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The label was Swing (founded by Charles Delauney). Django and Grappelli recorded together once more before the start of WWII. For Decca in London on August 25, 1939. When the War broke out, Grappelli chose to remain in England while Django travelled back to France!

From the New York Times today:

June 30: 1950 - Miles Davis and the Birdland All Stars (J.J. Johnson, Brew Moore, Walter Bishop, Tadd Dameron, Curley Russell, Art Blaker) at Birdland, released on Session and various labels 1952 - Buddy de Franco Quartet (Kenny Drew, Curley Russell, Art Blakey) record session for MGM 1955 - Bob Brookmeyer (Jimmy Raney, Teddy Kotick, Mel Lewis) record session for New Jazz (Revelation) 1959 (also July 2, 7) - Marty Paich and his Orchestra (Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Art Pepper, Bill Perkins, etc...) record session for Warner Brothers (I Get a Boot Out of You) 1961 - Taft Jordan (Richard Wyands, Kenny Burrell, Joe Benjamin, Charles Persip) record session for Moodsville (Mood Indigo) 1962 - Gerry Mulligan (Tommy Flanagan, Ben Tucker, Dave Bailey) record session for Columbia (Jeru) 1963 - Charles Mingus record session for Impulse Mingus Plays Piano) 1964 - Booker Ervin (Carmell Jones, Gildo Mahones, Richard Davis, Alan Dawson) record session for Prestige (The Blues Book) 1985 - Chet Baker (Michel Graillier, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse) record session for Sonet (Candy)

Happy Birthday, Laton Hoping everything is OK with you and you are enjoying a great day! You are being missed here!

Lee Konitz was interested in scientology at some point but was wise enough to opt out quite a long time ago!

Have only a single Bear so far! Won't be the last one! It's 'Blowing the Fuse - 27 r&b Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1949'. Was testing the waters with that CD and love it! Lovingly produced compilation of classics by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sticks McGee, Ruth Brown, Wynonie Harris, Dinah Washington, etc...

Dan, no. The CD I have does look like an original issue. As EKE BBB posted earlier, the session is included in The Lord! What I find interesting - beside the music being highly enjoyable - is the fact that it's a Norman Granz-produced date! And that its existence is nowhere to be seen on the Internet... Can't recall seeing the fact that in the last years of his life Granz produced music outside of his Pablo label ever mentioned! And, once more, thanks Michael for the research!

Picked up 'How Long, How Long Blues' by Harry ''Edison'' Six (that's how it's spelled on the digipack and the disc) on the Village label. Session recorded in LA on March 11th & 12th, 1991. Lineup is 'Sweets' and Snooky Young on trumpet, Curtis Peagler on alto, Mike Wofford on piano, Keter Betts on bass, Bobby Durham on drums. This was produced by Norman Granz who also wrote the liner notes (dated Nov. 1992). A very enjoyable date. I had never heard of that label and of Granz producing sessions outside of Pablo in his later years. A google for details on albums from the Village label did not produce anything. Anybody has details on other CDs from the label? The copy I have was made in Germany and comes from the ZYX people.

brownie: you´ll need to have a Yahoo account and probably to register to jazz_sp group. ← looks like yahoo.sp is not accepting my yahoo.fr registration I give up!

EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted. All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message

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No idea if this one is good. But Michel Legrand is a clever and inspired arranger/composer. Jazz content on this anthology should be nil but there is bound to be good easylistening music. Thought highly of his score for Agnes Varda's 'Cleo de 5 a 7' where he appeared on screen and was shown composing and playing piano! Trust you have 'Legrand Jazz'! Essential!

June 29: 1951 - Gene Ammons (Billy Massey, Rudy Williams, etc...) record session for Prestige 1954 - Miles Davis (Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige ('Airegin', 'But Not For Me', 'Doxy', 'Oleo') 1956 - Bennie Green (Eric Dixon, Lloyd Mayers, Sonny Wellesley, Bill English) record session for Prestige (Walking Down) 1960 - Stanley Turrentine with the Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andrew Sipkins, Bill Dowdy) record session for BN (Blue Hour) 1962 - Rhoda Scott (Joe Thomas, Herbie Lovelle, etc...) record session for Tru-Sound (Hey, Hey, Hey) 1967 - Dexter Gordon Quartet (Kenny Drew, Bo Stief, Art Taylor) at the Cafe Montmartre, released on BN (The Squirrel) 1976 - Herbie Hancock (Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) at Newport festival, released on Columbia (V.S.O.P.) 1977 - Hank Jones record solo session for Galaxy (Tiptoe Tapdance) 1989 - Stan Getz Quartet (Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Ben Riley) at the Glasgow festival, released on Concord (Yours and Mine/Soul Eyes)

'Bluesine' is a SoulNote solo session from 1983 by Solal. A pretty good one!

