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Yes for Don Friedman! Yes, yes for Phineas Newborn who recorded a series of superb albums for Contemporary in the '60s. Check the following: - A World of Piano (with Paul Chambers, Philliy Joe Jones and Sam Jones and Louis Hayes), - The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn (with S. Jones and L. Hayes and Leroy Vinnegar and Milt Turner), - The Newborn Touch (with L. Vinnegar and Frank Butler), - Please Send Me Someone to Love (with Ray Brown and Elvin Jones), - Harlem Blues (with R. Brown and Elvin again). Not a bad one in the lot.

Wait till Brigitte Bardot gets into action on this!

When Coluche withrew from the presidential campaign in 1980 he backed socialist leader Francois Mitterrand who won the 1981 election. And Coluche was no friend of Delon. He stood for Alain Delon at the French Cesar awards (the French Academy Awards) in 1984 when Delon was named best actor for his part in 'Notre Histoire' - probably Delon's last worthy film. Delon had moved to Geneva for tax reasons shortly before. Coluche who won the best actor Cesar in 1983 read a fake letter from Delon excusing himself. The audience loved it!

I want a Florida recount

Would not call Alain Delon a fascist although some of his statements have verged on the far-right of the political spectrum. Delon has said on several occasions that he is a friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen but does not adhere to quite a number of his ideas. Delon was a supporter of centrist PM Raymond Barre. He also claimed he was a follower of General de Gaulle (he bought the original manuscript of de Gaulle's June 18, 1940 appeal from London to resist the nazi invasion of France). Delon has supported Brigitte Bardot during her recent controversies.

I was wondering about that too. Brigitte Bardot is still very popular in France. She had a book published last year under the title 'A Cry in Silence'. In the book, Bardot showed her ugly profile: anti-islamic, anti-gay, racist. Call it a deafening silence because the book was on the bestsellers list for weeks and sold more than 300,000 copies. Even if she has not come publicly out to support farrightwing leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, she praised some of Le Pen's ideas. She also married one of Le Pen's spokesman. However she is not politically active. A field where she is very active is the defense of animal rights. I hate her political views. Wish she had stayed the extremely beautiful person she was in her twenties. People who are critical of her and of how she has become should take into consideration that when she burst on the scene, she really led a minor revolution with her bright and unabashed sexuality. She will be turning 70 in a few months. Even if some of the photos of her which have been published may come as unflattering, she still looks pretty good... And there should be no problems posting the more flattering ones. I saw her not very long ago when she made a surprise appearance at the funeral of a media person in a Paris church. One of her very rare public appearances. She was still a stunner! Strangely, there was a small crowd of students marching past the church as she walked out. The crowd was chanting slogans. When the students realised that Brigitte Bardot was there, quite a number of them surrounded her and asked for autographs. Pete C, not sure about Catherine Deneuve's political views. She never went public about them.

She is; she's really nasty. BB is a staunch supporter of extreme right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. She is indeed. She really is. But I'm weak, really weak. Caught the other day an early film of her 'La Lumiere d'En Face', made in 1955 when she was 21. The film is pretty bad but Brigitte (or Brijou as she is often called here) was stunning. Beautiful. To die for. I can't ignore her extreme rightwing politics. But I'm weak and I forgive her when I remember how wonderful she was in her prime... In my opinion her (former) looks don't excuse her fascist political ideas. Hans, wait till you see the Light (La Lumiere d'en Face, I mean). I'm sure all will be forgiven...

Don't expect to see much different Ellingtons than the ones you can find in the States. The couple of French reissue labels you refer are probably Classics and Masters of Jazz. Classics has just reached the year 1952 in their chronological Ellington series. Masters of Jazz ceased publishing a couple of years ago. Their complete Ellington series went up to volume 12. Masters of Jazz is unfortunately out of business now. You may have trouble getting specific Classics CDs because most of the big record stores cannot stock the full output from that very effective label. But if you're lucky you may find some of the Ellington boxes Classics released which contain six CDs each. Classics did this for Duke and Armstrong. The French CBS 1947-1952 series has recently been repackaged. It's worth looking for if you don't have it.

Listened the other day to Stan Kenton's 'Standards in Sihouette' by the Kenton band of 1959. A pretty good album by the way. Charlie Mariano has a couple of solos there that are outstanding. His solo on 'Django' is to be ranked along with his contribution to the Mingus 'Black Saint' album. Right at the very top!

She is; she's really nasty. BB is a staunch supporter of extreme right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. She is indeed. She really is. But I'm weak, really weak. Caught the other day an early film of her 'La Lumiere d'En Face', made in 1955 when she was 21. The film is pretty bad but Brigitte (or Brijou as she is often called here) was stunning. Beautiful. To die for. I can't ignore her extreme rightwing politics. But I'm weak and I forgive her when I remember how wonderful she was in her prime...

I'm talking about Candid originals. I avoid the Candid CD reissues except when they have previously unissued material. And I'm with Monsieur Sangrey, shame on Mosaic for not being true to their word and providing non-complete 'Complete' boxes...

I like Thurber but I loved Perelman. Used to read his stories in The New Yorker when I subscribed to that magazine in the '6Os. Every time I walk into an American bookstore I look for books by him and never find anything. Has he been forgotten for that long! He also contributed mightily to some of the Marx Brothers early films!

I'm more than happy with the sound on the original Candid albums. Beautifully produced, beautifully packaged and beautifully recorded.

Lon, read all about it in this link: http://dvd-shop.yellowpages.pl/1111R749P13...ball-Story.html A great story! Now why would you pull a knife at your ladyboss?

I saw 'Dingo' when it was released. The Billy Cross part was handled pretty well. But the film was a near total loss.

I have the Mosaic LP set. It starts with: Side 1, track 1 'Air' (take 5). Nothing before that. The lined noted list the same tracks for the LP and the CD sets.

I have no problem with Evan's lady. Nor with Berigan's avatar. Can't see the bad taste in those. They're fun and not offensive! And would not have problems with a naked guy avatar if that suits a poster. As long as it's not in bad taste.

Did I miss something? Can't recall anything really outstanding about Lalo Schiffrin's music except that it fit well with the violence displayed in the movie. Far from being a favorite film of mine! This was a film that emphasized America's fascination with violence, same as a number of films starring Eastwood or Charles Bronson that were made around the same time. One Eastwood-Don Siegel I much preferred was 'The Beguiled', another film that was disturbing but went much deeper that that 'Dirty Harry'. Just my opinion! And another vote for the sountrack to 'The Gauntlet'. And yes, the music was better than the movie!

I'm in the news business. I listen to news radio mostly. News TV is on all the time (no sound). I switch on to the jazz radio for a relief a couple of times during the work day.

EKE BBB, relistened to track 9. I thought I had it almost figured it out but obviously I led you in a blind alley. Damn you Alexander

Jim R., congratulations for leading us in the right direction on that track 8. I am listening to my record of this piano duo! You guessed right!

Strongly recommended is the Helen Carr 'The Complete Bethlehem Collection' from a forgotten singer! Excellent and with players like Don Fagerquist, Charlie Mariano, Red Mitchell in the backing groups. A real treat...

That's right. It goes to Toscanini now. The link to the Rahsaan/Ed Sullivan story worked a while ago!

Please, please, brownie tell me who this guy is... I should know!!!!! PM sent your way!

Did you check the US one???