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While looking through old Down Beats for information on an unissued Kenny Dorham session, I also ran into a two-page photo spread in the February 5, 1959 issue that featured a Toots Thielemans quartet date in Chicago. The session was recorded for Argo and supervised by Dave Usher. Thielemans played harmonica with accompaniement by Lafayette Leak on piano, Willie Dixon on bass and Al Duncan on drums. An interesting gathering. Where did this go? The date remains unissued as far as I know.

Simon, not to worry. Your credibility is still intact. I won't even start a list of all the rubbish I still enjoy!

Found some details about the unissued Kenny Dorham UA session I mentioned in my original post when I made a search through old Down Beat issues. The February 5, 1959 DB (Shorty Rogers on cover) had this item: 'United Artists cut the Martin Williams 'History of the Jazz Trumpet' LP, with scoring by Bill Russo and blowing by veteran Ed Allen, Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Kenny Dorham, Jimmy McPartland and Art Farmer.' The next issue, March 19, 1959 (Maurice Chevalier on cover) has a photo from the session showing Farmer, Dorham, Thomas, McPartland, Berry. Al Williams is at the piano. The caption adds: 'The LP, a survey of jazz trumpet playing, is titled The Jazz Trumpet'. Now who's going to explore the UA vaults to find that gem?

Some I like: - any Bernard Herrman score (my favorites are the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock), - the Henry Mancini score for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, excellent early Mancini music with a very pronounced West Coast jazz ensemble sound, - music from somne Jean-Luc Godard films (Martial Solal's music for 'A Bout de Souffle', Georges Delerue's music for "Le Mepris')

Italian neorealismo. I like Rossellini much better than De Sica. Roma cita aperta and Paisa are masterpieces. And La Magnani in Roma! Mama Mia! Not all of Pasolini films get to me but Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo is a film that still haunts me even if I have not seen it again in a couple of decades. Bertolucci started very strong. Loved Prima della Rivoluzioni, The Spider's Stratagema and The Conformist. Plus Last Tango in Paris. Then Bertolucci has seemed to fall apart. Just my two cents. Simon, the Delon-Belmondo film should be 'Borsalino'. Don't take it bad but I think it's one of the most forgettable French film of the era.

Thanks Berigan for bringing this interview here. I love the music from the Herman Herd but the band must really have been something else. All the interviews I have read (I remember the Terry Gibbs interview in Cadence several years ago) indicate this was a gathering of extraordinaly interesting people. The 1949 Chubby Jackson big band was also something else!

The Spanish Blue Moon label (part of Fresh Sounds) has reissued material from Dot (the Don Bagley albums among others). Wonder why they have not reissued the Eddie Costa 'House of Blue Lights' session yet.

The man hired Billie Holiday back in 1938, married Ava Gardner, had Roy Eldridge, Dodo Marmarosa, Buddy de Franco and Barney Kessel together in his band and was a superb clarinet player. He deserves all the honors he is getting.

Larry Young! He brought the inventive best to Lee Morgan. Too bad the two of them did not record more sessions.

Thanks to all the bagpipers on the board! The Richard Alderson Village Gate tapes were made at the Village Gate in New York. And from what I understand his Dan Benedetti job dates from the year 1963. Now let's also try and get those Coltrane bagpipes contributions!

John Coltrane and his quartet played several times at the Village Gate. Only one track has appeared so far on an authorised recording: the outstanding version of 'Nature Boy' that was issued on the New Wave of Jazz (Impulse 90) album, one of the five sides recorded on March 28, 1965 at the concert for the benefit of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. The other sides on the album were performed by the groups of Albert Ayler, Grachan Moncur/Bobby Hutcherson, Archie Shepp and Charles Tolliver/James Spaulding. In the liner notes to the Xanadu album 'Thelonious Monk Live at the Village Gate' (the album was withdrawn shortly after its release in 1985), Mark Gardner states that engineer and jazz fan Richard Alderson who recorded the November 1963 Monk/Village Gate tapes also recorded Rollins and Coltrane at the club. Anybody knows if these tapes still exist? Might be worth having Impulse and the Coltrane estate check them. Would love to have them out for everybody to enjoy! And if there is more Coltrane from the Black Arts benefit, they would be more than welcome too!

Ubu, never got into Antonioni's films. I remember Gaslini's music to 'La Notte'. Went to see the film a second time to make sure I was not missing something. From Italy, I'd rather take Fellini. Not all of them, by a long stretch. But loved '8 1/2' and liked 'Roma' and 'Amarcord'.

