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Don't know of any Monk recording with Frank Isola. Thelonious Monk was also at the 1954 Paris Salon du Jazz when Isola played there with the Gerry Mulligan quartet but there is no trace of any reunion between them!

I happen to like the Dorham singing date. OK he is not a great singer and although I wish he had been featured on trumpet more than he actually is, I found his album unpretentious. KD's trumpet solo on 'Angel Eyes' is a stunner. Besides Curtis Fuller is beautiful on that album. Hey, Fuller turns 70 on Wednesday Have not heard those Al Haig sessions for a long time. I have them on different vinyls and did not get the OJC reissue. But that Elmer Snowden 'Harlem Banjo' album is a joy. One to get! So are the Claude Hopkins 'Swingtime' - I had a hard time getting that reissue of two hard-to-find vinyls - and the Buddy Tate. I have three of the Tate Swingvilles and love them all. Tate always gave it all out with his small bands. Pretty sure that when these Fantasy OJCs are gone, they will disappear for a very long time. Now is the time to get them!

Thanks Mike. I happen to be listening to Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron right now. Next will probably be Barry Harris Plays Barry Harris. Beautiful albums. Glad I bought many of those Xanadus when they came out. Which also enabled me to avoid those French CD reissues. Hate their cover design!

Barry Harris 'Plays Tadd Dameron' (Xanadu)

Sad to hear this. Isola was indeed a drums great. Was listening yesterday to the Stan Getz at the Shrine album. His playing on that one was as swinging as it was efficient. Heard Isola at one of the first concerts I attended when he was with the Gerry Mulligan quartet (with Bob Brookmeyer and Red Mitchell) at the Salon du Jazz in Paris back in 1954!

That one is a reissue of the Scepter album by the New York Jazz Sextet. But they included both the stereo then the mono versions, all recorded at the same December 1965/January 1966 dates. Very lovely sessions. But with very little differences between the mono and stereo versions. They also added a bossa nova version of 'Giant Steps' performed by James Moody on flute, Patti Bown, Reggie Workman and Tootie Heath with vocalese by one Maria Volpea. Also in mono and stereo versions.

So in keeping with the questions of the month: is it "oh-dear" or "ho-dee-air"? Hodeir is pronounced Oh-d-air around these parts

...and despite the fact that I said Maurice Vander (per the Dreyfus cd) above....is it not actually Vandair? Maurice VANDER is a particular case! And a remarkably underrated pianist! Vandair is how he appeared in his early days. But his real name is Maurice Vanderschueren!

Hodeir has often been misspelled Hodier in english. Just do a Google and see! A pretty common mistake. But it is HODEIR.

Wasn't the Onyx label a predecessor of Xanadu? http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/onyx.htm Onyx reissued had-to-find albums. The album covers layout for the Onyx and Xanadu labels was very similar. A shame that the material that Xanadu reissued from the Jerry Newman archives (Trumpet Battle at Minton's, Harlem Odyssey, Sweets, Lips & Lots of Jazz, Roy Eldridge at Jerry Newman's) is unavailable by now.

On EmArcy?!? That was a Savoy date...

The Chiaroscuro LP says: ORIGINAL RECORDING PRODUCED BY WALT DICKERSON

There is a brand new website dedicated to the Free America reissues. It's all in French but worth going to for non-French speaking people interested by the releases. http://free-america.artistes.universalmusic.fr/

couw, stop bothering about the swooshing Just enjoy the music

I don't care much for jazzy Christmas music and have no favorite. But sometime when the mood is right I'll play a 10-incher I found a few years ago: Urbie Green and his All-Stars A Cool Yuletide The All Stars were Joe Wilder, Green, Al Cohn, Al Epstein, Buddy Weed, Mundell Lowe, Milt (he still was Milton) Hinton and Jimmie Crawford. Arrangements are credited to Charlie Shirley who I had never heard of before (the notes indicate he wrote for various bands including Stan Kenton, Ray Antony, Sam Donahue, etc. The Xmas classics include 'Jingle Bells', 'White Christmas', 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer' among others. Fun, swinging and unpretentious album. The 1954 (?) session was recorded for the X label.

Happy Birthday, Brandon Hope you're having a great day!

Milt Jackson Plenty, Plenty Soul (Atlantic) next: Milt Jackson Vibrations (Atlantic) with Henry Boozier on trumpet!

agriffith's recommendations were right on target. Other favorites I would add: - the Charlie Christian jam sessions from 1941 where Kenny Clarke bombs the scene, - Round About Midnight at the Blue Note, a 1962 date with Bud Powell (Dreyfus), - the Walter Davis live album at Le Dreher in Paris (with Pierre Michelot) which has just been reissued. One of Kenny Clarke's last date with a superb trio. http://www.alapage.com/mx/?tp=F&type=3&DIQ...nee_appel=REF05 I was lucky to hear Kenny Clarke quite a number of times when he was the house drummer at the Club Saint-Germain (later at the Blue Note) in the late fifties. Heard him then with most of the invited guests: Miles Davis, Jay Jay Johnson, Bud Powell, etc. That was an education!

Roy Haynes' 'Sugar Roy'. Very nice trio date with Tommy Flanagan and Roy Haynes on the Japanese Kitty label.

More Reinhardt from the Djangology series on French Pathe, volumes 6 and 7...

Alexander, I did not take your therapist post at face value And I am sure you did not take mine that way either

Larry, thanks for the report on the war account of the Django book. I'll check the book when I see a copy and would decide then if it's worth purchasing. So you stayed at that Aviatic hotel on the Rue de Vaugirard! A small world! I know that part of the street (Paris' longest street). I lived from 1952 to 1968 at 107 Rue de Vaugirard! Marion Brown who visited my place a number of times before I moved out of it even wrote a composition after that place. His recording of it is still unissued

Alexander, I have been a jazz-aholic for too long not to be perfectly aware of that. I don't feel the need to go to a therapist to hear this. And the money I'll save will go to feed my record purchase habit

Larry, does the book give a detailed account of what happened when Django Reinhardt tried to take refuge in Switzerland in 1943? I remember the Delauney book briefly mentioned the episode. Delauney indicated that Django Reinhardt was refused entry and was turned away because he was neither a black or a jew. I have personal reasons to be interested in the episode. If the account of Django under the Occupation brings new light on this sad period, I will probably purchase the book. And to keep this personal, just to let you know that my Christmas present will be a copy of 'Jazz In Search of Itself'. My wife's been told I was not looking for any other present. Any plans to come to Paris for a book signing Also I must admit I had never heard of Bob Greene until his name showed up on this thread. Quite fascinating!

Brad, if you liked that one (an excellent album indeed), you should try to get hold of this one: http://www.dreyfusrecords.com/cgi-local/So...5+d=58&a=25&l=0 The three baritone lineup is Ronnie Cuber, Nick Brignola and Gary Smulyan with Andy McKee on bass and John Farnsworth on drums. A 1997 session. Not really as good as the Beehive but a very interesting album nonetheless!