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Yesterday was beautiful. Today, not really good. Have a look: http://home.comcast.net/~ahonasoge/mm/paris1.htm

Garthjs, thanks for your views on 'The Gaunlet'. Will watch for a rerun of that film. I can always use watching an hilarious film. Missed that angle when I saw it a long time ago. I like the soundtrack anyway. Big fan of Lennie Niehaus here...

Forgot to include a great musician who took part in hundreds of sessions but had only one album published under his name: Barry Galbraith!

I've always refused to get this album. I enjoy my Coltrane straight!

Thanks, Larry, for printing this. I'm reading it while listening to this glorious music!

Je ne comprends pas Where's the French

'Cosmic Music' was first published on Coltrane Records. That was Coltrane Records AU-495O. It had 'Reverend King' and 'Manifestation' plus 'Lord Help Me To Be' with Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Ben Riley plus 'The Sun' which includes an overdubbed prayer chant by Coltrane. I've always had a grudge against Alice Coltrane for making a mess of these sessions.

96 minutes of outstanding music crammed on two LPs. Yes, the sound is rough but who cares? This should be reissued prompto. Clifford Brown is unbelievable on that one. And the set is a rare chance to hear Nicky Hill. Plus Sonny Rollins! Maybe Max Roach has even more from that evening that could not be included in the set?

The 'engineer' of Shepp's 'Live at the Panafrican Festival' was none other than Barney Wilen. Wilen was in Algiers at the time of that festival. Algiers was the start place of his eventful two-year trip through Africa. Wilen is better on the saxophone! And there's better Shepp available!

That's really a very sad story. I enjoyed some of his Bunny Berigan Shoestring releases.

No need to worry. You gave me a good opportunity to relisten to that happy man! B) does this mean it's NOT the happy man? Should I get that disk that EKE linked anyway? Looks very tasty. I gave up on that track 9. Thought I had guessed right at the start. Now I just don't know. It's great piano anyway. And fun!

I read the whole of 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu' while in the Army a long time ago. I had wanted to do this while in highschool and never got around to do it. I was in the Army long enough to read an early edition which was available at the local library where I was stationed. Then when the latest revised edition was published in the prestigious Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989, I bought the four-volume 7,408 pages thing. And can't face the prospect of reading the whole thing from start to finish. From time to time, I pick one of the volumes and get caught in the magic. I'm pretty sure I will never get a chance to read this all the way a second time. The four volume come in a special box decorated with a reproduction of a William Turner watercolor. Beautiful. i'm glad to have this near me so that I can go through some of the pages when I feel like it.

You're really sharp-eyed. Included Billy Higgins cause I was listening at the same time to James Clay's 'I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart' on Antilles. Great record that one too! Billy Hart is the drummer with the Buck Hill rhythm section on Steeplechase. The music (and the lovely Canon-Fronsac red wine I had at lunch) got to my head!

Dan, welcome to the Buck Hill fans club! Never saw that 'Impulse' Muse release. I have plenty of his SteepleChase albums. Love the ones with that great rhythm section of Cedar Walton, Buster Williams and Billy Higgins! 'This Is Buck Hill' and 'The Scope'. Another outstanding Buck Hill album on Muse is 'The Buck Stops Here' with Jonny Coles on trumpet and another great rhythm section: Barry Harris, Ray Drummond and Kenny Washington. Trust the Buck has now retired from his post office job and he is busy playing in WC clubs. Wish I could hear him live. Buck Hill also mae appearanceds on a couple of Shirley Horn albums: 'You Won't Forget Me' (too bad he did not play alongside Miles Davis on that one) and 'Close Enough For Love'.

They're individually packaged. Digipacks. I have the previous CD issues (in regular plastric) and did not check the track listings. I'm pretty sure the tracks are exactly the same.

Ernie Henry Earl Anderza Wish Dupree Bolton had recorded one tenth of Dave Douglas'es output! Wish Sonny Clark, Dodo Marmarosa, Elmo Hope, Gil Coggins, Herbie Nichols (the whole lot of them)) had recorded one tenth of Matthew Shipp's output.

Don't see EKE BBB around today, will answer for him. EKE stands for Edward Kennedy Ellington. Our Spanish friend is a huge fan of Duke, a&s a number of us are around here. BBB stands for Black Brown and Beige. That was our friend's explanation when queried a long time ago!

Phineas Newborn is pretty progressive. That's how I hear him.

That's on Herb Pomeroy's 'Band In Boston' UA album. Title of the tune is 'On The Other World'. A superb feature for Mariano! Our man was on quite an amazing number of excellent albums at the time. The 'Jazz Portrait of Charlie Mariano' album on Regina was also another remarkable LP!

...mighty slow again. Is the Board taking Friday evening off??

From AP:

My LP copy of Cecil Taylor's '3 Phasis' from New World records clocks in at 57:12. Side A runs 28:22, side B runs 28:50.

Is this democracy in action?? 35,29% is not a majority in my books! I miss that leg kicking lady

I'm glad I saved all the vinyls I bought. I have the original mono Decca LP of this 'New York, N.Y.'. The sound on that one is pretty spectacular. Can't hear the problems that are mentioned in the reissues.Too bad, Decca never bothered to credit the names of the people who engineered their records. A lot of the Decca jazz albums had superb sound.

Freddie Webster Herbie Nichols Tony Fruscella Don Joseph Jimmie Blanton with small groups Benny Harris