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First version I heard was the Charlie Parker rendition of the song with the Dave Lambert singers and arrangement by Gil Evans! Thought the voices were corny at the time but the version has aged very gracefully! Like it just fine now.

Kamuca is in excellent company on the RCA album 'The Brothers' with Al Cohn, Bill Perkins and a rhythm section of Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith and Sam Beethoven (aka Jimmy Raney) alternating on guitar, John Beal on bass and Chuck Flores on drums. The date was reissued by RCA Spain a few years ago. Well worth the search!

Eddie Louiss (with John Surman, NHP and Daniel Humair) 'Our Kind of Sabi' (MPS) next: Chuck Wayne 'Morning Mist' (Prestige blue label)

His last post is from January 30... Hope everything is OK with him! Anybody heard from him?

Agustin, the Braxton/Montoliu data: LP - In the Tradition, vol. 2 c. 1975 CD - In the Tradition, c.1986 CD - In the Tradition, vol. 2, c. 1987

April 13: 1951 - Red Norvo Trio (Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow) record session for Savoy 1953 - Chuck Wayne Quintet (with Brew Moore, Zoot Sims...) double record session for Progressive 1953 - Teddy Wilson Trio (Aaron Bell, Denzil Best) record session for Clef 1954 - Louis Armstrong with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra record session for Decca (Bye and Bye, The Wiffenpoof Song...) 1956 - Bennie Green Quintet (with Art Farmer) record session for Prestige 1960 - Booker Little (with Tommy Flanagan, Scott LaFaro, Roy Haynes) record session for Time 1982 - Art Pepper and George Cables duo session for Galaxy (Tete A Tete)

It was a toss between Larry and Jimmy but I remembered the shock I got when I first listened to Jimmy Smith! My vote went for him!

No, David Gahr (edited my previous typo - I DID say my mind was still a mess ) Not ours! This one: http://www.cookephoto.com/davidgahr.html Photo of GAHR taken at the 1964 Newport folk festival. Gahr took some of the best photos of Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk and other jazz musicians.

'Jumping For Jane' and 'Invention' were recorded in Stockholm for Metronome a couple of weeks before the Paris Vogue dates and could not be made available to Vogue/BMG. Glad to have the two Raney Visits Paris BMG reissues along with the Xanadu album. The BMG reissues sound good.

EKE, I have managed to reorder part of my vinyls these past few weeks so searching for an album is a lot easier... My mind is still in a mess

I did, thanks! Bet that compilation did not have the four-page inlet that had two more superb photos of Mingus by Garh and two pages of Mingus reminiscing about the music that came with the original vinyl

Now playing: Mal Waldron - Jackie McLean 'Like Old Times' (JVC Japan) next: Charles Mingus 'Let My Children Hear Music' (CBS Holland)

Thanks Jim. I remember seeing that compilation at the time and stayed away from it! Good thing I did, obviously!

This was originally released as a Columbia LP 'Let My Children Hear Music'. Full title of this 'Fisherman's wife' tune was THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE ARE SOME JIVE ASS SLIPPERS. The front cover had a very dark color painting by Ed Lee. Beautiful closeup of Mingus by David Gahr on the back cover! Haven't played this for a long time! Time for a relisten!

Great website at Artists House! Lots of interesting features including masterclasses with Hank Jones, Barry Harris, Cecil Taylor, Clark Terry, the Heath Brothers... http://www.artistshousemusic.com/ Click on performances to watch and listen B-)

Well, Lonnie Liston Smith played with Roland Kirk and with Art Blakey in the mid-sixties!

Even after Che returned to oblivion???

Bertrand, always assumed it was 'Dr' Lonnie Smith on piano because when the Trip twofer came out, Lonnie Liston Smith was quite a big name and I thought that if this had been him on piano the album would carry his full name! Not that sure anymore! Anybody knows better?

I know I am in a minority but I always liked 'Bossa Nova Bacchanal' on BN. Rouse really got the right mood of the Brazilian music on that date. An underrated Rouse session is the 'Upper Manhattan Jazz Society' album (Enja) he co-led with Benny Bailey. A superb get-together that really worked!

April 12: 1957 - Thelonious Monk records solo piano session for Riverside (Thelonious Himself) 1957 - Gene Ammons (with Idrees Sulieman, Jackie McLean, etc...) record session for Prestige (Jammin' In HiFi) 1958 - Oscar Peterson Trio (Herb Ellis, Ray Brown) at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, released on Verve 1959 - Cannonball Adderley (with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Riverside (Cannonball Takes Charge) 1976 - Mal Waldron and Jackie McLean record session for Victor Japan (Like Old Times)

Spinned a copy of the album last week and enjoyed it. OK it's not an essential date, just a loose gathering of all these trumpet players. Interesting to concentrate on the similarities and the differences between them! For those who do not know the album, it's Woody Shaw, Walter Kelly and Blue Mitchell on one session and Bill Hardman, Richard Williams and Kenny Dorham on the other session. With Lonnie Smith (on piano), Peck Morrison and Walter Perkins in the rhythm section.

THE final song she recorded for Decca. Recorded March 8, 1950 in LA at her last session for the label. Two songs were recorded that day: 'God Bless the Child' and then 'This Is Heaven To Me'...

Thanks, WG! I thought I was going deaf

Read ALL Simenon? The man wrote 400 books. He was a great prolific writer! He also was insatiable! (he had sex with 10,000 women according to various accounts!)!

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