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The old buildings have lost their greydirt patina, some neighborhoods have changed, only a few for the better. But it's still one of the most beautiful city around! And after a couple of glasses of wine, it feels like THE best

In his Charles Mingus biography 'Myself When I'm Real', all Santoro had to say about John Dennis was: Not a single mention of John Dennis after that.

Agustin, you'd better get a more recent map of the Paris subways. The map you posted is half a century old

A hearty welcome to another vinyl fan. The website for Fresh Sound records is http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/ Another fan of Jimmy Cleveland here. Will try to help in...

A deep bow to the O. poets! And congratulations to them for their new books

Could it be the Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra (with Bix Beiderbecke) version? http://www.redhotjazz.com/fto.html If you scroll down to Three Blind Mice and click, you can hear that recording!

All I know is that he is connected with ELO! Don't want to know more Unless I'm really missing something

Very well said, Tonym! And for Entente Cordiale's sake, may I as a Frenchman side with you

Mainstream also issued that strange Bud Powell album 'Ups 'n Downs'

February 24: 1949 - Chubby Jackson big band session for Columbia (Father Knickerbopper, Tiny's Blues, ...) 1951 - Lester Young at Birdland broadcast 1953 - Gerry Mulligan Quartet record session for Pacific Jazz 1956 - Sonny Criss quartet (with Sonny Clark) record session for Imperial (Go Man!) 1959 - Mal Waldron record session for Bethlehem, with Jackie McLean on one track (Left Alone)

They must have great pressing plants over there!

yeas to the Bobby Jaspar, Bunky Green, Dick Hafer, Carl Perkins, Eddie Bert, Frank Strazzeri, Nick Travis. No easy listening there.

Howard McGhee 'Dusty Blue' (Affinity reissue) with Bennie Green, Roland Alexander, Pepper Adams, Tommy Flanagan, etc.

The Hot Club de France is not a Paris club. It's a gathering of jazz fans that was created in the '30s by Hugues Panassie. The HCF was pretty active decades ago but many of the fans left it when Panassie decided that the new music of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk were not part of the music he thought jazz was. The HCF is soon on its way to extinction. The compilation that is being issued now gathers some of the tracks from the HCF releases that came out on the Milan label. Some of those are displayed on this website: http://www.milanrecords.com/jazz/index.htm

Will the AAJ crowd gather at the Back Room?

Lil Hardin, I had recognised. The Roy Palmer tip gave it away: http://www.redhotjazz.com/sugar.html Et voila... Now I want to know about those $1.43 bottles.

Any idea who is putting out those Sun Ra Saturn vinyl reissues? They almost look like the real stuff. I could not find any indication of who releases them. Among the ones I got recently: - When Sun Comes out - Monorails and Satellites - Sound Sun Pleasure but I see dozen others in the record stores.

I have not spinned 78s in some 40 years. Don't have any of those discs any more!

Absolutely. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"... Oh yeaaaahhh! Great Monk tune

I did not vote. Too many Monk tunes I love. Besides what made Monk so unique was that when he played standards, he turned them into Monk compositions. 'Just a Gigolo', 'I'm Getting Sentimental Over you', 'Don't Blame Me' are just some examples. There are others... If I HAD to vote for one tune written by Monk, I probably would cast my ballot for 'Crepuscule With Nellie'!

There is no life without jazz

This is the Milan website: http://www.milanrecords.com/about/index.htm Many of their jazz releases come from the archives of the Hot Club de France organization. Among their early releases were a couple of CDs that reissued VDiscs from the collection of French jazz critic Hugues Panassie who was the HCf founder.

The Mingus biographies have very brief notes on John Dennis. Obscure is usually the word to describe him. Harvey Pekar mentions somewhere that he died in 1963 at the age of 33.

The Washington Post published an obituary in their edition today. A nice one!

February 23: 1926 - Berthay 'Chippie' Hill/Baby Mack/Hociel Thomas record session for Okeh (Louis Armstrong is on trumpet) 1949 - Roy Porter's 17 BeBoppers (incl. Eric Dolphy) record session (Black California reissue) 1953 - Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver record session for Decca ('Your Cheating Heart') 1973 - Oscar Peterson and Stephane Grappelli record session for America 1982 - Chet Baker records the album 'Peace' for Enja