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Ultra rare 78s from Henri Renaud (1951 date with Bobby Jaspar, Sandy Mosse, Jimmy Gourley, etc...) were reissued a while back on a CD by Paris Jazz Corner. Pretty good but the sound is low fi. The issued 78s (on the Saturne label, nothing to do with Ra) were in pretty bad shape and the transfers were more than problematic. http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...2767170-5987335

Michael, thanks for the info about the third edition of the Campbell Sun Ra book. I have the first edition and was thinking about getting that second version. Will wait for the next one!

Are you sure about that? I'm aware that these Birdlanders discs come from "Vogue in NYC" sessions, so to speak, but where are the tracks with Jay & Kai to be found? I only have vol. 1 (picked it up in a sale, never looked for vol. 2 so far). Also, can you list all the new Vogue Masters releases? I have no idea how to find out about *all* the new ones, and I'd love to know! The sides with Kai Winding and Henri Renaud were on the Oscar Pettiford Sextet album that also was reissued by Vogue. That 1954 session was produced by Leonard Feather and engineered by Jerry Newman. http://homepages.tesco.net/~guylj/TalFarlo...ifordSextet.htm The Period/Prestige reissues were a mess! The Vogue CDs are the way to go. The Pettiford Sextet Vogue CD includes two previously unissued takes.

Same here. Got my start in Venturaland at a pretty early age when I heard a tune by him on a Savoy ten-inch compilation of tenor sax greats! Can't remember the tune but liked his agressive tone!

The Definitive Charlie Ventura is a good (although shameless) substitute alternative for the OOP Mosaic...

Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald 'Cheek to Cheek' Anita O'Day 'Let's Face the Music and Dance' Stan Getz 'How Deep Is the Ocean' ( the version with Duke Jordan and Jimmy Raney)

Ubu is right! Not that Renaud was a bad piano player. On a strictly musical aspect, he was overshadowed by some other French pianists. But he is the one who animated the post-bop Paris scene and his groups at the Tabou, Le Boeuf sur le Toit and Club Saint-Germain gathered the innovative musicians of the time. He was backing Clifford Brown on many of the Vogue sides recorded in 1953 and when Lester Young was looking for good musicians to back him at jam sessions when he was in Paris, it was the Henri Renaud group which was picked for the honor! Renaud later became a highly respected produced for CBS/Columbia France and helped bring still unmatched reissues of the Armstrong, Basie, Ellington (and others) Okeh/Columbia sessions. An aside: the Birdlanders OJC has some of the material that is included in the Vogue BMG Henri Renaud All Stars reissues. For once, forget about the OJC! The material is complete and in better sound on the Vogue CDs!

You can hear samples from the Henri Renaud/Al Cohn Vogue BMG reissue here: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...2767170-5987335 You should also check out the other Henri Renaud Vogue BMG reissues: - Henri Renaud Trio, Sextet & All Stars - Henri Renaud All Stars (with Al Cohn, Jay Jay Johnson, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Charlie Smith

A very Happy Birthday to you Hope you get a lot of new Ronnie Ross albums!

Well done, Jim (Alfredson) Many thanks to Jim (Dye) for keeping the flame alive

May 14: 1948 - Kenny Clarke Octet ( Howard McGhee, Jimmy Heath, Hubert Fol, John Lewis, Percy Heath, etc..) record session in Paris for Swing 1957 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers plus Thelonious Monk record session for Atlantic (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk) (also May 15) 1957 - Curtis Fuller and Red Garland (with Sonny Red, Paul Chambers, Louis Hayes) record session for New Jazz (Curtis Fuller with Red Garland) 1958 - Kenny Burrell (with Louis Smith, Tina Brooks, Junior Cook, etc...) record session for BN (Blue Lights) 1959 - Arnett Cobb (with Ray Bryant, Wendell Marshall, Art Taylor, Ray Barretto) record session for Prestige (Party Time) 1959 - Art Farmer (with Lee Morgan, Jimmy Cleveland, Curtis Fuller, etc...) record session for UA (Brass Shout) 1962 - Don Friedman Trio (Chuck Israels, Pete LaRoca) record session for Riverside (Circle Waltz) 1962 - Sonny Stitt Quintet (Dexter Gordon, Don Patterson, etc.) record aborted session for BN (Thed Lost Tracks) 1963 - Johnny Griffin/Matthew Gee Sextet (with Big John Patton) record session for Atlantic (Soul Groove) 1963 - Miles Davis Quintet (George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) record session for Columbia (Seven Steps to Heaven)

