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The thread seems to be turning into a Barney Wilen appreciation society which I'll gladly join. Been a fan of him ever since he came all over the Paris jazz scene in the mid-fifties. Jazzbo and Ubu have already mentioned many interesting dates, let me just add a couple of 'freer' Wilen dates that should be checked, if they can be unearthed: 'Zodiac' (1966) on Vogue, 'Dear Prof. Leary' (1968) on MPS and 'Le Grand Cirque' (1992) on Nato. There is also a beautiful 1986 duo date with guitarist Philip Petit which came out in France last year. It was distributed by Harmonia Mundi. Also worth checking.

One date with strings I was relistening this weekend is the Sonny Stitt with Strings 'Tribute to Ellington' album on Catalyst with a rhythm section (Gildo Mahones is on piano) and a string section playing intelligent arrangements by Bill Finnegan. 'It Don't Mean a Thing' gets a renewed treatment. The session obviously inspired Stitt who made one his best later appearances.

Stepping in late on this thread. The great ones have been mentioned. Would like to raise a hand for Bob Gordon who has already been mentioned. There are two few recordings from his meteoric career available. Before he died in 1955, he made powerful appearances on albums by people like Jack Montrose, Herbie Harper, Clifford Brown (the Pacific Jazz date that was RVGed), Lennie Niehaus... Check his solo on 'Two Can Play' from his Pacific Jazz album that was reissued by Fresh Sounds. Swinging and inventive. Gordon was about to become a master on the instrument. The Mule has already mentioned Sahib Shihab. He made quite a number of appearances on baritone but remains badly unrecognised. Serge Chaloff is my favorite ever since I caught 'Blue Serge' when it came out. Still have the original LP. Wish his amazing 'Boston BlowUp' Capitol date was reissued. I did not purchase the Mosaic Chaloff set since I had all of the material except for the added tracks on the 'Boston BlowUp' session and have been waiting for a CD appearance now that the Mosaic set has been out of print.

Thanks for catching this, Berigan. A very impressive gathering. Some of those Classics, I have never seen. Would feel foolish to get these from the States!

Edgar Varese. You should like him. Have a look here and try to listen to some of the records from his works.

New reissues of the Beatles are really not necessary. I know the albums have already been done for Mosaic but I would love to hear a RVG remaster of the Jimmy Giuffre's two Capitol albums (Jimmy Giuffre/Tangents in Jazz) and hope he does as well with these as his Miles Davis Birth of the Cool job. THAT one was justification for the whole RVG series.

MARSHALL ALLEN!!! Amazing player! He was damn exciting (excited?) on Paul Bley's ESP album 'Barrage'. With Milford Graves - no less - behind him along with Eddie Gomez.

My very personal tastes regarding trumpets would go to Kenny Dorham and Lee Morgan but I always found that Woody Shaw played some of his best dates with Andrew Hill. Eric Dolphy is a musician I wish had recorded more often with Hill. The two were such a beautiful combination. Same goes for Bobby Hutcherson who was never more adventurous than when he played with Hill. One musician I wish had recorded more often with Hill is Walt Dickerson. They were together on the Prestige Dickerson date 'To My Queen', a memorable album. Wish somebody would try to have them together again at a record session or at a concert to produce more beautiful music.

A few years ago at a Paris record convention, some guy was selling stacks of jazz albums at very decent prices. Turned out he was the son of a French roadie who specialized in jazz concerts. Among the records on sale (they were going very, very fast) were albums bearing the autographs of people like Dexter Gordon, Joe Newman, Count Basie, Hank Jones, Phineas Newborn, Dave McKenna, Harry Edison. I got many of those. One of the item I purchased - a bootleg with one side of Count Basie radio broadcasts and the other side with Erskine Hawkins broadcasts - was autographed by both Basie and Hawkins. Other autographed records I have bear the signatures of people like Ella Fitzgerald, Jackie McLean, Barbara Lea, Kenny Clarke, Quincy Jones (with a personal dedication). I have never asked musicians for autographs except once when I helped organize a concert by Cecil Taylor and his Unit. The concert flyer I have kept bears personal dedications from Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. I also have an autograph from Vladimir Horowitz. But he does not count

The Enja CD also features a Bonus Video Track which I have not been able to take a look at yet. Not sure what's there but it includes 'italian text as PDF file'.

