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Couple more: Kenny Dorham/Ernie Henry 'Two Horns Two Rhythms' on Riverside Tony Scott 'Scott's Fling' a 1955 RCA piano/guitarless session.

Thanks Chuck. I respect this too. Now what about that other recording session (for United Artists?)? This was documented in Down Beat (wish I could dig up the copy) but never materialized as an album.

Saw 'Dingo' when this film was released. Thought it was embarassing to see Miles involved in this. 'Dingo' is in my ten-worst ever film list (and it's crowded there).

Jimmy Giuffre's Capitol album 'Tangents in Jazz' fits the bill.

Know only too well that we'll never hear that BN one! Let's try to get the others out of wherever they are!

Ubu, yes I remember seeing a different Monk discography site but it looks like it went down. Well, we needn't!

Not as detailed as the 'Miles Ahead' site but a pretty good job is this site http://www.jazzdisco.org/monk-dis/c/ If you need a more detailed list, you will have to purchase the Chris Sheridan bio/discography 'Brilliant Corners' from Greenwood.

Bertrand, volume 2 is listed (with all the tunes) in the Lord book. It was recorded on July 19, 1956.

I am currently finishing a long and mostly happy career with an international news agency. Will be reaching retirement age and will have completed a 40-year stint there at the end of 2004. As the person in charge of photo operations in France and North Africa, I have been on all kinds of assignments around the world. A sample listing would include Olympic Games (most of them since the 1972 Munich Olympics), world soccer/cycling/track and field championships, Pope trips, riots, revolutions, wars, airplane hijackings, conferences, royal crownings, weddings, funerals (from de Gaulle to Diana with people like Franco, Grace, Sartre and many others in between), mine disasters, floods, film festivals. Everything. And I loved doing this (still do) even the unglamorous ones which usually are the most difficult. Was involved in jazz activities before I started that career but had to curtail the jazz bit when I got more and more responsibilities with my job. Planning on busy retirement years with lots of jazz to keep the spirit alive.

JSngry thread on J.R. Mont(e)rose elsewhere was a reminder that Monterose was part of Kenny Dorham's Jazz Prophets. Beside the BN Cafe Bohemia sessions, the Jazz Prophets recorded an album for ABC-Paramount in April 1956. This was released as 'Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets Volume 1'. A second session was recorded in July 1956 (with Monterose, Bobby Timmons?, Sam Jones and Arthur Edgehill). This was supposed to be Volume 2 but has remained unissued. I also remember reading an item in Down Beat in the early '60s that Kenny Dorham also recorded for UA (but I may be wrong of this). This was not the KD 'Matador' date with McLean. There was a photo accompanying the DB story. Can't recall who else was on that date. That session also remains unissued. It's not even listed in the Lord discography. Anybody knows what happened to these sessions? It's about time to have them issued.

The Xanadu reissue of the Monterose Jaro album also had J.R. as Montebrose in its personnel list. Gave a fresh listen to the In Action last night. Beautiful music. Got an original copy of this album years ago and this has been playing numerous times. His Uptown albums are also superb (the duo date with Tommy Flanagan gets more interesting at each fresh listening).

Some more from the weekend: - Duke Ellington 'Drum is a Woman' (French CBS LP) - J.R. Monterose 'In Action' (Studio 4 LP) - Brew Moore 'Brew's Stockholm Dew' (Sonet LP)

Soul Eyes? European (Belgium). This was recorded in Belgium (except for the Steve Coleman add-on from USA) and manufactured in Belgium.

Ghost of Miles wrote: Definitive/Jazz Factory also released those Mel Powell Capitol sides (along with the Joe Sullivan sides) on their 'Two Cats and a Mouse' CD (the 'mouse being Mary-Lou Williams!) moments after the Mosaic Capitol set became available. The material that Mel Powell recorded for Vanguard is essential (the trio sides with Ruby Braff and Paul Quinichette are awesome) and has yet to be reissued properly.

