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Excellent BFT with a lot of music I have not heard before! I have waited several days to post impressions because I wanted to avoid showing off my ignorance of most of the tracks, except for one (nr. 10). But days - and relistening sessions - have gone by and I cannot post more precise answers than these: 1- off to a blazing start with Italian overtones which make me guess that it might be the Instabile Orchestra. I never heard them before Cecil Taylor recorded an album with these people. A very well written chart which seems to go in various directions but remains in focus. Sounds very much like the Instabile people but I never heard that one! 2- sounds to me like variations on Charlie Chaplin's 'Smile'. The piano player is much more individual than the trumpet player. Pretty good! 3- did not manage to get inside that one. My ears are not tuned to this! 4- the funny rat crowd is out in force and I am still unfamiliar with so much of their music. Interesting exercise but I am not sure I will get back to this one, 5- more Italian sounds. The alto player manages to construct a solid and evocative solo. Could that be another Instabile group? The percussion part is pretty catchy... I will relisten to the album when the results will be posted! 6- my big discovery from this BFT! Love this one. Absolutely no idea who sings and plays here but we definetely are still on Italian grounds. The singer is stupendous! 7- the tenor and drums interaction was impressive before the change of mood. Is that a flugelhorn being played on the bossanova part which was a bit of a letdown? 8- sounds like a clarinet duo. Don't think electronics are involved here. Lovely chambermusic-like duet! Excellent choice that I enjoyed more at each listening 9- once more on new grounds. The theme sounds familiar but I drew another blank on the players. 10- I had heard that one before and since we were on Italian ground I had no problem identifying the group led by Gianluigi Trovesi. Track 12 from this album: http://www.ejazzlines.com/products/19885/F...VESI-73159.html Great BFT selection. I liked the salute to the funeral music that was on the very first Armstrong album I ever heard (with Cozy Cole on drums!)... 11- Lovely and intense final touch. Once more no idea who the pianist is! The drummer is outstanding! In the end I realize that I should have searched beyond the Alps for guessing most if not all the selections in this BFT. I have listened to the full disc a number of times and enjoy it immensely by now. Will look forward to the answers! Many thanks, John B for opening my ears to a lot of new sounds!

Booker Ervin 'Groovin' High' (Prestige mono) with Carmell Jones, Gildo Mahones, etc...

The PaJ twofer had one track each by the following, all recorded at the festivals: - Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1966) - Toots Thielemans (1975) - Woody Herman (1970) - Joe Henderson (1966) - Jon Hendricks (1966) - Jimmy Giuffre Three (1958) - Johnny Griffin (1978) - Buddy Rich and his Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie (1970) - Clark Terry (1975) - Joe Williams with Prez Conference (1970) - Benny Golson (1975) - Joanne Brackeen Trio (1980) Don Moore seems to still be active in New York: http://www.eastsideswing.com/musicians.html

JOE HENDERSON QUARTET Isotope Recorded September 17, 1966 Joe Henderson, tenor sax, Elvin Jones, drums, Bobby Hutcherson, vibes, Don Moore, bass. From the PaJ 'Jazz Monterey 1958-1980' twofer. Suffit de demander

Jazz Composer's Information Page Whatever happened to Bob Carducci? Outstanding solo indeed on that Fontana LP!

June 20: 1924 - The Wolverines (with Bix Beiderbecke) record session for Gennett ('Royal Garden Blues', 'Tiger Rag') 1938 - Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra record session for Brunswick ('A Gypsy Without a Song', 'Stevedore's Serenade', etc...) 1952 - Lou Donaldson Quartet (Horace Silver, Gene Ramey, Art Taylor) record session for BN (Lou Donaldson Quartet, Quintet, Sextet) 1956 - Kenny Burrell/Frank Wess (Freddie Green, Eddie Jones, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (Monday Stroll) 1958 - Eddie Davis (Jerome Richardson, Shirley Scott, George Duvivier, Arthur Edgehill) record session for Prestige (The Eddie Davis Cookbook) 1959 - Benny Golson (Curtis Fuller, Ray Bryant, Tommy Bryant, Al Harewood) record session for New Jazz (Gone With Golson) 1960 - Joe Alexander (John Hunt, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones, Albert Heath) record session for Jazzland (Blue Jubilee) 1961 - Ron Carter (Eric Dolphy, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier, Charles Persip) record session for New Jazz (Where?)

The Lakeland Ledger (from Florida) had this story in its edition today to mark the 50th anniversary of Cannonball Adderley bursting into the New York jazz scene: The Adderley Brothers

Strange! I was posting around that time (mid-morning in Europe) and there were only 4 or 5 of us in the Users' list Maybe the others were hiding

Billy Bauer 'Anthology' (Interplay) The album has various tracks recorded by Bauer between 1959 and 1969. Side 1 is a live trio date (with John Sherin on bass and Charles Kay on drums), side 2 has seven solo tracks! Wish Bauer had recorded more albums under his name!

Not a chance! The Brazilian gig with Ray Charles was just a one time occasion. It seems that this was the only time he traveled out of the USA! He played mostly in the New York/Bronx area in the sixties according to Michael Cuscuna's liner notes in the Mosaic set...

