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Didn't realize I crashed into a Jan Garbarek thread I'm outta here...

I used to go past - when I was much younger - that Gare Montparnasse. Here is a story about that crash: The Gare Montparnasse was also the place where The old train station is also the place where the German commander of the Paris area General Von Choltitz, surrendered his garrison on August 25, 1944 after disobeying Hitler's direct order to destroy the French capital. The railway station was destroyed in 1969. Another railways station was built a little further south.

Reverse the Val Wilmer photo, taint it dark green and you've got the cover of the Black Lion LP. McGhee is a left-handed trumpet player on the Black Lion!

Martin, there is more to this Board than Funny Rats

Hey I was saving that for tomorrow February 23. The reference discographies list that album as having been recorded February 23, 24 and 25, 1955! I call for a recount

I still need mine. But I don't need to read about all the adventures of others

Can we be spared newsstories about penis (penises?) for the next few months We have had enough of those in the last few weeks to keep us going without them for a while...

I thought I made a Great Find when I stumbled on a brandnew Japanese Toshiba DVD of this a while ago. Very decent price. Only to find out this was volume 1 only. The Toshiba vol. 1 lasts 54 minutes and has only the seven first tracks from the Song List that MartyJazz posted.

Do you know if this recommendation of yours was originally released on LP? I seem to remember a recording on the Zim(?) label titled "The Apartment Sessions". Have to take a trip into my "archives" to check that out. Yes, those Apartment tapes were released on Zim in the USA and Spotlite in England. Can't remember which came first!

That's vol. 12 of the Bird's Eyes' series. Subtitled 'BIRD IN 1950- Diplomat Hotel, N.Y.C./136th Street Session). That session was also published as 'The Apartment Sessions' by Spotlite in vinyl days! Thank you, John, for elaborating on my quick reply! Those Bird's Eyes series are quite a mess! But that's allright with me. One I enjoyed was vol. 16 with some rare Bird PLUS a 1962 concert by Louis Armstrong in the beautiful city of Florence! Ten tracks with no Bird in sight(

The Philology Bird's Eyes series has reached nr. 43. That includes quite a number of duplicates!

Depends on what you already have from Bird... Do you have the Dials, Savoys, Verves, the Mosaic box of the Dean Benedetti, the 1952 Rockland Palace concert records? Those - and a number of others - are to get into before you start exploring the Bird's Eyes series... There have already been quite a number of Charlie Parker recommendations threads on this Board. For example: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...topic=11301&hl=

February 22: 1926 - Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five record for Okeh (Come Back Sweet Papa) 1953 - Charlie Parker plays One Night in Washington (Elektra release) 1958 - Ornette Coleman record session for Contemporary (Something Else) 1963 - Don Friedman records 'Metamorphosis' for Prestige 1978 - Air records 'Open Air Suite' for Arista

I would say the Philology Bird's Eyes series is for Charlie Parker completists only. I'm one of those. Unless you want everything from Bird, there are better ways to get the stuff.

Same music. My'Shades of Blue' also has McGhee photo by Val Wilmer on its cover! 'The Sharp Edge' is side 1, a. 'Shades of Blue' is the next track.

Looks like the Ellington score for this film was never released on vinyl and CD. From the various pages on the film in 'Duke Ellington, Day by Day Film by Film', this was a financially rewarding project but an artistic near-disaster. The score was performed by a combination of Ellington musicians and studiomen with Bud Shank and Buddy Collette among others. Seems Ellington was not happy with the final result.

Some of you may have heard - or even read books - by the late French author Georges Perec (Clem has). In his classic work 'Je Me Souviens' (1978), Perec mentions seeing Lester Young in a Paris club, the MJQ albums his father was listening and also mentions - among others - Art Tatum and Barney Wilen.

Martin, welcome to this Board! I have an original copy of the Actuel 28 vinyl of 'Message to Our Folks'. There is no silence in the timeframe you state. Percussion and voices are heard at that point in that performance. I'm happy with that vinyl and did not check on reissues of this session!

There's an excellent book of fiction 'Les Treize Morts d'Albert Ayler' (The Thirteen Deaths of Albert Ayler), a collective book by fourteen writers including Jerome Charyn, Jean-Claude Izzo, Jon A. Jackson, Michel Le Bris. As the booktitle implies, these were fiction stories around the death of Ayler. The book was published in 1996 in the famous Serie Noire thriller collection of thrillers from the prestigious Gallimard publishing house. The book sold out pretty quickly and is not available presently.

Larry, sorry I can't recall running into Cortazar. Unfortunately. I read quite a number of his stories. Good call on him!

That Maggie is 'Shades of Blue'. I have the French vinyl of this on the Black Lion label with the liner notes (by Alun Morgan) in english. At the bottom of the back cover, there is a note reading 'Distributed by Sofrason France and Fonior Belgium'. The credit also says 'A Black Lion recording. Original recordings by Chris Albertson. Album produced by Alan Bates.'

'Dialogue' was the first I heard and it's the one I return to most often. Still have the BN mono copy! Superb sound, much better than the RVG!

Jay Jay Johnson - Al Cohn 'A Date in New York', vol. 2 (Jazz Legacy) the LP includes the Henri Renaud band session with Jerry Hurwitz, Jay Jay, Cohn, Gigi Gryce, Curley Russell and Walter Bolden

There was a book on DSM 'Jazz Graphics - David Stone Martin' by Manek Daver that was published in Japan back in 1991. I made the mistake of not getting a copy of the book when it was available. Got Manek Daver's second book 'Jazz Album Covers, The Rare and The Beautiful' after it came out several years later. Excellent book too! I have not been able to get a decently priced copy of the first one!

February 21: 1961 - Stan Getz and his quartet (Steve Kuhn, Scott LaFaro, Pete La Roca) record for Verve 1961 - Johnny Hodges records for Verve. The session remains unissued 1986 - Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller record for Contemporary (Real Time)