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Ubu, I visited the Basel museum some years ago. A great place. And the Paul Klees and Oscar Kokoshkas there are amazing. Good to hear that Bern will have a Klee museum. About time! Giacometti! He was a familiar figure in the Montparnasse area where I spent a lot of time in my teens years. Ran into him a number of times. He was into a world of his own and obviously did not want to be interrupted in his thoughts by inquiring strangers.

I've heard Eddy Louiss play solo organ but I don't think he has recorded a solo album. For organ jazz solos, the only one I know of and would highly recommend is the Jazz Archives CD release 'Young Fats at the Organ' with the Fats Waller organ solos recorded in the late 20s. Have the French RCA Black and White LP reissues of those tracks. Jazz solo organ did not get any better. Love those sides.

Not sure I was there at the time. Sorry I missed it Must have looked like the Marx Brothers' cabin in 'The Night at the Opera'

Sun Ra at the Gibus was a trip into itself. Great date with a version of 'King Porter Stomp' that was amazing. Some of the best Sun Ra albums were recorded live and this is one of the best. I have the original LP of this. It was released by Atlantic France. Not sure the CD reissue has any extra material.

I also love museums. Try to go to the Louvre as often as I can. Stick to one floor at a time. So I can watch the Italian Renaissance wing, then the Italian primitives, then the Flemish primitives. That museum is overwhelming. I love the Orsay museum too. I enjoy the Courbet's 'Origin of Life' when it is on display. Orsay is a stupendousl place. And the Pompidou Center (that's the Modern Art museum you were reffering I guess!)! Those Matisse there! Among the other museums I have visited, I loved the ones in Bruges, Belgium, the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, (so many incredible museums in Italy) and best of all - probably my personal favorite - Madrid's Prado. The Prado has paintings from many of my favorite artists: Velasquez, Bosch, Goya, Zurbaran, Brueghel. I also remember when I first visited New York's MOMA (Picasso's Guernica was on display there at the time), I found the museum to have the best display of paintings. And so many I had only seen reproductions of! Also traveled to Philadelphia for a look at the Barnes museum. Worth the trip!

It's probably a play on words. ' Our Kind of Saby' (also spelled 'Sabi') is a composition from organist Eddy Louiss. It was the title of an Eddy Louiss album on the MPS/Saba label (Saba/Sabi/Saby ) from 1970. Eddy Louiss recorded several versions of the tune with the Stan Getz quartet. An excellent one is on the Getz Quartet Verve album 'Dynasty'.

The Dizzy Reece date I would like to see reissued is the 'From In to Out' date on the French label Futura where he played with John Gilmore and Art Taylor. Missed that one when it came out. Futura has reissued a number of sessions in the past few years but not that Reece album.

Benny Goodman and his sextet - with Charlie Christian, Lionel Hampton, Fletcher Henderson, Artie Bernstein and Nick Fatool - took part in a Camel Caravan broadcast from New York Radio City Studios on October 28, 1939 while I was making a first appearance on the other side of the Atlantic. One track from the broadcast 'Rose Room' surfaced on the final album (volume 9) of the Masters of Jazz Charlie Christian series.

Don Patterson was the organ player on the infamous 1962 Dexter Gordon-Sonny Stitt session for Blue Note that went wrong. 'Lady Be Good' was somehow salvaged in the BN issue 'The Lost Sessions' which came out several years ago.

A number of great RCA albums were recorded at Webster Hall. The various Al Cohn albums, the Jazz Workshop series (George Russell, Hal McKusick, Billy Byers, Manny Albam) were all recorded at Webster Hall. Even the last sessions of the Mosaic/Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band were recorded at Webster Hall. A lot of great classical RCA sessions also originated from that place. The quality of the acoustics was famous. Not sure where RCA had their studios before they took over Webster Hall. RCA made a lot of records in their studios in Camden, NJ, in the thirties.

Same here. Sonny's The Man for Dexter.

The Stan Getz Quintet I grew up with was the one with Bob Brookmeyer and Johnny Williams. Wish that Verve or Mosaic would release the few albums that THAT quintet recorded! If you can get hold of the Getz at the Shrine 1954 album which was reissued a few years ago, grab it and enjoy!

I like that session. Dizzy Reece was turning out one beautiful album after another at that time. I have this on a Japanese LP issue from vinyl days. However I wish they had added one more voice to provide a wider scope of sounds. Stanley Turrentine did a couple of interesting dates with Reece then (Duke Jordan's 'Flight to Jordan' and Reece's 'Comin' On'). Reece and Stanley Turrentine were a perfect matc.

Read all about Webster Hall here Is this still a nightclub? Clinton was there, did Bush go nightclubbing there too?