Simon Weil wrote: Yes, I remember Louis Malle saying something to that effect. The Bresson film is another monument from his most creative period. The man was creating superb austere films from 'Journal d'un Cure de Campagne', 'Pickpocket', 'Le Proces de Jeanne d'Arc', \Au Hasard Balthazar', 'Mouchette', to 'Une Femme Douce' all in a row. An amazing succession of masterpieces. Louis Malle's Lucien Lacombe is good but in the same WWII mood, I should have mentioned Joseph Losey's 'Monsieur Klein' which gave Alain Delon his best film part ever. I'm no fan of Delon but he was incredible in that gripping and (yes) bleak film.

King Ubu wrote: I practically grew up with Doinel. So I like all the Doinel films by Truffaut. And 'La Chambre Verte' is a masterpiece. Two other Truffaut films I like a lot are 'La Peau Douce' and 'L'Argent de Poche'. Speaking of Doinel/Leaud, did you see 'La Maman et la Putain' by Jean Eustache? That's another masterpiece. Eustache had Bernadette Lafont - another favorite Truffaut actress - and Jean-Pierre Leaud plus newcomer Francoise Lebrun. That's the three-hour and a half long film where Leaud tries to make up his mind on who he is in love with! And you're not bored a minute! It is now known as the final French New Wave film!

Ubu, when you say 'Imamura, for me, was very much closer to our western (old european) mentality, our way of thinking, understanding life, than the few Ozu films I've seen', you say precisely why I prefer Mizogushi and Ozu to Imamura or Kurosawa. Seeing a Japanese film is an 'experience'. Which I get when I see 'Ugetsu' or 'Sansho the Bailiff' to cite two of Mizogushi's best films. I don't get that from the westernised Japanese films. You have yet to catch films by Mizogushi, I can understand the plight. I was lucky to get my film apprenticeship in Paris where I choose from dozens of art houses and two cinematheque houses to watch a movie.

Ubu, don't think 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud' was that much of a great movie. Now don't get me started on the soundtrack! The music speaks for Miles' genius. 'Lucien Lacombe' would be my Louis Malle favorite movie. But not in my top all-time list. And I much prefer Julien Duvivier and Jean Gremillon's films (not to speak of Jean Renoir) over Marcel Carne's. Imamura? Yes. But his films do not have the appeal for me than the ones from Mizoguchi and Ozu.

Dmitry, if you're asking me, you're asking the wrong person. I got my original copy from the BN gentlemen back in 1958. This was the only copy of this classic that I had until BN reissued the socalled Ultimate Blue Train CDc with alternates. Believe me, I won't be looking for the SAC or the DAD. I'm not with Steve Hoffman. Good old Rudy and the BN gentlemen knew what they were doing. The mono LP has been playing thousands of times. Still looks and sounds great!

From the Steve Hoffman thread on 'Which Blue Train SACD or DAD?' that Claude posted here. I only see more reasons to cherish my first-generation mono copy of this album.

Art Blakey 'Indestructible' (RVG) Louis Armstrong 'California Concerts' (Decca/GRP box) Eddie Costa 'House of Blue Lights' (Japanese Dot LP reissue) Stanley Turrentine at Minton's (BN CD) Marion Brown 'Juba-Lee' (Fontana LP) Jimmy Scott 'Falling in Love is Wonderful' (CD reissue)

Up. Was giving a fresh listen yesterday to the Japanese LP reissue of 'House of Blue Lights'. I'm just floored with Costa's talent. The way he rebuilds (I hate that word 'deconstruct') 'My Funny Valentine' is amazing. And what he does with Gigi Gryce's composition 'House of Blue Lights (Blue Lights) is brillant. It's a shame this album has yet to be reissued on CD! Started searching for a Costa discography on the internet (it was missing at the time the thread started on the BN board) and found this http://www.jazdiskat.co.uk/nstart.html Just what I was looking for. A great job considering the number of sessions Costa took part in during his all too brief career.

There was this TOJC CD of this (with the cats cover) in a Paris shop last week. 13 euros. Already had the Fresh Sounds LP reissue. The TOJC is home now.

Freddie Webster is also heard - a few bars - in the 1942 Jimmie Lunceford record 'Knock Me a Kiss'. Have this on LP but is is also on the Classics CD Jimmie Lunceford 1941-1945

Rooster, le fartage has nothing to do with the art of farting. It deals with ski waxing, The proper (if I may say so) word for Fart in French is Pet. A man who farts a lot is a petomane. Now let me get out of here!

A mixed bag of (more) favorite films: - Murnau's Dawn, - Keaton's The Cameraman - Von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress - Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar - Ford's My Darling Clementine - Wyler's The Best Years of Our Life - Donen's Singin' in the Rain - Huston's Asphalt Jungle - Mizoguchi's Ugetsu - Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train - Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor (you know how French love Jerry) - Fritz Lang's White Heat - Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - Bresson's Pickpocket - Godard's Pierrot le Fou - Scorcese's Taxi Driver - Scorcese's After Hours - Jean Eustache's La Maman et la Putain and so many more not mentioned...

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