June 19: 1947 - Gene Ammons and his Sextet (Gail Brockman, Gene Wright, etc...) record session for Mercury ('Red Top', etc...) 1962 (thru June 20) - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (Coltrane) 1963 - Booker Ervin (Frank Strozier, Horace Parlan, Butch Warren, Walter Perkins) record session for Prestige (Exultation) 1964 - Lou Donaldson (Herman Foster, Earl May, Bruno Carr, Ray Barretto) record session for Cadet (Cole Slaw) 1964 - Big John Patton (Richard Williams, Fred Jackson, Grant Green, Ben Dixon) record session for BN (The Way I Feel)

The 1962 dates on the BN CD reissue are correct. No idea where Ruppli/Cuscuna got the 1959 date for the two tunes ('My Funny Valentine' and 'Dream Gypsy' from this album that was released in 1962 on UA.

Billy Bauer's life was as discreet as his guitar lines were complex. He was one of the guitar giants. His autobiography 'Sideman' was a highly enjoyable read!

I would say late 1945 before Diz and Bird went East. Bird is obviously in his pre-Lover Man days! The similar photo (with Miles, Dexter, Stan Levey) is also in 'Miles' Diary', another Ken Vail book. The text to the Diary mentions that the Charlie Parker group (with Miles Davis) moves down the (52nd) street - in October 1945 - from the Three Deuces to the Spotlite Club. 'Dexter Gordon comes in on tenor sax, and Sir Charles Thompson and Leonard Gaskin replace (Al) Haig and (Curley) Russell.' Then in November 1945: The same photo (with Miles and Dexter) is also in the 'To Bird With Love' opus by Francis Paudras and Charlie Parker. Bad quality copy, credited 'courtesy Dexter Gordon/Maxine Gregg'. The club where the Bird/Miles/Dexter photo was taken is identified as the Spotlite. The year given for it is 1944, clearly one year off... The eBay seller from Kansas City is also trying to get $25,000 with a well-know Charlie Parker/Miles photo copyrighted by Duncan Schiedt: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbootsy612 Some people have no shame

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No Dodo... I'm positive, the venue is the Spotlite Club on 52nd Street!

Bentsy, you're missing this: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=martial+solal

June 18: 1956 - Metronome All Stars (Thad Jones, Eddie Bert, Tony Scott, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Serge Chaloff, Billy Taylor, Teddy Charles, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey) record session for Clef/Verve (The Metronome All Stars) 1961 - Horace Parlan (Booker Ervin, Grant Green, George Tucker, Al Harewood) record session for BN (Up and Down) 1962 - Don Wilkerson (Sonny Clark, Grant Green, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Preach Brother!) 1964 - Bobby Timmons Trio (Sam Jones, Ray Lucas) record session for Prestige (Little Barefoot Soul) 1967 - Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Orchestra record session for Saba/MPS (Sax No End) 1970 - Dexter Gordon & Junior Mance (Martin Rivera, Oliver Jackson) at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released on Prestige (Dexter Gordon and Junior Mance at Montreux)

Asking price is ridiculous... Venue seems to be the Spotlite Club in New York where Bird played in late 1945 (from another photo taken at the club that is in Ken Vail's 'Bird Diary'). The other photo has Bird playing with Miles and Dexter. The trumpet player here is no problem. Don't think it's Manne or Levey on drums. And not Lucky on tenor. Piano player is not visible enough.

Found all four of the French jazz piano collection that were reissued in 1991 and which have been OOP practically ever since they came out. These were reissues of the rare 4LP 'Piano Puzzle' recorded for Saravah back in 1970. The four discs are by Georges Arvanitas, Michel Grailler, Rene Urtreger and Maurice Vander, each of whom are featured on a single album! Great stuff!

Byard played piano (acoustic and electric), celeste, vibes, tenor saxophone and drums on his 'Freedom Together' album (Prestige)!

The Great Jazz Trio 'Direct From L.A.' (EastWind) that's the Hank Jones/Ron Carter/Tony Williams unit

Correcting my previous post. Seems that there indeed was a Palm vinyl of the Byard Lancaster/Bobby Jaspar 'Meeting Time' album. This was released under Jef Gilson's name. Very few copies of the album were pressed! Most of the tracks were from a 1958 session led by Jef Gilson with Bobby Jaspar, Walter Davis, Doug Watkins and Art Taylor among others. One track (from 1974) had Lancaster with Jef Gilson.

Some recommended Dave Pell from his Les Brown days: - 'I Had the Craziest Dream' (Capitol), with Don Fagerquist, Bob Gordon, - 'A Pell of a Time' (Victor), with Jack Sheldon, Pepper Adams, Mel Lewis, - 'The Big Small Bands' (Capitol), with Fagerquist, Sheldon, Art Pepper, etc... also the two Atlantic albums 'Jazz and Romantic Places', and 'Love Story'. Mind you, far from essential albums but easy listening jazz in the best sense of the word...

I would say it is the same Dave Pell. Never saw (or heard) that one. Probably not one of the 'marvelous' albums I had in mind. Fresh Sound reissued mast of those ones.