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Mike, waiting for that. Will it include the Gene DiNovi session(s)?

According to James Gavin's Baker bio 'Deep in a Dream', Tadd Dameron and Baker spent time together at Riker's Island. Dameron was sentenced there in 1958 (for 3 years). Baker arrived the next year and stayed for four months.

Merci, Vincent. Not sure it is the same as the Baldwin Street item but this Fruscella/ DiNovi Marshmallow looks appetizing. Went to their website and saw several CDs that also looked very interesting. Any idea if these Marshmallows are obtainable in (or near) Paris? Or do I have to purchase them direct from Japan?

I'm a fan of June Christy. Some favorite albums: 'Something Cool' and 'The Misty Miss Christie'. I also have a special fondness for the 'Duets' album with Stan Kenton on piano (not my favorite pianist though)

The Modern Jazz Quartet never fails to impress people who think jazz is just loud unruly music. And they swing, too!

In cases like that, what we say here in France is MERDE. This should do the trick. Wish I had music teachers with your enthusiasm when I was still in school. The ones I was unfortunate to cross path with were so boring. Good luck with the kids.

I have the Mosaic Plugged Nickel box. A beauty. It just feels like you're in the club and the musicians play for you. Exactly what I am looking for when I listen to LPs and so rarely get when I listen to CDs. I have not compared it to the Sony CD Plugged Nickel box. I have however compared the Mosaic Miles Davis/Gil Evans LP box with the Sony CD box and the Mosaic is really the one to get. The Mosaics are even better than the original Columbias. Wish I could afford the other Miles Davis Mosaic sets.

The three Fruscella/Parker items on Royal Jazz RJD506 'Charlie Parker, More Unissued, Volume 2 are indeed bogus. Fruscella is heard on the three tunes (You Stepped out of a Dream, Now's the Time and Emanon) and shows his usual controlled excellency. But there is no Bird in sight. The alto player heard through the low fidelity is Dave Schildkraut. The very reliable Bergman/Bukowski/Saks Charlie Parker discography does not list the session. Tom Lord's discography does not list it either but has a note at the bottom of the December 1950 Parker at Birdland aircheck (with Red Rodney) that fills most of RJD506 stating that the alto player on the Fruscella items is Schildkraut. For more Fruscella music, there was a list of future releases mentioned in the notes to the Baldwin Street CD 'The Many Moods of Charlie Shavers' that was issued last year. Among those future releases was Baldwin Street BJG505 'Tony Fruscella with Gene DiNovi' (Live 1949). Wish this one would show up but it's not listed anymore at the Baldwin Street website http://www.baldwinstreetmusic.com/

EKE BBB, I think that Chuck is away on holidays now. No need to disturb him at this time. Hope he is having a good time that should not be spoiled. Any mention of Definitive/Jazz Factory gets an instant blast from him. I know and have been hit a number of times. If I got the situation right, Fresh Sounds and Disconforme/Definitive/Jazz Factory are separate organizations. But each distribute the other's products. They're all Spanish based (with Disconforme stating an adress in Andorra obviously for legal reasons). The business of all these labels is run from Barcelona. While Definitive/Jazz Factory releases CDs that are plain copies (ripoffs is the right word) of sets that have been produced or prepared by other labels (Mosaic, Columbia, RCA, Capitol and others) with no added alternates or any unreleased music, Fresh Sounds is a much more interesting label. They have a large jazz and nonjazz catalogue and they also produce their New Talent series which helps to introduce a number of excellent young jazz musicians. Fresh Sounds also has license to reissue albums from rare labels (Herald, Nocturne, AudioFidelity and others). The other Spanish label Ocium is in the same business of reissuing material that was recorded more than 50 years ago, which is the legal norm in the European Community. Ocium is more in the Chronogical Classics vein. They are issuing obscure and mostly untapped material (Willie Smith, Sy Oliver, Mel Powell, Gene Ammons, Benny Green, Paul Quinichette, Georgie Auld) although their Flip Phillips series is a near-copy of the Mosaic set. Ocium is releasing an Al Sears CD. Waiting to get that one. Can't get enough of this tenorsax player since I heard him with the Johnny Hodges band (long before Mosaic released that music in one of their early LP set).

In one of the Paris apartments where I lived before I settled in my current one, there were these neighbors. Nice, polite, friendly. About once a week, they had allnight parties. Music was played at reasonable loud levels. I managed to get some sleep. But invariably around 4AM, they would play 'Just a Gigolo' by Louis Prima at FULL blast. And play it to death. After they did this a couple of times, I knocked on their door to ask them to turn the sound level down. I was met with smiles, offered a glass of champagne and asked to join the party. But I just was not in the mood for that since I had to go to work a couple of hours later. These parties went on for some time until the girl got pregnant. They put a stop totheir allnight parties. Can't stand hearing Prima's 'Just a Gigolo' since.

Rooster, seems you missed this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=jimmy+knepper

Sad to learn he passed away. Listened to his BN album recently (on Japanese vinyl). A very good album. He had a website http://www.zyworld.com/loumecca/Home.htm which does not announce the bad news yet.

It's a bird'es eyeview of a lampshade...

Part of the problem is that many art workers were being kept busy with undeclared jobs which enabled them to work and get unemployment benefits at the same time. The problem went out of hands lately as special trusts supervising returns from art workers saw these returns dwindle while spendings surged to an all-time high.

One of the really great ones is gone. Her performances in films like 'Philadelphia Story', 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'The African Queen', among others, were magnificient. She was unique.

France has a quite unique unemployment benefit program for unemployed artists. Proposed changes to the program created an uproar. Art workers went into protest actions over the weekend and several festivals - including jazz ones - were disrupted. From AP: As mentioned in the story, Saturday nights' opening concert at the Vienne jazz festival was interrupted. Other jazz festivals hit were the ones in Paris and in Tours where the final night of the European jazz festival had to be cancelled.

I am with Clementine. Get the Aladdin. The Proper box is a good introduction but with Lester Young you have to go beyond the introduction and get into the real thing. The Aladdin set is one of the essential Lester Young releases.

Over the weekend: Anthony Ortega 'Bonjour' Roy Haynes 'Deep in a Dream' Mal Waldron/Marion Brown 'Songs of Love and Regret' Warne Marsh 'Star High' Duke Ellington in Hamilton, Ontario 1954

Ubu, in the liner notes to the original 'Cumbia & Jazz Fusion' Atlantic LP, Nat Hentoff mentioned that 'because of deadline problems that had to do with Petrie, Mingus's score was not used for the European version of the film. When Petrie gets an American distributor for the movie, Mingus's music will be part of the American version.' Doubt that this was ever the case.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/obit...ies/6171109.htm Bill Leslie's album 'Diggin' the Chicks' came out on Argo.

Thanks for the all the tips. Since I'm posting from work, I will have a technician look into my problems and hope things will improve.

Inquiring mind, two tracks by Billie Holiday with the Lester and Lee Young band (with Jimmy Rowles on piano) appeared on volume 11 of the Billie Holiday Masters of Jazz series (MJCD102). They were recorded on January 6, 1942 at Billy Berg's in LA. These are not good quality radio broadcats (and pretty short). Pity Masters of Jazz went down under.

Didn't realize the 'Cool Gabriels' date was on that West/East Coast anthology. Have been looking for that rare session for years. The original RCA LP had a cover by Andy Warhol which turned this rarity into a megabucks item on the market. The LP anthology shows up off and on. Will be looking for it now.

And now for a taste of the real thing: http://www.franceway.com/cheese/intro.htm LIBERTY CHEESE!!

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