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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...

It may sound intriguing to you. It sounds great to me. Some info: http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/G/G...tleOldWine.html A superb vintage!

'Somethin' Else', legendary BN session with MILES is the one to have next. And then the Gil Evans album 'New Bottle Old Wine' (World Pacific/Toshiba) where Cannonball is heavily featured. Trust you have 'Kind of Blue' already!

Then you must be hiding corpses of unruly board participants!!

That 'Admin & Moderators Secret Hideout...' has me puzzled too. What do you hide there that is so secret??

Who says he's dead. The Prez makes me happy every day...

Simon, I was under the impression that Walter Benjamin's views on jazz were more tolerant than Adorno's. Will have to have a read of their correspondance. I'll take being wrong with philosophy

FFA, if you want to hear a superb Carl Fontana album, get the Uptown CD 'The Great Fontana' where he plays with a quintet that includes Al Cohn and Richard Wyands. I loved this session when it came out on LP then it was reissued on CD with additional tracks. Fontana is really stunning on that one. A must album.

Being a gentleman (at least, I'm trying) I have to come to defend Mary Astor from repeated attacks in this thread. As far as I am concerned, she was a great Humphrey Bogart costar in 'The Maltese Falcon'. The more I watch this film, the more I like how intelligently she plays her part. She may not have been as attractive as Lauren Bacall but she manages to project charm.

Free for All, about Carl Fontana, check this http://www.jazzmasters.nl/fontana.htm Slightly more upbeat news than the previous alarms.

There is a dynamite solo by Freddie Webster in the March 1945 Georgie Auld Orchestra version of 'Co-Pilot'. Dizzy Gillespie was also in the trumpet section but Webster is the one who solos. This was recorded for Musicraft and was last available on a Georgie Aiuld 'Handicap' Discovery CD reissue. Just one solo. But a beauty! Lawrence Kart already mentioned the Ira Gitler classic book 'Swing to Bop'! The book also includes a quote from Art Pepper who was 18 at the time (1943): 'When I was in Benny Carter's band, I was with Freddie Webster, and we roomed together a lot. He had the greatest, the most huge sound, and down low it was just gigantic. I never heard anybody who had a sound that bid down low. He was just a little cat, too. He always carried a loaded gun with him in his pocket, always - never without it'.

Bad news about Wayne Andre. He was really into a lot of sessions. I liked his contributions to the Kai Winding trombone group. He was on Kai Winding's 1956 Columbia session 'The Trombone Sound' which may have been his first recording date. Another great trombone player Carl Fontana was also on that album. There was worrying news about Fontana a while back but he seems to be recovering Jim wrote: That was Willie Dennis, indeed, not Andre.

Interesting observations from Wolff. I have weighted in often enough on various posts about Roy DuNann's superiority as the best sound engineer in the jazz business in the '50s and '60s not to applaud wholeheartedly. DuNann was THE engineer that produced the most lifelike and natural sounds. Regarding the sound on Blue Note vinyls, I think that the mono copies produced the best overall sound. The highs are more accurate on the mono copies than on the stereo ones. The Lee Morgan trumpet and Philly Joe Jones' drums on the 'Blue Train' mono original are way better over the sound produced in the various other versions of this album I have heard. Same goes for Elvin Jones' drumming behind Sonny Rollins in the mono copy of 'A Night at the Village Vanguard'. There is some saturation on the RVG reissue, not on the mono copy. As for Van Gelder's ears, I really hope that age has not diminished his hearing capacities. The recent recordings I've heard from him sound superb.

Of course, Lon. Should always check Classics CDs with anything over 50 years old.

Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis and historian-philosopher Eric Hobshawm? Didn't Hobshawm write a book about jazz? We all need more jazz philosophy! Speaking of philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre liked jazz. So did Walter Benjamin. But Theodor Adorno hated it.

I'ld go with Ray Bryant but there's also Count Basie

Gagnaire is among the two dozen chefs in Europe that have a three-star rating in the Guide Michelin, the most severe - and usually accurate - guide to restaurants. And Gagnaire is among the most inventive chefs around. His restaurant is not very far from where I work. Wish I could go there for lunch. But a meal at his place is very, very expensive. An interview with Gagnaire was published in the French review 'Jazz Magazine'. If you read French read on and Bon Appetit!: http://www.jazzmagazine.com/Interviews/Dau...e/pgagnaire.htm