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Dizzy Gillespie; A Portrait of Duke Ellington. Verve/Polydor (France). No arranger credit appears in the liner note. Anyone know please.

Dizzy Gillespie; The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All Verve/Poygram(France)

Lee Konitz; You and Lee/Arrangements by Jimmy Giuffre. Verve/Polygram, France. A vintage period for Konitz imo.

I have Euro vinyl pressing of this. It deserves a play, it'll be first up today. Thanks for the reminder.

Still with Shorty Rogers. Last on West Coast Jazz; Atlantic That's Jazz Series (German pressing) now Martians Stay Home. Atlantic (UK pressing) Just Clickin'with Clax to go.

Shorty Rogers and His Giants. Martians Come Back. London (1957 Uk pressing)

Shorty Rogers and his Giants; Volume 2 The Rarest; RCA Jazzline (France). The extended tracks by the Augmented Giants are particularly nice imo. Hopefully I can find the time to spin the Atlantic albums.

I've been enjoying that album for 25 years, along with Vol 2. Lovely stuff,I'll dust out Vol 2 for tomorrow so I can dig Boots Brown and his Blockbusters again.

Allow two days for a pleasant drive to get to Williams or Flagstaff (for the Grand Canyon). You can go via Las Vegas and the Hoover dam. Flagstaff is a great base as there is so much to see in the vicinity. It will probably be snowy there but the canyon looks great in the snow. If you can find the time southern Utah has a lot to offer.

Shorty Rogers and His Giants Vol 1. RCA Jazzline (France)

Belated birthday greetings John. Trust it was a good one.

32/38. Basically timed out because of fumbled typing. Another minute and I would have had four more. I probably wouldn't have recalled Ron Carter though I did have Third Plane for a while, and chose the wrong Brecker. Fun though.

Thanks for posting Mark. Nice photo, would be great to hear the musical result of this meeting.

Paul Bley Trio; Complete Savoy Sessions 1962-63. Nice to get these all togther. The Savoy vinyl reissues were a bit haphazard.

A non-jazz friend called the other day while Hank Mobley was on. He said "is that Charlie Parker?" I thought that was pretty good, I'd have never guessed he'd ever heard of Bird.

Ornette Coleman; Beauty Is A Rare Thing

Teddy Edwards; Feelin's. Muse

Defiinitely the black sheep!!!

It's got to be something from George Adams' America. Blue Note

This has been televised in the UK, well worth a watch.

Thanks to a loan from a good friend Dave Brubeck and Jay and Kai at Newport. Columbia. Never heard any of this music before!

Only 5/12 Every guess turned out to be wrong.

Reuben Wilson this morning - On Broadway Blue Note(US Liberty) Blue Mode Blue Note (UK pressing)

Apologies for being late for your birthday Bill. Many happy, belated, returns. Trust it was a good one.

Cal Massey; Blues To Coltrane; Candid/Black Lion.