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February 15: 1932 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (Sophisticated Lady) 1943 - Charlie Parker (with Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Pettiford) hold informal session at the Savoy Hotel in Chicago (Sweet Georgia Brown) 1970 - Clark Terry has Carnegie Hall concert ('Big Bad Band' album on Etoile) 1981 - Hannibal Peterson records 'The Angels of Atlanta' (Enja)

Is this the John Williams who's now a famous film composer but was a jazz pianist or is this the other jazz pianist named John Willams? I notice this was done on the West Coast so maybe it's the film composer. A classic confusion of names. John Williams is a very good jazz pianist who recorded an album of his own on EmArcy. He was considered a rival of Horace Silver in the early fifties. He recorded a couple of excellent albums on his own. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...10:mtsqoauaiijm Not surprisingly, the pianist John Williams entry in the AMG listing includes two albums: the EmArcy reissue of the jazz pianist John Williams and a big band date by the other John Williams!

Charly was launched by French record 'producer' Jean-Luc Young after the end of the Byg-Actuel adventure in the early '70s. Young was one of the three founders of the Byg label. Need I say more?

Not sure this is really good news. About London's Ronnie Scott club. From The Telegraph today:

Sidney Bechet should be in a category of his own. He was a monster on the instrument!

What's the label on that Olympia set, and do you know if it's still in print? (I want to buy it for Allen Lowe for Valentine's Day ) The 6CD box was originally released in France as part of the RTE Paris Jazz Concert series. RTE even added a separate seventh Oscar Peterson album from other Paris 1961 thru 1969 concerts. Great music there! Not sure the whole lot has been reissued on other labels.

That 'Armistice 1918' album by Bill Carrothers grows on me each time I listen to it in a Ran Blake sort of way. Quite intriguing and attaching! Some Sketch I also like: - Mal Waldron's 'One More Time' (with Steve Lacy on several tracks) - Rene Urtreger 'Onirica' a reflective solo piano album. The HUM 3CD is also a Must! I have also heard good things about the 'Sept Variations Autour de Lennie Tristano' album by Stephan Oliva and Francois Raulin. I'll get more now that I know those albums will disappear soon.

From the booklet on the original edition: En Concert Avec Europe 1 Disc 1 1.Pentonville (7:17) (Boland) 2.All Through The Night (4:13) (Porter) 3.Gloria (5:31) (Kaper) 4.Now Hear My Meaning (7:58) (Woode) 5.New Box (7:03) (Boland) 6.You Stepped Out Of A Dream (3:29) (Brown) 7.Volcano (4:28) (Clarke) 8.Box 702 (15:29) (Boland) En Concert Avec Europe 1 Disc 2 1.The James' Are Coming (7:17) (Griffin) 2.I'm Glad There Is You (5:12) (Dorsey) 3.Doing Time (5:47) (Boland) 4.Evanescence (3:52) (Boland) 5.Sonor (3:12) (Clarke) 6.Sax No End (19:17) (Boland) Informatively, the TNP is no longer. It is now the Theatre National de Chaillot inside the Palais de Chaillot which is located opposite the Eiffel Tower on the right bank of the Seine river. The Chaillot Theater housed the Theatre National Populaire from 1951 to 1972. The Palais de Chaillot which also housed the French Cinematheque when it was headed by Henri Langlois was also the home of the United Nations for a while in 1948 before the UN headquarters moved to New York City!

Woody Shaw Columbias get spinning time. Now playing - 'Rosewood' to be followed by: - Stepping Stones'

Ubu is damn right. That Steve Lacy 'Work' is one to get now if you do have it yet. Music flows from the three players along the nine tunes that move on to form a full suite that ends with Monk's 'In Walked Bud'!

Good idea. I intitiated a thread on Don Byas on the old BNBB Board! A recommended unheralded session is the 'Don Byas Quartet Featuring Sir Charles Thompson' which was released by Storyville a few years ago!

