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March 30: 1953 - Duke Ellington concert at Pasadena (GNP) 1953 - Art Pepper (with Sonny Clark) at the Lighthouse at Hermosa Beach, issued on Straight-Ahead Jazz and others 1954 - Ben Webster and his Quartet (Teddy Wilson, Ray Brown, Jo Jones) record session for Norgran (Music for Loving) 1958 - Louis Smith (with Charlie Rouse, Sonny Clark ...) record session for BN (Smithsville) 1962 - Coleman Hawkins and his Quartet (Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley, Eddie Locke) record session for Moodsville (Jazz Version of No Strings) 1972 - (also March 31) Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler record session for Atlantic (A Meeting of the Times) 1974 - Miles Davis (with Dave Liebman, Azar Lawrence ...) concert at Carnegie Hall, recorded by Columbia (Dark Magus)

Best wishes on your new career, Dan!

Clem is right! Al Sears is The Man!

brownie, are any of these Hawk discographies online? Last year I spent hours searching and found nothing. indigo, I could not find any worthy online Hawkins discography. I checked the regular discographies (Lord, Bruyninck).

Dan, Dexter and Ben Webster - not to mention Don Byas and Brew Moore and some others - had settled in Europe long before Mobley decided to try his luck. There just was very little room for him by then!

Not that surprising! These are Disques Vogue reissues. One of the head man at Vogue in those times was Charles Delauney who also was publisher of Jazz Hot. Delauney who was the son of famous painters Robert and Sonia Delauney had very strong ideas on designing. His two favorite colors were red and black. If you happen to catch issues of Jazz Hot from that era you will see a number of covers with those two colors. And inside a number of red and black colored Vogue ads!

The late sixties were difficult times for a lot of jazz musicians. Rock was in, jazz was out. Or almost. The jazz job opportunities in the States kept getting scarer and many musicians traveled to Europe in the hope of finding a better situation. But the afflux also brought a scarcity of gigs. When Mobley came over he found very quickly that even his name was pretty well know in the jazz circles there were not that many occasions to play in clubs. I was at some of the Byg Actuel recording sessions in August 1969. Mobley had been invited by Archie Shepp to play at a couple of Shepp's sessions. I met Mobley then. During the sessions he was in pretty good spirit. He was friends with Shepp, Grachan Moncur and Philly Joe Jones who were among the musicians taking part in the recordings. After one of those sessions which were held at the Studio Davout in the eastern section of Paris, I went back home because I needed to catch some sleep before the next day's work. Mobley was going back to his place in the same direction so we took the subway to southern Paris. During the subway ride we talked at length and I found Mobley to be pretty disullisioned with his then situation. His hopes of making it in Europe had gone wrong. He complained at length about the lack of work possibilities. Too many musicians around. Not enough clubs to play in. I accompanied him to the place where he was residing. The place turned out to be an hospital in the vicinity of Place Denfert-Rochereau, south of the Montparnasse district. One of the doctors there was a jazz fan and had managed to obtain him a private room of his own. Mobley told me that I'ld better not come inside the hospital. That's where I left him!

If there is ONE you need, it's the November 7, 1940 dance date at Fargo, North Dakota. The 1940 Webster-Blanton band caught live. Out on two CDs! Essential!

There is one additional new item on that Original Vogue Masters series from BMG. Lalo Schifrin - Astor Piazzola 'Two Argentinians in Paris'. Two reissues from rare 10-inchers, both recorded in 1955. This one: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...5222082-0049059 Schifrin plays lightweight jazz piano (with Pierre Michelot on bass and Jean-Louis Viale on drums. Piazzola's sides are superb. Martial Solal plays piano on them but has a very minor role!

Majesty, I'm amazed at what you included in your BFT. No wonder I found so little! Is there more stuff like this on that 4CD Swiss jazz release or did you cream it for our benefit? Many thanks again for providing this really surprising compilation!

No recent releases from the Chronogical Classics in the Paris stores yet. On the other hand, the Classics Blues & Rhythm Series keeps releasing new CDs. Hope Jaffa will update his posts with more precise informations!

Forget about the Bley 'Improvisie'. With so many excellent Paul Bley records available, this is one to skip. One of his lesser albums! The Dave Burrell on the other hand is one to get. One of the better releases from the series.

Brillant, Majesty! Never heard of those sides which do not appear in the Hawkins discographies I checked. And I checked several! I was sure about Hawk but could not get any clue on where and when this was recorded. That BFT disc is one to keep!

