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Simon, agree with your assessment. Except when you mention that 'Lanzmann's aesthetics sort of got in the way of the subject'. I think that Lanzmann did everything humanly and cinematographically possible to avoid getting into aesthetics. And I tend to think this is one of the triumphs of his film. The distance he manages to maintain throughout the more than nine hours of his film is mesmerizing!

Is this what you are looking for? http://www.eclipse.net/~fitzgera/rahsaan/tubby.htm Don't have the CD of it. I have the Kirk Mercury box.

The JSP Hoagy Carmichael 'Key Cuts' box has the John R.T. Davies and Doug Pomeroy imprimatur. That's good enough for me! The JSP Django Reinhardt box says it was remastered by Ted Kendall.

Garth, I have kept all my vinyls. They've invaded my music room and have complained of lacking space I have stopped buying them. But I enjoy playing them. I am now spinning Jazz Studio 5 (the Ralph Burns one) and enjoying it immensely. Fine solos by Joe Newman, Billy Byers, Dave Schildrkaut. Schildkraut was way underrecorded. Burns devised an unusual duet for Herbie Mann on piccolo and Bill Barber on tuba for 'Royal Garden Blues'. It works and swings. Love this album!

Nelson Riddle composed and arranged 'Pyramid' and 'Habanera' for the John Graas album 'French Horn Jazz' on Kapp. I have the Fresh Sounds LP reissue of this.

Same here. Prefer the desktop at work. My laptop is still OK.

Pianist Jimmy Bunn taking the solo spotlight after Charlie Parker on the Dial session's 'Lover Man'... And he does this very well!

Raul Hilberg is the best book relating the Holocaust, as far as I am concerned. It is also the most depressing book I have ever read. I have the same opinion of Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' film. A totally unique film on a totally unique event. And another depressing masterpiece. When I put down Hilberg's book, I was done. I am not an expert on accuracies but I remember that when the French translation was published in 1988, a number of authorities praised the exactness of the documents Hilberg unearthed. And Lanzmann's 'Shoah' is the only film that tries to show what the Holocaust must have been like. Its icy tone and imaging was the proper way to evocate those events. I have never been able to stomach Spielberg's 'Schindler's List' or Begnini 'La Vita e Bella' even though I am a fan of both. I'm with Lanzmann on this and find it offensive (Lanzmann is much more violent) when filmmakers try to recreate what must have happened . This is one event that cannot be recreated. Ubu, once you read Primo Levi's 'If This Is a Man', you'll never be able to forget it. An essential book!

Wow, that would be a very interesting Mosaic. I wonder if the idea has ever crossed Cuscuna's mind. Even a Mosaic Select, if we're talking only 4 discs, would be great. Tell us more, Garth and Guy. I know all those musicians except David Amram. And ... George Barrow led one of these sessions? On tenor? I only know Barrow through sideman work. Have any of these sessions, outside of the Millman, been reissued on disc? (By Fresh Sounds, I'm guessing?) Jazz Studio 1 and 2 were reissued on LPs years ago by Jasmine. Don't think the other ones have been reissued. I had a lot of trouble getting good copies of Jazz Studio 3, 4 and 5. Never got the 6th one although I saw the album when I was searching for vinyls. Now that Garth mentions how good it is, I'm sorry I skipped that one. Jazz Studio 1 is an excellent jam session with a solid lineup. That was my introduction to the brilliant trombone playing of Bennie Green. And Sir Gasser (Johnny Smith) was another revelation. Jazz Studio 2 was a West Coast followup to the East Coast gathering on JS1. Superb solos from Don Fagerquist and Herb Geller among others plus interesting arrangements by John Graas and Marty Paich. I also enjoyed JS3 which featured the compositions of John Graas. With the soloists available for that date, this was another remarkable date. JS4 Millman you seem to have. Jazz Studio 6 (Ralph Burns) is also excellent. Will be a pleasure to relisten to this. I remember a beautiful composition by Burns 'Nocturne' with a very worthy clarinet solo by Dave Schildkraut. Speaking of Burns, there is a superb album recorded for Decca at around the same time 'Very Warm For Jazz' which took me years to find but was really worth the wait! Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Eddie Costa and others were on that one. Garth, your 'aging' memory seems to be doing fine. However could not trace any Jazz Studio 7. A reissue of the whole series would be very welcome, indeed.

Stupid question anyone???

No need to apologize. A very fascinating thread. You people on the other side of the water are really strange

Almost all you care to know about 'In a Mist' http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~alhaim/recordingsinamist.htm

Hope you're all having a good night!! Tomorrow is just another day

It has been an item of considerable mystery as to why Decca have never reissued the entire seven volume series of "Jazz Studio" albums. There was some great music there .. two by John Graas, and others by Ralph Burns, David Amram and George Barrow, Joe Newman, and an excellent group of small group jazz combos. I have often thought that they would make an excellent Mosaic Box Set on 4 CDs. I know Jazz Studio 1 thru 6. Can't recall a Jazz Studio 7. What was that?

