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Dexter Gordon/Wardell Gray (Masters of Jazz) Dexter Gordon 'XXL' (Fantasy) Roswell Rudd 'MaliCool' (Universal) Art Blakey 'Indestructible' (RVG) Chet Baker 'Live at New Morning' (Marshmallow)

Ooh la la, this was a long, long time ago. I had free entrance privileges at the time (1959) at the Club Saint-Germain (don't ask me why) (complicated!) but I was finishing highschool then and did not have as many opportunities as I would have wanted to go there. The club was a 15-minute walk from where home. The Club Saint-Germain had extraordinary guests in the late '50s: Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, JJ Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham were appearing there in succession. Thinking back about it, all those people were on hand and I took going to and listen to them a bit too much for granted. This was really the case of 'Hey, Art Blakey is playing down at the club, let's go down there!'. And those were the Messengers with Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merrit! What I wouln't give to get back to that place to hear those people! I have not as many reminiscences of Kenny Dorham as I have from some other evenings at the Club. but I do know that I found his trumpet sound absolutely beautiful! I preferred his sound to Lee Morgan and Blue Mitchell, two other favorites who played the Club. Still do. There is an uniqueness in Dorham's sound that still leaves me awed.

The best albums of the Cecil Taylor Unit with Lyons AND Rivers are the 'Nuits de la Fondation Maeght' from the 1969 concerts on the French Riviera that appeared on the Shandar label. 3 albums. These were the only official records by the group. Not sure they are currently available on CDs. Sam Rivers played with CT for a few months only. There is also a Jazz Connoisseur LP that was released of a 1969 concert in Rotterdam with the same Unit. The Shandars are really exceptional music. Better than the JC bootleg (sound on that one if off).

Brad, thanks for the tip. Amazon.UK seems to have this in stock indeed. Will give it a try!

Lester Young was pure poetry...

Mike, this was not a double CD. It was a single CD issued as 'More from Barney at the Club Saint-Germain des Pres' (BMG 74321544222). Recorded April 24/25, 1959. Tracks list: - The Best Things In Life Are Free - All The Things You Are - Reets And I - Round Midnight - With a Song In My Heart - Time on My Hands - There Will Never Be Another You - As Time Goes By This had the same shot of Barney Wilen on the cover as the original LP issue and CD. I was at the Club Saint-Germain a couple of times when KD/Wilen/Jordan played there but that's not me you hear in the audience clapping hands. Missed the nights they recorded for RCA.

KD also travelled to France in 1959 to record the music for the film 'Un Temoin Dans La Ville' with Barney Wilen and Duke Jordan. The three also appeared in scenes from the Roger Vadim film 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'. Dorham also played for several weeks at the Club Saint-Germain with Wilen and Jordan. Much material was added to the original 'Barney' RCA album they recorded at the Club for the two CDs that came out several years ago. Beautiful sessions with one of the earliest appearance of Daniel Humair on drums.

Oh yes and the Board will be all mine And I'll post in French for as long as I'll be on my own Can't wait!

You do realize that as long as the laws of physics remain as they are no one could ever see the Board register a participant total of zero. What is the sound of zero hands clapping?? I'll try to catch that sound when I hit the zero member count. Grey, you can peek in Organissimo without registering. If there is no one around, the board count will list zero member, one guest

I'm not so sure that United Artists ('Sliding Easy' was a UA release) used the same BN take numbering system.

Let's not forget the duo album with Max Roach 'The Long March' on HatArt which was recorded at the time Roach was making duo dates with people like Cecil Talor and Anthony Braxton. The Shepp-Roach encounter was something!

That's legal over there!??! All husbands are animals over here

Anybody know of commercially released videos showing full concerts by John Coltrane? A number of videos have appeared on DVDs but the ones I have seen show only parts of the concerts. The August 1, 1965 concert at Comblain la Tour in Belgium was filmed by Belgian TV. I have yet to see a full tape of the concert. Extracts of the concert show up on various DVDs. The John Coltrane concerts at the Juan-les-Pins festival (July 26 and 27, 1965) were also filmed by the French ORTF (Jean-Christophe Averty was the director). Not sure these came on DVDs. There's also a video of a concert (in Germany?) of the Coltrane quartet with Eric Dolphy. The music on all these is amazing. But all we get to see nowadays are extracts, not the full concerts. Very frustrating.

I say women should have been selected for this too B)

Some mornings (Paris time) when I check in, there's a crowd of two or three people on line. I do not look at the number of users most of the time but will do from now on to find out if there is a record crowd of zero.

I've been looking for a copy of that Dameron book for quite some time now. A source for purchase would be very welcome!

Happy birthday, Dmitry

I wish I had more time to post at Organissimo And the pile of albums I have bought and have had barely time to listen is growing And I try to get a life... Give me time I'll be retiring from work in a few months I'll probably join in the Blindfold Tests then B)

Hey, Deus! Another birthday today? No wonder you're already 99 years old

Frank O'Hara. The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets in Ghana are doing these days in Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard) doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing

Another excellent valve trombonist is Bob Enevoldsen whose nasal sound was heard pn a lot of West Coast dates (Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Mel Torme/Marty Paich among others). Enevoldsen also played on a couple of recent Bill Holman big band sessions.

I ran into that Bud Shank Bossa Nova Years 2CD set from Spain recently. Had no idea what this was about but grabbed it. It's really a very enjoyable set!

I'll second that This Board has really grown up. It's getting very civilized around here

Ubu, Catherine Millet should not be discussed on the Board

Got this too! This was an old suggestion from Mike Ricci, See nothing wrong in having archived threads from the old BNBB revived at AAJ. Would welcome some of them as a matter of fact! Hey, remember the BNBB is DEAD