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#4: The clarinet player sounds very similar to Mauro Negri. Well, I think it's him. At first I thought the drummer was Aldo Romano, but the piece I had in mind was a trio track with Negri, Romano and piano player Ronnie Lynn Patterson (from "Colours", Label Bleu). So, it must be that drummer from Slovenia that Marco used to play with, Zlatko Kaucic. #5: The general ambiance of this track suggest to me the Enrico Fazio Septet, which has released two great CDs on Leo, strongly recommended. I am not home now, and so I cannot check, but it sounds dangerously like that group (Carlo Actis Dato, Sordini, Mandarini, Aroni Vigone, Fazio and a couple of others I can't remember now). Great BFT, John. Thanks! Luca

The Parker, Young and Holiday boxes, in any case, have been reissued on Cd. Not the Hawkins one. Luca

Wasn't Lewis Porter who wrote that in 1947 Coltrane had played an arrangement of Ravel's Pavane? Luca

The "Impressions" theme is clearly played, many years before Coltrane's Impulse recording, by Ahmad Jamal in his version of Gould's "Pavanne" (Epic, 1955) B-) Luca

The complete concert (as far as I know) is on Blu Jazz BJ011CD. It adds a version of Manteca (7:15), and it was recorded in Milan, Teatro Lirico, on November 3, 1968. The Gillespie big band was featured in the second half of a concert which had first a Red Norvo trio (w/Jerry Hahn, guitar, and Steve Swallow, electric bass), and the Gary Burton quartet (w/Hahn, Swallow and Roy Haynes). Diz' big band played four dates in Italy: Prato (November 1). Milan (November 3), Reggio Emilia (4) and Rome (5). Diz, Jimmy Owens, Victor Paz, Dizzy Reece, Stu Hamer (tp); Curtis Fuller, Tom McIntosh, Ted Kelly (tb); Chris Woods, James Moody, Paul Jeffrey, Sahib Shihab, Cecil Payne (saxes, fl); Mike Longo (p); Paul West (b); Otis Candy Finch (dr). Luca

Here in Italy it's been out for a couple of weeks (and a very good record, indeed). Luca

Unfortunately, the track "Domino" (7:57) from Flight for Four, has been omitted from the West Coast Hot Cd. And nothing from Self Determination Music, you're right. Luca

"Moment's Notice" on Jazzcraft, from 1977, is a Rouse record I have been enjoying for a long time. It has also the added bonus, to me, of Hugh Lawson playing piano, a musicians I have alvays found very interesting. This sessions has been reissued on CD by Storyville, plus four alternate tracks. Does anyone know the Rouse LP on Strata-East, "Two Is One"? Quite different from everything else he's done, with two electric guitars (George Davis, who I think used to play with Dizzy, and Paul Metzke, who was in Gil Evans' orchestra then), Calo Scott on cello, Stanley Clarke on bass, David Lee on drums and Airto on percussion, Luca

Both Sphere CDs on Red are in print. The Umbria Jazz concert has been retitled "Pumpkin's Delight" (#207). Luca

I saw George a couple of weeks ago in Bollate, a small town near Milano, with Essiet Essiet, Victor Lewis and guest Piero Odorici, a very good Italian tenor player. Excellent concert (but the band was just in the middle of a 15-date Italian tour, so their interplay was really high by then). George is amazing. He has to undergo dialysis every second day (and in Milan he had to to do that just before the concert) paying huge sums of money every time, but he's in high spirits anyway (and he plays great). The concert has been recorded. There's talk of releasing it on Red Records, We'll see. Luca

Couldn't agree more. Luca

Butler also played with Duke Ellington in the '50s, and he even appears on Coltrane's Kulu Se Mama

I, too, had read those liner notes, and as soon as Oliver Lake came to Florence to play I asked him about Freddie Roach. He told me there must be an error of some kind, because he had never heard of Freddie Roach before Luca

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There's also a new trio album on Challenge w/ John Abercrombie and Marc Copland. I received a copy for review just yesterday. Sounds interesting (Nat Adderley's Jive Samba is among the tracks BTW, the magazine I work for, Italy's Musica Jazz, has just published a special Kenny Wheeler issue, with a 16-page spread and a CD including some of the best tracks from his ECM and PSI releases (and a rare Wheeler appearance from Roccella Ionica's festival in 1984). If anyone's interested, please let me know, and I'll be glad to forward a complimentary copy Luca

I do not know about Shelton, but Hakim Jami appears on three Steeplechase recordings from the '70s: Ken McIntyre's "Chasing the Sun" (a trio session w/Beaver Harris) and two Hilton Ruiz LPs (both from the same session, hovewer): "New York Hilton" and "Steppin' into Beauty". Luca

"On Target" (MPS 15551) has been reissued in 1994 on the double Cd "Three Originals" (MPS 523522). But, of course, this is the Shearing trio with the overdubbed Robert Farnon Orchestra. Luca

Great post, relyles. Couldn't have said it better. Luca

Thanks - here's another one. Luca

Florence, April 3, 2004 Henry Grimes Trio, w/David Murray & Hamid Drake

The EU Basra - which I received from EMI Italy for review a couple of days ago - has copy protection. Luca

I have that, too Aaltonen has been a favorite of mine since I heard him playing with Arild Andersen's quartet in the Seventies (there's also an ECM record of that group, that has never been out on CD, I guess). A very impressive player. Luca

Just received it. It sounds great :-) www.tumrecords.com Luca

There's also a new Binney Cd coming out in March on Red Records. It's a duo with pianist Ed Simon, and it's called Fiestas de Agosto, Luca

Yes, I got both. Two different compositions. Luca