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PhillyJazz will release (on November 14, 2005) a new Rufus Harley album 'Sustain'. Rufus Harley plays various instruments including bagpipe. The musicians alongside include Messiah Harley on trumpet, Joshua Yakin on piano and organ, Emmanuel Hakim Thompson on drums and Keno Speller on percussion. Other PhillyJazz releases skedded later this year: - Byard Lancaster 'A Heavenly Sweetness' (out August 29), - Monnette Sudley 'Meeting of the Spirits' (out September 19), - Khan Jamal 'Return From Exile' (out October 17)

Not sure it's a very good idea to use that Lucky name! Sounds interesting. Anybody heard this Lucky Thompson live? http://www.phillythroughmyear.com/lucky_liner.htm

Got the 2 discs from Storyville! Thanks Lon for the advisory. Sound is indeed the Best ever! Yet! This is awesome music! Ubu will love this...

May 21: 1953 - Oscar Peterson Trio (Barney Kessell, Ray Brown) record session for Clef (Oscar Peterson Sings) 1956 - Buddy de Franco (with Harry Edison, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessell, etc...) record session for Norgran (The Wailers) 1957 - Kenny Dorham (Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach) record session for Riverside (Jazz Contrasts) 1957 - Milt Jackson (Bobby Jaspar, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Percy Heath, Art Taylor) record session for Atlantic (Bags and Flutes) 1959 - Curtis Fuller (Benny Golson, Tommy Flanagan, etc...) record session for Savoy (Blues-ette) 1960 - Cannonball Adderley (Victor Feldman, Wes Montgomery, Ray Brown, Louis Hayes) record session for Riverside (Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners) 1963 - Gloria Coleman and Pola Roberts (Leo Wright, Grant Green) record session for Impulse (Soul Sisters) 1963 - Paul Gonsalves (Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell, Roy Haynes, etc...) record session for Impulse (Cleopatra -Feelin' Jazzy) 1963 - Thelonious Monk Quartet (Charlie Rouse,Butch Warren, Frankie Dunlop) record session for CBS/Sony (Monk in Tokyo) 1964 - Jaki Byard (Richard Williams, Booker Ervin, etc...) record session for Prestige (Out Front!)

Couldn't been Billie! Mary Lou Williams?

One of the problems regarding the Byg/Actuel output is that nobody seems to know where the original tapes are. Two of the partners in the venture do not know where they are and the third one does not give a damn anymore!

Happy Birthday

Jackie McLean 'Bout Soul' (BN) then: Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn (Contemporary, mono)

May 20: 1949 - Brew Moore All Stars (Jerry Lloyd, Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan, George Wallington, etc...) record session for Savoy 1953 - Gerry Mulligan (with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, etc...) record session for PJ 1953 - Howard McGhee Sextet (Gigi Gryce, Horace Silver, Tal Farlow, Percy Heath, Walter Bolden) record session for BN (Howard McGhee vol.2) 1954 - Art Mardigan Sextet (Don Joseph, Milt Gold, Al Cohn, John Williams, Teddy Kotick) record session for Wing/Mercury 1954 - Art Blakey Quintet (Joe Gordon, Gigi Gryce, Walter Bishop, Bernie Griggs) record session for EmArcy 1955 - Milt Jackson Quartet (Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Connie Kay) record session for Prestige 1959 - The Three Sounds (Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins, Bill Dowdy) record session for BN (Good Deal) 1964 - Grant Green (McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Elvin Jones) record session for BN (Matador) 1967 - Roland Kirk (Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Boykins, Grady Tate) record session for Verve (Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith)

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Leon Eason! I'ld buy this if Mosaic releases it. Enough stuff for a single disc.

OK, Lon! Had seen the two discs from the Storyville box available here for €12 ($15) total. I have secured them. Will miss the box and the accompanying notes but since I already have the JVC, I'll take the music only! And this is treasure island material! Sorry Bentsy!

We need Simon back here!

Is the Storyville release THAT much better than the JVC?

Looks real good! With some changes (improvements?). Need to get used to the various modifications. There is a language box now. No choice, just english! Could we have options (American, French, German, Spanish)?

