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The Horace Silver Trio sides. My BN Liberty LP (electronic stereo) needs a replacement. I won't get the others in their reincarnations. How many times and in how many different formats are they going to release Blue Train? I bought the Ultimate Blue Train CD already because it had alternates. I still prefer the original LP version. Those W63rd Street mono pressings were not bettered and the Blue Note vinyls were magic. I must have played that LP thousands of times. My ears will probably give up before that LP gets a better sound. Don't want to sound like a sour grape. All those BN dates are great and should be in everybody's collections.

Uptown LPs: 2701 Joe Thomas 2702 JR Monterose Live in Albany 2703 John Bubbles 2707 Dicky Wells 2708 Hod O'Brien 2709 Allan Eager Renaissance 2711 Philly Joe Jones Dameronia 2712 Jay McShann/Joe Thomas 2713 Haywood Henry 2714 Frank Wess/Johnny Coles Two at the Top 2715 PJJones/Johnny Griffin Dameronia 2717 Don Sickler Plays Kenny Dorham 2718 Charlie Rouse Social Call 2719 Budd Johnson/Phil Woods Old Dude 2720 Barry Harris For the Moment 2723 Don Joseph One of a Kind 2725 Maria Muldau Transbluency 2726 Kenny Barron Autum in New York 2727 Claudio Roditi Claudio 2728 Carl Fontana The Great Fontana 2729 Tommy Flanagan Nights at the Vanguard 2732 Jimmy Gourley Left Bank of New York

Another vote for the Andrew Hill. Got the others in their original LP versions. Getting sort of tired at getting the reissues in new formats. And the wallet hurts. Very few of those reissues really improve on the original vinyls.

The 2003 Tour de France is a delight with Lance Armstrong facing competition from tough contenders for the first time since he took over the competition. He is indeed a beast. As Dmitry said: Everybody took good note of Ian Ullrich doing the gentlemanlly thing of holding out from attacking when Armstrong fell yesterday. Wish Armstrong had done the exact same thing when Spain's Joseba Beloki fell while riding down to Gap while in the lead with Armstrong during the July 14 stage. Armstrong veered off to avoid the fallen Beloki (a masterful action, by the way) but did not bother to stop and help Beloki who was lying on the side of the road in deep pain with several fractures. That would have been a real class act if Armstrong had stopped and gone to help Beloki.

If this means, the money does not go to Blue Note but to Mosaic (or Mosaic Images), that's fine with me!!

Not mentioned are all the vinyls that Uptown produced in the years just before the arrival of the Compact Disc. Great stuff there (JR Monterose, Allan Eager, Dicky Wells, Philly Joe Jones' Dameronia, Budd Johnson&Phil Woods, Don Joseph and others).

Edgar VARESE!!! If Bartok is OK, Varese is Out There. Even Charlie Parker was a fan.

Always delighted to see Rene Urtreger appreciated. He is one of the best of the bop pianists generation and continues to improve. His latest album 'Onirica', a solo album which was released on the Sketch label is an absorbing musical contribution. Other essential Urtreger albums are the 'Rene Urtreger Joue Bud Powell' record that was reissued in the Gitanes Jazz in Paris series and the triple CD HUM which gathers three sessions (from 1960, 1979 and 1999) by the Daniel Humair, Rene Urtreger and Pierre Michelot trio. And don't forget Urtreger was the piano player on Lester Young's final recording sessions 'Lester Young in Paris'!

Caught another very worthy Dick Sherman date. He was the trumpet player on tenor saxophonist Buddy Arnold's 1956 date for ABC-Paramount 'Wailing'. The session was reissued years ago on LP by Fresh Sounds. And it's really wailing. Very similar to the wonderful albums that Al Cohn and Joe Newman recorded for RCA at around the same time. The band is Dick Sherman, Frank Rehak, Gene Quill, John Williams, Teddy Kotick and Shadow Wilson. Dave Schildkraut and Osie Johnson sub for Quill and Wilson on several sides. Dick Sherman provided two originals 'Patty's Cake' and 'Moby Dick'. Arnold plays bass clarinet and Quill clarinet on 'Patty's Cake'. Buddy Arnold is a very good player out of the Brothers school. Seems he is very much involved nowadays in drug rehabilitation programs. More on this at http://members.tripod.com/~mikelil/buddy.html

What Late said! I'll just add a recommendation for the Mercury/EmArcy albums by the Gerry Mulligan sextet with Jon Eardley (sometime Don Ferrara), Bob Brookmeyer and Zoot Sims. They might be hard to get nowadays but they sure are worth the search.

The two photos of Gillespie and Parker at Town Hall in the 'Black Beauty, White Heat' book are from the May 16, 1945 concert according to the Ken Vail's book 'Bird's Diary' which also publishes two photos from that concert. One - the bottom one - is the same as the photo at top in 'Black Beauty, White Heat'. The bass player is Slam Stewart. The second photo in the Vail's book is from the same series but this one shows West, Russell, Gillespie and Parker. Parker wears a very stylish dark suit and is caught blowing next to Dizzy. The Vail book mentions three 1945 Town Hall appearances by Gillespie and Parker. The May 16 New Jazz Foundation concert, then another concert on May 30 and finally the second (and last) New Jazz Foundation concert. This last one had the Gillespie, Parker, Haig, Russell and Roach lineup.

