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Ernie Henry 'Last Chorus' (Riverside/Japan) with Lee Morgan, Melba Liston, Bdenny Golson, etc... on side 1 next: Andrew Hill 'Strange Serenade' (Soul Note) with Alan Silva and Freddie Waits

'If You Could See Me Now' was included in the Japanese VeeJay 2LP release of this date.

So why would a French distributor have a business relationship with Uptown if budget versions of the same material will be available shortly? The Dizzy/Bird discovery is exciting news for any distributor who knows one's business. Sales prospects warrant investing in distributing the Uptown release. Profits should be made before the budgets releases make their appearances... Hope whichever company takes care of distribution over here does a good job with it! Uptown releases appearances in the record shops around these parts are just above the zero level so far

May 5: 1949 - Charlie Parker (with Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) record session for Mercury (Passport, Segment) 1954 - Frank Foster (with Benny Powell, Gildo Mahones,Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for BN (New Faces) 1959 - Pete Brown (with Reginald Ashby, Wally Richardson, Bill Pemberton, Clarence Stroman) record session for Verve (From the Heart)

Since Buster Keaton's name popped up here, anyone seen 'The Cameraman'? Not sure it's on release now. I love the other Keaton classics, but 'The Cameraman' is so perfectly constructed and beautifully photographed. It is my Keaton favorite. The film needs to be seen on the big screen via a really good copy!

The Curtis Amy Select, discs 1 & 2

Price peaked in the last hours. The full set was in the $200 range when I posted this earlier today!

The Bobby Hutcherson Lonehill includes material from the following LPs: - Al Grey with Billy Mitchell 'Night Song' (Argo), all seven tracks - Al Grey 'Snap Your Fingers' (Argo), four tracks - Al Grey 'Having a Ball' (Argo), six tracks

Curtis Fuller: 'New Trombone' (Prestige 50th Str.) with Sonny red Kyner, Hank Jones, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes next: 'Two Bones' (BN King) with Slide Hampton, Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Al Harewood

Look for these Prestige albums: - Colector's Items, with Charlie Parker on a borrowed tenor and Sonny Rollins, - Walkin', a classic! - Miles Davis All Star Sextet/Quintet (with Milt Jackson and Jackie McLean) - don't forget 'Miles', the initial album with The Quintet with Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, PJ Jones also check out the soundtrack to the film 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud'!

Here we go again... I feel pretty comfortable with most of THOSE labels. They provide valuable items that the major companies are not willing to - or cannot - make available at affordable prices. One example is Lonehill. These CDs may have awkward programming, inadequate identifications but at least they make rare albums available to listeners. Most of THOSE labels are Europeans and their business is legal as long as the material they reissue is more than 50 years old. I'm European and buy from them without any guilt feeling. A company like Chronogical Classics has been releasing this type of material for years. They have run the full gamut of available material, very often going back to original 78s and also using material that came to light in Mosaic boxes (the Capitol Cootie Williams sides, for instance). Hope they will get back to business soon... And look at JazzFactory, they issued a four CD box of various sessions by Tony Fruscella. Great stuff, most of it pretty hard to get. I had most of the material on various LPs. I purchased the box because it was so nice to have this material in an organized way. When I started getting interested in jazz, the major labels were very slow reissuing recordings by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith. The pirate labels in the USA (the well named Jolly Roger or Jazz Panorama among others) did reissue these and showed the majors there was an interest in them. The situation has not changed much. So much valuable material sits unaccounted for in the vaults at RCA, Columbia, Decca, MGM! RCA at least did the Ellington archives justice but how about Columbia which failed miserably in issuing full anthologies of what they have of Count Basie. Their 'complete' Billie Holiday box even left out several alternates! Some reissues from THOSE labels are ripoffs and I stay away from those. Two that come to mind are the JazzFactory Mildred Bailey boxes that came out several months after the release of the Mosaic set. Another is the outstanding Uptown release of the Charles Mingus West Coast 1945-49 material. At least two ripoff labels were issusing material from the Uptown CP shortly after it came out. I'm sure the Dizzy-Bird 1945 concert material that is due out on Uptown soon will be duplicated by similar companies in the weeks after its release. The Uptown CD will be superior in every way to the ripoffs and I doubt that the ripoffs will seriously damage the sale of the Uptowns. As long as the Uptowns are well distributed around these parts, which has not been the case for a long, long time. OK now you can start throwing the bricks! I have a thick head

Your current furniture may not fit into your new place. Unless any of it is valuable, why don't you get new furniture for the next place? Strong chance that the new ones will look and fit better there.

