brownie

This week saw the start of the sales season here. Had skipped the event for the past couple of years but tried my luck this time. Usually this would start with the sales at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Elysees but the store closed last month, so I visited the FNAC Montparnasse store instead. It was worth the visit! For a grand total of €44 I got the following CDs: - Sonny Red 2CD (FreshSound) - Tete Montoliu 'Piano for Nuria' (Saba Japan) - Randy Weston 'Zulu' (Mar) - Kenyon Hopkins '4 Classic Albums' (Real Gone Jazz) - Anita O'Day 'Trav'lin' Light' (FreshSound) - Anita O'Day 'Meets the Rhythm Section' (FreshSound) - Elmore James 3CD 'Classic Early Recordings' (Ace)

Famed photographer Bert Stern who - among other famous achievements - directed the film ''Jazz on a Summer's Day' died on Tuesday in New York. Obituary in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/arts/bert-stern-elite-photographer-known-for-images-of-marilyn-monroe-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

News from KD's younger brother: http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23544473/local-jazz-artist-will-celebrate-50-years-concert

Charles Mingus/Spaulding Givens 'Strings and Keys' (Fantasy/Metronome)

where is the sound (VOA archives?) from that evening???

Non, non, non... La musique mérite trois fois oui....

But Brownie... I thought you had sold off all your vinyl hoard. Do you have a reserve tranche hidden away? I kept a number of vinyls I had doubles of. Also dozens of LPs that did not interest the buyer at the time of the transaction (he had trouble absorbing the thousands of albums I sold him). Did not realize they were so many of them; They will go to the same buyer when I disappear from this earth Now spinning: Art Blakey 'Mirage' (Savoy France)

The Kansas City Coleman Hawkins-Lester Young confrontation. Charlie Parker with the Earl Hines orchestra in 1943.