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This may be the problem: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...52050_2003aug12

The Riverside album I am looking for is one of those sounds of Sebring races they issued back in the late fifties where Allan Eager is heard speeding past on whatever he was driving at the time. Or was this just in my dreams?

The Blue Note albums seem to have been carefully thought out productions. Roach wrote the liner notes to three of the five albums (Nat Hentoff did the other two). Two of the album covers were not shot by Francis Wolff which was very rare at the time. I love the tenor saxophonists he used (Hank Mobley and Joe Henderson of course but wish Percy France and Conrad Lester had appeared on more of these dates). 'Mo' Greens Please' was my introduction to Freddie Roach. I may have preferred Jimmy Smith and Larry Young but Roach always came out with the right stuff. Somehow had missed on his Prestige albums but it happens that last week I found a copy of an English Ace CD which has both Freddie Roach Prestige albums 'Soul Book and 'Mocha Mention'. Very nice, swinging dates.

One of Quincy Jones' loveliest tune was 'Meet Benny Bailey' that Count Basie recorded for Roulette and Quincy Jones recorded for Mercury. A beautiful tribute.

Ubu, those Chet Baker CDs turn up sometimes in the Paris secondhand stores. If I see a copy of vol. 2, I'll get it for you. Will trade.

Chris, were you able to hear Johnny Hartman sing while he was under the shower? As for Moondog, I never got to hear him at that Manhattan street corner but he was at one benefit at the East Village hall which later became the Fillmore East. Moondog was on the same bill as Archie Shepp and Wilson Pickett. Moondog was something but Pickett was really wicked!

You're welcome. Now I'm jealous because you got this album at half the price I paid for it.

Duke is the one. So much stuff to enjoy and discover. Lester, Miles and Trane are not far behind.

Had the pleasure of meeting Benny Bailey when he was in Paris in the winter of 1959 with the big band that Quincy Jones was trying to launch. A very fine gentleman and a superb big-toned trumpet player. Make sure you play tunes from the albums 'Upper Manhattan Jazz Society' (Enja) by Charlie Rouse and 'Grand Slam' by Bailey (with Rouse). The 'Grand Slam' album was reissued by Storyville.

Ubu, P.D. gave you the details for the 'Songs for Any Taste' Bethlehem album which was recorded at the Crescendo in LA on May 8, 1956. The title 'I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' from this album was also included in the 'Porgy and Bess' Bethlehem box. The other Mel Torme album 'Mel Torme at the Crescendo' (the one with Don Fagerquist on trumpet) was recorded on February 22, 1957 at the Crescendo. Torme made another album at the Crescendo: 'Gene Norman' presents Mel Torme 'Live' at the Crescendo'. This one was made for Coral and recorded on December 15, 1954. One tune from that Coral album 'Mountain Greenery' turned out to be a hit for Torme. He was signed by Bethlehem shortly after.

Damn, Dan. You're right! But Dexter stole the session.

Play to the crowd and let them enjoy 'Watermelon Man' from Dexter Gordon's 'Takin' Off' album. Groovy Hancock composition and his first hit. That will set your show in the right direction.

Very impressive lists all around. Among the ones that no one on the Board seems to have seen perform (in this MIA list are only those some of us would have been of age to catch) are: - Tina Brooks - Serge Chaloff - Sonny Clark - Eddie Costa - Tony Fruscella - Wardell Gray - Grant Green - Johnny Hartman - Tubby Hayes - Ernie Henry - Elmo Hope - Bunk Johnson - Booker Little - Dodo Marmarosa - Brew Moore - Fats Navarro - Herbie Nichols - Django Reinhardt - Art Tatum Thought Chris A. would have included Bessie Smith but something must have gone wrong. Howver my jaw dropped when I saw he had caught Charlie Parker in performance. It touched the floor when I saw the name Scott LaFaro at the end of the list. Wow! Some others I have seen and who have not been mentioned yet: - Mose Allison - Chet Baker (sure others here have also seen him) - Sidney Bechet - Big Bill Broonzy - Don Byas - Kenny Clarke - Johnny Coles - Sonny Criss - Oscar Dennard - Bill Dixon - Eric Dolphy - Roy Eldridge - Booker Ervin - Erroll Garner - Lars Gullin - Hampton Hawes - Bobby Jaspar - Jay Jay Johnson - Carmell Jones - Byard Lancaster - Jeanne Lee - Melba Liston - Moondog - Phineas Newborn - Oscar Pettiford (with Lucky Thompson) - Tony Scott - Lennie Tristano - Doug Watkins - Barney Wilen - Frank Wright Zat's all Folks (or almost) but I still have some time left.

