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Jimmy Rowles & Red Mitchell 'Red 'N Me' (AllLife). July 21, 1978 (26 years ago to the day) must have been a busy day for Jimmy Rowles who happened to be in Paris. He recorded four albums in that single day: two - 'Nature Boy' and 'Scarab' - for Musica, 'Shade And Light' for Ahead, and 'Red 'N Me'. All are excellent but that 'Red 'N Me' remains my favorite. It opens with a superb version of Wayne Shorter's 'Mama G' which is the start of 42 minutes of pure happiness that ends with the last tune Gus Arnheim's 'It Must Be True'. When those LPs came out I remember thinking that that was a bit too much. Now I miss not seeing new albums from this master!

The Le Tallec turntable I have comes with a clamp. It does not correct warped LPs. Great piece of machinery that turntable!

Interested in hearing of a reasonably priced solution. A friend once suggested I place a warped vinyl (a Lester Young Norgran Jazz Giants LP) in between the two heavy glass plates that spin my vinyls on the Jean-Francois Le Tallec turntable I have, put weighty items on the whole thing and let everything take in the sun for an hour. Had good fun with this but it did not really help with the warp

Hardbopjazz, Nope, I totally disagree with you on this one:( Leo Parker was hell of a musician, very good flexible player on baritone, and surely he was among them first to adopt modern idiom to that instrument, among just few others. I like his album for BN "Let Me Tell You Bout It" (Spanish BN 84087), and of course his great contribution while playing with Navarro back in 1940's. Mmilovan, seems you misread Hardbopjazz initial statement! He says he has just been turned on to Leo Parker!

I would suggest human brain failure! After all, BN at the time of the 1500s series was basically a two-man organisation in pre-computer era. Lion and Wolff must have been busy and taking care of more important things than keeping a straight file of their albums numbering system. They missed one number. That's too bad! They obviously cared more with the music and the way it was brought to the public.

I'ld like to search through the tapes that Jerry Newman recorded over the years. There is a gold mine of unreleased music there. Just a fraction of it seems to have made it to disc.

Be Happy! Bop Birthday!

Today's The New York Times obituary:

Big Brookmeyer fan here. 'Back Again' was the title of that Sonet album and it was a welcome title since this was Brookmeyer's return to the recording scene after a too long absence. I was not disappointed. It's a very good date with all the right associates (Thad Jones, Jimmy Rowles, etc.). Excellent engineering by Elvin Campbell who was responsible for the great sound of many Sonet albums.

Jerome Richardson 'Going To The Movies' (United Artists). Never got around to buy a copy when the original UAs were available. I was afraid I would not like it. Then when it went OP I wished I had gotten it. And then the LP reissue came out . I love this album. Superb playing by Richardson and the accompanying musicians (Les Spann, Richard Wyands, Henry Grimes, Grady Tate) impress all.

John Garfield is my prefered actor. I never miss any of his films reruns. He manages to be brilliant even in some of the corny films he had to play in. Some favorite Garfield films: Michael Curtiz 'The Sea Wolf' and 'Breaking Point', Delmer Daves 'Pride of the Marines' and John Berry's 'He Ran All The Way'. And 'Force of Evil' of course...

Loved that vinyl reissue of 'Warmin' Up'. Still looking for the first Dave Burns album. Informatively there is another companion to these sides, the Bill English 'Bill English' LP on Vanguard. I stumbled on an original copy years ago and that's the album that got me more than interested on Dave Burns. Burns and Seldon Powell were the stars of that album! This one needs to be reissued too!

Sonny Stitt 'Stittsville' (Roost)

Tjobbe, saw the bunch - though I don't think I saw the Chet Baker Candy - at Gibert Musique on the Boulevard Saint-Michel, one of the best place to buy records over here. They had a New Release special price of just over 10€ for these CDs. PM or e-mail me if you need other adresses.

They must have screwed up! John Coltrane by 1963 was on his own and far away from Miles. There were two 1960 Miles Davis concerts in Stockholm by Miles Davis. Both issued by Dragon. First one was with Coltrane, the second one was with Sonny Stitt. No trace of a Miles Davis concert in Sweden in 1963. He did play in Paris first and at the Antibes jazz festival that Summer (the Antibes concert was released in the USA as 'Miles Davis in Europe').

That sure goes for the jazz records market. And it goes even more to many of the socalled jazz festival nowadays. Many of them now list a couple of jazz musicians and a horde of very slightly jazz-affiliated genres musicians but still continue to present the whole lot under the 'Jazz Festival' banner!

Claude, you're the best! Thanks for providing this link. Makes me also brush up on the little German I can still remember from school days!

I'm pretty sure very few of those have made it to CDs yet. Hope to find a full list of the reissue program!

All right, Lon and Dan but do you have those with the additional tracks?

Kulu, welcome to the Club!: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=fats+waller and where have you been all this time http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=fats+waller

Saw a full batch of Sonet reissues during a quick visit to one of the record stores. These came from Universal but could not find any mention of them on Universal (or other) sites. Among the CD reissues I noticed were the following: Al Cohn/Zoot Sims 'Motoring Along', Art Farmer 'Sleeping Bee' Bob Brookmeyer 'Back Again' with Jimmy Rowles, Ruby Braff 'Them Their Eyes', Benny Carter All Stars, with Nat Adderley and Red Norvo Sonny Stitt 'In Walked Sonny' with Art Blakey Sonny Stitt 'Sonny Side Up'. All of them included additional sides and/or alternate tracks.

A Kenny Dorham CD from the infamous Definitive catalogue (DRCD 11156) has the full December 22, 1947 BN session led by Art Blakey (except for one alternate take of 'Bop Alley') and the full May 15, 1949 Vogue quintet session led by Max Roach.

From Reuters:

'Presenting Ernie Henry' (Riverside). Beautiful session with a great cast: Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware, Art Taylor! Ernie Henry should have been recorded more often...

Michael, mine's bigger! Sorry The one I have is the Jazz Critique Special Edition 1987 vol. 2. 'The Complete Blue Note Book Tribute To Alfred Lion'. 504 pages plus pink frontcover showing the blue and white Lexington Ave. label of Lee Morgan BLP 1538. The color Jacket Gallery comes after page 104.