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Only the first one ( Ben Webster At Ease ). The other two on the 2CD are For the Guv'nor and Last Concert. Keep swinging Durium

BEN WEBSTER - HARRY EDISON I just bought the Lonehill Jazz 2Cd Ben Webster - Harry Edison Complete Sextet Studio Sessions Haven't heard it yet. The Webster Blue Note is great and was only released by Blue Note - Holland. The recording, I started this subject with, Ben Op Zijn Best is also a typical Dutch release, only available on LP. I told its story at my Ben Op Zijn Best and Ben Op Zijn Best (again) contributions. Keep swinging Durium

SERGE CHALOFF Blue Serge This great album, with its beautiful cover, should be part of any jazz collection.Serge Chaloff shows, that the baritone is a fully fledged instrument. A great album !! Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge Keep swinging Durium

PEREZ PRADO Perez Prado, the King of Mambo, was a popular band leader of the 1950s in the US, who had several number one hits. His Cuban dance band was influenzed by Stan Kenton. I found this great 45 rpm recording, of one of his 1956 hits, Patricia, with a pleasent cover. I also found a film fragment in which Perez Prado is the guest in a Spike Jones show. Perez Prado: The King of Mambo Keep swinging Durium

JAZZ MASTERS Originals 3 LP box (NOT the Verve box, but EUROGRAM ( Musique en Or)) Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Rollins - Thelonius (sic) Monk - Art Blakey - john Coletrane EM (Eurogram) COF 11 Keep swinging Durium

FIVE FOOT TWO My brother and I played this tune when we were teenager until everyone in the house drove mad. Five Foot Two It seems it inspires other musicians too!! Keep swinging Durium

BIX BEIDERBECKE On March 10th, 2007 Bix Beiderbecke of Davenport (USA) should have celebrated his 104th birthday.. Bix Beiderbecke Keep swinging Durium

Je cherche apres Titine I guess some of you will recognize this feelings ............... you're listening to a record or CD and suddenly you recognize a tune, but you can't remember where or when. I had that experience with the second track on the CD Quand refleuriront les lias blancs? by Henri Crolla. Henri Crolla? Who's that? It's a French guitar player, who, like Oscar Aleman in the 1930s, didn't got the recognition he deserved, due to the fact that another French guitar player, I can't remember his name now, got all attention. This second track ..... Je cherche apres Titine ....... I was sure I had heard it not so long ago. Suddenly, the penny dropped............. I had heard it, although with other words, in a well known film classic......................... Je cherche apres Titine Keep swinging Durium

THE JOE VENUTI BLUE FOUR This is the second in a series of three Chiaroscuro LPs, in which Joe Venuti and Zoot Sims are playing together. Although Zoot Sims is on four tracks only, there is a lot of other nice things to enjoy, like the two tracks with the legendary bass-sax player Spencer Clark. Joe Venuti Blue Four Keep swinging Durium

Any source for this information? I think I remember you got this from his manager, anywhere else? I have this either from some liner notes or from Adrian Ingram's book - but please don't ask me for the exact place, don't have the time to check it right now. thnks! If you visit the Wes Montgomery discography (click on the title bar in my Wes Montgomery blog contribution) it learns that he only visited Europe between March - May 1965. Wes Montgomery Blog Keep swinging Durium

I have it on DVD, recorded from the TV program two weeks ago. Keep swinging Durium

OSCAR ALEMAN I became fascinated by the music of the Argentine guitar player Oscar Aleman in my teens, due to a 1938 solo recording. Now, forty years later, and with nearly all his recordings on the self, I'm still a great admirer. Oscar performed in some feature films and I'm happy I found some live fragments of him in the film el Idolo del tango. El Idolo del tango - Oscar Aleman Keep swinging Durium

THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF Has someone ever found all discographical information for this great 2CD? Yazoo 2202 | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Keep swinging Durium

WES MONTGOMERY Twisted Blues Between March and May 1965 Wes Montgomery visited several European radio and TV studios in San Remo ( Italy), Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium), Hilversum (The Netherlands), Hamburg (Germany) and London (Great Britain). His 1965 European tour Keep swinging Durium

Thanks MvtGA for this compilation - A lot of funky music and to be honest - I'm not an expert to that kind of music, but a quick learner ( I hope !! ) 1. This is a great opener. 2 - 3. Both rather funky tunes and not really my piece of cake. 6. I tought about James Spaulding playing the flute !! 8. There are a lot of flute players around in this compilation. Is this Sam Most? 13. I like the vibes 17. My first thoughts were Ted Jones - Mel Lewis or the Gil Evans orchestra. I'll give it a second spin later this week and maybe new thoughts will pop up !! Survey | Keep swinging Durium

