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I checked the Jazz Factory Billie/Prez set when it came out here. It does not include alternates.

A lot of posts on this board have images. A number of these images come over the texts of the posters and renders the posts unreadable. Is there some way to circumvent the problem? And slow, very slow. I'm a computer dummy.

Summer sales season started in Paris yesterday. Lots of junk CDs. But I found these: - Cecil Taylor ' Melancholy' (FMP), - Anthony Ortega 'Bonjour' (AJMI), - Tete Montoliu 'Illiure Jazz' (Discomedi), all at 3 euros ($3.4) each. Also grabbed Beverly Kenney 'Like Yesterday', a Japanese Decca CD at 12 euros.

Jim, thanks for your thoughtful comments on Roy and Max. I saw the Roach CD a few days ago and wondered if it was worth getting it. I know now. I'll get the Roy Haynes CD when it shows up here. The man's amazing.

Dick Sherman also co-led at least one record date. A Gene Quill-Dick Sherman Quintet session in 1955 for Dawn (with Dick Katz, Teddy Kotick and Osie Johnson). The date was released on the Dawn Jazzville series volume 1, side B. Side A had tracks by Les Jazz Modes. This was reissued on LP by Fresh Sounds. Sherman plays a superb 'Everything Happens To Me' on his quintet date. Had forgotten about this session until I got into this thread. Gave it a listen last night. Beautiful session. And it's always nice to hear Gene Quill.

Don't recall Stan Getz playing soprano on his Concord albums. He did play soprano on 'Body and Soul' on his EmArcy release 'Billy Highstreet Samba'.

Got this news release from Blue Note: Wonder whether Madlib was allowed to remix any unreleased Andrew Hill BN sides.

Does the sign say: GOD WAS IN THE HOUSE ?

Gary Giddins' Weatherbird is about Roy Haynes and Max Roach in this week's The Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0326/giddins.php Waiting to get that 'Love Letters' album from Roy Haynes.

Good old Zoot Sims! One of his album is 'Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone', a 1957 ABC LP. One Coltrane on alto appearance was on the Gene Ammons 'The Big Sound' and 'Groove Blues' Prestige session.

Yes, yes, yes. Listening to a lot of Warne Marsh lately. Much to rediscover in his records. On another thread, I suggested a Mosaic Select of his Interplay albums. Some of those are very hard to find these days and some have not appeared on CD. The ones I have are just magnificient. About Warne Marsh and Art Pepper, there is also the Contemporary album 'The Way It Was'. The two produced surprising an exciting music.

From a story in today's New York Times on Turkey fighting to save a national delicacy 'kokorec' (lamb intestines sandwiches) from European Union food regulations in case Turkey is admitted to the EU: Wonder how Bird would have played that one...

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.

Well, Bessie Smith comes out pretty clean compared to others on the list so Chris A. should survive... This link is even more fun reading than Kenneth Anger's 'Hollywood Babylon' which was my eye-opener to the Hollywood beyond the screen saga.

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.

Frankie Newton? Best Commie trumpet player I ever heard.

Ghost, thanks for providing this link. It provides food and fun to the curious (and perverse) in all of us. Was not aware of the second statement in the Duke Ellington entry.

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.