Weird! And welcome back, Lukrion (or whatever)

Let the music speak. Obis are for fetichists.

Temperatures have been over the 100s in Paris for the past ten days. And the 'experts' now predict it's going to continue into September. Worst heat wave in France since 1947. Problem is that this kind of hot weather is pretty unusual around here and air conditioning is still a rare commodity. The only positive aspect is the wine crop. The 2003 vintage should be excellent.

Jackie Mc Lean - 'Jacknife' (BN CD) Herb Geller - 'Jazz Song Book' (Enja CD) John Anderson - 'Time Will Tell' (Tangerine LP) Jimmy Lyons - 'Other Afternoons' (Byg LP) Count Basie - 'Antibes 1968' (Esoldun CD) Harold Mabern with Lee Morgan - 'Greasy Kid Stuff' (Prestige LP) Dexter Gordon - Steeplechase box (Discs 3, 4 and 5)

Sad news. Another of the Pres descendants with a very distinctive sound. Will go with jlhoots recommendation and play the 2 Degrees East 3 Degrees West album.

Elaine Leighton was the drummer with the Beryl Booker all-girl trio (Booker, Bonne Wetzel, bass, and Leighton) that was part of the Jazz USA tour (with Billie Holiday, Buddy de Franco, Red Norvo and others) that came to Europe in 1954. The tour was organised by Leonard Feather. The Beryl Booker trio was being promoted by Feather at the time. Feather also had the trio in his 'Cats vs. Chicks' session for MGM that opposed a Clark Terry-led 'Cats' group (with Lucky Thompson, Tal Farlow, Kenny Clarke) to a Terry Pollard-led 'Chicks' group (with Norma Carson, Mary Osborne and the Beryl Booker trio including Elaine Leighton). Now let's have MGM reissue that album. How about a Mosaic select of the Feather produced dates for MGM? An odd mix but with some good sessions.

mikeweil wrote: THAT was recorded by Roy DuNann who still stands as the best engineer ever in the jazz field. The sound he got from the other bass players he recorded for Contemporary (Scott LaFaro, Red Mitchell, Curtis Counce, Charlie Haden among others) has yet to be equaled. RVG did a pretty good job however on Paul Chambers on most of the Red Garland trio albums (with Art Taylor) for Prestige.

Coltrane performed 'Blue Train' at several concerts during his November 1961 European tour. The version you heard probably came from the 'Coltrane Live: The European Tours' 7CD Pablo box. 'Blue Train' is on disc 1. After the BN album, Coltrane did not perform 'Blue Train' at record sessions for Impulse or for any other label.

BFrank, don't feel bad. I'll gladly change your age for my memories.

Voted for the Village Vanguard box. That box is a real gem. Each new hearing is a renewed exploration in what a musician can produce at his creative best. And the magic is that the musicians around him stimulate that creative process. I'll second Jim on the AudioFidelity Half Note vinyl box. This is another great live that should be reissued with more material. By the way, I think a very few of the sides were recorded at the Half Note. Most of the music was recorded at Birdland.

I'm with David Gitin and Chuck Nessa. From an older generation (Chuck will say much older). Started more than 50 years ago. I was lucky to see a lot of the giants Armstrong, Duke, Prez, Billie, Hawk, Bud, Ayler. Also missed Charlie Parker, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Bessie Smith and Buddy Bolden. But I started strong in 1953 with Clifford Brown (he was in the Lionel Hampton band at the second or third jazz concert I attended). My memories of Lee Morgan, Silver, Blakey, Dorham, Mobley and all the way to CT, Jimmy Lyons, the AEC and Braxton keep the old fart in me happy. Wish I could have seen Dinah Washington, Gene Ammons, Sonny Clark, Al Cohn, Tadd Dameron, Tony Fruscella, Scott LaFaro and many more.

That John Anderson Tangerine LP is damn good. Most of the musicians were involved with the Gerald Wilson big band so the whole album has a firm Wilson sound. And it swings all the way. The lineup is: Bobby Bryant, John Audino, Anthony Terran, Melvin Moore, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, trumpet, Lou Blackburn, Pete Myers, Ernest Tack, trombone, Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Carrington Visor, Walter Benton, Jewell Grant, saxes, William Green, piccolo, Buddy Collette, flute, Jack Wilson, piano, John Pisano (plus Barney Kessel), guitar, Robest West, bass, Mel Lee, drums. Anderson composed five and arranged all the eight tunes. Main soloists are Bobby Bryant, Edison, Edwards, Land, Wilson and Kessel. If you get this for $8, you'll make a fine purchase.