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Ubu, join the queue... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=jazz+in+paris The Django 102 was part of that 'From Belgium With Love' box that had already issued CDs from the series by Thielemans, Jaspar, Thomas... It's available now as a single CD!

Ubu, you seem to have more JinP than I. Can I recommend nr. 20 Harold Nicholas/June Richmond/Andy Bey? Just for the two final tracks, the ones with Kenny Dorham and Barney Wilen backing Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters. This was part of an extremely rare 45 Extended Play disc. The rest of the CD is non-essential but pleasing. You might also give a try to nr. 15 Elek Bacsik! Quite a guitar player! You do need to get nr. 66 Raymond Fol Les Quatre Saisons. A novelty date that swings. Really good! Elsewhere I have recommended nr. 54 Clarinettes a Saint-Germain des Pres that has sides played by two former Django Reinhardt clarinet players. Maurice Meunier is a very forgotten musician but he was really into something! Give Rostaing and Meunier a chance before they disappear forever! Nr. 99 Harlem pianists might also be recommended. Other forgotten musicians, all really excellent: Garland Wilson and Herman Chittison! A couple of your items are pure nostalgia to me: nr. 1 and 2, the 1965 Louis Armstrong concerts because I was there! Not really Pops at his best but it was always a kick to hear him live!, nr. 100 Jazz Sous l'Occupation because I was there (and then not!). But I understand your point, you can skip that one! There is also now a nr. 102 Django Reinhardt in Brussels, the sides recorded during the Occupation, which are available elsewhere!

Welcome GregN Now that Organissimo has a working manager, when can their European fans get a chance to hear them live? Any thoughts of a world tour yet

Ubu, small typo. Just fixed that. Typos like that happen when you're dealing with BFTs that include around 20 tracks! Still hope when the truth is revealed that I was not dissing old favorites when I wrote about that track 9, the Coleman blues treatment!

I'm a Scorpio. Was on my way to an appointment this morning. Then I got hit by pigeon shit! Had to get back home and change clothes Wish the bird had known that I was no Capricorn! I'll get even and eat pigeon paté tomorrow!

I have been mourning monos ever since I still remember the frustration of acquiring mono copies in the late sixties!

That is a quite a rare one, YRH, so rare that I can't even find my copy in the racks ( ) as we speak. Wonderful album too, possibly my favourite Melle. The description you give is absolutely identical to mine, including the cut-out hole in the cover. Indeed I saw another one at a record fair recently in exactly the same state. I think I paid about 20 to 25 euros for it over in Germany, so it was a good deal ! Wasn't there a post some time ago on this board saying that the poster (can't remember who it was) had actually sold a copy to Gil Melle, who at that point didn't even have that album? I remember seeing a number of copies of that album selling for peanuts not too long after its release. Probably one of Verve's worst selling vinyl. Ubu, the hole through the cover was drilled when Verve tried to get rid of the copies of their overstock. Same thing happened to a lot of albums that were slow sellers. Many companies did the same. Lot of great stuff was available thus as heavily discounted prices. This was before your time!

Looks like Max Roach was at a press preview last weekend. And looks better than on the other photos of him I have seen lately!

March 16: 1959 - Ahmed Abdul Malik (with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Johnny Griffin, etc.) record session for RCA (East Meets West) 1961 - Don Sleet Quintet record session for Jazzland 'All Members) 1973 - Cecil Payne & Duke Jordan record session for Muse (Brooklyn Brothers) 1997 - Tommy Flanagan The Birthday Concert (at the VV) 'Sunset and the Mockingbird' (BN))

Another one: Ann Richards who sang with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. She posed for Playboy magazine. She also married Kenton!

ubu loves Helen... The pianist appears elsewhere, btw, in a not-so-well-loved performance (among you bft participators) as dis here... At some point, I thought Gordon Beck might be involved since he played with Helen Merrill for quite a long time but I did not recognize him on that one... Are you sure about the tune? I'll need to check back with the source, but it was not identified as a Schifrin tune. And glad you can enjoy it without knowing what's going on! I don't know if that's the actual name of the tune but the pianist quotes extensively from that well-known Schiffrin composition! Will post comments to disc 2 by midweek. Need to relisten to that one!

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That unfortunately happened pretty often with the Atlantic albums. Many of their masterings were not up to par with what was being produced at other labels (BN, Prestige, Contemporary among the non-majors)!

