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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj turns out to be the King of the Athens Games with his double victory in the 1,500-meter and now the 5,000-meter runs. Remarkable revenge for this brillant runner who failed to win expected gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta and the 2000 Sydney Games. Last time another athlete won gold in the two races was the great Paavo Nurmi back in 1924!

Kenton Presents, discs 3 and 4

brownie, This is a little bit off topic, but please give me names. Maybe this is a good topic for a new thread. Bentsy, I am a man of peace. Don't want to start any war. Besides the subject has been dealt before on various threads. But just two names to satisfy your curiosity: Keith Jarrett and Charles Lloyd! I have had doubts about their sincerity and their originality and remain unimpressed by their recent efforts. Lloyd the first time I heard him (at Slug's in New York in 1965 where he played with a smashing quartet that had Herbie Hancock, Henry Grimes and Pete LaRoca!) was the weak link in the unit. The fact that I had heard Coltrane, Ayler and Shepp (the Shepp of 1965!) at about the same time did not help him stand the comparison. I heard Lloyd later with the quartet that had Keith Jarrett and Jack de Johnette. Was again unimpressed by Lloyd. But I liked Jarrett then. And I loved him when he played with Miles. Also enjoyed the quartet he had with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. As far as I am concerned things went downward when he went solo. When I hear his trio nowadays I listen to Gary Peacock and deJohnette. Jarrett's improvisations leave me cold. But that's just me. And if anybody enjoys Jarrett and Lloyd, good for them! I have hundreds of other musicians I prefer to listen to...

Definitive has yet to issue any unreleased - or previously unavailabke - material. They may have interesting albums but ALL their material is 'lifted' from previous releases!

Hans, that's OK. I'm no fan of a number of highly-rated musicians

Hans, agree with you. But the subject of this thread was about how other jazz giants view Oscar Peterson. I also happen to be a fan of Oscar Peterson!

Dan, these two CDs take some time to check out, so please be indulgent. But I think, e.g., couw mentioned he will be in Paris sometime in August. couw was in Paris a couple of weeks ago. He is visiting old Europe now.

Stick to Jimmy Smith! before 'House Party' you should have 'I'm Movin' On' and you could finish with 'Open House'. Not to forget 'Back at the Chicken Shack'

Well, he was good enough for Norman Granz anyway... Which is OK by me, too. Norman Granz had excellent taste (well... most of the time!). He also had pretty good taste for naming his record labels (Verve, Pablo). And if I remember well, the usually acerbic Cecil Taylor had some nice things to say about Peterson. I don't have the AB Spellman book 'Four Lives in the Bebop Business' with me now but I seem to recall that in the chapter about CT, Cecil Taylor dismissed Art Tatum but had some praise for Peterson even if he complained about his European technique.

Lester Young 'The Jazz Giants' (Norgran)

If Oscar Peterson was good enough for jazz giants like Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Stuff Smith, Louis Armstrong, he was good enough for me...

The lady is vocalist Aura Rully who sings on several sides from that Thad Jones album.

Gene Santoro in his Charles Mingus biography 'Myself When I'm Real' has Jane Getz recalling several anecdotes about her stay with Mingus. At one point, Mingus was so rough on her that Jane Getz thought she had been fired. When she came to work after another incident, Mingus 'pulled two boxes of strawberries, a bright red lipstick and a pair of pantyhose out of a shopping bag' and told her they would be recording that night 'and I want you on the record'. That evening recounts Santoro, 'a table of blacks muttered about his pianist. He paid their tab and announced, 'They can leave right now.'' The Santoro book says about Byard leaving the Mingus band thathe did not want to leave New York just after getting home. It was Jerome Richardson who suggested the 16-year old Jane Getz to Mingus. Jane Getz also played piano in several Dale Fielder albums: http://www.clarionjazz.com/recordings.html

That looks yummy. Never seen these in the British restaurants I visited. As for tripes, they are dozens of versions of that national dish. I have tried a couple dozens of then and still exploring the delicacy

Elvin Jones 'Genesis' (Blue Note, dark blue label) with Frank Foster, Dave Liebman, Joe Farrell and Gene Perla.

As the old Kay Kyser, would say, “That’s right! You’re wrong!” It’s definitely not from the album you listed, but I could sure see how you might think this is Mr. T! And maybe it is “Little Miss Cott” playing piano. Dan try to trick us on a BFT? NAAAAAAAAH!!!!! I identified that one: Let me quote myself: 9- thought there were two sax players on that one and identified the ex-Basiite (and also the humming bass player). This has to be track 5 of this album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ykzikmhbbo9 which means there were three sax players in full battle. And one more album to get. Damn you, Dan!

The French! Mmmmm... http://saveurs.sympatico.ca/ency_6/triperie/rog-berry.htm Rognons is kidneys here.

Lester remains forever Young!! Happy Birthday, Prez Loved it when you leapt in

From Reuters: Wonder how many visited the BABE thread here!

Alexander, your last post should be the final one on the subject. You talked for me, thanks

Jim, impressed that you identified that track via de Arango. And thanks for posting the link to this guitar player. I heard him on some of the early dates and also enjoyed him on the EmArcy date with John Williams, one of my favorite piano players. But I have heard nothing from his later appearances. Any good? Would you have any recommendations?

I believe is a signal that I was joking. I do not hate the French... in fact, my ancestry is mostly French. Believe me, jokes involving Irish and drinking are just as prevalent as jokes about being French and surrendering so I get my heritage (jokingly) insulted both ways. Apres, Kevin All right, all right. My French skin appears to be too thin! Should have paid more attention to the smilie Avec mes regrets...

Bertrand, if you had been at the Cinematheque de Chaillot a few years earlier we might have met then. I was a card-carrying supporter f Les Amis de Henri Langlois society and fought an open air battle with riot police in early 1968 alongside people like Godard, Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud on the hill of Chaillot when Langlois was ousted by Andre Malraux. The injuries were more moral than physical Those Cinematheque incidents happened a few weeks before the start of the May 1968 uprising. And to return to Godard, don't forget 'One By One', the film he shot in London at a recording session when the Rolling Stones (and a stoned Brian Jones) were working on 'Sympathy For the Devil'. The song managed to make sense. Not the film. One of Godard's lesser effort.

THAT ONE. Still have not been able to locate this LP. I did not file it under Dorham...