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Thought this was going to be about Bergenfield, N.J., which was home for Prestige Records for many years. It was not... This is the AP story Aric refers to: Good luck to the residents of South Beimar with their new Lake Como denomination. I must say it sounds more classy, but also more pretentious

That release is Sagajazz 066 466-2. The Aleman track is one of 24 sides that are on the CD, going from the guitar duo of John Cali & Tony Gottuso to Freddie Green with players like Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian, George Van Eps, Teddy Bunn, Django Reinhardt included. Go to http://www.sagajazz.com/ and look for CD 34 to have the full details.

Very nice job, Hans. And obviously a work of love. It is a fitting tribute to an oustanding musician. You might be interested to know that the 'Whispering' solo guitar from Dec. 5, 1938 is included in the recent compilation ' Jazz Masters of Acoustic Guitar' that was recently published on the French Sagajazz label. A superb reissue!

Bol, Fellini Jazz is one of the happy surprise release of 2004. A very endearing series of interpretations of the classic music of Nino Rota. Warmly redcommended!

I should have also mentioned earlier that the Mosaic releases distributed in Europe all carry a detachable page as a back cover that reproduces the presentation text found on the Mosaic website. Thus the Tal Farlow box has the following - detachable - back cover notes:

Could you let us know a bit more on that? Tony Fruscella and Don Joseph together, that sounds interesting...

I have the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band and the Tal Farlow Mosaic boxes that are being distributed in Europe. The only difference with other recent Mosaic boxes I have is that the outer box bears a different serial number - B0000958-2 instead of MD4-221 for the Mulligan set. That number is also on the Mosaic discs inside the box. Those discs indicate they are 'Made in the U.S.A. copyright Mosaic Records L.T.C.'. The last page of the booklet has the regular Mosaic logo and the Mosaic, Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. adress. Same goes for the Tal Farlow set. I did not get the Roy Eldridge Mosaic box which is also distributed in Europe and it looks like the two boxes I have.

Sting did an album with the Gil Evans Orchestra at the 1987 Perugia Jazz festival that is out on the JazzDoor label. Did not bother to get this after hearing one track that left me unimpressed!

This obviously does not take into account the numbers of Mulligan Mosaic boxes that are being sold outside the USA. The Mulligan Mosaics sold in stores in Europe do not have individual numbers. These ones come with a note stating 'This one of a limited edition of 7,500 albums' on page 2 of the inside booklet.

Ted Curson 'Cattin' Curson' (Marge) Cecil Taylor 'In Florescence' (A & M)

The 'DE Day By Day' book lists the opening concert as having been played at Finsbury Park, Astoria Cinema, on January 12, 1963! Wish I could hear the sound too

The Duke Ellington Day By Day' book by Dr. Klaus Stratemann does not list a European tour in 1962. There is a full itinerary for the January 12 to 28, 1963 tour of England followed by an European tour but there is no mention of the Gaumont Kilburn concert.

The Stitt/Gordon 'Lady Be Good' was also included in the 'The Lost Sessions' (BN 21484) CD album. That was its initial appearance.

Strange that Amazon.fr states this interesting price. The boxes I have seen in the Paris stores are about double that money! If Amazon.fr confirms the price, I'll look no further for a Christmas present!

To quote from 'Miles, The Autobiography' Miles Davis/Quincy Troupe: ''After Red Garland walked out on me, I found a new piano player named Bill Evans. I wasn't mad at Red, but I had moved past the point where he could contribute what I wanted in the sound of the band. I needed a piano player who was into the modal thing, and Bill Evans was.''

Didn't realize this was from the soundtrack of the film 'Taxi Blues'! Saw the Pavel Lungin film about ten years ago. Bleak but excellent film with a walk-on surprise appearance by Hal Singer. The music did not leave a major impression at the time. Might be time for a reevaluation!

News of the passing away of Robin Kenyatta finally reached The New York Times. Their obituary today:

I did hint at Don Friedman but I posted too late. I have never seen (or heard) this Konitz album. I checked the Don Friedman discography on the Michael Fitzgerald site and did not think the BFT track originated from this session. This is going to be a hard one to find! But I'll be looking for it! No wonder I could not find any of the players from track 2. It looks really good but I'm not even try to bother searching for this CD. Talk about obscure!