Don't have a De Franco/Clark Mosaic track list handy but the Mosaic set included everything the De Franco small groups with Sonny Clark recorded for Norgran/Verve. This excluded 'Odalisque' a 1953 De Franco big band date and 'Broadway Showcase', a 1956 De Franco session with strings. Both had Sonny Clark on piano. You can view a discography of Sonny Clark at http://www.jazzdisco.org/clark-dis/c/

Mike Ricci e-mailed back in a very acceptable manner. He overreacted. I overreacted. This debate is closed.

- Bill Perkins/Pepper Adams 'The Front Line' (Trio LP) - Curtis Amy/Paul Bryant 'The Blues Message' (Pacific Jazz Japanese LP) - Dexter Gordon Disc 7 Steeplechase box - Art Pepper 'The Way It was' Contemporary CD - Walt Dickerson w. Ware/Cyrille 'Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things' (Why Not CD) - Carnegie Hall Christmas '49 (Jass CD) listened to this extraordinary gathering (Parker, Miles, Bud, Chaloff, Getz, Sarah, Stitt, Haig and others) while waiting for the 1945 Town Hall Gillespie/Parker concert to show up on Uptown

Thanks for mentioning this bonus track. I did not notice it when I heard the double CD the first time around. The announcements must have been made during one of the inaugural flights of the Air France twin-jet Caravelle aircraft in 1955. Sacha Distel and his unidentified quartet play Django Reinhardt's 'Nuages' (Clouds), an obvious choice. There is a 1955 Philips recording mentioned in the Tom Lord discography as the initial release under Distel's name and should be this. I have my doubts however on whether this was actually recorded in flight as indicated by the announcer. The background noise is pretty quiet. If I remember well, the Caravelle was a pretty noisy jet.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable date and would be a great reissue with alternates. There must be some lying around.

Glad to see Organissimo back on its feet. Curious thing happened while you were down. When I noticed Friday AM Paris time that this board was down, went to AAJ as I often do and posted on the AAJ: The Site & The Bulletin Board thread a short note advising that Organissimo.org was a victim of the Blackout. This post was later deleted. I had an e-mail from Michael Ricci explaining that he did this because he preferred not to promote other boards at AAJ and because 'telling others Organissimo is down had nothing to do with the AAJ BB or the AAJ Website'. Michael Ricci concluded by adding 'Hope you understand'. I have e-mailed back and told him I did not understand. Also told him that I doubted I would be back at AAJ.

That heat in Paris? I knew it was murder! From AP:

Got volume 2 of the Wardell Gray's Masters of Jazz series. This has the complete 1946 session with Dodo Marmarosa, Red Callender, Harold 'Doc' West, plus Chuck Thompson who replaced West for the final side. The CD was on sale for pocket money change. I already had the same session on the Black Lion 'One for Prez' release and did not buy it when the Masters of Jazz CD came out in 1998. Big mistake that has been corrected. The sound on the Masters of Jazz is way better. And the remastering has restored the tunes to their original key. What a shame that Masters of Jazz is out of action now! Their final release was volume 7 of the Wardell Gray series (this was supposed to go to volume 15). And then they were gone.

The Eddie Gale Blue Note CD I see in the Paris stores has the original notes in english.

Ubu. Just be patient. This is the summer season and the secondhand trade is going on very slow. Keeping that item in mind but it may take some time before I catch it.

Well, I was wondering when that would happen after seeing all those photos being posted on this and other Boards! There is a lot of talk at photo agencies/organizations about the limits of copyrights. In many European countries, the agencies are very protective about the copyrights. And France - where many photo agencies are based - is superprotective about this. I bet that the people at Magnum - whose main offices are in Paris - have not realised yet that the photos by Guy LeQuerrec (a Magnum photographer) are displayed on this and other jazz boards. Even if the images are not offered for sale, there might be more trouble ahead. A reminder that the laws about music which state that recordings that are more than 50 year-old fall in the public domain and are not protected by copyrights are different from the laws that protect the photo images.