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Art Pepper and Warne Marsh (on several tracks) in Art Pepper's neglected Contemporary album 'The Way It Was'.

Manny Albam

Tiny Grimes

Charles Moffett

Yes, this one is really The Best!!

Yves Robert (French jazz trombone player)

Very sad news. Another great player goes. Last saw him in Paris when he accompanied Tom Waits.

Jim R. wrote: Thanks for catching that. Your database works better than mine. Now my faith in the Lord discography is a bit diminished. I will now give a hearing to 'Sliding Easy'. That was a great date! And thanks for posting all those Cleveland sideman sessions. However I do not see any sessions listed with Quincy Jones. Cleveland was one of the featured players in that forgotten band.

What a beautiful player Jimmy Cleveland was! I was listening to the Gil Evans And Ten album on Prestige the other day. His contribution to 'If You Could See Me Now' is a gem. I wanted to hear more and was stunned to find that this remarkable musician had only recorded four albums under his name, all for the Mercury/Emarcy label in the late '50s. Only one, the first one 'Introducing Jimmy Cleveland' has been issued on CD. This is a superb date (three sessions with an impressive lineup: Ernie Royal, Lucky Thompson, Cecil Payne, Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, etc.). Dig the pianists: Hank Jones, John Williams, Wade Legge! I have two other albums 'A map of Cleveland' and 'Cleveland Style', all extremely well arranged (by Ernie Wilkins, Benny Golson). 'Map of Cleveland' has Jimmy Cleveland front the ensemble with Art Farmer. It's an eight piece band and with the tuba playing of Don Butterfield it really sounds like a big band. Bassist Bill Crow (who is uncredited) is also featured. Anyway I searched the Tom Lord discography to find any recent Cleveland albums. There were none. BUT one unreleased session was listed. Here it is: Lee Morgan (tp) Jimmy Cleveland (tb) Hank Mobley (ts) Tommy Flanagan (p) Paul Chambers (b) Elvin Jones (d). The tunes are listed as: - Bit of Heaven - Down Home - I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone - Bongo Bop - When Lights Are Low - C.T. The discography states the date was recorded in New York in early 1959. No label is mentioned. Anybody knows about this date? This would make a great issue and might put the Cleveland name back on the map.

Bobby Jaspar

King Ubu wrote: Loved that one!

Freddie Hubbard alsp played mean trumpet on John Coltrane's 'Ascension'

Gene Ammons

Albert Nicholas

Red Nichols

Roswell Rudd

Lucky Thompson

Frank Wright

Should have done some homework first. Did that last night. Clifford Brown was at the 1955 Newport Festival. He played there with the Brown/Roach Quintet. Check this: Clifford Brown Photos and go to the Newport image. I also listened to the 'Tea for Two' jam on the Philology CD. And the second trumpet player really sounds like Clifford Brown. The sound on the Newport tracks is off. Part of the problem may be tape speed which should have been corrected.

Rene Thomas

Pete Johnson

Dave Brubeck

Chuck, could you let us know what's going to be there? What I've seen on this on the Jazzmatazz site looks very promising.

Red Rodney

Interesting Weatherbird article by Gary Giddins in this week's The Village Voice' Weatherbird Had never heard of Armstrong's adopted son. And wish Mosaic would be authorised to publish some of the tapes.