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The Benedetti/Charlie Parker box will never expire. Is this correct? I checked the Mosaic discography but, unless I missed it, could find no release date on the Benedetti box. The Parker/Benedetti box was supposed to be released in the Spring of 1990 but there were last minute delays. The eagerly-awaited box was ready for shipment by Autumn 1990.

The Teddy Charles album was recorded February 10, 1959 in New York. The Joe Roland album was recorded March 17-18, 1955. Personnel is Freddie Redd on piano, Dick Garcia on guitar, Danny Martucci on bass and Ron Jefferson on drums. The Charles Persip album was recorded April 2, 196O. The Carmen McRae is made up of two sessions. First one with Herbie Mann on flute, Matt Mathews on accordion, Mundell Lowe, guitar, Wendell Marshall, bass, and Kenny Clarkes, drums was recorded on October 6, 1954. The other session was recorded with Tony Scott on clarinet, Dick Katz, piano, Percy Heath, bass, and Osie Johnson, drums. Plus an unidentified vibraphone player. Recording date of that one is December 1954. Tony Scott plays piano behind Carmen McRae on 'Misery' from that December session.

Eric, I have read the discussion on the Proper boxes on the board and found very interesting views from both sides of the trenches. But I see this as out of touch with reality. More and more of this stuff is being put in record stores. And it's all very legal in the EU. Like it or not, this is now a fact of live and a lot of companies will have to make hard decisions on what they want to reissue from the material they recorded more than 50 years ago. The stuff is coming out. I'm a bit out on this issue since I bought most of the material from the original labels a long time ago and - with very few exceptions - keeping away from these clone labels. In the meantime, here is a link to the Comet Lester Young CD: http://www.cometrecords.com/robo10/robo.ex...Prodotto+UV-108

Another clone label has showed up recently in Paris stores. An Italian label with CDs made in the EU. CDs from them I saw include: Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson, this seems to have all the original Norgran/Verve titles plus the additional material that came out on Verve reissues, Thelonious Monk The Complete 47-52 Blue Note sessions, T-Bone Walker Stormy Monday The Complete 1949 Black&White sessions. Nicely packaged. No idea what they sound like. Won't bother to check. To view their jazz CDs, click on Birdland on the homepage (which obviously has not been updated): http://www.cometrecords.com/ Saw also jazz CDs from a label which goes by the name of Blue Nite. Some old Miles Davis stuff among several releases.

Proper's mail adress is: The Powerhouse, Cricket Lane, Beckenham, Kent. Hard to be more England than that

Looks like it. Very sad...

Rex Stewart and Django Reinhardt reunited in December 1947 in Paris for a Blue Star record session that produced two sides only: 'Night And Day' and 'Confessin''. Hubert Rostaing was on alto sax on these. They are on the Django Reinhardt 'Swing 48' album of the Jazz in Paris series.

Pinky Winters. An unique talent. http://www.pinkywinters.com/

From today's edition of the 'Kansas City Star':

I had not joined the BFT lists at the time of volume 7. During a recent CD swap, Man With the Golden Arm very nicely added a copy of his Blindfold Test. This was weeks after the thread was active. I listened to this, played the game for a couple of days then looked at the BFT 7 results. A few thoughts on this quite interesting volume. Most of the music in it was new to me. There were only three tracks I had no problem identifying: - track 5 the 'Black Nightgown' music by Gerry Mulligan from Johnny Mandel's music to the film 'I Want to Live', some of Mulligan's best music, and one of the best jazz soundtrack score ever, - track 11 'Cha Cha Cha du Loup' the Serge Gainsbourg/Alain Goraguer music which was reissued recently in the Jazz in Paris series, I grew up with this music - and a lot of other Gainsbourgs. That Cha Cha Cha was a favorite at several parties I attended back then! 'Les Loups Dans La Bergerie', the film for which Goraguer and Gainsbourg composed this music, was pretty bad! - track 12 Barney Wilen's 'Swing 39' an old favorite. I still have the original LP which I bought when this 'Jazz Sur Seine' session came out. Of the others, two were slightly familiar but I was unable to identify them: - track 2 from the 'Absolute Beginners' soundtrack, one of the few Gil Evans I did not care for. I did not like the film, was not impressed by the music. One of Evan's lesser effort. - track 3, thought this might be from a film soundtrack too but my memory machine was blank. Goraguer was an interesting composer/arranger - and a good jazz pianist too - who worked for Boris Vian, Juliette Greco and Serge Gainsbourg among others. He was house arranger at Philips France where he was hired by Vian. That 'Strip Tease' film was a real bad one BUT one of the stars of the film was none other than Nico. Yes THE Nico of Velvet Underground! she played the part of a stripper from the Crazy Horse Saloon to contribute one of the only attractive aspect of this film. Stride pianist Joe Turner who held forth at the La Calavados club, not very far from Le Crazy Horse location also appeared in the film. The rest of the music was new to me. Grooved on the Kip Hanrahan tracks. I will have to investigate his music more thoroughly. A number of friends have recommended his albums but I had failed to explore his albums yet...