May 19: 1953 - Miles Davis (with John Lewis, Charles Mingus, Percy Heath, Max Roach) record session for Prestige 1954 - Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce Quintet (with Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Prestige 1957 - Paul Chambers (Donald Byrd, Clifford Jordan, Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones) record session for BN (Paul Chambers Quintet) 1960 - Don Wilkerson (Nat Adderley, Barry Harris, Leroy Vinnegar, Billy Higgins) record session for Riverside (The Texas Twister) 1961 - Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks) at Village Gate, recorded by BN (Doin' The Thing) 1965 - Pete La Roca (Joe Henderson, Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow) record session for BN (Basra) 1966 - Cecil Taylor Unit (Eddie Gale, Jimmy Lyons, Ken McIntyre, etc...) record session for BN (Unit Structures)

Oui, Monsieur! The W isn't pronounced as a V? That's what a friend just told me.. Don't trust that friend! Wilen is wee-len in French. Same for Winnipeg that starts with a wee... Or Wichita... But Wagon starts with a vaa

Oui, Monsieur!

The entry for this 1965 film in David Meeker's 'Jazz In The Movies' indicates it's 97 minutes long. Brief comment says: 'Documentary on organist Jimmy Smith produced while he was touring Europe and the USA.' Never saw that one...

The new Rhoda Scott 'Very Saxy' double CD is real good. It's the first album from her I really like. Great performances from Ricky Ford on the first disc and Houston Person on the second one plus excellent support from guitarist Melvin Sparks and French drummer Lucien Dobat throughout. Ricky Ford seems to have listened a lot to Sonny Rollins lately. And that Rollins-like sonound is a kicker! Might be a good idea for Rollins too to get into a saxophone/organ trio groove! Not sure 'Very Saxy' is out yet but look for it when it is! One to add to the greaazzy list!

In an interview with François Postif that was published in the March 1962 issue of Jazz Hot, Gene Ramey recounts the incident. He mentions that the full Basie band was playing at the Reno club that night and nobody dared to join and jam. Bird had been standing near the bandstand for a while. Ramey says that he took out his saxophone which was in a wrapping bag and started to play. Ensemble playing went OK but when his turn came to solo, everything went wrong. Jo Jones decided he had heard enough, took off one of his cymbal and threw it above Parker's head. It crashed noisefully on the floor. A confused Parker stopped playing and cleared away.

Sonny Stitt 'I Remember Bird' (Catalyst) with Frank Rosolino and Dolo Coker Ran Blake 'Crystal Trip' (Horo)

Don't know the last one (Mugeut). The first three look good. Haven't been inside any of those. Personal choice would be the Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, excellent Left Bank location. Street supposed to be calm. Nice neighborhood, close to almost everything.

Same here. Got the shipment today with Tom Storer's help! Maqny thanks to RT and Tom!

really? what constitutes this "ego trip"? Do you have to ask that question? I started listening to Jarrett back in the sixties and heard him several times then. With the Charles Lloyd group, at the Cameleon Club in Paris back when he was still playing gigs and then with Miles Davis. I was not very impressed with his playing with Charles Lloyd, liked his solos at the club gig and thought his playing with Miles (on electric piano!) brilliant. Lost touch with his playing soon after the release of the ECM solo adventure 'The Koln Concert. Thought his later explorations to be overindulgent and marred by a faked hypersensitivity not to mention his spoiled child stage attitude. I avoid his concerts and his records nowadays but I do not keep away when his music shows up on radio or TV. Jarrett is a highly visible jazz star! Now if I need a brain massage by a pianist, I'll take Paul Bley or Cecil Taylor or Martial Solal over Jarrett. And if I need kicks out of the piano, I'll take Dave McKenna any time! Just some examples. Did not mean to offend anyone. The original question was 'Anyone have an advance listen'. I replied to that! If people get kicks out of 'Radiance', it's fine with me! I moved out of Jarrettland a long time ago and have no wish to resettle there!

Since it's going to be Thursday morning on this side of the Ocean, we will just be patient. And yes, go get some sleep! Pleasant dreams!