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Since this one is not in the Discography, here are details of the LP... Pepper Adams The Adams Effect (1988) Recorded June 25 & 26, 1985 at Rudy Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Frank Foster, tenor, Pepper Adams, baritone, Tommy Flanagan, piano, Ron Carter, bass, Billy Hart, drums Side A: a- Binary (P. Adams)...................................6:54 b- Now In Our Lives (P. Adams)....................6:55 c- Valse Celtique (P. Adams)........................5:39 Side B: d- Dylan's Delight 5P. Adams) e- How I Spent the Night (F.Foster) f- Claudette's Way (P. Adams) All titles on Uptown LP (12") UP 27.31

Good catch on that one, Mike. Should have guessed it. Excellent album but one of those leaderless date that has disappeared in the mess that passes for my record collection. Can't remember where I placed my Japanese vinyl reissue of it. Will have to really search for it now that this BFT has reactivated my interest in this LP. And thank you Big Al too for including it!

I like that one. Just be warned the strict jazz content is very limited and Hank Jones' participation is also a bit limited. This is basically an album of mandingo music. The liner notes state that Hank Jones 'wanted to record an album of traditional West African music. He told the producer that the project was an absolute priority, and that it signified a radical turning-point in his career.'

You're showing great taste, as ever! The cigar that went up in smoke here last night was a Partagas Serie du Connaisseur nr. 2! Heaven... And now spinning Walt Dickerson 'This Is Walt Dickerson' (New Jazz reissue)

A Happy New Year to All! May all your wishes be fulfilled!

Happy Birthday This Board NEEDS a shrink!

Champagne! More champagne!

Another great musician goes. A Howard Hugues of jazz! At least he enjoyed a very long life. His weddings may have been failures but he had an impeccable taste in choosing beauties! Impeccable taste went also in choosing his musicians.

Up to $1,180! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MEWA:IT Collecting BN originals is a VERY expensive business

- Richie Kamuca Quartet (Mode, VSOP reissue) to be followed by: - Richard Kamuca Quartet 1976 (Jazzz) Should listen to Kamuca more often. What a beautiful sound he had!

And now for an encore.... number 9. Had to search the discography to locate a session that would fit. Then the search for the vinyl was on. Et voila! Track 4. http://www.peanutsjazz.com/recordings/24178.html Had no relistened to the album in a long time and did not bother to get the reissue. OK the electric bass is not to my taste but, damn, this is a lovely tune and what a nice contribution from the pianist. The album will be back on the turntable!

Can't remember if you asked before. Reply would have been the same as now. Need to read more of him. Whatever I could catch hit me in the right places. Only change is that I will be retiring very shortly and plan to indulge in extensive readings. And Thomas Bernhardt is at the top of the list! Hate to mention him in a KJ thread. They don't belong together...

OK, I figured out number 16. Track 3 from this album I should have listened more to. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...10:6fq67u5070j0 That's the greasy stuff I love!

For chrissake... SONNY CRISS

I will! I do not find much substance in Keith Jarrett's production. Paul Bley however keeps renewing himself and is able to move into various directions that make his albums - and he is recording a lot - so rewarding by the depth of the expressed feelings. Bley's music is demanding, taking him to a much higher level than KJ.

Happy Birthday, young man Hope it's going to be a great day for you!

Anybody noticed the redesigned Black Saint/Soul Note website? http://www.blacksaint.com/ Very nice

I don't have the McGriff and the Groove Holmes. But I have the mono BN of Baby Face Willette's'Face To Face'. That one counts for two (or TEN!)! Am I allowed in? pleeeeeeaaaaaaase

The nostalgia of it all! I rate myself immensely lucky to have been raised in Paris at the time those beautiful black and white photos were taken! TV was an almost unkown commodity then, internet was not even on the horizon. The bad memories - and the ruins - of the war years were disappearing enabling people to really enjoy the city by the fifties. Also having a drink at the cafes did not cost the small fortune it does now. And you could find yourself sitting right next to Sartre and/or Beauvoir, or Alberto Giacometti, or Dexter Gordon! Half a century later, the city has changed but is still magically beautiful. Jazz is less prominent, And the weather happens to be pretty tame most of the time and very beautiful on a lot of days B-) Also we French people still know how to appreciate the good things in life and its qualities even if this sounds 'decadent' nowadays! Whoever selected the photos that adorn the covers did a great job! The cover you posted shows the rearend of a Renault QuatreChevaux, my older brother's first car. He bought an aged secondhand model (which still was costing a small fortune) and I dug the rides we took in that smelly car! But any cover from the JIP albums bring more memories of those glorious days! Wish I was half a century younger and back in the Paris of those days...

Recorded on December 29, 1945: Slim Gaillard session for Savoy in Los Angeles. Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Jack McVea, Dodo Marmarosa, Bam Brown and Zutty Singleton join in...

Indeed! But let's not overlook Charlie Holmes!

Not a fan of Keith Jarrett. The only album I would really recommend would be 'The Survivor's Suite' with the Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian quartet. This one stands the test of time with my ears...

If you like the Bethlehem album, then it's time to check the Steeplechase date 'Cunningbird' that had Knepper fronting a quintet of Al Cohn, Roland Hanna, George Mraz and Dannie Richmond. Knepper composed all six tunes on that now obscure album.

Brownie, A friend gave me a high quality Matisse "JAZZ" calendar many years ago. I framed several of the prints, and rotated them on the walls of my office at the university. In some unfortunate manner related to "mass culture" (ref.: Walter Benjamin's famous essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility") these images have become quite ubiquitous here in card shops, posters etc. Too bad .... Are they commonly found in Europe too? Garth. Garth, oh yes! Those Matisse have become part of the mass culture around here. There are yearly calendars using the paintings, postcards of them all around... They have influenced home decorating, fashion designs. Not that any of this has disminished their beauty! I have seen a number of reproductions. The ones in this deluxe book come closest to the original paintings I have seen.

This one is not new. It is a just reissued limited edition of the famous series of Jazz paintings by Henri Matisse... http://fr.kelkoo.com/sitesearch/go.jsp?off...2iox1.JA4fr&orw Wish I could afford it! Price in dollars is around $650. The link is in French. You can view three of the prints by clicking on 'Feuilletez les pages'.