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Buck Hill Quartet 'Impressions' (SteepleChase) next: Gerry Mulligan Sextet 'Mainstream', vol. 2 (EmArcy Japan)

Just build up an appetite. I'll mail you a list of favorite eateries. As EKE BBB already wrote, one stop at Le Pre Verre is mandatory. There was a thread about Paris restaurants (recommendations still stand): http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...4&hl=restaurant

Suggested tours of Paris areas: - an evening boat (Bateau-Mouche) ride on the Seine river, - a walk through the Marais district to include the Place des Vosges and the Ile Saint-Louis, - a morning coffee and croissants on the Place Dauphine (close to the Palais de Justice), better than the touristy Place Saint-Germain cafes and the crowds at les Deux-Maqots and Cafe de Flore... - the Musee d'Orsay is not be missed and if you like museums count on two visits at least to the Louvre, that place is just too much for one visit!

Aubrey Mayhew was the man behind the Charlie Parker Records label. He has a quite fascinating story. From a Chicago Sun-Times article that was published on January 16, 2005:

I couldn´t disagree more. I´ve been there five times (about 30 days in total) and everytime I return (last time it was a month and a half ago) I discover something new and exciting. The city has a special flavor, it really appeals to me much more than any other I have visited! And no problem with the French people, ask brownie! The French people act friendly when they meet friendly people Just like people in New York, London or any other big cities...

Had planned to go to the concert (never caught Anderson live) but had to change my plans, unfortunately.

April 7: 1939 - The Port of Harlem Jazzmen (Frankie Newton, JC Higginbotham, Albert Ammons, Teddy Bunn, Johnny Williams, Sidney Catlett) record session for BN 1950 - Lee Konitz (with Sal Mosca, Billy Bauer, etc....) record session for New Jazz/Prestige 1954 - Buddy de Franco quartet (with Sonny Clark) record session for Norgran (Jazz Tones) 1957 - Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra record session for Verve (Birk's Works) 1964 - Kenny Burrell (with Wild Bill Davis) record session for Prestige (Soul Call)

From the AP:

Hi there, undergroundagent! Late October should be a fine time to visit the city. Weather is usually pretty civil around that time of the year. Will PM you later with hotel and eateries recommendations. How long are you planning to stay? Unless you stay for several weeks, hotels are still the recommended option!

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis 'Wings & Thinhs' Verve monaural, with Hank Jones and Grant Green, next: Larry Young 'Contrasts' (BN, Liberty) stereo

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I'ld like to be in. Don't have a Paypal account. Tried to work the link but it did not accept my credit card data . It worked for earlier contribution though. Will try again later. If it fails, I'll PM. Good luck with the recording sessions!

The fact that the AP story headlined the Monk-Coltrane tape discovery up front shows things have improved. I have worked in the past with Carl Hartman who bylined the story. He is a good writer with limited knowledge of jazz but with enough sense of what's important and did not miss pointing out the find and started his story with it. I was at AP when the news of John Coltrane's death appeared on the teleprinters (that was in 1967, long before the arrival of computers in the newsrooms). The story was a mere fifteen line one. I still have a copy somewhere. And it did not make much news in the newspapers the following day. In France at least. Not sure it made any frontpages anywhere!

A Great Moment in life! Big Al, you have a real talent as a father. And also as a writer! This was one of the best post I have read here in a long time! Hope Nathan is as proud of you as you are of him!

The George Russell/Bill Evans collaboration worked perfectly on the Russell's Jazz Workshop album for RCA. It did not work out so well on the Columbia reunion!

April 6: 1953 - Shelly Manne and his Men (Bob Enevoldsen, Art Pepper, Bob Cooper,Jimmy Giuffre, etc...) record session for Contemporary 1957 - Johnny Griffin (with Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, etc...) record session for BN (A Blowin' Session) 1959 - Miles Davis record session for Columbia (Flamenco Sketches, All Blues) released on KOB 1960 - Booker Ervin (with Tommy Turrentine, Zoot Sims, etc...) record session for Bethlehem (The Book Cooks) 1978 - Jackie McLean and the Great Jazz Trio record session for EastWind (Jackie McLean and the Great Jazz Trio), session continues April 7 1981 - J.R. Monterose and Tommy Flanagan record session for Uptown (...and a Little Pleasure), session continues April 7

The Miles appearance at the 1955 Newport Festival was first released on the Jazz Unlimited CD 'Miscellaneous Davis, 1955-1957'. In very good sound. Complete with the introduction by Duke Ellington! The Voice of America recorded the proceedings at the Newport Festivals since the first one in 1954. Don't know when they ceased recording at Newport but I remember - when I was still a teenager - listening to some of the broadcasts on long wave radio (low fi relays from the VOA station out of Tangiers!) when they were part of Willis Connover's jazz shows. Hope those VOA tapes are also in the Library of Congress so that we can enjoy more treasures.

Kenneth Lee Karpe did produce the concert. There is a flyer for the event reproduced in Ken Vail's book 'Lady Day's Diary' that lists him as the man behind this. Seats for the concerts were $2.00, 3.00, 3.50 and 3.95! 'Tax exempt contribution' to boot! Pretty good deal

Ghost, you dreamed of it... Last Georgie Auld Classics was nr. 1371, the 1946-1951 sides. Let's hope it won't be the final chapter!

Same went for Billie Holiday. There's an interview with Nat Hentoff (from the early '50s) where she is quoted as saying she liked Ella and Sarah 'but I really go for Jo Stafford. I've been listening to her for six or seven years. She sounds like an instrument.'

The Monk-Coltrane appearance was indeed the November 1957 one: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...dcmc10104051618 Hope the rest of the concert was also recorded and will be available for listening!

Jimmy Rushing 'Goin' to Chicago' (Vanguard original) next: Warne Marsh/Sal Mosca 'How Deep/How High' (Interplay)

'Symbiosis' was produced by Helen Keane, recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York in February 1974. The album was released by MPS, the German label. Verve probably had a one-shot arrangement to release the album in the USA. Trust the session still belongs to MPS.

The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane on tenor appeared at a Carnegie Hall double concert on Thanksgiving Day November 29, 1957. Concerts at 8.30PM and Midnight. The concerts which were a benefit for the Morningside Community Center were MCed by Willis Conover and taped for the Voice of America. Ahmed Abdul Malik and Shadow Wilson were also in the Monk Quartet. Other performers at the concert included the Dizzy Gillespie big band, Billie Holiday, the Chet Baker Quartet with Zoot Sims, Sonny Rollins and Ray Charles! Would guess these are the rediscovered performances.

Great find, indeed! The session is not even listed in the Lou Bennett discography that is on this site: http://mitglied.lycos.de/condouant/lou.html