February 14: 1920 - Mamie Smith record session for Okeh 1956 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band record session for Verve (Doodlin', Jessica's Day and Sometimes I'm Happy) 1958 - Herbie Mann records the album 'Just Wailin' for New Jazz 1967 - PeeWee Russell and Oliver Nelson record 'The Spirit of '67) for Impulse 1980 - Marion Brown records 'Back to Paris' for FreeLance

Thanks Lon. I've been curious about that. I guess that photo just makes BP seem more human to me. I've always read about his troubles, it's nice to see that picture. The little boy on that Francis Wolff photo is Johnny. He is the son of Alvetia 'Buttercup' Edwards, Bud's companion. Bud Powell was not Johnny's father even if Buttercup introduced him as her and Bud's son. Francis Paudras - who was no friend of Buttercup - relates in his book 'Dance of the Infidels' that Bud Powell told him he was not the child's father

Looks to me he is seated in a wheelchair...

Max Roach attended Ossie Davis' funeral at New York's Riverside Church yesterday! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nymk10902122304

Vicious D. Wicked -_- Not sure I'll keep that one!

Tony, this is really is the end of the label. Unfortunately. There was an AFP story in French about this last week. The story indicated Sketch was some €180,000 in debt. Roughly $220,000! Label creator/owner Philippe Ghielmetti was giving up! The AFP story also pointed out that some of the Sketch albums sold pretty well. Bestseller was Italian pianist Giovanni Mirabasse's 'Avanti' which sold 21,130 copies. The story also added that the planned issue of Sketch's forthcoming album - Ricardo del Fra's 'Roses and Roots' had been canned! That one might be issued on another label. Other details are available on this French website: http://www.jazzbreak.com/news.php?ID=1667&...984c9502fbc34c4

A very enjoyable album that 'Joe Carroll' on Epic. Don't think it has ever reissued. Oliver was on one of the three sessions. The one with Ray Bryant, Jimmy Rowser and drummer Charles Blackwell. Oliver does an effective job and solos on the four tracks they recorded. Don Hustein shot the Carroll photos on the cover. The original vinyl is currently being auctioned on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

There was also airport music! Any difference between airport and elevator music?

Blue Mitchell Quintet 'Out of the Blue' (Riverside mono)

Noj, I am comfortable with that. But still waiting to be really impressed by this Central Park adventure. I liked what Christo did with the Pont-Neuf in Paris several years ago. Went to see it a couple of times, then walked further to the Louvre museum which was close by to really get my eyes full. Hope the people that crowd Central Park will also walk the distance to the MoMA and check some of the works there. Hope the Mark Rothkos get as much attention as Christo!

February 13: 1939 - Basie's Bad Boys (including Lester Young) record session for Columbia in Chicago (I Ain't Got Nobody and Goin' to Chicago) 1957 - Jimmy Smith record session with Eddie McFadden and Donald Bailey for BN 1962 - Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd record 'Jazz Samba' fror Verve 1963 - Stanley Turrentine record session for BN (Never Let Me Go with Shirley Scott) 1964 - Herbie Mann record session for Atlantic (Our Mann Flute) 1980 - George Adams & Dannie Richmond record 'Hand to Hand' for SoulNote

I still have to be convinced this is some kind of a masterpiece. There was a short interview on French TV this evening of Christo and Jeanne-Claude after the orange drapes were unfolded. The journalist was asking about the meaning of all this to which Jeanne-Claude replied there was no meaning to it the same way that a sonata by Mozart had no meaning either. Christo tried to intervene but was abruptly cut off by Jeanne-Claude! I'ld rather listen to Mozart! In any case, thanks Christern for providing this front row view!

Ronnie Mathews 'Legacy' (BeeHive) with Bill Hardman, Ricky Ford, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb

A Philadelphia musician who rarely ventured outside of his city. I was impressed by his playing on the Jo Jones album on Denon 'Our Man Papa Jo'. From yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer: