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I'ld be interested in finding out how the 'Somethin' Else' session go. Hank Jones is the sole survivor from that date. Did Miles Davis have any suggestions before or during the recording date even if Cannonball was the leader? And specifically did Miles have special suggestion for Hank Jones? 'Somethin' Else' was the album that made me realize the excellence of this gentleman!

May 28: 1954 - Ben Webster (Tony Scott, Billy Strayhorn, George Duvivier, Louis Bellson, Ralph Burns orchestrations) record session for Norgran (Music For Loving) 1954 - Jimmy Raney Quartet (Hall Overton, Teddy Kotick, Art Mardigan) record session for Prestige (Jimmy Raney A) 1959 - Phineas Newborn (Carlo Loffaldo, Sergio Pizzi) record session for Edizioni dell Isola (Phineas Newborn Plays Again) 1959 - John Mehegan Quartet (Kenny Dorham, Chuck Wayne, Ernie Furtado) record session for TJ (Casual Affair) 1962 - Herbie Hancock (Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, etc...) record session for BN (Takin' Off) 1964 - Daniel Humair Quartet (Eric Dolphy, Kenny Drew, Guy Pedersen) at Paris concert, released on Flat&Sharp 1966 - John Coltrane (Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, etc...) at the Village Vanguard, released on Impulse (John Coltrane Livbe at the Village Vanguard Again)

I like their output so far. They unfortunately do not seem to have survived distribution problems. Bad sign that their website has disappeared. It was accessible not so long ago! Their Hill album was excellent, as was the Simmons/Tapscott. Got the Sir Hanna live date with Richard Davis and Andrew Cyrille recently and enjoyed that one, too!

May 27: 1955 - Ralph Sharon (J.R. Monterose, Teddy Charles, Joe Puma, Charles Mingus, Kenny Clarke) record session for London (Easy Jazz) 1958 - Shirley Scott Trio (George Duvivier, Arthur Edgehill) record session for Prestige (Shirley's Sounds) 1963 - Harold Vick (Blue Mitchell, Big John Patton, Grant Green, Ben Dixon) record session for BN (Steppin' Out) 1969 -Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band (Bennie Bailey, Ake Persson, Johnny Griffin, etc...) record session for MPS (All Blues)

Bentsy, I'm inclined to go with jazzbo on this! One of the best! And a favorite (like Allen states)! There are some of the best Hodges features ever in that 2CD release. And the band was on one of its ON evenings. I was at one of the four 1963 Paris Olympia concerts (can't remember which one, there were two concerts an evening on two successive days). It was the second time I attended a concert by the band. I was lucky to hear Duke Ellington several times afterwards but that 1963 Orchestra was the tightest of the lotl!

NeveronSaturday, can't compare with the Jazz Tribune series from French RCA. Didn't have those because I already had several albums from the French RCA Black and White series which preceded the Jazz Tribune LPs and CDs. I have not listened to these earlier RCA in quite a long time. I have started listening to that 10CD box and all I can say is that's one of the best investment I have made in quite a long time. What I have heard is very good. I am ready to bet the box material was picked up from the Classics releases. Before purchasing the Shaw box, I bought the 10CD box on Astor Piazzola from the same people and am still stunned with the quality of the music and its reproduced sound. As far as I am concerned I think there is no hesitation to have to get those boxes. You can't go wrong on these super Bargains!

I have that Shaw box by now. It goes up to the June 7, 1945 session for RCA and finishes with 'Tabu' which also closes the Chronogical Classics Artie Shaw 1942-1945 volume. Which suits me fine since it's the first of the Classics Shaw releases with the following one (1945). Still waiting for Classics to get back to business and continue to release more stuff. In the meantime, for the cost of a secondhand CD I have a full box with 247 sides by the Shaw band. The box does not say it is complete. A few sides may be missing. There are no liner notes. Just the names of the tunes on the back of each CD. I won't be complaining. Hope they will issue Fats Waller boxes now!

Al Cohn/Bill Perkins/Richie Kamuca The Brothers!' (RCA) next: The Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall 'Live at the Half-Note' (Atlantic, mono)

I almost never go the cinema houses these days. Watch a lot on TV and use the remote pretty often. I have been through an incredible number of 10-minute films!

May 26: 1949 - J. J. Johnson's Boppers (Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, John Lewis, Leonard Gaskin, Max Roach) record session for NewJazz 1958 - Miles Davis (Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Columbia ('On Green Dolphin Street', 'Fran Dance', etc...) 1958 - Gil Evans and his Orchestra (Johnny Coles, Cannonball Adderley, Chuck Wayne, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey, etc...) record session for Pacific Jazz (New Bottle, Old Wine) 1959 - Quincy Jones and his Orchestra (Harry Edison, Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Benny Golson, etc...) record session for Mercury 1965 - Grant Green (Harold Vick, Larry Young, Ben Dixon, Candido Camero) record session for Verve (His Majesty King Funk) 1967 - Hank Mobley (Donald Byrd, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Far Away Lands) 1965 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Roy Haynes) record session for Impulse 1983 - Zoot Sims (Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz, Akira Tana) record session for Pablo (Suddenly It's Spring)

The Media 7 mention refers to a distribution operation. What the authors had in mind was the Masters of Jazz series. The series had indeed 8 discs in their Morton series (there might have been a vol. 9 too) before it went out of business. Unfortunately!

Chalupa, I would not delete this. It's a very interesting read, even if a depressing one. Please leave it as it is!

