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Jazzkrow. Didn't realize that the 'So Doggone Good' session was on the 'Goin' Down Slow' volume. Thanks for the offer but no need to bring that Stitt CD. I don't have the session with Hank Jones and strings either, so will get that one. The Time Out should be with you before you take off.

Check the starting bid on this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5&category=1078 One thousand dollars for an unopened Freddie Hubbard 'Straight Life'!

About that Byard Lancaster album, The Lord lists the following: December 18, 1966 session (Lancaster, Sharrock, Hunter, Gravatt) - Garden of Prayer Unissued - Last Summer Unissued - Ghost Unissued - Mr. A.A. Unissued - Dogtown Unissued - Satan Vortex 2003 - John's Children Vortex 2003 - Misty Vortex 2003 - Over the Rainbow Vortex 2003 - Hello Eric Vortex 2003 July 12, 1967 session (same musicians) - Dogtown Vortex 2003 - Mr. A.A. Vortex 2003 - Peanut Unissued - Hello Eric Unissued - Traning Unissued - It's Not Up to Us Vortex 2003 - Last Summer Vortex 2003 - Untitled (electric b solo) Unissued - Untitled (guitar solo) Unissued Quite a lot of material still in the can!

I have the America LP of this. Am not a hundred per cent sure but I seem to recall that it was Paul Bley who loaned the Hillcrest tape to America for release. Inner City also released this LP in the USA.

I have not heard that album which was issued on Prestige. There is a Japanese CD of it that is at reasonable price in one of the Paris stores. The rhythm section is interesting (Hampton Hawes, Reggie Johnson, Lennie McBrowne). Was it one of those sessions where Stitt was ON? Or just another Stitt date? I have my share of these.

The French pronounce it Djaakie (Terrasson) like in Djaakie McLean.

The album was recorded in two sessions in late 1966 and early 1967. I checked the Tom Lord discography and noticed that there were a number of unissued tracks. Guess these don't appear on the CD reissue.

I stand corrected. Completely forgot about that Cagney 'comeback' film.

I remeber that thread. Don't think this one was THE one but it's pretty good: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/WWUH/program/mu...ion%20guide.htm

Gave a fresh listen to the Vortex LP. Outstanding music. The back cover indicates a 1968 Atlantic Records copyright. By the way, the cover was shot by that photography master Lee Friedlander as was the backcover image of Lancaster. Also while doing a search on Lancaster on the Internet, found this disturbing story: http://citypaper.net/articles/011101/cb.ci...t.jazzman.shtml Hope this has been settled and he is free to play his music on the streets of Philadelphia.

Mine is rusty all over except on the backside where I left the coverpage. The music is beautiful but if I were to search for Bill Evans boxes, I would get the Complete Riverside set and the 'Turn Out the Stars' Village Vanguard Warner set first.

Oops. I'm one day late. Joyeux anniversaire, Lon! And many, many thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

Some Tangerine releases: - 1503. Louis Jordan 'Hallelujah' - 1512. Ray Charles 'My Kind of Jazz 1' - 1513 John Biship 'Plays His Guitar' - 1516. Ray Charles 'My Kind of Jazz 2'

Soft Song's sister??

I have listened to this Ocium Jam Session vol. 3/4 'Apple Jam'. Superb material with a gathering of greats like Wardell Gray, Stan Getz, Sweets Edison, Benny Carter, Willie Smith... The Ocium sound does not improve on the Japanese Verve LPs of these. If Verve had taken the pain to reissue these with better sound, Ocium would have been out of that game. Is anyone at Verve taking the trouble to find out what they sit on?

Time to celebrate the accomplishments of our Pops. Don't bother me tonight. Will be playing lots of Hot Fives, Hot Sevens, All Stars! Happy Birthday to the One and Only! He keeps bringing happiness!

