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Must say that Chick Corea being a proselyter for the so-called Church of Scientology bothers me a lot when I listen to his music. And I have found lately that his music inspires me less and less in view of the beliefs he espouses. Also the fact that several of his albums have been dedicated to that crook Ron Hubbard keeps me away from his music. At least, Lee Konitz put a stop to his connection to that sect. In France, Scientology is classified as a sect, a more radical attitude than in Germany as Mikeweil mentioned earlier. The scientology advocates here try to fight that view with all the money they manage to squeeze from their followers. Fortunately they remain branded as the sect they are. I am sure that Corea's convictions are sincere and honest but that does not make their expression palatable to me.

Noticed this LP by the Bill Hollis Trio 'The King George II Inn Presents' on the BH (Bill Hollis?) label when I visited a secondhand store. This was recorded in New Jersey in 1983 by pianist Bill Hollis with Sam Tart on bass and Lindy Ewell on drums. The record also features tenorsaxophonist Ellsworth Gooding who seems to have played in Philadelphia. Anybody knows about these people? And the album? Any good??

The Jimi Hendrix Experience!

LAL, Patricia, re PEE WEE Russell. His biographer Robert Hilbert indicates in his excellent 'Pee Wee Russell, The Life of a Jazzman' book (Oxford University Press): '(Band leader Herbert) Berger started calling him 'Pee Wee' because, the clarinetist recalled,' I always seemed to be around a big bunch of 'bruisers'. He shed Ellsworth, and the diminutive nickname stayed even after he had grown to nearly six foot.' Pee Wee was with the Berger band in 1922.

Thanks for the Ornette double LP info. The records labels are similar to other Italian bootlegs of the time.

The full line-up for the Edmond Hall Sextet was Armstrong, Mouse Randolph, tp, Henderson Chambers, tb, Hall, cl, Charles Bateman, p, Johnny Williams, b, Jimmy Crawford, dr. This was recorded at Carnegie Hall February 8, 1947. Parts of the concert were released on various bootlegs. Interested in hearing that concert in good sound and complete.

The Curtis Fuller BNs are great but don't overlook the three albums he recorded for Prestige/New Jazz just before the BNs. Best one is 'New Trombone' with Sonny Red Kyner, Hank Jones, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. This and the other two are just as good as the Blue Note albums. If the rumors of Fantasy being sold materialize, these may be hard to get very soon!

One very interesting (and excellent) Hampton Hawes on Contemporary that may have been overlooked is 'The Sermon'. Recorded in 1958 and not released before 1987. Hawes has Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey along. An all spirituals program and all of those spirituals were played like they were ballads! This should still be available from OJC while there's still time. And one marvellous album by Hawes that I don't think is available nowadays is the duo session with Martial Solal. The session was recorded in Paris in 1969 for BYG and released as 'Key For Two'. Bass and drums duties were taken care of by Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke.

The pianist on that 'I Can't Get Started' is Sonny Clark. He may not be mentioned but the piano player on that one is Sonny. Hampton Hawes played on the rest of the session.

Only single albums have been mentioned so far. I have what looks like a one of a kind fold out 4CD box containing four Eremite CDs by Alan Silva: Alan Silva & WilliamParker (Eremite 017), Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra (Eremite 026), Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas (Eremite 027) The All-Star Game (Eremite 044) The box is a handpainted one similar to the Silva Treasure Boxes, also on Eremite.

For Europeans interested in the music of Alan Silva, the FNAC Montparnasse store in Paris is selling several sets of his Treasure Box that was released on Eremite. This box: http://www.eremite.com/index2.html Not sure (don't think so as a matter of fact) that the sets are available at other FNAC stores. The jazz section at the FNAC Montparnasse is the best for the chain stores. FNAC Montparnasse sells the boxes for €113,42 and they currently have a new release discount at €94,21. The Silva box is not listed at the www.fnac.com website. I know that FNAC Montparnasse is pretty good at shipping items directly. The adress is 136 rue de Rennes, 75005 Paris (France). Phone (33)149543000 and ask for the jazz dept. Being a Parisian, I could select the box design I liked best since all the boxes are individually handpainted.

The resident Master of the Happy Birthday posts - the and only Cow - seems to be away, so here goes: Happy Birthday Joe Christmas and Free For All: for Joe Christmas for Free For All Born in different years but on the same day. Many happy returns! Hope you two get along well together and don't mind the pairing

I see that the discussion has started. And I'm still waiting to receive my discs

I bought my Birdbox when it was issued and took opportunity of a trip to Italy to get it at the time. Glad to say my box cover stands up pretty well. The cover of the box I saw today was obviously damaged years ago.

A warm welcome to Benjamin Samuel.

For all those fans of James Gandolfini (I am one!), one of his very first movie part was in a film made in France by Alain Corneau back in 1995. Some of you may be aware that Corneau is a great connaisseur of jazz and a former drummer himself. The film 'Le Nouveau Monde' is a semi-autobiographic account of Corneau's youth. It tells the story of a 16-year old French highschooler who lives near a US military base in central France in the early '60s. The highschooler befriends a US Army sergeant played by Gandolfini. The Sergeant offers the youth a drumkit so he can play with his highschool friends in a jazz quintet. Read about Corneau's film: http://www.videoretailer.com/Title.asp?sku=10063 Corneau was very disappointed when the film died at the box office. I don't think it's been seen released in movie houses outside France. One of the musicians in the US army base near where Corneau grew up was Albert Ayler.