Long live Vinyl! Great to have this forum

Shirley Scott was a very creditable singer on 'Like a Lover', the last track of her Atlantic album 'Soul Song' with Stanley Turrentine who was on all tracks except that one!

Never mind the Oscar Peterson on organ bit. Roy Eldridge WAILS on those sides with OP. Some of Little Jazz' damn best records. I really may invest on that Roy Eldridge Mosaic set even if I already have most of the material. Some of the LPs are just about to give up.

Curtis Fuller/Pepper Adams 'Four on the Outside' (Timeless LP) Don Friedman 'Circle Waltz' (Riverside LP) Art Pepper/Duke Jordan in Copenhagen, disc 2 (Galaxy) Lennie Niehaus 'Zounds' (Contemporary/OJC) Woody Shaw Live vol. 2 (Highnote)

Chaney, CT has a rather subdued role in the suite leaving the Instabile Orchestra plenty of space to display its talent. Actually, I was hoping to hear more of Taylor's piano playing. But I'm French and - as everyone knows by now - the French can't resist a complaint

Ubu, to be honest, I have seen only one copy in a Paris shop so far. That's the one I grabbed. Did not see any other copies of this in the FNAC/Virgin stores I visited since. But I saw a copy of the Miles Davis 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud' 24-bit reissue from Universal France at FNAC. So this one is out too. It has the original tracks plus the alternates. But as I have said on another thread, doubt that it adds really much to the previous reissues.

March 6, 1954 in Hackensack when Miles Davis goes into 'It Never Entered My Mind'. Instant trip to Heaven!

'Creole Rhapsody', Duke's first extended composition. From 1931. Just love the sound of that band!

Mo' Greens Please, says Freddie Roach...

The Cecil Taylor and Italian Instabile Orchestra CD 'The Owner of the River Bank' is out on Enja. This is an hour-long suite that was recorded in September 2000 in Ruvo di Puglia in the south of Italy. It was the first time CT and the II Orchestra had performed together. Three days of rehearsals enabled CT to give enough indications to the musicians to perform a provocative work. First hearing leaves the listener perplexed with the abruptness of most of the music. Second hearing sets the explorations in perspective and makes much better sense. The CD one if going to get replays.

Bertrand. Stop trying to ruin my expectations on this date! Lee Morgan is there. That's enough for me. Guess that Hank Jones may be allowed to forget some of the musicians he has played with. The list could fill a book. Not sure how good Bobbi was as a flute player. She was with BN when I tended to ignore their new releases. But she was rather pretty!

JohnJ, thanks for the fast reply. Trust Junior will find his way to a couple of those stores. He will be in town for a week with his girlfriend. The CD purchases for his dad will probably have a low priority during the visit.

My son will be traveling to Tokyo next month. Any recommendation for an easy-to-find reasonably priced store where he could locate some items from my Japanese CDs want list?

The only Fremeaux issue I have is their 'Summit Meetings' 2CD set which gathers the Metronome and Esquire All-Stars tracks (with all alternates). Both CDs have 21 tracks each. And what an All Stars cast! The other Fremaux CDs I have seen indeed do not go beyond 18 tracks.

Another call for the Wade Legge session. But I doubt that BN still has access to these French Vogue date (same goes for the Lionel Hampton sessions that BN released under their exchange agreement with Vogue at the time). At least Vogue/BMG reissued the Hampton 1953 Paris sessions several years ago but they ignored the Legge date. Would also like to see the BN 1953 Urbie Green sextet date (with trumpet player Doug Mettome) RVGed.