Jimmy Rowles was a very accomplished vocalist. One I could do away without vocals is Keith Jarrett!

The Curcio I Giganti Del Jazz LPs were published in the '80s in Italy. I think they were distributed in Italian newsstands with one new issue appearing every week. I have a list going up to volume 100 (not enough time to list them all). Many of the albums originated from the Solid State, Black and Blue and a couple of other labels but most of the compilations were from radio broadcasts which made some of the issues interesting. The discographical information provided was usually inaccurate. Some of the LPs I have include: - volume 8 (Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan/Bud Powell/Clark Terry). This one has radio broadcasts that include the Clark Terry/Barney Wilen/Bud Powell/Eric Peter/Kenny Clarke sides that have appeared elsewhere since plus a Zoot Sims 1956 Paris broadcast of the Zoot Sims quartet (Martial Solal, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) playing 'It Had to be You' that has not appeared anywhere else, - volume 10 (Coleman Hawkins/Stan Getz/Donald Byrd). This one features a 'Tenor Conclave' with Hawkins/Getz and Don Byas playing 'Back Home Again in Indiana' probably from a French Riviera jazz festival radio broadcast, plus tracks by two Stan Getz units, a 1959 Getz Quintet (Rene Urtreger, Jimmy Gourley, Jean-Marie Ingrand, Kenny Clarke) playing 'Dear Old Stockholm' and 'Lady Bird' and a Getz quartet (Rene Thomas, Eddy Louiss, Bernard Lubat) playing 'Theme for Manuel' and 'Our Kind of Saby'. The album lists the quartet sides as dating from 1959 but they actually originate from a radio broadcast from the 1971 Chateauvallon festival in France! These have not appeared anywhere else as far as I know, - volume 20 (Stan Getz/Donald Byrd/Bobby Jaspar/Kenny Clarke) that had sides by Stan Getz units that appeared elsewhere but also had the 1958 Donald Byrd/Bobby Jaspar quintet playing 'More of the Same' which does not seem to have been issued anywhere else, - volume 64 (Duke Ellington/Thad Jones/Kenny Dorham/Howard McGhee) that had sides by the Duke Ellington band at Newport 1966 and Monterey 1965 plus tracks by a 1961 trumpet get-together of Thad Jones, Howard McGhee and Kenny Dorham with a rhythm section of Billy Taylor, Percy Heath and Al Heath that does not seem to have been published anywhere else either. One of the volume I never saw was volume 55 which listed sides by Grant Green/Kenny Burrell/Billy Taylor. These may have been taken off a broadcast from a European tour.

There were a number of similar EPs that were published in France in the sixties by the French distributors of Blue Note. Most of the EPs had black and white photos on the cover.

Another great date with Cedar Walton is the 1977 Ray Brown Trio album (with Walton and Elvin Jones) 'Something For Lester' that was recorded for Contemporary and is out on OJC.

I had that album when it was released in France (Vogue or Jazz Selection) in the late '50s. Very nice date. Always found it puzzling that it was reissued under Jimmy Giuffre's name since he plays on several tracks only. I remember coming across a 10incher of the original Marty Paich Octet GNP issue. A red vinyl in bad shape and the cover was worse. And the price was unacceptable. Got the GNP reissue and will give that one a listen.

Heard a live broadcast from the New Morning club in Paris last month when Margitza played there with the (French) Moutin Reunion Jazz Quartet - Baptiste Trotignon, piano, Francois Moutin, bass, Louis Moutin, drums - and was impressed. This is a very swinging and very cohesive unit. Margitza has been playing around Europe for some years now but is about to start a US tour with the Moutin band very shortly. Just a reminder that Margitza was the tenor player on some of Miles Davis final recordings ('Amandla' and the Montreux box).

Stepping in briefly. I was away from the Board for the past few days and thus unable to take care of the AOW. Was proposed a high profile, interesting and difficult new job and decided to decline after much soul-searching to stick to previous plans to retire in a few months from my present position. This should make me a poorer but - hopefully - happier man. So back here and find this thread has been off to a slow start with a tangential thread here Any thoughts on the Amazing Bud Powell?

Shafi Hadi! Wish there were more record appearances by this incredible player. Also wish he and Dolphy would have played together with Mingus. That would have been the perfect Mingus band!

A Texas newspaper - the Fort Worth Star-Telegram - has a story on Texas-born Ornette Coleman in its Sunday edition. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/7332706.htm

Always thought that Bjork was Icelandic folk

If I remember well (don't have this with me right now), they had the same problem on the Mosaic brochure that heralded the release of the Concert Jazz Band box. They had the Mulligan photo printed one way on the brochure frontpage while the album cover had the same Mulligan photo in reverse.