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Track list for the 'Pitchin' Can' LP: side 1 - UHURU (Dawn of Freedom) Part I (Archie Shepp) 17:00 (the side 1 label lists the following players: Archie Shepp on tenor, Bobby Few on piano, Bob Reid on bass, Clifford Thornton on valve trombone, Mohamed Ali on drums, Al Shorter on flugal horn, Djibrill on conga drums, Ostaine Blue Warner on percussions, Lester Bowie on trumpet) side 2 - UHURU (Dawn of Freedom) Part II (Archie Shepp) 9:10 - Pitchin' Can (Cal Massey) 7:50 (the side 2 label lists the following players - that's for the Cal Massey track - Archie Shepp on soprano, Sonny Murray on drums, Clifford Thornton on trumpet, Julio Finn on harmonica, Noah Howard on alto, Leroy Jenkins on violin, Dave Burrell on piano and Earl Freeman on bass). Chicago Beau, the blues singer who appears on the Cal Massey track is not listed on the label but is listed on the backsleeve notes.

You can catch six minutes of Peter Brotzmann being interviewed and playing with the 'Die Like a Dog' unit last November in Toulouse, southern France, on this archived video from the local TV station OC-TV: http://www.oc-tv.net/fr/ Go to 'Arts et Cultures inside the OC-TV Interactive section on the right side of the screen, scroll down to 'TV Jazz Pluriel' and click on Video. There are a couple of other interesting goodies in the archives!

How about sending a search party on I-66???

The back sleeve of the original 'America' vinyl identifies Al Shorter on 'flugal horn' and Joseph Jarman on trumpet. They have photos of the players. No photo of Jarman but one of Lester Bowie playing trumpet. Typical of America's shoddy productions.... Most of the players on 'Coral Rock' - including Al Shorter (again on flugal horn) and Lester Bowie (on trumpet) also appear on Archie Shepp's 'Pitchin Can', another America LP release!

Glad you like that album too, Ubu It's one I return to very often these days. Quite an amazing trio...

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Gigi Gryce Orch-Tette 'Reminiscin' (Mercury) with Richard Williams, Eddie Costa, Richard Wyands, etc...

Rhoda Scott has a 2CD new release (out in a couple of weeks here) that may be interesting. Ricky Ford and Houston Person are on the live recording! http://www.alapage.com/mx/?id=752108867216...pport=CD&sv=X_L

May 2: 1945 - Billy Eckstine and his Orchestra (with Fats Navarro, Budd Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, etc...) record session for National (A Cottage For Sale) 1945 - Frank Socolow Quintet (Freddy Webster, Bud Powell, etc...) record session for Duke 1952 - Miles Davis All Stars (Jackie McLean, Don Elliott, Gil Coggins) at Birdland (Ozone) 1955 - Bud Shank Quintet (with Bill Perkins and Hampton Hawes) record session for PJ/World Pacific 1958 - Gene Ammons (with Idrees Sulieman, Pepper Adams, etc...) record session for Prestige (Blue Gene)

Will check this one when I run into a copy. Unless it is very thoroughly documented, not sure I really need another book on the subject.

Nica was born a Rothschild. She married Jules de Koenigswarter in 1935. de Koenigswarter was a French Resistance hero during World War Two. Nica drove ambulances for the Free French Forces during that war. They separated in 1951. She settled then in New York. That's where she met Monk through MaryLou Williams in 1953. Quite a Lady!

May 1st: 1957 - Dave Brubeck and his quartet at the Fullerton Junior College in LA (also May 2) recorded for Columbia (Jazz Goes to Junior College) 1958 - Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, etc... record music in Paris for the film 'Les Tricheurs' (Barclay) 1966 - Albert Ayler at Slug's Saloon, released on various labels 1978 - Dexter Gordon records 'Ruby My Dear' (with George Cables, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gladden) for Columbia (Great Encounters)

Josephine and the Baker Boys were performing in Nice, on the French Riviera, in the winter of 1933. Don't have other details...

Walt Dickerson and Andrew Cyrille! With Richard Davis (or Lysle Atkinson?) on bass... Jackie McLean and Grachan Moncur! Sonny Rollins with Henry Grimes and Pete LaRoca!

A very Happy Birthday to you

Hope you're getting a great one

It seems it took two weeks to discover he was dead in his apartment! How very sad! Looks like a whole generation of musicians is going away! Benny Bailey was one of the most underrated player ever. A very nice man I had the pleasure of meeting when I was able to attend rehearsals of the incredible band Quincy Jones was gathering in Paris to play in the short-lived musical 'Free and Easy'. back in 1960. Bailey was in top form then and impressed every one around.

Another gentleman of jazz goes away... Another one to thank for bringing us so much beautiful music! I still remember watching and listening to him play with the Modern Jazz Quartet in their glory days.

Away from home now so cannot check for sure but didn't Stan Levey not only pose but took the great photo that is on the cover of 'The Arrival of Victor Feldman', the Contemporary album? And many thanks Garth for posting that Stan Levey obituary!

More sad news! Another very worthy musician goes away!

Herbie Nichols! What a huge talent What a small catalogue

All five albums Lennie Niehaus recorded for Contemporary are worth chasing! Also the album he recorded for Mercury. And let's not forget the more recent two sessions that came out on Fresh Sounds. Not a bad one in the lot! Niehaus also recorded wonderful solos when he was playing with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the late fifties.

The first music I can remember came from some of the 78s that were played by my parents after the end of WWII. Some French singers (mostly Yves Montand, Edith Piaf...). Then when the first long-playing albums were released, my ears were ready for classical music. Some of the LPs I remember were the Dinu Lipatti recordings of Chopin's Preludes, some Rachmaninoff, some Bach. By the time I was 12, I was tuned into jazz and my life was never the same after that...

Got the JCOA Clifford Thornton LP when it was released and it's a real good one (as were the other JCOA albums). Am away from home now and cannot check on the LP right now for details. Clifford Thornton was not a member of the Black Panthers if I remember correctly but he was involved with organising a concert in Paris - back in 1970 - for the Black Panthers that had him barred from France in the wake of the then post-1968 riots political repression. Didn't he also record with Sun Ra in the early 60s?

Another sad news! He did not record much these past years unfortunately. When he did record he was among the very best. Check the Victor Feldman trio date 'The Arrival' on Contemporary with Scott LaFaro. Levey was a master! And an excellent photographer too: