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Please restrain from digging a grave for Elvin. New of his death is hopefully a bit premature! I can hear him playing behind (and even right in front of) John Coltrane. But it's only on 'I Want to Talk About You' from the Birdland album. Hell, Elvin Jones is very much alive to me!!

Rex Stewart is on the last two tracks only. Both from a July 1940 Rex Stewart session for HRS (with Bigard, not Bechet). The first seven are a March 194O HRS session by the Bechet/Spanier Big Four (Spanier, Becher, Mastren and Braud). Now don't tell me AMG got this wrong

Many Atlantic albums of the Nirvana era (early 60s) suffered from mediocre sound. The Herbie Mann/Bill Evans date was one of the victims of this. I have the original LP and it never sounded good. Wouldn't call Evans piano sound terrible but it is definetely off. I'm not a great fan of that session and never bothered to check a CD reissue.

Grant Green's 'Solid' was released on King (GXK-8187). It came out with the wide white border around a photo that was standard for a number of BN reissues at the time. Same covers were used for Japanese, US and European issues. The 'Solid' cover photo showed two pinballs and a queue. Photo by Tom O'Brien.

The BN King business started in the mid-seventies. King released about three-fourth of the BN catalogue as LPs. With exact reproduction of the original covers. In excellent sound. Michael Cuscuna helped King in unearthing unissued material that appeared on the King label. A lot of these unissued sessions came out in 198O. BN King issued LPs until the mid-eighties. Then Toshiba took the relay and reissued most of the same material on LPs and CDs. About the Andrew Hill 'Chained' session, the title is in the King list I have with a note syaing it was unreleased.

The Black Saint and Soul Note LPs from the 70s and 80s I have give no indication (and do not sound like) they were digitally mastered. The labels used a variety of recording studios in Milan and New York. From sample LPs I have I see dates recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Fontana Studio 7, Ricordi Studios in Milan, Vanguard Studios and Sound Ideas Studios in New York. Mastering seems to have been done in Milan.

Basie fan ready to join in!

Brigitte Bardot was in court today after the publication of her best-selling controversial book. She looked in not so good shape and needed a cane to walk.

OK, Dan. You're really good How about this one? 'The Blues Are Brewin' - Billie Holiday (Decca album)

Great Jacques Tardi/couw collaboration on the Back from the Gig cover!

The 'Away' was tough. Next one - which may be tough too!: - You 'N Me by Al Cohn and Zoot Sims

Thanks for the refresher, Claude. It just proves that I should spend more time reading the Organissimo Forums and stop wasting my time trying to read The New York Times News seems to travel faster on this Board!

From today's edition of 'The New York Times:

There was an earlier discussion of this music: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...59&hl=hillcrest

'Love For Sale' Cecil Taylor (UA)

yeah wel, found out in the end didn't we? I took in all the Koller albums in too short a period of time. The NY album sort of fell short. Need to correct that as this is real nice stuff. Lots of nice going music, not differing much from the cool big bands like Mulligan's and then suddenly... Whack! gotta love it. A real nice track. I received a couple of those Koller MPS reissues but not the 'New York City' album. I put the blame on couw for this

I'm with Jim R. on that one. Favorite of the bunch was Tina Brooks 'Minor Move' (with Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, etc...). There was no Tina Brooks dates available by then. The 'True Blue' LP had been OOP for years. It was reissued by King around the same time. The cover of 'Back to the Tracks' was visible only on those BN LPs inside sleeves but the album was still unreleased. Tina fans had to wait until Mosaic gathered the various sides for their box set. I still have that 'Minor Move' King LP. One of BN best date. I've also kept those Grant Green Kings. Their covers were non-BN but great just the same.

no doubt ... never heard of this one ... anybody know it? I got most of these Japanese BN/King when they came out in the early eighties when I purchased them with the avidity that younger fans now have for the current CD reissues. Except at the time, they were hitherto unissued material. And most of them seemed to have been pressed in limited quantities and disappeared very quickly. The Bobby Hutcherson is one of the best date by this great player. A pretty progressive session. He produced the date which was recorded in March 1975 in Los Angeles by Bert d'Angelo. Hutcherson is the main soloist throughout the album (both on vibes and marinba). The other players get a chance to solo some with Harold Land in top form on the title track.

Eddie Higgins 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' (Venus)

This is what's going to be on the Mosaic Tal Farlow box: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/Discography.a...electionID=1054

Lunch in L.A. The L.A. 4 (their Concord debut album)

Sure I know that place. Place St. Michel is my neighborhood. Where do you think I bought many of the Masters of Jazz CDs that are in my collection now Unfortunately, their stock of MofJ ran slowly out. They have very few of those left. I e-mailed Bol on another possibility of getting some of those Bechets.

Bol, e-mailed you.

Alix Combelle is also the father of drummer Philippe Combelle who recorded with guitarist Jimmy Gourley.

That Barry Galbraith album was on my wanted list for quite a long time. I'm a big fan of that master guitar player and the fact that the great Bobby Jaspar and the great Eddie Costa were featured on the date was good enough reason to get that one. The search proved successful. I cherish that copy now. Love the music. The cover is nice. One Decca animal cover I hate is the 'Piano A La Mood' LP by Bernard Peiffer. The music is incredible (Peiffer was up there with Martial Solal at the top of the list of French jazz piano players). But that leaping poodle on the cover Wonder what Peiffer thought about that photo! My copy still has a purchase sticker from NYK's Jazz Record Center. $5. Great buy!