Another yes for 'New Africa'. Interesting session that has Roscoe Mitchell and Archie Shepp (on one number) plus a rhythm section of Dave Burrell, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. Excellent! Not overly fond of Moncur's other date for Byg. Have not listened to that one in a very long time and don't feel the need to dig that one up for reappraisal.

The three volumes of All Night Session on Contemporary are gems, all three. Superb quartet albums with Jim Hall, Red Mitchell and Bruz Freeman. This must have been quite a night at the Contemporary studios. Superb sound by Roy DuNann!

No random play here. I take my CDs straight.

Found a Bird Box during a quick visit to a secondhand shop this morning on my way to a meeting. This is one of those rare Italian series of 22 LPs which were issued in the mid-80s. The boxes gathered all the available live and private recordings by Charlie Parker available at the time. I think the content of that box has appeared on another thread but I am not really sure. Now the cover to the box looks like garbage. That cover has been mishandled and holds together with quite a lot of scotch tape. The edges are about shot off. I would not have touched it BUT I looked inside the box. The 22LPs were all there and in very good shape. Obviously the person who owned the box did not care for the music and did not play the LPs more than once, if at all. The LPs are all in their original white sleeves. The liner notes (a 20-page discography with nice photos) was also inside and looked pretty good. The liner notes to the set bore nhumber 82 of the 300 boxes that were offered for sale. I did not want to carry this box to my meeting and left it on hold. I will pick it up later this week. Now I would like to trade this. Those who have already dealt with me know that I am not for trading for money. Nothing against people who sell items for money but I'ld rather exchange items (CDs, books, rare LPs, etc.) Problem is that I have almost everything I am interested in. One box I miss though is the Cecil Taylor box that was released in England through Mole Jazz a couple of years ago. But I'm open to suggestions... Also note that the shipping costs to the States might be pretty high. This would also be a consideration. And since I'm being a pain on this trade operation, please note that I will be soon be away from Paris until the end of the month so I should not be able to ship it before that time unless an agreement can be reached before this weekend.

Go for it, Brad. One of the best of the recent Dexter releases. He was in top shape in 1962 and came to the high school with the impeccable rhythm section of Kenny Drew, NHP and Al Heath.One of Dex's best version of 'The Shadow of Your Smile'. Plus 'For All We Know'... Playing time is 50 minutes. This must have been a nice class. Wish Professor Dexter had visited my highschool

There is this description of the man in James Gavin's book on Chet Baker 'Deep In a Dream': 'A month earlier (in 1964), Baker had made what he would come to regard as the biggest mistake of his life. At (Tadd) Dameron's urging, he had signed with the arranger's manager, Richard Carpenter, an ex-accountant known for taking out strung-our black musicians and getting them to surrender their record royalties and the rights to their compositions. A grossly fat man from Chicago with cafe au lait skin, a huge bull neck, and a round, double-chinned face, Carpenter spouted stree-hipster double-talk and exuded menace - especially toward whites, whom he hated'. "He had the air of a gangster, like he'd kill you in a second," said Hal Galper, a young pianist from Salem, Massachusetts, who joined Baker in April. Indeed, stories were told of Carpenter threatening to break people's legs - and worse - if they didn't give him what he wanted'. Then: ' He owned several publishing firms - Richcar Music, Charrich Music Mabreeze Music, Music Royalty Corp - and would pay needy musicians 25 or 5O dollars for their compositions which he then owned outright. Often Carpenter who couldn't read a note of music, claimed authorship. The best-known case involved his client Jimmy Mundy, a once renowned arranger-composer for Benny Goodman and Count Basie. After Mundy's death in 1983, Don Sickler, a trumpeter and music publisher who handled Dameron's catalogue, found the copyright certificate at the Library of Congress for a tune originally called 'Gravey'. Mundy was believed to be the composer, although some argued that it was Gene Ammons or Miles Davis. The title had been partly erased; 'Walkin'' was written over it and Carpenter's name inserted as composer.' and so forth... I like the name to Carpenter's publishing firm Charrich!

I'll stay away from this thread. Don't want to find out what happens to the Sopranos crowd until I can watch it on TV here. Probably in a couple of years. French TV has season 4 on now.

French RCA issued a series of 23 LPs in the '70s 'The Works of Duke Ellington' which had all the Duke RCA sides up to the 1952 concert in Seattle. With a number of alternates that were unreleased at the time.

The 'Ornette Coleman In Concert' double LP (supposed to be on Craws but the labels of my copy do not indicate a company name) is a very limited issue of a 1974 New York City concert by Ornette with Blood Ulmer, Sirone Jones and Billy Higgins. And even scarier than Milford Graves' Nommo was the Don Pullen-Milford Graves PG LP of their April 1966 concert at Yales University. Each album cover was handpainted 'different from the other' as says a note attached to the inner record sleeve. I think Graves was the the one who painted the covers.