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From the jazz supplement from this week' the Village Voice...

The Masters of Jazz series is the way to do it with the Lunceford material. The late John R.T. Davies was responsible for some of the eight volumes that were published before the label disappeared. Those Masters CDs may be a bit hard to find but they do have the best sound. And shame on Decca, Columbia and their current owners for letting their Lunceford material disappear. Or almost!

The only good thing about France casting a NON in the EU referendum may be that the Olympic committee might decide - in retaliation - to select a non-French city for those 2012 Olympics

Ubu, thanks for mentioning this. Will probably be getting some of those items myself. From a quick look, note that the jazz content on many of those soundtracks is very slim. Chet Baker is on the 'Mort d'un pourri' music. If you don't have them, get the Martial Solal music for 'A Bout de Souffle'. That release is more complete than what was released before. Also the Georges Delerue score for Godard's 'Pierrot le Fou'. No jazz on that one, just beautiful movie music. Delerue's music for 'Le Mepris' is very good too! Same goes for the Antoine Duhamel and Eric Demarsan scores. Also the Jimmy Smith music for 'La Metamorphose des Cloportes' is worth getting! Will investigate further!

Mais oui! Kuhn is superb there. Beautiful rendition of 'Love Is For the Very Young' among other fine tunes. That box was a must for fans of jazz, films and solo pianos! Just too bad was that Ran Blake did not take part...

I plead guilty to having overlooked Steve Kuhn for too long! I was not really impressed with his ECM recordings after the 'Last Year's Waltz' collaboration with Sheila Jordan but I am in the midst of rediscovering his albums. Two of those I have been exploring and enjoying lately are the New World duo date 'Mostly Ballads' and the Concord trio date 'Years Later'. Also the Owl album 'Oceans In the Sky' with Viroslav Mitous and Aldo Romano. Nice to see these mentioned here. And welcome to this Board, Peter Friedman

May 31: 1938 - Larry Adler (Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli, etc...) record session for Columbia Pathe 1940 - Count Basie and his Orchestra record session for Okeh ('Blow Top', Super Chief', etc...) 1946 - John Hardee Sextet (Bill Bivens, Sammy Benskin, Jimmy Shirley, Gene Ramey, Sidney Catlett) record session for BN 1956 - Tal Farlow Trio (Eddie Costa, Vinnie Burke) record session for Norgran (The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow) 1960 - Ken McIntyre (John Mancebo Lewis, Dizzy Sal, etc...) record session for New Jazz (Stone Blues)

Charlie Parker and Lester Young appear together on three of the JATP concerts: - January 28, 1946 in LA - April 22, 1946 in LA - September 18, 1949 at Carnegie Hall All three concerts were included in the Verve 10CD Bird box and in the Verve 10CD JATP 1944-1949 box.

If you are refering to the Jazz Factory release, this is what's inside, according to their website. The sides are 'borrowed' from Clef/Norgran/Verve original recordings.

On the Columbia vinyl original (stereo CS8838) 'Think of One' clocks in at 5:17

IIRC Bruyninckx also has no Rowles version of that tune. Maybe it was a favor - Rowles is one of the most prominent - and best, IMHO - interpreters of Shorter's tunes. There was a discussion about this here or on the Blue Note Board. Hell, I even may have started it .... ← Jimmy Rowles did record '502 Blues' under its original title on the album 'Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue' with his daughter Stacy on trumpet, Ray Brown on bass and Don Bailey on drums. This was recorded in LA for the French label Orange Blue in 1988. Rowles also recorded the same tune under its other title 'Drinkin' and Drivin'' for another French label 'Ahead'. A 1978 Paris session with George Duvivier and Oliver Jackson. I already said the French loved Rowles!

Glad you're enjoying that one, Paul! Beautiful box produced by the late Henri Renaud

Forget about the remake and try to get hold of the original one by Joseph Mankiewicz with Michael Redgrave and Audie Muphy. A black and white classic. Another incredible movie adaptation from Graham Greene is 'The Ministry of Fear' by Fritz Lang (1943) set in wartime London with Ray Milland. Stunningly breathtaking!

Happy Birthday, Pete B! Always enjoy your posts! Hope you're having a great day!

My copy (Atlantic Warner Japan reissue) says RVG was the recording engineer. That's all. Except my copy has a large autograph from the drummer on the date that reads 'Amitiés Toujours, Kenny Clarke'. Love that disc!