That BFT was one of the most frustrating experience I have had in quite some time. I enjoyed the music when I first listened to it and thought I would have no problem guessing some but on second listening I had my doubts and on the third listening I find myself asking what's going on? So I'll probably make a fool of myself but that's happened before and this is only a game. So here goes. 1- Good old Ben at his most evocative playing 'Old Folks' somewhere in Europe. He could really get to the quintessence of the tunes and this is a near-perfect example. No idea who is backing him. The pianist does a pretty good job of it. I'll ignore the rest of them. They don't do much to help but probably were asked to remain in the background on that tune. 2- an extract from a record. Take it we are supposed to guess the saxophonist? Hawk, maybe. Chu, I'ld go for him, but can't recall Chu playing with that bad an orchestra. Hawk had to endure some of those bands when he stayed in Europe in the '30s. 3- Hawkins soaring for an all-too brief appearance? I'll get to that record to hear the full version. 4- Ubu's in love with I'm In The Mood, obviously! And with Hawkins. No problem with that. I thought I knew Hawkins but I'm finding out I still have a lot to learn of the Great Man's Music. 5- Another early bop classic 'Mop Mop'. The vibes player was no Hamp. Thought it might be Tyree Glenn who toured with Don Redman shortly after the end of the war. With a Swiss appearance by Redman and Ubu playing the Swiss game I thought I might figure this one. Don Byas was also in that Redman band but that sure is not him appearing here. So one more dead end street! 6- I know that tune (heard first on a BN album?) and should know the players. But I don't. Probably some of the younger generation. Excellent trumpet player who lines I love but he will have to read further than the Morgan book he has been studying. Same goes for the piano player who has interiorized the Bobby Timmons style. 7- In Love with Helen Merrill! Where did Ubu picked that one? Can't recall any similar version. The pianist and drummer do a very commendable job accompanying her. 8- When I heard this, that accordion player sounded very much like Richard Galliano but on second listening I knew this was not him. The one her can play but Galliano is much more jazz oriented and much more of a swinger. Nice version of 'Whisper Not' in any case. Wish Galliano would play this. The musician here makes the tune sound like a natural for the instrument. 9- A classic Coleman tune. But the blues does not sound that much like the idiom of the musicians here. Not bad but I have heard so much better. 10- A Cecil Taylor tune. But this is not CT. A very good player is on board. A wild guess will be Irene Schweitzer! Ubu is playing chauvinistic. Doublechecked with a couple of records I have of her and the more I listen to this track, the more I'm sure it's Schweitzer. 11- OK but there's nothing really going on here. Competent playing but I got tired of this after a few minutes 12- back to interesting music. That alto player sounds like John Tchicai. If it's him, he's into some very inspired music. I know he continues to make a number of albums that I have not been able to check. That's one I will look for. But I can't figure out who the other players are! 13- Funny Rats on the loose. I'm not really impressed with this. I'll just wait for Ubu to post the answer on that one. 14- is Ubu picking all this music from the net? No idea who plays in this piano trio side. The theme is by Lalo Schiffrin. Great tune that was the theme song for a French manufacturer of stockings! Pretty good piano and bass players. I liked that even I still haven't figured out what's going on with this Ubuesque BFT! 15- I liked that ensemble very much and planning to return to that music. Very strong playing all around. But don't ask me for identifications. I'll return to that track! 16- big band tango! Not bad and some fun is welcome. But the frustration is growing as we continue to move into unfamiliar territory. Some of the muscians seem to have problems with the music. 17- could that be Frisell getting into Ayler? That was what I had in mind when I played this for the first time. Later I realised this was no Frisell! Not bad but I'll stick to the real Frisell! Then again I can't identify any of the other musicians. The bass player and the drummers do a pretty good work! Not bad overall! 18- hope Ubu does not need me to identify this man? To conclude: a very strange BFT. I'll be waiting for the results. There might be surprises! I'm still puzzled with all this but THIS was a real experience! Thanks Ubu! Edited to fix minor typos!

March 15: 1950 - Chubby Jackson All-Star record session for New Jazz 1954 - Miles Davis quartet (Silver, Heath, Blakey) record session for Prestige 1956 - Chet Baker and his Orchestra record session for Blue Star in Paris 1957 - Ray Draper (with Webster Young, Jackie McLean) record session for Prestige (Tuba Sounds) 1961 - Dave Bailey (with Frank Haynes and Grant Green) record session for Jazztime (Reaching Out)

Who's "Tex"??? Yes, who's 'Tex'? The liner notes to vol. 9 of the Charlie Christian series of the Masters of Jazz label where this track was first issued do not shed any light on this musician who does not solo and is barely heard comping during the 10:21 jam.

Joyeux anniversaire, Berigan

Just listen to 'The Night of the Cookers' that was reissued recently as a RVG and hear the differences. A number of people think the date was not successful but I have always enjoyed the Morgan/Hubbard confrontation there!

Don't pay any attention to him! One of those trolls! And a wanker to boot!

Mark, at least she added the new adress I gave her for Marion Brown! Also noticed she gave you those two Henry Grimes CDs. What did you do to her? I paid for those!

Margaret Davis' website: http://www.joemcphee.com/jny/index.html

Billy Higgins/Dave Holland/Hank Jones 'Interface' (Serious Productions) Found this recently. The album was also issued on CD as 'The Oracle' on EmArcy. Did not know it was also released as a vinyl. The LP comes inside a Mosaic-size box. It was obviously a limited edition that seems to have been issued for Philip Morris Europe people.

SHRINK needed here I don't recall seeing shrink-wrapped jazz albums until the mid-sixties. And only a few labels used the system at first.

There is a bug on that link to amazon.fr. Go to the site and do a search for Martial Solal on the 'Musique' link.

Looks like most of the albums from the previous series have been included among the new releases. The 4 volumes of the Martial Solal 'Complete Vogue Recordings' CDs are available again!. No special page at amazon.fr for the full series but a search for the Solals gets you this: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/search-ha...7816189-5564269