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Thanks to the various posters around, this will be my next book purchase. Seems like an interesting read. JohnL., your input it very much appreciated!

Carter plays soprano - beautifully! - on only one track. The previously unissued 'Ennui' (Boredom in french). Nothing boring about this very nice side.

This is one for Kenny Dorham fans. And if it has been reissued before, it has been an elusive item. I love Dorham's playing on this unassuming date. He sounds restrained there but that must have been the spirit that Mehegan wanted. In the liner notes, Mehegan indicates this was an unrehearsed session with the musicians going through several tunes before recording the tunes they agreed upon. The LP was initially a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Then it was reissued under the title 'We Dig Jazz' on the Request label with one of the corniest cover ever (two trendy - for the early '6Os - couples digging a hole, all with shovels and picks and all smiling!, talk about jazz diggers!). Then Fresh Sounds reissued it in LP form. And it was also reissued later in Italy as an exact replica of the original issue (like the Fresh Sounds). Nice to see the CD version being released.

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This looks beautiful! And that Media Room! I've got something like this but it tends to look more like a junkyard these days. Well done, Dan

'East Meets West' original for four bucks? I'm About Shorty Rogers, all his RCA LPs have been reissued on Fresh Sounds CDs.

And how about the 'Tenor Conclave' session for Prestige with Cohn, Zoot, Mobley and Coltrane. Where all four saxophonists did not bother to outplay each other and just made great music.

If it's the Eurovision contest, then The Winner IS.... Alice Babs

Guess you're talking about the Ahmed Abdul Malik 'East Meets West' album? A very interesting date. If you paid 4 bucks for the original RCA LP, you made a great bargain! If you got the reissue LP that came out a couple of years ago, that's money wisely spent Since you're enjoying that one, you should also try Ahmed Abdul Malik 'Jazz Sahara'. Recorded before the RCA date. It was on Riverside and there's an OJC reissue of it. No Morgan but Griffin is outstanding on that one too!

The run of 50 prints of the John Coltrane photo ran out, according to one of the Mosaic brochures. The price for the 11" by 14" was $500 each. Each print was numbered. The Mosaic brochure that accompanied the release of the first 3 Wolff photos prints (Coltrane, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins) indicated that 3,000 posters of all three photos were released, at $40 each.

Sonny Rollins 'Stockholm 1959' (Dragon) John Zorn 'Krystal Night' (Tzadik) Legends of Country Blues box (JSP) Maurice Vander 'Nougaro' (Universal) Miles Davis 'Birdland 1951' (BN)

Weizen, a Cleveland box, no A Cleveland Select, possibly There were only three Jimmy Cleveland albums on EmArcy/Mercury.

I'm still waiting for Columbia to do an adequate job with their pre-1940 Ellington material. Like RCA did with their Centennial edition. And like Columbia is doing now with their Duke material from the fifties. Tons of extraordinary sides there and the CD reissues so far just don't make it as a tribute to the greatness of the music. French CBS when Henri Renaud was in charge of the jazz department there issued double LPs of everything but the sound on most of the albums did not do justice to these gems.

The RCA, Coral, Xanadu and Concord have all been recommended and with good reasons. Most of the RCA albums have been reissued by Fresh Sounds. Note that the 'That Old Feeling' album is one of those 'with strings' one. But I like it. Love almost anything with Cohn. One of the most consistantly inspired player. Missing from the Xanadu list is a second quartet date with Barry Harris, Larry Ridley and Alan Dawson 'Play It Now'. Excellent, too. I'm a fan of the Cohn/Sims association. Highly recommended is 'Either Way'. I have the Zim LP but it's been reissued on another label. Cohn and Sims (plus Richie Kamuca) are on several sides from a Philology CD 'Directly from the Half Note' with more sides featuring Cohn and Phil Woods. Cohn, Sims and Woods are also on the 'Night at the Half Note' UA album that was reissued a couple of years ago. Both albums are superb! Don't think the Coral album with Brookmeyer that Larry Kart mentioned has been reissued. Another great LP.

The only version that (I think) I have of this is Chet Baker's from the soundtrack to Let's Get Lost, and I like it a lot. What other versions do you recommend Brownie? Two instrumental versions of 'You're My Thrill' I love are the Zoot Sims one on the Pablo 'For Lady Day' album (with Jimmy Rowles) and the Hal McKusick arrangement of the song in the Decca album 'Cross Section Saxes' (with Art Farmer and Bill Evans). A major forgotten album which I'm afraid is not available nowadays...

Late, two vocal versions that automatically come to mind are Billie Holiday's (the Decca one) and Helen Merrill's from the 'Feeling is Mutual' album. Billie Holiday's version gives me goose pimples. The arrangement is a bit corny but Billie gives all she had. Her Decca sides seem to be overlooked. But her voice was never better than around that time.

Gilles, this has already been posted earlier. We're all waiting to see if this Mosaic fetches that price B)

Ivie Anderson Adelaide Hall Betty Roche Al Hibbler Herb Jeffries

'You're My Thrill' has not been mentioned yet. Love that song.

What looks like a new (or old??) perspective on blues history is out on a new book. This is the book review in The New York Times today. Will be looking for a copy of this book...

Ivie Anderson was THE Duke Ellington singer. She was never equalled.

There is also a jazz photo book that should be interesting: 'Jazz in Black and White', the Photographs of Duncan Schiedt'. This is being published this month by the Indiana University Press. Schiedt has taken quite a number of famous jazz images. Anyone seen the book yet?

At Long Last Love Lyrics: Is it an earthquake or simply a shock? Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock? Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy? Or is what I feel the real McCoy? Is it for all time or simply a lark? Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park? Is it a fancy not worth thinking of? Or is it at long last love? Is it an earthquake, or simply a shock? Is it the good turtle soup, or is it merely the mock? Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy? Or is what I feel the real McCoy? Is it for all time or simply a lark? Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park? Is it a fancy, not worth thinking of? Or is it at long long long last love?

How come this was missed? Happy Birthday, Jim

One essential jazz photo book is 'Jazz Giants', a coffeetable-size book by Japanese photographer K. Abe who selected photos by most of the great ones (Gottlieb, Claxton, Maisel, Charles Stewart and others. This was printed (excellent job) in Japan and published in 1988 by Billboard Publications. 359 photos, 280 pages. Absolutely among the very best. Might be difficult to locate nowadays. Another favorite is Lee Friedlander 'American Musicians'. Know the book has been discussed on another thread. It's essential too. Out now in paperback but the hardcover (and larger) version is highly recommended. From one of America's greatest living photographer. And if you can find Esther Bubley's 'Charlie Parker' (Editions Filipacchi), grab it... Masterful book by the uncredited photographer who was hired by Norman Granz to take images of the 1962 gathering of jazz greats for the Jam Session vol. 1 and 2 recording date (the one with Parker, Hodges, Carter, Webster, Phillips, Shavers, etc...). Extraordinary images of an extraordinary session! The hardcover book has 160 pages. It came out in 1995 in France. Hard to find, also.