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Not that I doubt that. Not at all. But it sure took Coltrane a long time to find another worthy drummer since Elvin Jones was playing drums with him for more than four more years. And when I heard them during their European tour of 1965, the chemistry was still explosive.

Just bought it for 6 EURO as new. Let's see what it's like. Cheers! That's money well spent. You won't be sorry!

Paul Bley Quintet 'Barrage' (ESP)

Marshall Philippe Petain! If there is a Hell, he belongs there!

Thanks for the recommendations. Will have to dig up the Cannonball Adderley disc which I have somewhere. When I listened to that one previously, I was more interested in the Cannonball music than the Nancy Wilson vocals. I will relisten to it with fresh ears! Will look for the other albums that have been listed...

Somehow I never got to hear this album. Fact is I ignored Nancy Wilson. Heard little from her. Fact is I preferred Dinah Washington. Much more my type of singer. Until EKE BBB included one track 'The Things We Did Last Summer' in his Blindfold Test (nr. 13). My luck. Fell in love with that track and bought the album. There was a 2004 reissue CD available. (many thanks Agustin for bringing this to our attention!). Surprise. There was a new personnel listing in that reissue that was produced by our old friend Michael Cuscuna. The discography up to this reissue listed Warren Chiasson as the vibraphone player, Dick Garcia on guitar, Ralph Pena on bass, Vernell Fournier on drums and Armando Peraza on percussions. The reissue has the following personnel listed: Eddie Costa on vibraphone (one of my jazz heros), Dick Garcia on guitar, probably George Duvivier on bass and probably Walter Bolden on drums. Smashing Shearing quintet. The latest reissue includes 20 tracks, three more sides (Stablemates, Ghost of Yesterday, Silk) added to the previous reissue. Still prefer Dinah Washington but I am starting to really enjoy Nancy Wilson. Any other of her albums worthy of a hearing?

Wendell is the only Marshall I will salute!

A giant thanks, Big Al! (and you too, Couw!). Didn't realize I had to work on my Dangouldese and Bigalese languages. Now that I know what they are and where they come from, I may try and squeeze them in some future posts of mine

I keep coming on these strange words and cannot make any sense out of them Could somebody translate HAFC and DKDC so I can figure out what's going on? Merci!

I have had the 63rdSt version of Moanin' since it came out and have been happy with the sound. Never bothered to purchase a CD version. Those I heard were no match!

Have yet to hear the stereo version of 'Basra'. Will wait until the RVG issue makes an appearance. Leeway, when I was in highschool in Paris in the mid-fifties when the first BN 12inchers appeared, those albums were very rare since the label was not properly distributed in France for another decade. And those BNs were the ones that all up and coming jazz fans were looking for. Others (Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary, etc.) were fine but the BN ones - and the artists appearing on the label - had a unique mystic about them

Those Lionel Hampton sessions were released by French RCA in two separate boxes of three LP each, vol. 1 and 2 'Historical recording sessions 1939-1941'. Those were not part of the Jazz Tribune series but they are the best complete boxes of those sessions I found. Worthy of a Mosaic job!

Oh yeah??

The 61st Street place was the last real BN offices. Wish I had been in New York early enough to get a view of the Lexington Avenue and the 63rd Street locations. Anyway went twice to New York in the mid-sixties. I was writing articles in French jazz reviews at the time and had made arrangements to pick up any BN LP I needed for $2,50 a copy. Visited the offices - a pretty large office - a couple of times during my intial visit. As far as I remember, Lion and Wolff were the only ones around the place when I dropped there. Wolff was the one who received visitors. Wish I had bought more of their releases then but I could not afford all the albums I wanted. Got a number of the latest Shorter, Hutcherson, Dorham, McLean, Hill, Henderson albums and still get kicks out of them. Lion was on the phone when I dropped in for the first time. Did not see him after that. Wolff was there all the time and taking care of business. On my last visit in 1967, they had sold their business to Liberty. Lion was no longer there. I remember standing behind Roy Haynes who was trying to persuade Wolff to hand him a free copy of Horace Silver's 'Song For My Father' which had just come out. Wolff got tired with Haynes' insistence and gave in.