Even good old Jacques-Yves Cousteau showed an abject anti-semitic side in several letters he wrote during the Occupation. His brother Pierre-Antoine was also a pro-nazi anti-semite who edited and wrote in the collaboration newspaper 'Je Suis Partout'. Pierre-Antoine Cousteau was sentenced to death at the end of WWII.. Jacques-Yves Cousteau intervened to change the sentence into life imprisonment.

This place has been more civilised now that the more obnoxious ones have gone their way! And they're not being missed...

The Millman photo on the cover of the 'Four More' album is the one which is on the cover of the 'Jazz Studio 4' album that was recorded for Decca in 1955. Very enjoyable West Coast LP. The tunes are: side 1. Groove Juice Pink Lady Too Much Ballade for Jeanie The Turk When You're Near side 2. Tom and Jerry So Goes My Love Bolero de Mendez Just a Pretty Tune Cathy Goes South Bambi Musicians playing on those sessions include Herb Geller, Jimmy Giuffre, Jack Montrose, Bob Gordon, Curtis Counce, Ralph Pena, Chico Hamilton, Lin Halliday, Don Friedman. I'm pretty sure some of the Jazz Studio 4 are on that All Stars CD. I have another Millman LP, a Fresh Sounds reissue of the'Shades of Things to Come' that Millman made for Liberty. Buddy Collette, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Harrington,Harry Babasin, Larry Bunker and Frankie Capp are with Millman on that one. I have not played it in a long time...

You're lucky. The subway musicians have higher standards in the States. I know. I caught a number of them including an excellent altosax player in New York several years ago. Most of the 'musicians' who invade the Paris subways come from impoverished eastern Europe countries and struggle through the usual 'Those Were the Days', 'The Girl from Ipanema' or 'Besame Mucho'. Mind you they do not keep to the subway platforms but board the trains, tune up their tinny amplifying boxes and get on with whatever music they can perform.

I know that. I think he wrote 3 anti-semitic pamphlets and was indicted by the French courts for that. It was before WWII. I couldn't find any information on the web that would be at least a little bit more descriptive than that. Especially the part about him being a Nazi collaborator. Celine was not a nazi collaborator. He was a collaborator of the Vichy government that ruled France from 1940 to 1944. Celine had little love for anybody and did not like the Germans (nazis or not)either. He wrote several anti-semitic pamplets including the notorious 'Bagatelles Pour un Massacre' ('Trifles for a Massacre') from 1937 on. All his anti-semitic pamphlets are still banned from sale or publication in France. Celine also wrote numerous violently antisemitic articles throughout the nazi occupation. He fled France as the Vichy regime collapsed and traveled to Germany with some of the worst collaborators of the Vichy regime. From Germany he fled to Denmark during the last days of the War and settled there. He was condemned in absentia for collaboration and was declared a national disgrace. He was pardoned in 1951 and was allowed to return to France where he died in 1961. Several of his best books - and highly readable ones I have to say - recount his adventures out of France at the end of WWII. The best are 'Guignol's Band' and 'From Castle to Castle'.

Bobby Brown 'Don't Be Cruel' Serge Gainsbourg 'Sorry Angel' Marvin Gaye 'Love Me Now Or Love Me Later' Those three stuck a chord with me!

Jackie McLean has always been in the fast lane B)

1119 new posts in one single day No wonder I don't have time to read all those posts. This is really turning into an Orgy. How about starting up a Coitus Interrompus device when a poster gets above the 50 a day mark At that stage, the poster needs to get back into real life anyway!

Why do people keep asking me what time it is

You were lucky to never have heard that one. 'Marechal Nous Voila'. This was a 1941 song for Marshall Philippe Petain who was the infamous French state leader/collaborator during the World War II occupation of France. The song was required to be sung daily by all French schoolchildren during the nazi occupation. From the regulation Google so-called translation job: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/language/tra...da.htm#marechal I rate it the alltime worst song. No contest...

I have kept my copy of the 2LP release of that Monk tribute. A nice album full of surprises and fun ideas like 'Little Rootie Tootie' played by NRBQ or 'Reflections' with Steve Khan on guitars and Donald Fagen on synthetizers. Jazz interest was pretty high with several duets featuring Steve Lacy (with Gil Evans on 'Bemsha Swing', Elvin Jones on 'Evidence', Charlie Rouse on 'Ask Me Now'), Carla Bley's band - with Johnny Griffin - on 'Misterioso'. Peter Frampton was on 'Work' with Chris Spedding, Marcus Miller and Anton Fig.