no doubt about their finding illegal substances. It is journalists from the newspaper 'L'Equipe' who were able to link the negative tests to Lance Armstrong. The laboratory is not able to determine to whom the samples belong. The results of their analysis are sent to the competent powers so that the powers can know to whom the tests can be linked. 'L'Equipe' could do this. No apologies needed. Unless they come from Lance Armstrong

Anybody caught that? Last week's news... Sly Stone

Gee, hard to believe a guy named LeMond would be against Armstrong as well! Double ← Berigan, it may be hard to believe but it is true. A sample: From the Wikipedia Encyclopedia site:

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I've always known the 'Sweet Smell of Success' actress as Susan Harrison. Here is her entry in Wikipedia:

August 25: 1939 - Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France (Stephane Grapelli, Joseph Reinhardt, Emmanuel Soudieux, Beryl Davis, etc...) record session for Decca in London ('Don't Worry About Me', 'The Man I Love') 1950 - Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald with Sy Oliver's Orchestra (Paul Webster, Hank d'Amico, Hank Jones, Everett Barksdale, Ray Brown, Johnny Blowers) record session for Decca ('Can Anyone Explain', 'Dream a Little Dream Of Me') 1953 - Zoot Sims (Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Lee Konitz, Lars Gullin, Don Bagley, Stan Levey) record session for Metronome 1953 - Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen (Jonah Jones, Jimmy Archey, Buddy Weed, Walter Page, Johnny Blowers) record session for BN (The Fabulous Sidney Bechet) 1954 - Art Pepper (Jack Montrose, Claude Williamson, Monty Budwig, Paul Ballerina, Larry Bunker) record session for Discovery 1957 - Jimmy Smith (Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Kenny Burrell, Eddie McFadden, Donald Bailey) record session for BN (House Party - The Sermon) 1957 - Lee Morgan (Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Ray Bryant, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor) record session for BN (City Lights) 1959 - Kenny Burrell (Louis Smith, Junior Cook, Tina Brooks, Bobby Timmons, Roland Hanna, Ben Tucker, Art Blakey) at the Five Spot, released on BN (On View at the Five Spot) 1959 - The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip) record session for Savoy (The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson) 1960 - Teddy Charles (Booker Little, Booker Ervin, Mal Waldron, Addison Farmer, Ed Shaughnessy) in concert at MOMA, released on Warwick (Jazz in the Garden) 1961 - Oliver Nelson - Joe Newman (Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Charles Persip, Ray Barretto) record session for Prestige (Main Stem) 1964 - Sonny Stitt (Booker Ervin, Don Patterson, Billy James) record session for Prestige (Soul People) 1967 - Don Patterson (Houston Person, Pat Martino, Billy James) record session for Prestige (Four Dimensions) 1969 - Houston Person (Sonny Phillips, Billy Butler, Bob Bushnell, Frankie Jones, Buddy Caldwell) record session for Prestige (Goodness) 1971 (also Aug. 26) - Donald Byrd (Harold Land, Joe Sample, Bobby Hutcherson, etc...) record session for BN (Ethiopian Nights) 1978 (also Aug. 26) - Arnett Cobb and the Muse All Stars (Eddie Vinson, Buddy Tate, Ray Bryant, George Duvivier, Alan Dawson) at Sandy's, released on Muse (Live at Sandy's) 1983 (also Sept. 1) - Horace Silver Quintet (Bobby Shew, Eddie Harris, Bob Maize, Carl Burnett, etc...) record session for Silvetto (There's No Need to Struggle)

I'll be listening in

Lee Wiley and Bunny Berigan 'The Complete Session of April 10, 1940' (Blu-Disc)

Berigan, you continue to cast this as a France vs. USA story. It's not. Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond who was and still is hugely popular around here. Part of the problem with Armstrong is that he was tested positive back in 1999 when he won the Tour de France for the first time but he escaped sanctions because of the lenient attitude of the world cycling governig body and the Tour de France organisers. When he tested positive back in 1999 for corticoid triamcinolone, Armstrong's doctors provided him with the medical certificates authorising use of the prohibited substances, adding he was taking them to treat road rash. Armstrong, in violation of cycling rules, had not declared usage of it. It's a fact is that Armstrong should have been banned from the Tour for this back in 1999. That he was allowed to go scotfree has only fueled the controversy. Now the word is out that he tested positive repeatedly. His reputation is sadly tarnished for all the world to see! And LeMond has joined the opponents of Armstrong by now!

Had a fresh look at Luc Ferrari's 'Les Grandes Repetitions' on Cecil Taylor. It was Sandy Bethune who did most of the interviews. Ferrari stayed out of that. Bethune was a black Haitian intellectual and Cecil Taylor played one of his cat-and-mouse game with him. Bethune was pretty displeased about this. His name does not appear anywhere in the credits.

Same on the LP issue I have (Paul Chambers/John Coltrane 'High Steps' BN twofer). 'Eastbound' clocks in at 4:20.

I've seen the August 24 date listed for this but the 3CD reissue gives August 29. ← The liner notes to the 3CD issue list three dates for the full sides contained in the set: August 17, 21 and 29. The previous 'official date' was August 24, 1961, including the Michel Ruppli Clef/Verve Labels Discography. The liner notes to the 3CD set seem to have been carefully researched, so be it!

