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Must have missed the party and I'm sure it was a good one! So even if very late, a very Happy Birthday to you!!!

'Juba Lee' that was released on the Fontana Label is one date that MUST be reissued. Great cast there: Alan Shorter, Grachan Moncur, Benny Maupin, Dave Burrell, Reggie Johnson and Beaver Harris. Two beautiful Impulse albums by Marion Brown that rarely seem to be mentioned are 'Geechee Recollections' with Leo Smith and Steve McCall among others and 'Sweet Earth Flying' with Paul Bley and Muhal Richard Abrahams. Also worth seeking is 'Back to Paris', a 1980 live date with Hilton Ruiz, Jack Gregg and Freddie Waits that came out on the French Free Lance label. Also the two albums 'Much More' and 'Songs of Love and Regrets' Marion Brown recorded with Mal Waldron on the Free Lance label. Those two have been reissued on CDs recently.

Dmitry, here is the track list and listed timings of the Esoldun France Concert unauthorized release 'Bill Evans Live in Paris 1972 vol. 3: 1- Elsa 7'20 2- Detour Ahead 5'20 3- 34 Skidoo 6'10 4- Alfie 5' 5- Peri's Scope 8'50 6- Blue'N Green 4' 7- Emily 6'30 8- Who Can I Turn To 6'20 9- Some Other Time 4'45 10- Nardis 11' 11- Waltz for Debby 6' Even my good friend Inspector Clouseau would have no problem deducting where Fuel got its material for this release. FYI Esoldun was the label from the government-owned INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) where all recorded material from the state owned radios and TV stations are deposited. INA owns these archives. However INA did not have authorisations from the estates of the musicians they issued music from (including Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Roland Kirk, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, etc.) and they were taken to court after they released tens of albums. INA lost the case and were ordered to destroy the albums they had put out. Will be interesting to find out what happens with the Fuel releases.

Was away for one week in the Big Apple. Mostly on business. But took time out to visit several record stores and the WMFU record fair. Bought mostly CDs but found some vinyls including: - Warne Marsh 'Warne Out' on Interplay, - Billy Bang with Charles Tyler 'Rainbow Gladiator' on SoulNote, - Roscoe Mitchell 'Snurdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes' on Nessa (never saw that vinyl before), - Joel Futterman and Jimmy Lyons 'Inneraction' on the privately released JDF label. Never saw that one or the Roscoe Mitchell Nessa vinly before!

I had never heard of this album before reading your post. After taking a look at AMG this sounds like a session I would really like to hear. I have cherished that 'Saga of the Outlaws' ever since its release. An essential album! When will Tyler gets the recognition he deserves?!?

Will be away from home until mid-November. Gave the disc a quick first hearing this morning. This is a beautiful disc. I know three of the 10 tracks (5, 6 and 8), all long favorites. It's very nice that track 8 was included. The album has long been out of circulation. Many listeners will have a chance to hear this one for the first time! Great compilation! Love it!

Billy Harper 'The Believer' (Baystate)

Alice Coltrane

Garth, welcome back. Good to have you around! About the John Grass Lonehills, they have been released here. Not sure I will buy these since I have the material on vinyl. I must say I have been pretty impressed with a number of Lonehill releases. They really go for the obscure sessions (the Wes Montgomery, Ben Webster, Bobby Hutcherson, Jim Hall, MaryLou Williams, Hollywood AllStars, etc.) and the sound on most of them is excellent.

This is very sad, Specially under those circumstances. He contributed to many excellent albums and let us inside his home when he had Oscar Peterson in to record some of his best sessions!

Albert 'Happy' Caldwell. He's on the 1929 recording of Louis Armstrong's 'Knockin' A Jug'

I have the Fresh Sounds LP reissue of that 'Jazzmantics' Decca album (which had a different and sexier cover). It's probably the best Graas album from that series. Very clever and effective arrangements plus plenty of short solos by people by the name of Art Pepper, Bob Cooper, Red Callender on tuba, Conte Candoli and others. The Fresh Sounds LP had one additional track 'Free And Easy' that was not on the original Decca LP and seems to have been left out of the Lonehill reissue!