May 13: 1955 - Herbie Nichols Trio (Al McKibbon, Art Blakey) record session for BN (The Prophetic Herbie Nichols) 1957 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin, Sabu, etc.) record session for Jubilee (Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers With Sabu) 1958 - Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane (with Curtis Fuller) record session for Savoy (Dial Africa) 1960 - Bud Freeman and Shorty Baker record session for Swingville (Bud Freeman All Stars) 1968 - The Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Orchestra record session for MPS (All Smiles) 1978 - Dexter Gordon (with George Cables, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gladden) at Keystone Korner, released on BN (Nights at the Keystone)

May 12: 1957 - The Lee Konitz Quintet (Don Ferrara, Sal Mosca, Peter Ind, Shadow Wilson) record session for Verve (Very Cool) 1957 - Sonny Stitt (with Bobby Timmons,Edgar Willis, Kenny Dennis) record session for Verve (Personnal Appearance) 1959 - Art Pepper (and the Mary Paich Orchestra) record session for Contemporary (Art Pepper Plus Eleven) (also May 13) 1959 - Cannonball Adderley (with Wynton Kelly, Percy and Al Heath) record session for Riverside (Cannonball Takes Charge) 1959 - Lee Konitz and Jimmy Giuffre (with Hal McKusick, Ted Brown, Warne Marsh, Bill Evans) record session for Verve (Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre) 1960 - Dizzy Reece (with Walter Bishop, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor) record session for BN (Soundin' Off) 1967 - Donald Byrd (with Sonny Red, Cedar<Walton, etc.) record session for BN (Slow Drag)

Eddie Barclay who started his career as a jazz pianist in the '40s and then went on to create his label 'Blue Star' that distributed records from the Norman Granz catalogue and recorded musicians like Django Reinhardt, Don Byas, Bernard Peiffer, Rene Urtreger, Chet Baker among others, died in Paris yesterday. Blue Star became Barclay Records in the fifties, the label blossomed into one of the most important French music business venture. Barclay also financed the French review 'Jazz Magazine' when it was created in 1954. From AP:

Happy Birthday to you, Dr. Rat

Really sad news. What a stupid death!

I was not speaking of the video footage which I saw several years ago on French TV. I was referring to the audio. She may have been drunk pretty often in her last years but I would be the last one to blame her. She made enough material to enliven anybody's life and I will go on without going back to her performance that night! Releasing a CD of her performance at the Olympia would be an embarrassment to everyone concerned! From what I know, it's Daniel Filipacchi's decision not to release the performed songs. He was Europe 1's jazz producer (and editor of the Jazz Magazine review) before becoming a press tycoon. I respect his decision! Not sure who owns the rights to the video footage...

Lou Levy Trio 'The Hymn' (Philips, mono) with Max Bennett and Stan Levey

I was at that November 1958 concert at the Olympia. Thought Holiday was radiantly beautiful but she was also blind drunk... And it showed. She had to be helped out of the stage. The crowd loved her anyway but Europe 1 which sponsored the concert did not release the tapes when they issued the 'En Concert avec Europe 1' series of other concerts (Miles, Blakey, Monk, Basie, Ellington, etc...) they sponsored. With obvious good reasons. Author Francoise Sagan who was also at the concert wrote a beautiful and truthful review of it at the time.

Heard the Shorter/Hancock quartet in the Village in September 1965. Richard Davis was on bass and Joe Chambers on drums. The set list has vanished from my head!

Very interesting article. Thanks (from a veteran radio listener) for bringing this to our attention

I'm a recent convert to PayPal... Now when can I get my copy of that Dizzy/Bird??? Agree with Ubu about CC!

May 11: 1945 - Dizzy Gillespie and his All Stars (Charlie Parker, Al Haig, Curley Russell, Sidney Catlett, Sarah Vaughan) record session for Guild (Salt Peanuts, Shaw Nuff, Lover Man, Hot House) 1957 - Curtis Fuller (with Sonny Red, Hank Jones...) record session for Prestige (New Trombone) 1959 - Philly Joe Jones Big Band (with Blue Mitchell, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, etc.) record session for Riverside (Drums Around the World) 1960 - Charlie Rouse (with Blue Mitchell, Walter Bishop, etc...) record session for Jazzland (Takin' Care of Business) 1961 - Cannonball Adderley (Nat Adderley, Winton Kelly, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes) record session for Riverside (Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus)

Have yet to hear this CD but I already have an headache

Pardon, but I'm rather uninformed about quite a few BN titles that are pre-1955. Have either or both of these Elmo Hope titles been on CD before?? If so, where?? Can't imagine in the U.S. - otherwise there's no chance they'd be Conns (or else this'd be the first Conn ever that'd been released stateside before). I'm guessing they've been out in Japan before. Those 20 tracks were on the BN 1991 'Elmo Hope Trio and Quintet' release (CDP 7 84438 2). Nothing new under the BN sun! The CD had digital transfer by Ron McMaster. The photo on the cover of that one was the same as the Elmo Hope and dog that graced the BN 5044 ten-incher. Indispensable for fans of this awesome piano player!