P.L.M., as far as I remember, Luc Ferrari did not conduct the interview during the filming. This was done by Tahitian poet Sandy Bethune. Will check again later when I rewatch the show. The show was shot in three days. I was on hand during the full filming. It was filmed in the 17th Century Hotel de Coulanges which was under renovation in 1966. The buiding (which is not a residential hotel but one of the most beautiful building of its time) is on the former Place Royale, now Place des Vosges, a famous square in the Marais district in the heart of Paris. My wife and I walked near the Marais area last week and we went past the building. It has undergone some renovation since 1966 but is still being beautified. There is a plaque outside one of the huge windows indicating that the famous French woman of letters Marquise de Sevigne was born there. No mention of the Ferrati/CT show shooting...

August 24: 1949 - Buddy de Franco (Teddy Charles, Jimmy Raney, Harvey Leonard, Bob Carter, Max Roach) record session for Capitol 1951 - Milt Jackson Quartet (John Lewis, Ray Brown, Kenny Clarke) record session for DeeGee 1954 (also Aug. 26) - Jay Jay Johnson and Kai Winding (Billy Bauer, Charles Mingus, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (Jay and Kai) 1955 - Herb Geller (Lorraine Geller, Leroy Vinnger, Bruz Freeman) record session for EmArcy (Herb Geller Plays) 1956 - Gil Melle (Kenny Dorham, Don Butterfield, Hal McKusick, Joe Cinderella, Vinnie Burke, Ed Thigpen) record session for Prestige (Gil's Guests) 1958 - Lester Young is interview by Chris Albertson on WCAU Philadelphia, released on Verve (The Complete Lester Young) 1958 - Dizzy Reece (Donald Byrd, Tubby Hayes, Terry Shannon, Lloyd Thompson, Art Taylor) record session for BN (Blues in Trinity) 1960 (also Aug. 25) - Blue Mitchell Quartet (Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Roy Brooks) record session for Riverside (Blue's Moods) 1969 - Ornette Coleman Quartet (Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell) concert at Bilzen, Belgium, released on Moon 1973 - Paul Gonsalves and Roy Eldridge (Cliff Smalls, Sam Jones,Ed Locke) record session for Fantasy (Mexican Bandit Meets Pittsuburgh Pirate) 1991 (also Aug. 27) - Sonny Rollins (Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris, Bob Cranshaw, Jack de Johnette) record session for Milestone (Here's to the People)

Check this one: Hank Mobley and five more days to go! Probably more than Mobley ever made on a single gig!

Instant Composers Pool 'Amagabowl' (Han Bennink, Misja Mengelberg, John Tchicai) on ICP

So if nothing can be done, why test these old samples for a second time, 6 years after the fact? ← Because the technique now being used was not available back then. Out of the 12 samples that tested positive now, six were traced to Lance Armstrong. The identification of the samples was not the purpose of the tests. It was the journalists team from the sports newspaper 'L'Equipe' that was able to ascertain the identifications of the samples. It can be added that 'L'Equipe' is part of the organising committee of the Tour de France race and the newspaper is perfectly aware that the revelations will tarnish the image of the Tour. They went ahead anyway!

The label is not listed but I am pretty sure Shelly Manne's 'My Fair Lady' was Contemporary's best seller.

Thanks, couw for taking care of the answers. I have no personal hatred against Lance Armstrong, he is a great champion, no doubt. I just want to state that I am against any hypocrisy. Armstrong has built an image of himself as a Mr. Clean! That's hypocrisy personified. The truth is slowly emerging, even if it takes longer because the doping tests have to adjust each year to the developments of the doping techniques. I have had first hand informations (very private and very offtherecord) from inside Armstrong team several Tours ago on what was going on (and posted something along those lines back on the old BNBB). The new case will once again blacken the image of cycling. The sport does not need that. I'll also add that it's another sad facet we have of the US press shying away from the story and keeping on its blinders when facing Armstrong. It says a lot on the current state of the media!

Luc Ferrari produced the excellent series 'Les Grandes Repetitions' for the French TV. One of the films featured Cecil Taylor and was shot in Paris in 1966 when Cecil Taylor has Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille in his Unit. The Cecil Taylor film is one of the best jazz show ever filmed. Ferrari produced this film which was directed by Ferrari's usual partner Gerard Patris. Ferrari's death is very sad news.

An old vinyl hound like yourself might already have it as Spanish Steps? ← Nada on Spanish Steps Saw the vinyl quite often when it was available and there were all those other great Hampton Hawes albums around! Made the wrong choice then and did not take the steps. I'll correct that now:

I would say 'almost everybody'. And now that the times are changing, there's a healthy group of young participants in cycling competitions which want to get rid of the doping influence. Armstrong has not helped them and continues - despite the mounting evidence - to maintain that he is clean. There was a similar situation with French cycling darling Richard Virenque - a less brilliant and less intelligent cyclist than Armstrong - who was accused of similar wrongdoings and constantly denied it until he was faced with the evidence. At least, Virenque recognised he had indeed cheated. He returned to the Tour de France for a couple of years and remained the darling of part of the French cycling fans until he retired last year.

Warne Marsh 'Release Record. Send Tape. Warne' (Wave)

Berigan valiantly rises to the defense of another Texan liar. Lance Armstrong will not be prosecuted for this and can continue to deny he ever used performance-enhancing drugs all he wants. But the proof is out in the public this time. By the way, when the new tests were done, the frozen urine tests were picked at random from the several available without the researchers knowing there were some samples from Armstrong. When EPO was found in several, the researchers then matched the samples to identify who they belonged to! EPA was found in six samples from Lance Armstrong! That Armstrong used the substances has been an open secret for several years. It has now been scientifically proven.