May 30: 1944 - Benny Morton Trombone Choir (Vic Dickenson, Bill Harris, Claude Jones, Johnny Guarneri, Al Hall, Sidney Catlett) record session for Keynote 1952 - Woody Herman and The New Third Herd (Don Fagerquist, Carl Fontana, Urbie Green, Dick Hafer, Arno Marsh, Bill Perkins, etc...) record session for Mars 1953 - Charlie Parker (Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Art Taylor, Candido) at Birdland, released on Queen Disc and various labels 1956 - Rolf Ericson and his American All Stars (Cecil Payne, Duke Jordan, John Simmons, Art Taylor) record session for Metronome 1982 - Art Pepper (Roger Kellaway, David Williams, Carl Burnett) at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., concert recorded by VOA and released by Tofrec (Final Art)

Huge fan of Jimmy Rowles here. Sadly, he seems to be overlooked these days. Not here. Rowles is a constant presence and his music plays very often. Rowles had a lot of fans in France and he recorded quite a number of sessions in his later years including that incredible day of July 21, 1978 when he turned out four albums - all excellent - in a row!

Some essential favorites: - Teddy Wilson 'The Complete Piano Solos' (Columbia France) - Art Tatum the VDiscs solo sessions - Thelonious Monk, the Vogue Paris sides - Bud Powell 'Moods' (Verve) - Lennie Tristano 'The New Tristano' (Atlantic) - Phineas Newborn 'Solo Piano' (Atlantic) - Cecil Taylor 'Silent Tongues' (Arista)

Hadn't purchased 45ers in a long time but could not resist these latest finds. Four EPs as they were called: - Quentin Jackson (Ducretet Thompson) - Art Simmons (Ducretet Thompson) both from the Ducretet Thompson 'Jazz From Paris'. The Quentin Jackson seems to be the only date recorded under his name by the great trombonist. A late 1959 session with Clark Terry, Art Simmons, Elec Bacsik, Michel Gaudryand Kenny Clarke. Jackson sings on two of the four tracks. The Art Simmons date has the same personnel but Eric Dixon replaces Quentin Jackson on that one.. With Billie Poole singing on one track. Neither albums seems to have been reissued. Same goes for this one: - Guy Lafitte Jazz Sextet (Columbia France) with Raymond Fol on piano, Bibi Rovere on bass and Franco Manzecchi on drums. Arrangements by Fol and Martial Solal, plus this one: - Lucky Thompson in Paris (Symphonium) with Gerard 'Dave' Pochonet et son Orchestre (including Martial Solal). This one was reissued on the HighNote album 'Lucky Thompson in Paris'. Got all these on an exchange deal!

sacrebleu! ← Was all that supposed to be French Missed all those TV shows that made Eddie Albert so popular. Probably strictly US fare! Loved his part as a photographer in William Wyler's 'Roman Holiday'!

Bud Powell and Monk, of course!

May 29: 1944 - Coleman Hawkins Quartet (Teddy Wilson, John Kirby, Sidney Catlett) record session for Keynote 1956 - Kenny Burrell (Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Kenny Clarke, Candido Camero) record session - also May 30 - for BN (Introducing Kennu Burrell) 1956 - Mort Herbert (Joe Wilder, Bobby Jaspar, Sahib Shihab, Dick Katz, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (Night People) 1959 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record first of several sessions for Columbia (Anatomy of a Murder) 1961 - Sonny Red (Cedar Walton, George Tucker, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Jazzland (The Mode) 1967 - Richard Groove Holmes (Teddy Edwards, Pat Martino, Paul Chambers, Billy Higgins) record session for Prestige (Get Up and Get It!)

Ben Webster 'Autumn Leaves' (Futura) with the Georges Arvanitas Trio Eric Watson 'Your Tonight Is My Tomorrow' (Owl) with Steve Lacy, Jean-Paul Celea, Aaron Scott

Tooter, trust you aware that the superb Hank Jones 'I Remember You' album was reissued on CD by Black & Blue a couple of years ago. The reissue adds four alternate tracks ('I Remember You', 'Young No More', 'Love Walked In' and 'Like Someone in Love') to the original release.

JRT Davies did quite a number of mastering for the Masters of Jazz series but not the Morton. Mastering for the MofJ Mortons vol. 1 thru 7 was taken care of by Francois Terrazoni. Studio Sofreson handled vol. 8 and Christophe Henault did vol.9. Volume 9 which was indeed released included the 1938 acetates output from Baltimore and the five piano solos from the 1938 session from Jazzman (produced by Nesuhi Ertegun).