The Mosaic 117 box The Complete Verve Recordings of Buddy de Franco/Sonny Clark was also mastered by RVG. The RVG stamp is in the dead wax of the LPs.

Great news! Never understood why they skipped 2003.

Was listening this week to the Earl Anderza 'Outa Sight' CD which I purchased the second it hit the stores when those West Coast Classics were reissued. This had been a very rare LP which I never ran into. There is a full page reproduction of the LP cover in the 'California Cool' West Coast Jazz of the 50s and the 60s' book by Graham Marsh which features many albums covers from the Pacific Jazz, World Pacific, Contemporary, etc. issues. Same 12inch book size as the earlier Graham Marsh Blue Note covers books. This was the unique appearance of Earl Anderza on records. He seems to have been a very modest musician. An excellent one! Anybody knows what happened to him?

Yusef Lateef - Into Something (New Jazz/OJC) Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson (Verve LP) Charlie Parker - Boston 1952 (Uptown) Anita O'Day/Jimmy Giuffre - Cool Heat (Verve Japanese LP) Earl Anderza (Pacific Jazz CD reissue) The Boswell Sister, volume 4 (Nostalgia Arts) Curtis Amy - Peace for Love (Fresh Sounds). The Curtis Amy is a splendid late (1994) date which seems to have been unnoticed when it was released. If people are waiting to get the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select set, they should go ahead and hear this one! Curis Amy was in top form!

I was wrong. Doublechecked on that Uptown Bird in Boston. It indeed had 70 minutes of hitherto unreleased Parker. Gave it a fresh listen last night. Music is just wonderful.

A Parker fanatic here. Nearly all of the 'Boston 1952' Uptown had been released before. I have the Uptown Boston Bird CD. The sound is way better than the other previous issues.

Totally agree but a trio plus one is a quartet!

A very moving piano trio version of 'I Remember Clifford' is the Bud Powell one on the 'Bouncing with Bud' Sonet album, with NHOP and William Schiopffe. Bud played the Golson tribute pretty often.

The last previous major 'previously unreleased' Charlie Parker material seems to have been 'The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert', the September 1952 Harlem concert benefit for a Communist party leader that came out about 5 or 6 years ago, a double Jazz Classics CD with a lot of new material from better source. Some of the material was released years ago by Charlie Parker Records but the Jazz Classics had the complete concert in much better sound (thanks to fine engineering by Doug Pomeroy). The better source were the tapes that came from Chan Parker. That concert (with Walter Bishop, Mundell Lowe, Teddy Kotick, Max Roach and the string section) must have been something else to attend! The music is Parker at its very near best.

Distribution obviously worked only on one side of the Atlantic. Get it. It's great McLean.

I got this when it was originally released as a LP on the Choice label in the '70s. Gerry MacDonald owned that label which released quite a number of superb albums (by Jimmy Rowles, Zoot Sims, Toots Thielemans, Jimmy Giuffre among others). A number of these albums have been reissued by Candid. The Haig date is an inspired and swinging album, one of the best by the Shank/Williamson quartet.

This obviously got very bad distribution. I had a hard time locating a copy. But it really was worth the search. Rooster Ties summed it: a gem.

Voted for 'I Remember Clifford'. Just superb. But I could have voted for 'Blues March' which was the hip tune when the Jazz Messengers (with Benny Golson) invaded France back in 1958. That tune was being played on all the French radio stations then.

According to the usually reliable Bird's Diary book by Ken Vaill, the Town Hall concert was held on Friday, June 22, 1945. The book shows a newspaper (or magazine?) ad that lists the 8:15PM concert organized by the New Jazz Foundation. The ad announces Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie (with Parker, Haig, Russell and Roach), Slam Stewart, Pearl Bailey, Buck Clayton, Sidney Catlett, Don Byas and Introducing Erroll Garner (with Harold West and Al Lucas), Symphony Sid-Narrator. The Ken Vaill book also includes a copy of a review (obviously from Down Beat) which reads: 'The New Jazz Foundation is still shooting better-than-par. At its latest Town Hall soiree two of the most widely-heralded stars, Coleman Hawkins and Slam Stewart didn't show. Me I'd like to know what goes on here. ...(the writer then complains about the way these concerts are run)... 'As for the music - well, lot of it was good but too much of it was repetitious and for that reason dull. Dizzy Gillespie's band and Don Byas certainely offered plenty of excitement but how great for how long can they be? Dizzy Gillespie and alto-man Charlie Parker gave out with great music but it would have been a big help if their work was broken up by other acts instead of being presented in one...' The rest is now shown. So much for the writer. He watches and listens to History and complains. Now let's wait for the CD. Will it be out by the end of the year? If so, I know what Santa is going to bring me!