March 29: 1957 - Phil Woods and Gene Quill record session for Prestige (Phil and Quill) 1960 - PeeWee Russell (with Buck Clayton, Tommy Flanagan, etc.) record session for Swingville (Swingin' with PeeWee) 1961 - Blue Mitchell record session for Riverside (Smooth as the Wind) 1962 - Duke Ellington small group record session (WEA Studio Session vol. 7) 1967 - John Coltrane Quartet (Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali) record session for Impulse (still unissued)

I've read that Coleman Hawkins perferred classical music to listen to away from work...who else have you heard was into classical music??? In John Chilton's book 'The Song of the Hawk', there is a mention that Hawkins carried gramophone records with him when he traveled through Europe in the '30s. Favorites were the Boswell Sisters and the Mills Brothers. Had never heard the Boswells when I read this. That got me interested! Been a huge fan of the Sisters since!

It would be a toss between three albums I have bought when they were released and have been returning to all through the years: - The Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia (BN) - John Coltrane (BN) - Miles Davis Quintet 'Cookin'' (Prestige) I still have the originals of these but purchased vinyls and CDs with added material on the first two. I have yet to hear a better 'Cookin' compared to the original vinyl.

Some vinyls I have played over the weekend: - Jutta Hipp Quintet 1954 'Cool Dogs & Two Oranges' (L+R Records) - Tete Montoliu Al Palau Edigsa, discs 1 & 2 - Albert Ayler 'The First Recordings, vol. 2' (DIW) - James P. Johnson 'Ain'tcha Got Music' (Pumpkin) - Stanley Turrentine 'Up at Minton's', vol. 1 (BN 63rd St.)

I have had various favorites but the one concert I listen to most often lately is that Rockland Palace concert. Bird was in full flight that evening. The 2CD release from Jazz Classics of the concert was a true ornithology find! Doug Pomeroy did wonders to the material!

THIS CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, there's been a lot of that lately! I really do hope that Brownie and Deus/Dizzy return eventually... everybody has a right to walk away for awhile (for whatever reason) without creating an uproar, but obviously they are much liked and much-missed around this joint. Hello there! I'm taking some time off from the Board. Enjoying life plus the gorgeous Spring weather B-) Can't believe that Berigan and Christern are shaking hands Will be back soon! I have got too many friends here! Greetings to all! This crowd's the Best

Disc 1 was 'Funk'n Fun' by the Bill Watrous Quintet on Atlas. This is a stereo recording. The vinyl includes an inside liner note detailing microphone placements - all 12 of them - for the session!

March 17: 1956 - Thelonious Monk Trio (Oscar Pettiford, Art Blakey) record session for Riverside (The Unique Monk) 1958 - Hampton Hawes (with Harold Land, Scott La Faro and Frank Butler) record session for Contemporary (For Real!) 1961 - Booker Little record session for Candid 'Out Front) 1965 - Herbie Hancock record session for BN (Maiden Voyage)

This is Jazz in Paris nr. 102 Django Reinhardt 'Place de Brouckere' http://www.fnac.com/Shelf/article.asp?PRID...5ae9d8d7c6&Fr=4 This is the only new CD that has appeared in the series since the Sacha Distel double CD. The four boxes have mostly material that have been released in the other albums from the series. Some new tracks show up on those boxes. Haven't got these but they are things of beauty! Very well designed sets!

Taschen is to release next month a reissue of 'The Curse of Lono' by Thompson and Ralph Steadman. A limited edition of 1,000 copies signed by Thompson and Steadman. Bet they will be going fast! http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/...facts/01360.htm

Oh, I can't argue against that Is that were the expression "cut-out" comes from? In good old vinyl days, the record companies would make albums out of print -mostly to clear their stocks - and would drill a hole through copies or indent the seam or make a cut through one of the top corners of the albums. Those cut-outs would be sold with a discount.

I like the Dearie but did not buy the JinP one. Not a great fan of The Blue Stars. And I had those Dearie piano sides on a Fresh Sound vinyl release from years ago that also included the Dearie/Bobby Jaspar sides from 1956 that were on JinP nr. 18. Alain Goraguer and Claude Bolling, I live without them. Goraguer was a very good arranger (did a lot of interesting things with Gainsbourg and Greco) but I've heard better jazz pianist.