Mark, Jan looks too good to be true (at least in the photos from the liner notes of the albums of his I have seen). The prefect cleancut young man any mother would be delighted to have her daughter marry! Bought one record just for kicks. That was the Fresh Sound 'Cooking at the Jazz Bakery', a 1996 live date with Chuck Berghofer on bass and Joe Labarbera. Jan is no joke. He really swings! Clean and straightforward music. Randy Weston's 'Little Niles' on that date is a gas! He is also outstanding on another Fresh Sound album by Herb Geller 'You're Looking At Me' (recorded in 1997) with Dave Carpenter on bass and Labarbera once more. Another Lundgren date I have enjoyed is 'Jan Lundgren Trio Plays the Music of Victor Young' on the Swedish label Sittel (Lundgren recorded several other albums for that label). Johnny Griffin, Stacey Kent and Deborah Brown have guest spots on the Victor Young CD. His discography should be pretty impressive by now.

Those stories are depressing! Not sure you should be thanked for relaying that, Chalupa! But I would have hated missing reading them, so thanks anyway

Many thanks for providing the information, Emil. Will be looking for that new release. Should be good!

Wolff, you're just adding to the confusion! The Coltrane 'Ole' was the last item on my list for today. And the Dexter 'Our Man in Paris' was listed on my May 23 list! Just keep reading and enjoy! No cigar for you today

Ran into a mono copy of this Time album during my BN vinyls-search days. Dodo is not my favorite singer but she seemed to have a knack to surround herself with good people: Ike Quebec and Grant Green on her BN, the Slide Hampton band for that Time date! With Ray Bryant on piano, Frank Dunlop and Kenny Dennis alternating on drums. Slide Hampton also wrote the arrangements and it works. In his liner notes, Nat Hentoff quotes 'one observer' who states 'Dodo is one entertainer who'll last a long time'.

May 25: 1945 - Sarah Vaughan with the Dizzy Gillespie Septet (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Tadd Dameron, etc...) record session for Continental 1953 - Charlie Parker and his Orchestra (Hal McKusick, Tony Aless, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Dave Lambers Singers, Gil Evans arrangements) record session for Clef 1953 - George Wallington Trio (Curley Russell, Max Roach) record session for Prestige 1954 - Dizzy Gillespie (Hank Mobley, Wade Legge, Lou Hackney, Charles Persip) record session for Norgran 1954 - Lars Gullin Quartet (Rolf Berg, George Riedel, Robert Edmon) record session for Metronome 1955 - Jack Millman (Linn Halliday, Don Friedman, etc...) record session for Decca (Jazz Studio 4) 1960 - Charles Mingus (Ted Curson, Jimmy Knepper, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef, etc...) record session for Mercury (Pre-Bird) 1961 - John Coltrane (Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, etc..) record session nfor Atlantic (Ole)

Happy Birthday indeed You do deserve a great one! And Jim, thanks for everything... and for keeping up will all of us!

Listened to the archived show. Excellent! Very nice and sweet touch in starting the show with the piano and strings music Martial Solal composed for one of Jean Seberg's scene from 'Breathless'. Solal - like a lot of people - must have fallen in love with the actress! God, she was beautiful in that film! The talks made some sense out of the French scene from that time. Just wanted to correct some errors regarding Boris Vian. He was - among a lot of outstanding activities - a trumpet playing jazz wannabe. Played mainly dixieland music and I don't think he ever played alongside Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis, unless it might have been for fun. Also I don't think he was sent to prison in connection with his Vernon Sullivan writings. Vian was a pretty well know figure in French arts circle in the fifties. Doubt that any government of the time would have allowed to have him spend some time in prison for fear of ridicule! One last thing. If you come to France, brush up your French! Marshall Solal! Renay Yugtrigger! You'll need to practise some At least you got Barney Wilen right! Very interesting show, as usual!

That Artie Shaw 10CD box is available at €10.9 ($13), a special sale at one of the Virgin store here. Going to get it. At that prize, it's a steal! It includes all the Artie Shaw sides from 1936 to 1945. Got an Astor Piazzola 10CD for the same prize last week. Excellent sound, the splendid music had me dancing the tango!

The former young boy wonder Andre Agassi is 35 nowadays. He seemed to have trouble with a leg injury for his opening match. Sorry to see him go. With this match, Agassi set a new record for participation in major tournaments having taken part in 58 of those! That is plain awesome! Time for a new generation. The younger ones are coming up!

There is a superb biograph-discography-filmography of Shelly Manne - 'Sounds of a Different Drummer' written by Jack Brand - that was published in 1997 by Percussion Express (they also publish Today's Drummer). The book led me to start a special thread on unheralded jazz books: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...8&hl=unheralded

Wish MartyJazz would come back and contribute again to this thread! He has great data and excellent material on many fresher dates. While he is away, here are some more May 24 recordings: 1967 (also May 27) - Teddy Edwards (Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown, Cedar Walton, etc...) record session for Prestige (It's All Right) 1968 - Booker Ervin (Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnett, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Back From the Gig) 1968 - Cedar Walton (Billy Mitchell, Clifford Jordan, etc...) record session for Prestige (Spectrum) 1982 - Freddie Hubbard/Oscar Peterson (Joe Pass, NHOP, Martin Drew) record session for Pablo (Face to Face)

Details, please. ← Pretty sure Bertrand meant the Yesternow album. Click on the image on this link for details: http://3.pro.tok2.com/~sudo/Quest/cards/L/LaurentCugny/ More Miles Davis tunes arranged by Cugny for the Orchestre National de Jazz are included (along with Wynton Marsalis' 'The Majesty of the Blues'!) on the Intempo album. Have not heard these! Bertrand, that Yesternow is really great? Saw a copy of it on sale somewhere recently!