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I have enjoyed the duo album Ricky Ford recorded with Kirk Lightsey for the French label Jazz Friends Production. Ford plays fiery lines but nothing that raises questions about his mental state of mind.. Some of Ford's recent albums are available through Jazz Friends: http://www.jazzfriends.com/

Ran into a new Lonehill release that intrigued me: 'West Coast All Stars'. The cover listed Bob Cooper, Bud Shank, Don Fagerquist, Milt Bernhardt, Jimmy Rowles, Shelly Manne as appearing on the album. Turns out the CD has two obscure LP albums with music from composer/arranger/conductor Dean Elliott. First one is the music composed in 1960 for the film 'College Confidential'. The rest is from a 1956 album from the Dean Elliott Dance Band. It's a not unpleasant West Coast jazzy easy listening music with a few solos by Shank and Cooper mostly. Should please the weird soundtracks fans on the Board.

e-mail on its way!

From The New York Times today:

Happy Birthday to you, Matthew

Jim Hall dubbed the solos that Martin Milner was seen playing in the film. 'Sweet Smell of Success' and other films from the '50s are analyzed at this site: http://homepage.mac.com/mimstein/jazz.html

'Sweet Smell of Success' is a superb film from British director Alexander McKenzie. Go see it as soon as you can. Chico Hamilton's quintet includes Paul Horn, Fred Katz on cello, John Pisano and/or Jim Hall, Carson Smith. And the Chico Hamilton Quintet (with Eric Dolphy) is masterfully caught at the Newport 1958 in 'Jazz On a Summer's Day'!

And no 'Magic City' ???... And no 'Heliocentric Worlds' ???... And no... and no... and no...

I plead guilty... I'm even more guilty since I thought about this session and could not locate the reissue CD where it is included. More reason to rearrange my music collection...

I can't record this right now. But Daniel Caux has promised me a copy of the concert. Will get in touch when I have that copy!

I've seen that commercial. Can't remember which company it was for. But I thought this was Mildred Bailey singing 'Blue Skies' rather than Maxime Sullivan Cheech, two posts in one day in the baseball thread I usually keep away from...

Hey Dan, congratulations for your favorite team. Like a true European, I don't understand anything about baseball but I can grasp this was a milestone victory! So, Go Red Sox!!!

The Paris jazz radio is having a program today on Ayler, 'The Albert Ayler Story'. They are interviewing Daniel Caux who contributed to the 'Holy Ghost' box. Daniel Caux will play a tape of the November 1966 Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel where a section of the audience booed the band while the rest of the fans applauded. Music from this part of the concert has not been released in any form yet. The program is being rebroadcast a number of times during the week. Details are available at: http://www.tsfjazz.com/site/tsf/section=upcomingprograms

Chico Hamilton and his quintet are also on the soundtrack of the 1957 Hollywood film 'The Sweet Smell of Success'. Elmer Bernstein wrote the score but the Chica Hamilton quintet is seen and heard in the remarkable film, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Decca issued a sountrack LP when the film was released.

There was the same problem with videocorders. US having its own NSTC standard while most of the rest of the world used the PAL standard. Which meant that videotapes from one system could not be played on videocorders using the other system with the exception of some compatible models.

Images of US citizens queuing for flu shots are being watched with amazement by non-US viewers. Nothing like this fiasco in Europe. From the International Herald Tribune today. As an elderly citizen, I had a free anti-flu shot last week. No standing, no waiting...

I have checked with the invaluable Bud Powell discography by Claude Schlouch and it looks like most (if not all) the tracks from this 'Eternity' release have been unissued so far. The June 1962 sides definitively are. Schlouch lists dozens of issued and non-issued sides recorded at Francis Paudras' home in 1961. Looks like non of the Eternity material has been issued in the Mystic Sounds series.

Gene Ammons: - 'The Soulful Moods' (Moodsville) - 'Late Hour Special' (Prestige)

Charles Delauney who produced the session named the tune in honour of the street where 'Jazz Hot', the jazz review he created, was located at the time. Rue Chaptal is just south of Place Pigalle. The area was a meeting place for musicians. Jazz Hot has moved elsewhere and the building that housed the review is now Le Musee de la Vie Romantique' (the Romantic Life museum. http://www.theflews.com/Paris/Week13Pictur...e%20Chaptal.JPG

Shortly before he left Paris in 2002, Steve Lacy took part in the recording of the soundtrack of the film 'Sansa' directed by Siegfried. The film which I have not seen was released earlier this year in France. So was the soundtrack CD which seems to be a limited edition issue. It came out on the Naive label. Steve Lacy plays on a couple of tracks. Other featured musicians are violonist Ivry Gitlis and trumpet player Erik Truffaz. There is a website for this film: http://www.vagabondages.net/

From AP:

One of Barney Wilen's less visible album 'Dreamtime', a duo session with pianist Alain-Jean Marie', is being rereleased by the French Nocturne label. A very recommended reissue which was originally on the Adda label. Here is a link (in French): http://www.nocturne.fr/produit.cfm?id_produit=181

From The New York Times today:

With two exceptions, they're non-Blacks. Well, we all know jazz is a white man's music!

Al Cohn 'Nonpareil' (Concord) next, more Cohn on Concord: Dave Frishberg's 'You're A Lucky Guy' with Cohn and Bob Brookmeyer