As a jazz fan from an older generation, I don't look back so fondly to the '70s. This was the decade which saw the disappearance of Louis Armstrong, Albert Ayler,Duke Ellington, Lee Morgan, Gene Ammons and other giants. Miles Davis was in pretty bad shape by then and disappeared for most of the decade after going electric. Blue Note also went electric. Frank Wolff died in 1971 and the label turned to jazzrock. Most of their releases came from people like Alphonse Mouzon, Earl Klugh, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Foster. And barely no reissues. Fortunately we still had people like Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Andrew Hill, Sonny Stitt, Roland Kirk and others around. And the giants (Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans) were still showing the way. The innovators (Sam Rivers, Sun Ra, the AEC, Braxton and others) were breaking new grounds. Without these people, the '70s would really have been a 'lost decade'.

The Ocium Georgie Auld CD has the eight tracks from the January 17 and March 21, 1949 Discovery sessions by the Auld Orchestra. The 16 other tracks - mostly slow ballads featuring Auld with a rhythm section and sometimes a vocal group - come from the Coral 1951/1952 sessions. It's a nice way to get some hard to get Auld sides. And the sounds is pretty good. Not so sure about an Ocium/Disconforme connection. They're both based in Barcelona and since the jazz community in that city is not very large they must know each others but I am not aware that they do business together. As far as European laws are concerned, since they stick to the 50-year music reproduction copyright laws, Ocium is not doing anything illegal. But, like Disconforme, they do not do any research of their own. They just copy/steal music from albums that have been issued before. For instance on that Georgie Auld CD, there is none of the sides of the Georgie Auld group with Tiny Kahn that came out on 78s and have never been issued on LPs. At least the Chronogical Classics people take the trouble to locate very rare 78s to complete their reissues.

Could not make it to the Cecil Taylor/Instabile concert at the 2002 Banlieues Bleues festival outside Paris. Glad to see their first concert will be released by Enja. Cecil Taylor is to give another concert with the Instabile Orchestra next September 6 at Sant'Anna Arresi on the beautiful island of Sardegna off the Italian coast.

Little know gems from Billy Wilder's latter years: - 'One, Two, Three' (1961) where Jimmy Cagney for his final screen appearance plays a supercharged Coca-Cola executive trying to cope with East Berlin officials. This ranks as Cagney's best film part right next to Raoul Walsh' 'White Heat' except you laugh all the way with Billy Wilder, - 'Kiss Me Stupid' (1964) where Dean Martin tries to wreck the happy marriage of Kim Novak and Ray Walston, - 'Avanti' (1972) where Jack Lemmon manages to learn what life is all about while in Italy when he tries to bring back the coffin of his deceased father to USA. I was not really enthused about this film when I first saw it but got the message the second time around and love it every time I manage to catch it. It is now a sort of a cult film and shows up continuously at the Paris art film houses.

Benny Carter 1940-1941 (Classics CD) Tommy Turrentine (Time LP) Dexter Gordon Discs 1, 2 (Steeplechase box) Cecil Taylor - Dark to Themselves (Enja CD) Count Basie - The Decca Years (GRP box) Joe Thomas - Raw Meat (Uptown LP) Arnett Cobb - Deep Purple (Black and Blue CD)

For the Plugged Nickel box, I wanted the best sound I could get and waited for the Mosaic vinyl version. It took days and days before the Mosaic box was delivered. But the sound of that jewel is really astounding. That Plugged Nickel box was Mosaic at its very best.

Is this the one? /http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/titles/2/3/5/2357410.html I wouldn't touch this box. I'm sure Martha Glaser did not approve.

I'm a bit like Catesta. I am awaken by the phone ringing, except my calls are real ones. From the head office alerting me to breaking newsstories. Like that beautiful Saturday night six years ago shortly after I had gone to sleep. It was Satuday, August 31, 1997. The voice on the other end was alerting me to a tip that Princess Diana was involved in a car crash 'somewhere in Paris'. No other details. The next hours were chaos and it took a couple of days before I could get back to sleep. Or the night when, oh! forget it...

Jason, I have given up a very long time ago bringing my wife along when I go record-hunting. It has to be one or the other. No mix. Surprised you did not advise your girlfriend to take a stroll around the park across the street from PJC. The park is the Arenes de Lutece, a Roman (and romantic) garden with a pretty well preserved Roman arena. One of the little-known treasures of Paris.