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Finally pinned track 4 - without any outside help . It's track 6 from this compilation: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uif5zfi8ehpk Don't have that particular album. Have this on a Indigo release by the name of 'Smooth Sailing' (it's track 6 on that CD too!)

Amazon.fr has a December 24 release date for the book: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893...3628760-5440240

Rahn Burton is also on this one: Beaver Harris 360 Degree Music Experience 'Beautiful Africa', a 1979 session for Soul Note. He is in excellent company (Grachan Moncur III, Ken McIntyre, Cameron Brown and Harris). Burton's composition 'Aladdin's Carpet' is on the album. An excellent date!

It's been out for several days. The box sells for about €110. My favorite record shop has a couple of boxes (brand new, probably reviewers' copies) for €90. I have one of those on hold!

Long live, Chris! A very happy birthday to one of the very best from this Board And many, many more to come...

Jsngry wrote: He did however record a couple of albums for Columbia around 1980 including his own 'Chattahoochee Red' and the M'Boom' ensemble ones.

Welcome spinlps. Percy France has played on several albums by Lance Hayward including this one (from 1992): http://www.towncrierrecordings.com/catalog/hayward.htm You can catch a glimpse of your man on this Swiss site (in French as fits a France): http://homepage.swissonline.ch/jazzhot/jazzyver8.html Also I am sure that George Duvivier would not have liked to be confused with a Duvalier...

Phineas Newborn 'Piano Portraits' (Roulette) with John Simmons and Roy Haynes

I'm sure there are a number of Pettiford dates that grace your collection and that are missing from mine! But I did see Pettiford in the flesh. At the Chat Qui Peche in particular. And with Lucky Thompson, no less. Now you can be jealous

From mikeweil:

Always thought 'Jazz Portrait' on UA with John Handy, Booker Ervin and Richard Wyands, etc. was never given the appreciation it deserves. An overlooked masterpiece. The 'Nostalgia in Times Square' track is a Mingus classic.

Welcome back, Simon. Excellent contribution. Hope you will be back with more contributions!

Happy Birthday, Leeway Hope you will be having a great one! With lots of good things and plenty of vinyls!

From AP.

There were at least three editions of this 10-incher. The original one - and the rarest - had the still photo of Jeanne Moreau from the film. The second edition had the same cover with the title 'Prix Louis Delluc 1957'. The third edition had the same cover with the title 'Prix Louis Delluc 1957 & Charles Cros 1958'. Second and third editions of this Fontana soundtrack show up off and on around here. If you have the first edition, then it's really a Great Find!

The seller is the Jazz Record Center and the owner of the JRC Fred Cohen knows his business!

that's precisely what I meant, a big deal at the time, but not as biggie looking back not being able to place it in its historical context. Yup, turns out only the old people knew this one Bird's early music is not stoopid enough for some of the young ones

Very sad news. And very difficult to imagine this personification of the spirit of freedom confined in a home.

I'm having a Friedrich Gulda concert this evening. Starting with 'Friedrich Gulda at Birdland' (RCA) with a terrific group: Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Cleveland, Phil Woods, Seldon Powell, Aaron Bell and Nick Stabulas. PeeWee Marquette is heard introducing the players. I may be wrond but several of the tracks sound like studio recordings. Then 'Nachricht Vom Lande', the (German) Brain twofer with Ursula Anders, Gulda, Albert Mangelsdorff, Stu Martin, Barre Phillips, John Surman and Cecil Taylor, recorded in an Austrian castle in August 1976.

The Epic LP was issued as 'Braff'. The British Philips had different tracks from two of the sessions (the two sessions sans Hawkins) plus several alternates. The Philips was a rare item. Glad to see it being reissued.

Congratulations, Barak! Israel really needs to become a pluralistic nation!

The Shepp sessions with Philly Joe Jones were not the most adventurous of the Actuel dates. Philly Joe Jones was rather open to some of the new music but he stayed mostly within the hardbop radius. And when he returned to the States after his European stay, he obviously preferred to remain in that idiom. The Dameronia band he led are proof of this. Very interesting and beautiful albums (recorded for Uptown) that should be made available again!

The Paris Cinematheque is currently holding a retrospective of Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco (real name Jesus Franco Manera). I have seen few films (mostly lowbudget softporn thrillers) from this director and did not like any of them. But Franco is an interesting character who managed to make some 170 films mostly under his Jess Franco name. But he also used other aliases that are of interest to jazz fans since some of his films bear credits like: 'directed by Clifford Brown' - I saw only one of those and did not try again - or 'directed by Betty Carter'. As you might guess, Jess Franco is a film maker and a jazz fan. More on Jess Franco is on this site: http://www.videopremiereawards.com/HTMLNews/NewsFrano.html and that one: http://members.aol.com/timothyp2/francofol...francofile.html

From AFP:

Philly Joe Jones - like a number of other jazz musicians - tried his luck in Europe in the late '60s. He went to London first and then in Paris where he stayed until 1972. He took part in a number of Actuel/Byg sessions and other labels. Another Archie Shepp album for Actuel 'Yasmina, A Black Woman' has both Hank Mobley and Philly Joe Jones in its cast!