'Giant Steps' on the Atlantic album of the same name.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler 'A Meeting of the Times' (Atlantic)

Was not aware of that Aldo Romano album. Never saw it. Good track on the BFT with Franco d'Andrea in brilliant mood! On a related subject: pulled out the La Banda double CD when I was listening to the BFT in the hope of getting one more track identified. Bad luck. But enjoyed relistening to the album. Highly recommended. Love those Italian musicians!

Sound on that Jazz Galore LP volume 1 is no good. Very thin, no dynamics which is a shame for that type of music. Hope that torrent material sounds better! Never saw a volume 2 from Jazz Galore...

more June 28: 1951 - Lars Gullin Sextet (Rolf Ericsson, Arne Domnerus, etc...) record session for Metronome 1954 - Meade Lux Lewis (with louis Bellson) record session for DownHome (Out of the Roaring 20s) 1962 - Johnny Griffin Quintet (Paul Bryant, Joe Pass, Jimmy Bond, Doug Sides) record session for Riverside (Grab This!) 1967 (thru July 1) - Jazz at the Philharmonic (Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Zoot Sims, Coleman Hawkins) concerts in Oakland and New York released on Pablo (The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World)

From The New York Times today:

Caught the 'Why We Fight' series a few years ago. Thought it was effective as wartime propaganda. Which is why it was produced. You can watch the series if you keep this in mind! Much better was the 'World at War' series. The best WWII overview I have seen so far! Carefully researched and impeccably documented!

June 28: 1928 - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (Fred Robinson, Earl Hines, Zutty Singleton, etc...) record session for Okeh ('West End Blues', 'Sugar Foot Strut', 'Don't Jive Me') 1949 - Lee Konitz Quintet (Warne Marsh, Sal Mosca, Arnold Fishkin, Denzil Best) record session for New Jazz 1949 - Lester Young Sextet (Jesse Drakes, Jerry Elliott, Junior Mance, Leroy Jackson, Roy Haynes) record session for Savoy 1954 - Anita O'Day (Bud Lavine, Monty Budwig, John poole) record session for Norgran (Songs by Anita O'Day) 1955 - Kenny Clarke Septet (Nat Adderley, Donald Byrd, Julian Adderley, Jerome Richardson, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers) record session for Savoy (Bohemia After Dark) 1955 - Hampton Hawes Trio (Red Mitchell, Chuck Thompson) record session for Contemporary (The Trio) 1960 (also July 8) - John Coltrane/Don Cherry (Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell) record session for Atlantic (The Avant Garde) 1960 - The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Arnold Simpkins, Bill Dowdy) record session for BN (Feelin' Good) 1960 - Ken McIntyre (Eric Dolphy, Walter Bishop, Sam Jones, Art Taylor) record session for New Jazz 'Looking Ahead) 1960 (also June 29, 30) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (The Peer Gynt Suite) 1965 - John Coltrane (Freddie Hubbard, John Tchicai, Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, etc...) record session for Impulse (Ascension) 1980 - The Milcho Leviev Quartet (Art Pepper, Tony Dumas, Carl Burnett) at Ronnie Scott's Club, released on Mole Jazz (Blues for the Fisherman, True Blues)

The Village Voice coverage on the Vision festival

Charles Tyler 'The Charles Tyler Ensemble' (ESP)

The jazz sections at the FNAC Montparnasse on the Rue de Rennes and at FNAC Ternes are the best ones with some interesting finds to be discovered if you search carefully. The jazz section at the FNAC Opera has been downsized recently. Nearly nothing left of the poems bin. But they still have the New Age section along (same as at Virgin Champs-Elysees). A shame!