Steve Lacy was reported to be upset about problems with the French tax authorities and decided to return to the USA in 2002.

The Grant Green Mosaic would have gotten my vote. It's the only Mosaic guitar box I have. I did not purchase the other Mosaics because I have all the material I wanted from the other boxes from various sources. May chase the Tal Farlow set because I want all of that giant's output.

I was expecting a good survey from the current scene when I signed in. I must say I am very happy with Nate's choices and sequencing. I just finished giving the disc a first hearing. There's a lot of interesting music. But I'm very frustrated because I have not been able to guess for sure any of the entries. I know that this is part of the game. I recognised a number of the tunes, from Donna Lee to Under the Paris Sky thru Solar, Alone Together, Body And Soul and a Carla Bley tune. But none of the musicians although I'm sure some are very familiar (isn't that Konitz on track 6?). Track 1 is a total mystery but a very interesting entrance. I'll be waiting to for the answer to pursue that album further. Same goes for track 14 (sounds familiar but my brain has no answer yet). I'll try just one guess: track 8. I have never heard the album. Nate Darword being Canadian and that legendary pianist is based in that country. I have another of his recent albums so a wild guess is the opening track from that CD: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Asyfm962ogep1 I'll give the BFT 14 further hearings (be glad to) and discuss further. In any case, right or wrong, many thanks to Nate Dorward for assembling this.

Lucky dog! Eat your heart out! This was purchased directly from the BN offices on 61st Street when it came out. Francis Wolff provided the copy. Should have asked him to autograph it

Debut Italy published several LPs with rare items from the Debut US catalogue. Series was called 'The Rarest on Debut'. Had that Givens-Mingus LP which I stored away when the Mingus Complete Debut Recordings box came out. The only Italian Debut I still have in a secure place is the Shafi Hadi Sextet LP that includes alternates from that great unit (Gene Shaw, Hadi, Pepper Adams, Wynton Kelly, Mingus - and/or some say Henry Grimes - and Dannie Richmond) which did not make it in the Complete Debut box. Those releases came out in limited releases of 1,000. My Hadi LP bears nr. 335. I'm hanging to that one. Only album that came out under Shafi Hadi's name.

I had quite a number of the Jazz Tribune twofer LPs. Great albums for their time. Still kept some of them including the Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton ones. Those twofers came out in the late 70s. in pre-digital age. Catalogue included albums by: Louis Armstrong (2 albums), Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Sidney Bechet (3), Bunny Berigan, Benny Carter, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington (3), Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman (3), Erskine Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines (3), Johnny Hodges, McKinney Cotton Pickers (2), Glenn Miller, Jelly Roll Morton (4) Bennie Moten (3), King Oliver, Ragtime, Django Reinhardt, Artie Shaw (2), Willie The Lion Smith, Jack Teagarden, Fats Waller (4), Paul Whiteman. The Sonny Rollins albums appeared on a separate series from RCA France called 'Jazz Line' which reissued post-WWII releases.

Art Blakey is the quintessential Blue Note musician. He led and took part in an amazing number of vital BN albums. The BN catalogue would not be the same without Bu!

Had forgotten about that one. What a great album this is! Will have to give it a fresh relisten. I agree with Connaisseur and others and find this thread quite fascinating... Go ahead, Dan!

Billy Cobham is a better drummer than a photographer. Both of his photos on 'Serenade To A Soul Sister' are out of focus. Way out of focus! Francis Wolff would have done a better job with both eyes closed B)

Does that mean you have difficulty reading Lester Young liner notes? No problem reading most of those damn CD liner notes. Now I wish they will have the equivalent of hearing Varilux when my ears are hit by myopia B)

A Joe Henderson I had never heard about is the 'Warm Valley' album he recorded in 1991 in Washington, D.C., with the Louis Scherr/Tommy Cecil/Tony Martucci trio. Henderson plays on five of the eight tracks of this What's In a Name release. Nice album.