I hate you, Ubu!

Some of the albums where I'm in the audience applauding (at the end of tunes): - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers at Club Saint-Germain des Pres (RCA) - John Coltrane 'Live in Antibes, 1965' (Esoldun), the Salle Pleyel tracks - Cecil Taylor 'Nuits de la Fondation Maeght' (Shandar) - Albert Ayler 'Lorrach/Paris 1966' (HatArt) the Salle Pleyel concert - Miles Davis 'No Blues' (JMY)

Shied away from this release - Cooper and unfamilar rhythm sections just did not appeal that much - until I ran into a secondhand copy. It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful album. Cooper is excellent thoughout and obviously enjoying playing with the continental musicians. There are not that many albums by Cooper around. Get it. And while you're at it, look for another - and more recent - Bob Cooper release from Fresh Sound 'For All We Know' with Lou Levy, Monty Budwig and Ralph Penland, from 1990.

DSL fan for more than one year! (Tele2 - which I think is Swedish-owned is the provider) Made a massive difference from dialup!

Great fan of Oum Kalsoum as she is known around these parts. Still remember the only concert she gave in Paris at the Olympia in 1967. Lasted for more than five hours. Seemed like minutes. She was majestic!

May 4: 1939 - Jimmy Yancey solo piano record session for Solo Art 1940 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Victor (Cotton Tail, Never No Lament, ...) 1945 - Herbie Fields Hot Five (John Mehegan, Al Casey, Slam Stewart, Lionel Hampton) record session for Savoy 1956 - Art Blakey (with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins) record session for Columbia (The Jazz Messengers) 1969 - Dexter Gordon (with Bobby Timmons, Victor Gaskin, Percy Brice) at the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore. Two albums (L.T.D. and XXL) released on Prestige

A few hours left to grab the three Commodore Mosaic boxes. Price is still very cheap for these rare items: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4723855453&rd=1

I taped some of those Willis Conover broadcasts in the late fifties. They were very low fi! Those tapes - along with rare treasures - were stored at my mother's place. When she moved out of her apartment, those treasures never made it to her new home Spent many late evening hours trying to tune in on those broadcasts. Would love to hear some of those broadcasts - but no lo fi! - if they survived.

Still have not listened to the double CD yet. However note that Ricky Ford and Houston Person do not play a la Dexter/Wardell. Ford is on one disc, Person is on the other.

Steve Lacy 'The Flame' (Soul Note) with Bobby Few and Dennis Charles

May 3: 1929 - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra record session for Victor (Cotton Club Stomp, Misty Mornin', ...) 1956 - Rita Reys with the Jazz Messengers (Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey) record session for Columbia (The Cool Voice) 1957 - Jackie McLean and John Jenkins (with Wade Legge) record session for Prestige (Alto Madness) 1960 - Gigi Gryce (with Richard Williams) record session for New Jazz (The Happ'nin's) 1962 - Gene Ammons record session for Prestige (Preachin') 1962 - Don Wilkerson (with John Acea, Grant Green...) record session for BN (Elder Don) 1968 - Lee Morgan (with Bennie Maupin, Cedar Walton, etc...) record session for BN (Caramba)

Thanks, brownie. I'm assembling a Clifford Thornton discography, so the details on "Pitchin' Can" are extremely helpful. While we're on the subject, is there any recording date/location info on the "Pitchin' Can" LP? I have a 9-Nov-1969 recording date for the "Black Gypsy" record -- but I guess that may not apply to the "Pitchin' Can" track added to the "Black Gypsy" reissue, right? Jason Our Clifford Thornton already replied accurately. Neither 'Coral Rock' nor 'Pitchin' Can' America LPs have record dates listed. Same goes for the other Shepp America albums 'Black Gipsy' and 'Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones'. The Tom Lord discography lists the 'Pitchin' Can' track as having been recorded on November 9, 1969. The other tracks from the 'Coral Rock' and 'Pitchin' Can' Americas are listed as having been recorded on July 23, 1970.

The LP releases of the 'Holy Ghost' box was mentioned in the last page of this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...5&hl=holy+ghost