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Been waiting for more than three decades for volume 2 of the Town Hall Concert Getting all the vinyls from the Charles Mingus label when they came out was one of the few very bright ideas I ever had!

YES, please! This happened in the middle of the night for us Europeans! Hate to have missed this! Sounds like a great evening!

The Clifford Brown Pacific Jazz date was indeed July 12, 1954. And just to correct: the Dicky Welles 1937 session was recorded in Paris for the Swing label. Prestige reissued it decades later!

Will need to get that one. The Visions 1 and 2 releases were excellent! Glad to see they pushed the limited edition status to 2,000 copies instead of the 1,000 limit of the first two.

That would have been my label of choice it it was still in existence... When it was alive, the label did justice to most of the important names of jazz history: Armstrong, Basie, Bechet, Duke, Christian, not to forget Lunceford, Jelly Roll, Wardell Gray, Teddy Wilson, Prez, etc... I have managed to collect nearly all of the Masters of Jazz releases and damn the day the label ceased operations!

From an European perspective, a no contest: Fresh Sounds Every month, the label brings new and rediscovered gems...

July 12: 1956 (also July 18) - Nat Adderley (Cannonball Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, Specs Wright) record session for EmArcy (To the Ivy League from Nat Adderley) 1957 - Stan Getz Quartet (Mose Allison, Addison Farmer, Jerry Segal) record session for Verve (The Soft Swing) 1960 - Brother Jack McDuff (Jimmy Forrest, Lem Winchester, Bill Elliott) record session for Prestige (Tough Duff) 1960 - Julian Priester Sextet (Walter Benton, Charles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones, Art Taylor) record session for Jazzland (Spiritsville) 1961 (also July 11 and 18) - Joe Gordon (Jimmy Woods, Dick Whittington, Jimmy Bond, Milton Turner) record session for Contemporary (Lookin' Good) 1965 - Bobby Timmons Trio (Lee Otis Bass III, Billy Saunders) record session for Prestige (Chicken and Dumplin's) 1969 - Hank Mobley (Dizzy Reece, Slide Hampton, Vince Benedetti, Alby Cullaz, Philly Joe Jones) record session for BN (The Flip) 1972 (also July 13) - Elvin Jones (Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman, Pepper Adams, Jan Hammer, Gene Perla) record session for BN (Mr. Jones) 1990 (also July 13) - Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy record session for Novus (Hot House)

I'm pretty sure I've seen this go for $200-300, open. What year was it pressed? Mastering credit? ← This was a very good box from Fantasy. Came out in 1984.

CAMjazz is the label. Release scheduled for January 2006!

The film entry from the David Meeker 'Jazz on the Screen' website: The Hustler Rossen was an excellent director whose last two films 'The Hustler' and 'Lilith' (a stunning and disturbing film with a young Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg) were simply brillant!

In the end, Ravi Shankar managed to perform at the Festival on Sunday! Full report from the Times of India today:

July 11: 1955 - Charlie Mariano (John Williams, Max Bennett, Mel Lewis) record session for Bethlehem (Charlie Mariano Plays) 1958 - John Coltrane (Wilbur Harden, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Prestige (The Standard Coltrane, also Bahia) 1958 - Sonny Rollins (Nat Adderley,Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak, Don Butterfield, Dick Katz, Rene Thomas, Henry Grimes, Roy Haynes, etc...) record the big band session for MetroJazz (Big Brass) 1961 - Roland Kirk (Jack McDuff, Joe Benjamin, Art Taylor) record session for Prestige (Kirk's Works) 1961 - King Curtis (Sam Taylor, Billy Butler, etc...) record session for Tru-Sound (It's Party Time) 1966 - John Coltrane (Pharaoh Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashid Ali) at Sankei Hall, released on Impulse (John Coltrane in Japan) 1973 - Miles Davis (Dave Liebman, Pete Cosey, Al Foster, etc...) concert at the Paris Olympia, released on Trema (En Concert avec Europe 1) 1977 - Al Haig Trio (Jamil Nasser, Frank Gant) record session for Absord Music/Interplay (A Portrait of Bud Powell) 1979 (also July 12) - Red Garland (Julian Priester, George Coleman, Ron Carter, Ben Riley) record session for Galaxy (Strike Up the Band)

One of the Count Basie volume of the Masters of Jazz series (it should be volume 11) has all four versions of 'Dickie's Dream'. Can't check right now. The series is unfortunately discontinued by now and that CD might be hard to find!

$455 for this Dolphy/Little at the Five Spot http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

Latest news is that the replacement sitars may not arrive in time for tonight's concert which looks like it is being postponed!

Continuing to listen to the Roy Eldridge box! What an incredible player, that Little Jazz!

Happy Birthday, Guy! Wishing you a great day!

From Reuters: The concert organisers are having replacement sitars flown in in time for the concert.

July 10: 1948 (also July 11) - Charlie Parker (Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) at the Onyx Club, released on Mosaic (The Dean Benedetti Recordings) 1956 (also July 31) - Sonny Criss (Sonny Clark, Leroy Vinnegar, Lawrence Marable) record session for Imperial (Go Man!) 1957 - Jimmy Knepper Quintet (Jor Maini, Bill Triglia, Charles Mingus, Dannie Richmond) record session for Debut 1964 - Albert Ayler (Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray) record session for ESP (Spiritual Unity) 1964 - Don Patterson (Booker Ervin, Billy James) record session for Prestige (Hip Cake Walk) 1979 - Red Garland Quartet (Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Ben Riley) record session for Galaxy (Stepping Out, also So Long Blues) 1991 - Miles Davis (Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter,Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Al Foster, etc...) concert at La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, released on Beech Marten (Black Devil)

Jim, I have located my vinyl of track 11 which I had not played since years! Can't locate the album from which track 6 is located. To save me hours of searching for it, could you just confirm that the nominal leader of this one is the same person as the leader of the album from which you extracted that track 11? I'm 99 percent sure that they are the same! Will be back on this thread in a couple of days. Digging into disc 2 which is more mysterious!

Didn't realise it was not released on CD! You seem to have used some vinyls for the compilation. Track 4 has several scratches! Puzzled by that one which sounds so obvious. That second saxophone player intrigues me! As for me, I'll just enjoy the disc and post when most of the people have had the chance to do likewise! Thanks again for all the music!

Count me in if that happens! I also have the vinyls but not that 45!

May I suggest that we hold off posting answers until most of the people who enlisted get a chance to hear the BFT 27 discs! Most of the discs are still in the mail... That track 8 seems indeed to be the only side recorded by the singer. Great idea to include it just so that people can listen to the alto player who has not appeared on that many albums! I'm sure people will get kicks out of listening to the two discs. Jim obviously had fun putting out those compilations! Happy to hear so many of my favorite musicians included in the lot. That track 11 was a total surprise! Did not know that the musician had recorded this!

Never heard of that 45! Anyone going to bid for that item?

Roy Eldridge Complete Verve Studio Sessions, disc 1