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I know where I would spend Thursday evening if I were in New York (I'm not): Ken McIntyre He was one of the most innovative musician around. Glad to see his music is being honored.

Jim, thanks for calling attention to the new Mariano release. Had sort of given up on this great player when he went exotic. Will be looking for that one.

That's the one. The Teddy Edwards side hasn't made it yet on CD. The Edwards/ Rollins LP was reissued in Japan years ago and I am a lucky owner of this.

The tunes to the Pepper/Knepper MetroJazz album were: - Minor Catastrophe, - All Too Soon, - Beaubien, - Adams in the Apple, - Riverside Drive, - I Didn't Know About You, - Primrose Path The Jones Brothers MetroJazz LP also made ito to Verve CD. Wish they would also rerelease the other MetroJazz (Randy Weston/Lem Winchester at Newport, the Gigi Gryce quartet album) records. There are also great sessions by Helen Merrill, Melba Liston, Teddy Edwards, even a Sam 'The Man' Taylor album that is very nice.

Some that come to mind: - the Leith Stevens music to the Marlon Brando 1953 film 'The Wild One' (with Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, Shelly Manne and a full crew of West Coast players), this was a Decca 10incher, later a Fresh Sounsd LP, - the soundtrack to the British film 'All Night Long' (this was an Epic LP) that featured Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Tubby Hayes among others, - the Mal Waldron soundtrack to the film 'Sweet Love, Bitter' an Impulse LP with Dave Burns, Charles McPherson, etc. - did the Elmer Bernstein score for 'The Man with the Golden Arm' film by Otto Preminger make it on CD? The LP had the music with Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.

Aric, welcome to this board! Let the fun begin. This Pepper/Knepper date was really good. I have a Japanese reissue of it. Listened to this after getting news that Knepper had passed away. One of the great MetroJazz sessions that need to be reissued on CD.

I discovered Carlos Gardel when his records reappeared on French radio in 1990 on the hundredth anniversarsy of his birth in Toulouse, southern France. Don't understand much about the songs but they really get to you. The late Egyptian singer Oum Kalsoum is another singer that grabs you. I was at her unique concert in Paris in 1967 and grooved with the audience (most of whom had flown into town from the Middle East). Her voice and the way she organised her songs reminded somehow of Mahalia Jackson.

Joe Venuti 30-33, Chronological Classics Barney Wilen-Philippe Petit 'Flashback' Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd 'School Days' Hat Hut Teddy Charles at MOMA (with Booker Little and Ervin), the Warwick LP Miles Davis Saturday Blackhawk Disc 4

Dave McKenna. He plays on many sessions I enjoyed but somehow missed on him. Checked on some of the albums under his name. The man's brilliant. A very unique piano player.

Had a closer, second look at the photo. It is one of a series of Robert Doisneau's posed photo which is why there is a painter in the rain. Doisneau must have hired the 'painter'. This was obviously taken in the Montmartre section of Paris. The man holding the umbrella is French comedian Maurice Baquet who was one of Doisneau's favorite subject. He played cello. This works, even if it is posed. Doisneau posed most of his photos including his most celebrated 'candid' photo (Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville) of a couple kissing in the street outside the Paris City Hall.

Christiern, this is a beauty! Any idea who took that one? Also, any idea when Peter Pullman's book will be ready? Waiting for that Bud Powell book...

My understanding of the Baker-Littman collaboration (I hate to use the term 'connection') is that Baker hired Littman to have the drummer to purvey him with the wrong substances. Baker knew enough about good drummers to be aware that Littman was not a very good musician. In his 'Deep in a Dream' book, James Gavin fails to mention that Littman fled from Paris the day or a couple of days after Twardzik's death on October 21, 1955. He had to be replaced by Swedish drummer Nils-Bertil Dahlander for Chet Baker's October 24 Blue Star session where he recorded 'These Foolish Things'. 'In Memory of Dick' was recorded at another Blue Star session on October 25 (with Dahlander on drums). I don't have a copy of the 'Deep in a Dream' book with me right now but Gavin mentioned that Serge Chaloff physically attacked Littman when the drummer showed up shortly after in a Boston club.

This is a must have album from a musician who remained in the shadows during his too-short career. It's much better than good. He should have had one-tenth of the fame that surrounded Chet Baker's playing at the time. Fruscella may not have been as romantic and as pretty at Baker in the '50s but he was the one with the unique tone and the masterful phrasing. His Atlantic album is his best record (they are very few albums under his name). And you also get a chance to hear Allen Eager - another unrecognized great - who just passed away. I keep a CD of this album in my car and play it when I'm in the right mood.

Valaida Snow was another trumpet playing woman. Clora Bryant was in fine form when she recorded (with Walter Benton on tenor) for Mode back in 1957. I have the VSOP LP reissue somewhere. This was more than a novelty album. She could really play. Glad to see she is still around.

How about Warne Marsh's Interplay sessions? Beautiful music on the ones I could find.

I do. Beautiful music. Mel Powell also did a similar trio date with Ruby Braff for Vanguard. Mel Powell is another artist who needs to be reevaluated.

Don't forget Dave Pell's Prez Conference. His GNP record (with singer Joe Williams doing Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing vocals) recreated the Lester Young solos with three tenors (Pell, Bob Cooper, Bob Hardaway) and one baritone in the Charlie Parker/ Supersax mode. The GNP was a pleasant album.

The Monk family also continues to issue CDs. You can check what they have at: www.theloniousrecords.com/ Anybody heard these yet?

Tenor saxophonist Harold Ashby passed away last Friday. This is his obituary in today's New York Times.

A superb date with Harold Land has not been mentioned yet: Hampton Hawes' 'For Real' album (Contemporary, still available on OJCCD). Hawes, Scott LaFaro and Frank Butler are the rhythm section. Could not fail to be great. Land was really inspired by his fellow musicians on that one.

Keith Jarrett

Rene Urtreger is a favorite. I would be inclined to recommend the four but 'Recidive' would be my at the top of the list. 'En Direct d'Antibes' I heard it only once and did not feel like getting it when it came out on LP. I have not heard these four Carlyne reissues yet. There are a couple of Urtreger albums I would strongly recommend (both on the French label Sketch): - Onirica, a magnificient 2000 solo album, - H.U.M., a 3-CD set with Daniel Humair and Pierre Michelot. Three sessions from 1960, 1979 and 1999. The original session was excellent. The two further reunions were even better. Urtreger who started strong in the '50s, ran into hard times in the '60s (that's when he played in the group that accompanied pop singer Claude Francois) and made a rather unheralded comeback in the late '70s. He is now playing better than ever, as on 'Onirica' which is made up of short and swinging introspective numbers with a wide variety of moods.

The New York Times' obituary on Jimmy Knepper:

Ricky Ford and his Quintet (Eddie Henderson, trumpet, Kirk Lightsey, piano, James Lewis, bass, and Doug Sides, drums) will perform at a live recording date concert in Paris on June 28 at 9PM. Futura/Marge records are producing the concert which is being held at the La Fenetre theater, at 77 rue de Charonne. This should be very interesting.

Miles Davis BlackHawk Saturday Night Cecil Taylor The Willisau concert Bunny Berigan (38-39 airchecks) Shoestring LP Sonny Stitt 37 Minutes 48 Seconds Roost LP Warne Marsh/Red Mitchell Duo at Sweet Basil (Fresh Sounds)