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Listened to the Soryville reissue of 'Clark Terry And His Orchestra Featuring Paul Gonsalves' this weekend. The second track of this CD highlights Paul Gonsalves doing interesting variations on 'Pannonica', the Monk composition. Rather unusual feature for Gonsalves. He was doing all right! The CD has an alternate - and slightly longer - take of this! The one and only Chris Albertson wrote the liner notes to the Storyville CD reissue.

What's the big deal? Hope you get a life now

Wolff, I think you're a bit harsh. Those EW Great Jazz Trio albums are beautiful sessions. And that McLean is really enjoyable. Not MAJOR but really highly enjoyable!

Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio 'New Wine In Old Bottles' (EastWind). The Great Jazz Trio is Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.

Chronogical Classics has a Tommy Dorsey series that is pretty well advanced by now. I have not checked the JSP box that B. Goren linked but the boxes from that label are usually pretty good and pretty cheap.

Seems George Wein had surgery just before the 50th anniversary bash. From Channel 10 in Providence:

Thanks Ghost for letting us know. Will try to hook up on Sunday morning (European time)!

Tony Scott also had problems with Mingus when he played in the Ellington band in 1953. From the Tony Scott website: http://www.tonyscott.it/ ''In 1953, for three months, he played flute, tenor and alto sax with Duke Ellington’s Big Band, initially replacing Paul Gonsalves (ts), then Johnny Hodges (as). …But clarinet wasn't selling. Tony started playing more tenor and also flute. When Duke Ellington had a tenor vacancy, and chose to add the flute color for the first time, he hired Tony who opened with the band at the Apollo Theater. Another great clarinetist with the band, Jimmy Hamilton, along with Charlie Mingus and a few others, did their best to make him uncomfortable. Duke kept reassuring him, but one day Tony provoked Mingus who was making racial remarks. "Look, Mingus," Tony said, "my skin is darker than yours. I'm Sicilian and I have more African blood than you do." Mingus was a big strong guy with a violent temper. He tried to strangle Tony and might have succeeded, if Clark Terry and Britt Woodman, trombonist, hadn't jumped in and saved him. When the Apollo month was finished, Tony quit the band-regretfully, because he worshipped the Duke. Unfortunately, he never recorded on clarinet with the band. (from: IAJRC summer 2000: Tony Scott: Some reminiscences of a best friend by Bill Simon)''

That Coltrane/Fuller was announced on the liner notes to the Transition LPs and one track was included in the sampler. That sampler was $1.98 when it was released. The other LPs were at $3.98 back in those days. The BN Paul Chambers twofer had what was available from the material recorded at that session. Nothing else available unfortunately!

I received several albums from Transition when I started looking for US jazz records at the time the label appeared. Have only two left now. The Byrd's Eye View (I still have the inside notes) and the Transition Sampler which had tracks by Sun Ra, Trane/Fuller/Chambers and Cecil Taylor among others . Lost the second Donald Byrd and the Doug Watkins years ago Waiging in vain for the full Coltrane/Fuller session to appear on that label! Glad the two Byrds and the Watkins were reunited in the BN 2CD set. The liner notes to Byrd's Eye View is a 12-page booklet written by Tom Wilson with nice photos probably taken during the recording session. Cover art is credited to Ira Rimson and Tom Wilson! Problem with the Transition LPs was that the covers were very tight and once you pulled out the vinyl and reinserted it a few times, the seams would split.

71 Anita O'Day 72 Astrud Gilberto 73 Gil Evans 74 Dizzy Gillespie 75 John Coltrane 76 John Surman 77 George Benson 78 Louis Armstrong 79 Chet Baker 80 Herman Sonny Blount 81 Acker Bilk 82 Betty Carter 83 Grant Green 84 Herbie Hancock 85 Chick Corea 86 Django Reinhardt 87 Nat King Cole 88 Stan Getz 89 Earl Hines 90 Miles Davis

From today's edition of The Guardian:

Aric needs a schoolteacher desperately

The Teagarden Complete Roulette set is one of my latest Mosaic acquisition! It's one of the most unassuming but it's one of the most enjoyable ever!

It's NOT Marion Brown! A hundred per cent sure of that!

Claude, that West Wind is no longer listed in the Cadence lists. The discs arrived home with the extras! Formidables, ces extras!

The Phil Sunkel was on ABC Paramount indeed. It was also reissued on LP by Fresh Sounds with the original cover.

John L., may I suggest that you go back to the 2CD and check some of the alternate tracks? They're really alternates. The variations on 'Big Stuff' are stunning. And as for those Billie Decca sides, I cannot have enough of them!

Happy birthday, Shawn

Photographer Sarah Moon also made a documentary in 1994 'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Point d'Interrogation' which was shown on TV several years ago. A rare intimate glimpse of HCB who hated to be on the other side of the camera. The man was so discreet that the Magnum agency which he had helped founded coult not confirm his death until very late yesterday evening and only a couple of hours after the news was announced on national medias!

Excellent idea, EKE BBB And about time! I'll try to help!

Those Decca sides by Billie Holiday are the ones where her voice was at best. I may prefer the Columbia, the Commodore and the Verve sessions - in great part because of the accompaniement - but when I want to enjoy the way Bille Holiday could perform songs, I turn to the Decca sides. Don't know how that vinyl sounded but I was very happy with the 2CD set 'The Complete Decca Recordings. This one includes a number of alternate takes (the alternates of 'No More', 'Don't Explain' and 'Big Stuff' among others are just brilliant) and make that 2CD set quite indispensable.

That was the difference between Cartier-Bresson and the rest of us. The expression 'The Decisive Moment' defined this Master!

News of the death of the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has just been announced. He was 95. Some of his photos can be seen here: http://www.photology.com/bresson/