Harry's Mystery Band

KENNY DREW Kenny Drew is one of those musicians to be found on dozens of albums, rather anonymous hidden in the rhythm section, but always loom large in the background. Thanks to the great 1960 Blue Note album Undercurrent you can enjoy him as a composer and leader. Kenny Drew Contributions | Keep swinging Durium

KENNY DREW Kenny Drew is one of those musicians to be found on dozens of albums, rather anonymous hidden in the rhythm section, but always loom large in the background. Thanks to the great 1960 Blue Note album Undercurrent you can enjoy him as a composer and leader. Kenny Drew Contributions | Keep swinging Durium

LARRY CORYELL - EMILE REMLER Together A great album Larry Coryell - Emily Remler: Together More contributions | Keep swinging Durium

SVEND ASMUSSEN Fit as a Fiddle Svend Asmussen - Fit as a Fiddle Subjects | Keep swinging Durium

Tele Music I found a 1972 Tele Music LP, titeled International Honky Tonk. It contains 9 tracks with honky tonk and boogie woogie-like music in three versions ( complete - 30 sec. - 15 sec. ). The cover looks like the one above - all covers have the same design. Could these LPs have been used by amateur filmers? International Honky Tonk Contributions | Keep swinging Durium

KEEP SWINGING CD two to be continued ... 8. Deracinated Flower ( Toshiko Akiyoshi ) 7:31 Toshiko Akiyoshi: Toshiko Akiyoshi p, Jim Snidero as, Joe Magnarelli tp, George Mraz b, Lewis Nash dm. Recorded 15 – 16 October 1996 ( Toshiko Akiyoshi – Toshiko Plays Toshiko – Time Stream ( CRCJ-9137 )) In December 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi played at a solo piano concert in the Porgy en Bess Jazz Club in Terneuzen ( The Netherlands). She fascinated me as a person and the way she played the piano. I remember she played several Bud Powell compositions on the piano and it learned me how great these compositions are. She talked about her meetings with Bud Powell at the end of his life. After the concert I visited her in her dressing room ( well – too much words for the living room above the club), where she received me and gave me her autograph. This tune, Deracinated Flower, is one of the tunes, with her group, I love to share with you.. Toshiko Akiyoshi 9. I’ll Remember April ( Gene DePaul – Patricia Johnston – Don Raye ) 6:28 Monty Alexander Trio: Monty Alexander p, Ray Brown b, Herb Ellis g, John Frigo v Recorded live at the Loa, Santa Monica (USA) June 1987( Concord Jazz CCD2-2122 ( orig. Triple Treat II CCD-4338) It was remarkable that everybody wanted to label the violin player ( nobody could actually ) and nobody found out who was the piano player. Last year I was at a concert of the Alexander-Clayton-Hamilton trio , so it is not so difficult to understand why I chose a track of this great piano player. Monty Alexander made this recording with some great sidemen, and I didn't expect much trouble finding their names - but, as I mentioned before. I was wrong. Most suggestions were for the violin player: John Frigo, although started as a kid on violin, became known as a bass player in bands like Jimmy Dorsey's and later formed a group with Herb Ellis and Lou Carter. He became a sought after studio musician for jingles and commercials. In the 1980s he realized how he missed his first instrument, the violin. His performances with Monty Alexander and his trio impressed and were recorded on two Triple Treat recordings. This is from the first one. The bass player, like Jimmy Woode ( on CD one - track 12 ) is an institution itself, Ray Brown. Hope you like it. John Frigo 10. Blue Hat ( ) 3:38 String Swing:Josephine Cronholm vo, Jacob Fischer g, Jacob Gurevitch g, August Engkilde b, Søren Siegumfeldt dir as, Rune Olesen dm. Recorded 2003. ( String Swing – Blue Hat (STUNT 04142)) String Swing is the third band featuring the great danish guitar player, Jacob Fischer. This band, that plays in a kind of mainstream hot club tradition has the sweet voiced Swedisah vocalist Josephine Cronholm. This band made a second CD titled Red Shoes. I heard this group in concert during a hot concert ( the temperature in Copenhagen raised to tropical levels) in the summer of 2005. String Swing 11. Amor Da Nada ( Valle) 4:26 Roditi-Ignatzek-Rassinfosse : Claudio Roditi tp flh vo, Klaus Ignatzek p, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse b. Recorded Brussels 4 May 2004 (Nagel Heyer – 2047) This album belongs to my favorites. These three skilled musicians, the Brazilian born Claudio Roditi, the German Klaus Ignatzek and the Belgian bass player Jean-Louis Rassinfosse belong to the top of European jazz. Claudio Roditi plays bebop-oriented