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Bought this some time ago and forgot about it! http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/sandole_bros_cat.html Listened to it over the weekend and was stunned! This is really superb music with intelligent compositions and lively arrangements. The Philadelphia brothers assembled an octet of worthy musicians, including Art Farmer, John LaPorta, George Barrow among others. Whatever happened to them after they released this album? Looks like this was the only album they recorded. Is that really the only one? The Fantasy reissue also includes four sides by John LaPorta (with Jack Keller on piano and Clem De Rosa on drums, no bass). Outstanding too... One to get before the Fantasy/Concorde takeover lets this disappear once more!

May 8, some more: 1956 - Patti Page with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra record session for EmArcy (In the Land of HiFi) 1957 - Jimmy Smith Trio (Eddie McFadden, Donald Bailey) record session for BN at Manhattan Towers, NYC (Jimmy Smith Plays Pretty Just For You), busy day for Lion and Wolff who recorded Horace Silver's 'The Stylings of Silver) on the same day 1958 - Jimmy Witherspoon with the Teddy Edwards Septet (Gerald Wilson, Hampton Hawes, etc.) record session for World Pacific (Singin' The Blues) 1965 - Carmell Jones (with Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, etc.) record session for Prestige (Jay Hawk Talk)

check in with amazon.fr caiman offers all three boxes for 18euro there. But then how much would be the shipping costs from the States? Then the French customs would add import taxes as they do pretty often on shipments from the States...

The Complete Buddy de Franco/Sonny Clark, disc 3

May 8: 1941 - Charlie Christian jam session at Minton's (Stompin' at the Savoy) 1942 - Django Reinhardt avec Stan Brenders et son Grand Orchestre record session for Rythme in occupied Brussels 1945 - could not find any jazz record session on that historic day 1947 - Charlie Parker (with Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) record session for Savoy (Donna Lee, Chasin' the Bird, Buzzy, Cheryl) 1949 - Charlie Parker (with Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) first appearance at the Paris Jazz Festival at Salle Pleyel, on various labels 1954 - Fats Sadi Octet (Roger Guerin, Nat Peck, Bobby Jaspar, etc...) record session for Vogue

Wish I could listen to the BFT 25. but Tom Storer just reported he is still waiting for the shipment with the CDs for several participants in Europe.

As for me, just took half a century of interest in jazz. Then about five minutes each day to add to this great thread...

Can't say it's my favorite Kessel Contemporary. The guitar-oboe configuration leaves me a bit cold. I play the Poll Winners series and 'To Swing or Not to Swing' more often. But that version of 'Love Is Here To Stay' is wonderful music to my ears!

Are those boxes being dumped in the States? The regular prices for these is in the €55 ($65) range inb the shops around here. I have stayed away from them even if they look very good!

I do! Outstanding film by Frank Tashlin (with the superb Jayne Mansfield). Julie London's singing (plus Barney Kessel's guitar accompaniement) of 'Cry Me a River' made a fan out of me!

Just to put back in perspective, this was originally issued on the Danish Debut label as 'Nefertiti, the Beautiful ...'. It was reissued by Fontana in the mid-sixties. The Freedom LP came much later.

May 7: 1946 - Sarah Vaughan (with Freddie Webster, Cecil Payne, Bud Powell, etc...) record session for Musicraft 1947 - Babs' Three Bips and a Bop (Babs Gonzales, Tadd Dameron...) record session for BN 1954 - Bill de Arango Quartet (John Williams, Teddy Kotick, Art Mardigan) record session for EmArcy 1956 - Donald Byrd Quartet (Ray Santisi, Doug Watkins, Jimmy Zitano) record session for Transition (Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill) 1964 - Freddie Hubbard (with James Spaulding, Ronnie Matthews, etc...) record session for BN (Breaking Point)

Would love to see the photos, Mark. Whenever...

There's a bunch of reissues of Brazilian albums from the sixties that are being imported over here! Some of them are shown on this site: http://www.cafemusic.com.br/cafe_links.cfm...=Dubas+M%FAsica Click on Catalogo!

For Chris' sake, it's Connor not Conner

A very good Dexter date. Wish the highschool I went to organised a concert like that!

There's a wonderful Lee Wiley 4CD box from the rip-off people at Definitive 'Manhattan Nights - The Complete Golden Years Studio Sessions' that gathers most of Wiley's best material from 1931 to 1951. I have most of the material on several vinyls but this one turns out to be a pretty thorough and convenient job. As for Chris Connor, I would like to add the following three CDs she recorded for the Alfa Jazz label in Japan: - 'Angel Eyes' with Hank Jones Trio (George Mraz, Keith Copeland), from 1991, - 'My Funny Valentine' with arrangements by Richard Rodney Bennett, and Ted Nash on sax, from 1992, - 'Blue Moon' with Mike Abene, from 1995. She is in good voice on all three.

Tubby Hayes 'England's Late Jazz Great' (IAJRC)

Iceland Air? You mean Loftleidir. I flew the company when I crossed the Atlantic (with stopover in Reykjavik) in the sixties. No lobster on the Loftleidir menu! I did not have bluejeans or backpack then but a number of fellow travelers did! http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/ll.htm

A quick advisory to the two gentlemen from Switzerland. Get the Marion Brown ESPs as soon as you can. There's some incredible music there!

Many thanks EKE BBB for providing the details. Always loved those Cotton Club broadcasts! I missed the Bear Family release and will be happy to have it when Storyville release their volume with the new material!

The French court ruled against copy protection. The AP story on this (date April 26) Copy-control is - at long last - coming under control. Hopefully... I'll get my money back from EMI. Hopefully

May 6: 1924 - The Wolverines Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke record session for Gennett 1927 - Sippie Williams (with Louis Armstrong) record session for Okeh 1946 - Bill Harris and His New Music (John La Porta, Ralph Burns, Chubby Jackson, etc...) record session for Keynote 1955 - Herbie Nichols and his Trio (Al McKibbon, Art Blakey) record session for BN 1956 - The Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet (with Sonny Rollins) at the Basin Street (club Live at Basin Street), released on Ingo and other labels

I am a tax-paying law-abiding citizen. The law in my country allows me to buy records by companies that also pay the required taxes. The law in my country also can be pretty strict with labels that do not play by the rules as happened with the Esoldun albums that were released with the help of the government-owned INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) back in the late eighties. I bought these when they were being sold in all the regular stores. I must admit that I did not return those CDs when the law declared they should not have been released. Nobody asked me to do that! With the exception of a couple of CDRs - provided by board members who will remain nameless - that were copies of ultra rare dates, 99 percent of the albums I have in my collection have been bought in stores. I have paid my dues and helped some of the best jazz labels by buying their stuff when they were releasing them which allows me to proclaim my grief against Blue Note/EMI which releases copy-controlled CDs of favorite albums that cannot be played in my car My mind is at ease. I am waiting to see what Lonehill and JSP and some others are preparing to release next!

Thanks for the reminder. Pulled this out earlier today and thoroughly enjoyed it. Lou Donaldson was really in top form that day with the right combination of groovers around him! 'Watusi Jump' got an instant replay!