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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.

Jazztone was basically a mail-order label that specialized in jazz. They operated in the mid-fifties and issued material from various labels with a mix of reissues from other labels and original sessions. They came out with albums by people like Joe Newman, Charlie Parker, Eddie Bert, Ruby Braff, Erroll Garner, Stan Getz. Lionel Hampton (superb album with Jimmy Cleveland and Lucky Thompson among others), Sammy Price et al. Some were splits, most were devoted to one artist. They also had affiliates in Europe (for instance, their LPs came out in France on the Guilde du Jazz label).

A music store near the place where I live in Paris had a full New Orleans orchestra of those figures in its window for quite a long time. My wife thought it amusing to ask if I would like to get some of those for Christmas. She did not ask twice.

Jazzkrow, you have an e-mail from Paris.

For Jim Flora fans, there is a lengthy interview of him in the coffeetable-size catalog 'Jazz Grafico' which was published in 1999 in conjunction with an exhibition of 1940-1968 jazz albums covers in Valencia, Spain. The book which has plenty of album covers reproductions has features on Flora, Alex Steinweiss, David Stone Martin, Burt Goldblatt, Pierre Merlin, Paul Bacon and others including the BN's John Hermansander and Reid Miles. The book is in Spanish with an english translation provided.

When I tried to post this morning (Paris time), all I could get was the homepage. None of the links worked. Took one hour to get a working link to the Forums

If Jazzkrow can make all these shops in two hours and view all the stuff available there, he might as well enter the 5,000-meter race at the World track and field championships. He could win a medal! And he'd miss Gibert Musique on the Boulevard Saint-Michel. Really worth a visit! Paris Jazz Corner adress is 5 rue de Navarre, in the 5th district. Very close to Jussieu Jazz.Take a peek at: http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/

Zoot Sims on Laura Nyro's 'Lonely Women'. Ornette Coleman on French singer Claude Nougaro 'Gloria' Chet Baker on French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman 'Parler d'mavie'

The Plugged Nickel set got my vote. With all its new material, this one in its continuity brought a new perspective on the way Miles Davis was working with his musicians. Same could be said about the Miles-Gil Evans box (the sound on the Mosaic LP set is really superb) and the Miles- Coltrane set but the Plugged Nickel had much more unissued material.

In today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/obituari...print&position=

Absolutely. It was 'Slumber' on the 1965 Jackie McLean 'Consequences' and turned up as 'Soft Touch' on the 1967 'Procrastinator'. Feel sure that Bertrand will have all the background on this. Whichever name, it's a great tune!

Jazzkrow. The Paris stores situation has been debated in a previous thread http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...42&hl=cd+stores Not sure that you will be able to make the jazz clubs scenes if you're in Paris for the track and field championships because many of the best events will be held in the evening, except on the two weekends. Will try to find out who will be playing in Paris by then. Doubt that you will have time to explore the restaurant scene but I have a recommendation if you're in the 7th district area. You should not be very far from the best boulangerie in town (and probably anywhere in the world). The name is Poujaurand, the adress is 20 rue Jean Nicot. That's in the 7th district too. You can't miss it: it's a pink colored old style boulangerie. It's cheap. Best bread in town, great croissants and various pastries. Also great sandwiches (you can stock up for the evening). Don't go there in the first days of your stay. They're closed for the holidays season. But they reopen on Tuesday August 26. Bon appetit!

Happy birthday indeed. And many happy returns!

A favorite Lee Morgan composition is 'Soft Touch' that was played on the 'Procrastinator' album. Really beautiful melody!