Finally caught up with this compilation. Here are impressions on BFT 19: Track 1 - Liked that one from the start but it took me some time to realize where it came from. The muted horn pointed to the right direction and the bits of lively notes from the leader sealed it off. This is not one of my favorite Broadway hit and I had a hard time identifying the tune. Track 8 from this album: http://www.alphamusic.de/0724354230929.html Track 2 - This track has intrigued me. I like the mood established by the musicians on that one. The guitarist has interesting lines. Very nice. Track 3 - Lee Konitz defintely and in great form. The man has recorded dozens of discs these past years and none has been less than interesting. Konitz has become one of the musicians I return to more and more often. The pianist sounds like another favorite, Don Friedman. But I have not been able to identify an album with the BFT track configuration where they play together. Unles it's not Friedman? A beautiful improvisation! Track 4 - This one left me a bit cold. And I really have no idea who is playing there! Track 5 - No problem with that old favorite. I ignored that album when it came out and it dawned on me (I should rather say, it struck ne) that the singer was a unique one when I was lucky to hear her live quite a number of times in the mid-sixties. Track 10 from this album: http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1929235 One of the definitive vocal album! Track 6 - The very personal sounds of the vibraphone player helped identify that beautiful music: track 4 from this album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yzs9keftjq7q This was one of the first album where Sun Ra could be heard playing sort of straight piano. An album I have returned to quite often after it was reissued on CD. Track 7 - no idea on who is playing here. Thought it was a bit overlong but I must admit I liked it anyway. The trumpet player sounds familiar but I could not identify him. Track 8 - what an excellent idea to include a track from this long unavailable masterpiece. I loved this music from the day I purchased a French LP reissue of it. The album is on my favorite discs list. Track 4 from this album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5sq3g4hbtv3z Track 9 - Liked that one even if I could not identify it. I'm pretty sure that this is somehow linked with Cal Tjader, one of the favorite musician of BFT compilers and one of the musician I still have to explore. Track 10 - A strange one. With the background noise, wonder where this was recorded? Since this is the final track is there some indication about the music. If there was a clue? I could not find it. A very enjoyable BFT! Thanks Dmitry for assembling this!

brownie, I think you and I are about the same age, so believe me, I understand. ... but I think we're still on #19 here. That's what you get when you're forward-looking... I'rm getting older by the day

Have given BFT 20 a second hearing today. Have four (1, 5, 6 and 8) out of ten right now and still trying to get two more (track 3 is LK for sure but can't identify the album, he's recorded so many!). Will post whatever I found tomorrow morning. This is a great BFT. That track 2 grows on me! Will purchase this one when the truth is revealed!

I didn' say the WFMU fair is wonderful, which it isn't. I said it was 'something else' which I find it is!

A friend who visited Jordi Pujoll at Fresh Sounds last year asked a possible vol. 2 box. The answer was no. There obviously is not enough Nocturne material for a second box. Some of the Nocturne material that did not make it to the first box include: - Steve White Quartet 'Nocturne Records - Jazz in Hollywood Series' http://www.edmicheljazzproducer.com/steve_...discography.htm Ed Michel in the liner notes to this OJC release, indicates there were also a 'mixed bag album by Earl Hines and 'The Piano Artistry of Conley Graves'. As for Fresh Sounds reissues, many of them - if not all the recent ones - have been perfectly legitimate ones. They reissued material handed to them by people like Harry Babasin, Roy Harte, Dave Pell, etc.

Belated impressions of the WFMU Record Fair. Went there at the early opening on Friday afternoon. The sheer number of record selles and buyers was mindblowing. After a couple of hours going through hundreds of vinyl boxes, was hit by vinyl fatigue ,myself. With the crowd and the noise, searching for rare items just became too much which turned out OK as far as overspending was concerned. The only plus that opening day was meeting Dmitry who was bright enough to keep his purchases to valuable items. Went back on the second day (Saturday) and that morning session turned out much better. There still was a lot of rare items available and more albums from sellers who had not shown up on opening day. Was intrigued by a person who was in the midst of selling a number of black and white prints to one of the vendors. I recognised that person as Dan Morgenstern and introduced myself. Morgenstern was his usual very friendly self. He also seemed to be suffering from the overwhelmingly noisy proceedings. When I mentioned we were both contributors to the Deus62 Count Basie forum, he did not seem to understand what I was referring to! Let him go ahead with his business and went back to searching through more boxes. There are a lot of expensive items there but also superb valuable and very reanobaly priced records! Don't know of many places where you can get items such as: - Marshall Allen with Lou Grassi's PoBand on CIMP, - Greg Foster/Joel Futterman 'Alabama' on Shipwreck, - Assif Tsahar/Rashied Ali/Peter Kowald 'Deals, Ideas & Ideals' on Hopscotch, all three for $10 the lot (all brand new), and more... That WFMU fair was something else!

Miles plays piano on one track - 'Sid's Ahead' - of the 'Milestones' album. Trouble was brewing with Red Garland at the time, obviously!