An earl Ira Sullivan album I enjoy is the 'Nicky's Tune' session on Delmark with Nicky Hill, Jodie Christian, Victor Sproles and that other underrated musician Wilbur Campbell. As for Idrees Sulieman I would like to hear the radio session he recorded with Lester Young in Paris in March 1959 just before Prez returned to New York. Sulieman must have been a good match to Lester Young!

This is turning into a Wine Thread! Nothing against that! I did drink Vega Sicilia Unico once. Couple of years ago when one of our photographers was offered a bottle of it by a Spanish wine producer who was so delighted with a photo of himself with the infamous Robert Parker that was taken when Parker was made a Chevalier in the Legion of Honour by Chirac at the Elysee Palace that he presented our man with a bottle of Vega Sicilia. The photographer shared the bottle with the rest of our crew right after returning from the Elysee. Not the best way to taste that beverage. Must say I enjoyed it quite a lot even if the wine was not at its optimum condition. Have heard quite a lot about Pingus but have yet to taste a bottle. Another too expensive wine. Besides I am an anti-garage wine person. Damn Parker! Next visit to Spain will probably take my wife and I to the Ribera del Duero area. Know it is beautiful. On our last Spanish visit, we stayed a couple of days in the vicinity of Falset and were delighted to sample the wine and visit the vineyards of Priorat. The area and its wine are splendid

I thought Sony would release all the material from the 1963 Juan les Pins concerts. Miles and his quintet played three nights in a row: July 26, 27 and 28. It's a real pity that only the July 27 is included in the box. But at least, this performance looks complete this time. But where are the day before and the day after concert tapes, all recorded by the national radio ORTF? I will keep and return to the JMY 'Cote Bleue' album for sections from those concerts! Hope we will not have to wait forty more years to listen to all these full concerts. They were magnificient! And the often maligned George Coleman proves he was a superb player who added his own dimension to the quintet. I could not afford to go the Riviera to attend the festival that summer but I remember being knocked by the concert given on July 25 at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. That one was recorded by the private Europe 1 radio station. Too bad they have not released that performance as part of the series of concerts they issued several years ago.

Sam Rivers 'Waves' (Tomato) 1978 session with Dave Holland, Joe Daley and Thurman Barker

Agustin. I did not overlook. Just can't afford this very expensive wine. Bought the Latour 1970 three decades ago when the prices of the Bordeaux wines went real down. Not sure I will ever see another slump like that one! Paul Secor wrote: Strangely, the red background image was the back cover of the original ESP LP. The front cover was the 'in action' image. I have an ESP 1967 new releases brochure somewhere with a totally different cover. Stollman decided to change the cover when I brought him mine -_-

I voted Other. My current favorite ensemble is the Italian Instabile Orchestra. Forza IIO! Love their energy!

Happy Birthday

Got my copy in Paris. EmArcy is part of the Universal conglomerate. They seem Universal by name only if you can't get your copy in Germany.

The REAL Brownie would have been 74 today indeed. I'll keep all the booze and food that the wonderful people at Organissimo have posted on this thread to celebrate HIS birthday. I'm sure that if had not gotten into that damned car he would still have blown all of us away on this day!

Will The Site Crash Again This Weekend?, It'd better not Looks real good now

yup. this time even till Monday, but next weekend will be very short... life's hard, but I'll survive. This is what it looks like: You the one sounding like Albert Ayler in his army days???

Found this (after Ubu mentioned seeing news of the death on Swiss papers) on the Neue Zurcher Zeitung newspaper from Zurich website. Seems Kenyatta died Tuesday in Lausanne. It's in german (or more probably swiss german!) http://nzz.ch/2004/10/28/fe/page-newzzE0UMLF6C-12.html

Mike, the Clef/Verve Discography volume 2 compiled by Michel Ruppli has the same listing but does not mention an alternate of 'O.G.D.'. Both Verve 8766 and 8767 are listed but no take number is allocated. There are no take numbers for any of the sides recorded at these sessions.