Why?

How many times are these sessions going to be recycled? It's not funny anymore

Is there documentation that they did live gigs together? If they did gigs together, those must have been very few. And dating from 1963. I happened to catch Jackie McLean at Slug's in October 1967 shortly after he recorded the 'Bout Soul date (with Moncur and Woody Shaw) on September 8. By then, Moncur was performing full time with Archie Shepp (Roswell Rudd was also in the lineup plus Howard Johnson on tuba! an amazing band!!). Went to Slugs twice. Each time McLean was playing with Lamont Johnson, Scott Holt and Rashied Ali)

Montg, this 2CD release includes all the tracks that Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1952 and 1953 in Paris for the French label Blue Star. Most of the tracks were made with the following musicians: Don Byas on tenor, Art Simmons or Arnold Ross on piano, Joe Benjamin on bass, Bill Clark on drums and two percussionists. The disc 1 also has all the tracks that Dizzy recorded with strings for the Blue Star album Dizzy Gillespie and his Operatic Strings. The rhythm section on that one is Ross, Benjamin, Clark plus French guitarist Jeaqn-Jacques Tilche. The track list is here: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...7571918-0091455

It's a girl and she is BEEEAUTIFUL! Hope your wife is recovering fine. A very welcome addition to the Organissimo family...

Damn you Couw! A film from nazi-era Germany 1944! Never saw that one. Don't tell me it is about some Hitler Jugende pranksters! The only extraordinary German film from that evil time I ever caught is 'Unter den Brucke' by Helmut Kautner. A propaganda-free love story shot during the final stage of the Second World War. Was ready to hate the film but loved it from reel one. My favorite movie about high school (OK about college!) is the Marx Brothers 'Horse Feathers'.

The same material - with a couple of slight variations - is included in the Definitive Ike Quebec 'Swing Hi Swing Lo' that also came out recently. This CD has 22 tracks. By the way the August 4, 1945 was recorded for Savoy, not BN. About the same material was used for the Classics Ike Quebec 1944-1946 CD. This one had 20 tracks.

Jim R, thanks for the infill. Will check the BFT 3 threads. I joined the BFT fraternity at volume 8 only and missed the earlier ones. My mistake! What I heard from Harry Allen so far made me think of Al and Zoot, much more than of Getz!

When is the next Quartet Out out?

Up. Cause I'm enjoying Harry Allen's playing on a Nagel Heyer Records album 'Live in Belfast' which was released under bassist Frank Tate's name. I bought this CD because I'm a big fan of Dave McKenna who plays piano on the live date recorded in 1996 at a club called Guinness Spot in Belfast. Allen is a no-nonsense swinging tenor saxophonist from the Zoot Sims/Al Cohn fraternity. I had heard him once before on an oscure album by singer Bobbe Norris (a Japanese CBS Sony LP) where he was in the group accompanying that singer along with Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid and Ben Riley and did more than all right. I was in Belfast a couple of times - during the troubles there - and did not imagine there were swinging nights in the city but the times have changed. The rhythm section of McKenna, Tate, Howard Alden and Butch Miles know how to keep the proceedings lively. Looks like Harry Allen plays on a number of other Nagel Heyers albums. Anybody heard those?

Don't know what's the difference between the two albums. All I know is that Barney Kessel was managed at some point by Alan Bates. And Kessel had Alan Bates handle a number of tapes to AB for release on Bates' Black Lion label. An interesting session that Bates released on a Black Lion Kessel album 'Blue Sould' had Kessel playing with Teddy Edwards and Jimmie Rowles on a date recorded in LA.

Many thanks for your quick answer. Will be patient...

Still waiting for the BFT 10 to arrive...

From the MetroWest Daily. Wish there was more on the story about Ruby Braff, Gigi Gryce, Ralph Burns and Nat Piere being inducted alongside Mussulli.

No idea yet, but rest assured that all the material will have been 'lifted' from other companies releases! Most probably from the Gerry Mulligan Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings with Chet Baker OOP Mosaic 102 box.