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Don't forget 'Momentum Space' where Dewey Redman has Cecil Taylor and Elvin Jones along. A Verve album from a couple of years ago. Unusual encounters that kicks all the way!

Ubu, have a look at the Jazz Records site B) http://www.jazzrecordsinc.com/ A great label. They started business in vinyl days. I have a number of their LPs.

Agree with the above recommendations. Would like to point out that the Proper box is an excellent and very affordable overview of Lennie Tristano's pre-1952 records. It does include the available alternate takes from the various sessions.

Finally received the latest Mosaic brochure. The one which fronts the reversed Roy Eldridge photo. Michael Cuscuna in the 'Dear Friends' section writes about the Duke Pearson Select and mentions that "Merry Ole Soul' may be the rarest of Blue Note albums. Knew this was not a widely available album but never realised it was that rare. I have an original copy of that Duke Pearson LP in excellent condition (except there is a large AUDITION COPY sign over part of Father Norman O'Connor's liner notes). Can't remember where I got this or how much I paid for it. Beside the Lexington and first generation 63rd Street LPs are there other BN albums that were that rare?

And there's another Jimmy Raney Music Minus One album where he plays with a tenor sax player by the name of Stu Berry who happens to be Stan Getz! Hal McKusick also plays on that MMO. Hal McKusick by the way recorded several MMO albums that I have never seen listed in discographies.

There's that November 27, 1948 broadcast from the Royal Roost that was preserved for posterity. Lester Young and his band are on stage (Jessie Drakes on trumpet, Ted Kelly on trombone, Freddie Jefferson at the piano, Ted Briscoe on bass and Roy Haynes on drums). Symphony Sid is mcing and he introduces people showing up for a jam and there is Brother Allan Eager among them. Others joining in are Kai Winding, Hank Jones and Ella Fitzgerald. They go into 'How High the Moon'. Lester is the first to solo and he is brilliant. Obviously enjoying the evening and the jam. Others follow. Then comes a very confident Allan Eager who shows where he is coming from. Ella Fitzgerald closes the performance with some scat singing before all the musicians go into the 'Jumping With Symphony Sid' theme. I have this in the giant Prez 22LP box that was published in Italy. Know the track has appeared elsewhere.

I was raped :rsmile:

Dan, you're welcome! Just let us know what it sounds like when you get it. Bet you it comes from a concert in Berlin. Think Green and Burrell played together at a jazz festival years ago. And since I know that you always want to improve your French, it's VOILA. Not viola. Viola translates "raped' in French

Up for renewal. JSP is issuing later this month a 5CD box 'Bunny Berigan.The Key Sessions' that will include tracks from 1931 to 1937 with the Boswell Sisters, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller et al. No idea yet on duplicates with the Mosaic box.

All I know is that I'd like Chris A. to post back here! I don't like to see his empty chair at the Organissimo table

The Musee Marmottan is indeed an extraordinary little museum. Another little-known one worth a visit when in Paris is the Musee Gustave Moreau http://www.paris.org/Musees/Moreau/info.html They don't have a working website yet but the museum is filled with paintings by this pre-surrealist master.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Will be visiting this!

I have the Count Basie book. It's better than THAT good! Best Basie book available. Most a discography but much more than that.

Claude, try to get a listen at Fats Waller's organ sides from the late '20s. Fats tamed the Monster and made it swing mightily

MOMA's greatest art museum in the world? The greatest modern art museum, maybe. I would think it misses on pre-19th Century art to qualify as the world's greatest. Know if was not meant to be. I have not been to the Hermitage yet but from the ones I have visited, I would vote for the Prado for a full overview of what art is about. The Louvre is also very good but is a bit too big a place nowadays. From the various visits I have made, the Prado is more visitor-friendly. But the art place I would most love to return to is the Assisi Franciscan basilica for another view of the Giottos there.

Saw the box on December 2. As expected, it has the last 25 albums of the original series. It thus contains: 77 - Lester Young Last Message 78 - Don Byas 79 - Stan Getz Quartet in Paris 80 - Henri Crolla 81 - Elek Bacsik - Nuages 82 - Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith 83 - Sarah Vaughan and Strings 84 - Dizzy Gillespie and Strings 85 - Bobby Jaspar Jeux de Quartes 86 - Gerard Badini Swing Machine 87 - Stephane Grappelli Django 88 - Gus Viseur 89 - Henri Crolla 90 - Django Reinhardt St-Germain des Pres 91 - Django Reinhardt Nuages 92 - Jack Dieval 93 - Bernard Peiffer Trio 94 - Blossom Dearie/Les Blue Stars 95 - Sammy Price and Doc Cheatham 96 - Max Roach Parisian Sketches 97 - Andre Hodeir Jazz et Jazz 98 - Jazz et Cinema, vol. 4 99 - Harlem Piano in Montmartre 100 - Jazz Sous l'Occupation 101 - Joe Newman/Cootie Williams No additional material

Eddy Louiss indeed recorded a few solo organ tracks on the hard to find 'Sang Mele' abum from 1987 that was released by the Media 7 label. Never heard that one.

Just mentioned that superb Charlie Mariano plus bass and drums date 'Frontier Traffic' on a separate Charlie Mariano thread so might just as well plug this album here. 'Frontier Traffic' from the German label Konnex has Mariano on altosax with Ali Haurand on bass and Daniel Humair on bass. A 2002 date that was released several months ago. I just discovered that CD. Love it!

An absolutely superb recent Charlie Mariano album is 'Frontier Traffic' where Mariano has Al Haurand on bass and Daniel Humair on drums along. A 2002 date which was released a while back by the German label Konnex. Mariano shines all over that one. He seems to be growing younger every day! Don't think he has blown better. Will make sure to catch him live if he travels around here.

The jukebox that fills my head seems to be playing Thelonious Monk exclusively Monk versions of 'Darn That Dream', 'Crepuscule with Nellie' and 'I' Getting Sentimental Over You' keep rotating. Strange because when I listen to music, I play a lot of music besides Monk.

I'm the one who posted a link to that site on an earlier thread. No harm done Let's just keep the spirit of Barney Wilen alive. Did anyone check the Dragon CD 'Eje Thelin 1966 with Barney Wilen'? An excellent and very lively album that has two unissued date with the late Swedish trombone player Eje Thelin. Wilen is superb there. The CD was released several weeks ago.

Mose Allison also sings and plays simultaneously!

It's also one of the rare trumpet plus rhythm section that was recorded by Lion and Wolff. The only similar lineup I could think of were the 1954 Miles Davis Quartet date with Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Art Blakey, the Lee Morgan 'Candy' album and the Herbie Hancock 'Empyrean Isles' album with Freddie Hubbard. Dizzy Reece's playing on 'Yesterdays' from the 'Soundin' Off' date is masterful!

Horace Silver Trio (RVG) Joel Futterman/Jimmy Lyons 'Passages' (Konnex) Charles Tyler 'Midwestern Drifter' (Bleu Regard) Johnny Hammond Smith/Seldon Powell 'Black Coffee' (Riverside LP reissue) Claude Williamson ' Live at the Jazz Bakery' (Fresh Sounds)

Ubu, I picked the Fruscella 4CD box when I found the box for a few euros couple of weeks ago. The sound is pretty good. I have checked with the LPs I have and find the audio from the box to be quite acceptable. And it's nice to have all those Fruscella appearances (or almost) in one box.