jazz, Brazilian music and Afro-Cuban. In October 2004, I heard this trio in concert and I was astonished about the power of Roditi’s trumpet play. Also his ballads on flugelhorn were great. He isn’t really a singer, although now and then he treat the audience to a Brazilian song. This one is one of those great ballad played by Roditi on flugelhornAmor Da Nada. Hope you like it. Roditi-Ignatzek-Rassinfosse trio 12. Ever After ( ) 6 :36 Jesse van Ruller Quintet: Jesse van Ruller g, Roy Hargrove flh, Karel Boehlee p, Frans van Geest b, Martijn Vink dm) Recorded July 2000. ( Catch – Jesse van Ruller ( Blue Music BM1004)) Jesse van Ruller is one of the jazz guitar players that are known outside the Netherlands. In 1995 he won the important Thelonious Monk Award, and leading jazz guitar players like Pat Metheny , John Scofield and Jim Hall spoke highly of his guitar play. He is a regular guest in the Porgy en Bess Jazz club in Terneuzen and was Artist in residence last season. He leads his own groups, like this extended Quartet, he is part of the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and plays in duo with Maarten van der Grinten in Van Der & Van . The special guest on this record is, again, Roy Hargrove, who is to be found on two tracks in this collection. In a 1990s CD, titled The Young Dutch Jazz Cats Jesse Van Ruller is one of those Young Dutch Jazz Cats; Roy is one of the so-called Young Lions, a title to label the young avant garde in jazz music of the 1990s. The term was first used in a novel of Irwin Shaw, an used on a 1960 VeeJay recording of a Lee Morgan Septet. I think most of you have heard about Roy Hargrove and his career. Since the early 1990s Roy is a regular musician to visit of the Netherlands and its festivals ( North Sea Jazz Festival), but each time he visits The Netherlands, he will come to our little club and play in this small venue for no more then a few hundred listeners. As he said in an interview: Here I feel being at home - I feel the same spirit as in my home town. Each concert, it doesn’t matter if he is plays with his quartet, with the Afro-Cuban Crisol or the R.H. Faktor is an unforgettable event. As I mentioned before: In April the club will celebrate its 50th anniversary and of course, Roy will be there giving a concert. For me Roy is the best trumpet player there is, a genius on the flugelhorn and a pure jazz musician. Jesse van Ruller homepage | Roy Hargrove 13. Improvisation For Two Unaccompanied Saxophones ( Al Cohn – Zoot Sims ) 2:26 Al Cohn ts – Zoot Sims ts Recorded 1960. ( The Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet – You ‘n Me (Mercury EJD-3041 )) Both Al Cohn and Zoot Sims were traced, but the title seemed to be pretty difficult to find, although I suggested that the title of this Improvsation for Two Unaccompanied Saxophones should surprise you. This LP was one of the first record in my collection long ago. The last track on that record fascinated me – these two skilled saxophone players in duo. I played it each day as a kind of ceremony. I sold all my LPs ( I guess I was not fully accountable for my actions during that short period in my life ! ), this one too. Although the tune was out of sight it was not out of mind. I found a reissue of this album on a Japanese release. I love to share it with you. 14. I’ll© You Again ( Noël Coward ) 2:50 The Van Der Grinten / Herman Quartet: Benjamin Herman c melody sax, Maarten van der Grinten g, uk, Jos Machtel tu b tb, Henk Zomer dm Recorded 10 and 11 October 1994. ( The Van Der Grinten / Herman Quartet - Psychodixie for C Melody Saxophone (A Records AL 73005 ) The idea for this cd was born in a plane up in the Iberian skies. Benjamin Herman , also on the first CD - track 5 ) wanted to make a CD around the C Melody saxophone – each title of this album should have the sound “cee “ in it. On their way back to the Netherlands the flight was long enough to make a long list of tunes: We © - Nan© With The Laughing Face - ©led With a Kiss. ................. and so on. This tune, “I’ll © You Again “ has the subtitle “A Musical Therapy Session by a Psychotic Dixieland Band”. Hope you don't need that after listening to my selections of tunes I'd love to share with you - tunes played by musicians that have fascinated me in the past and Keeps me Swinging ..... Thanks for your contributions ! Hope you liked it - I did ! BTW: I have attached a word document with a cover to be used as an inlay in a 2CD box if you like. The only thing you have to do is cut and fold and being a bit creative. Survey | Keep swinging Durium

KEEP SWINGING It seems as if most participants have posted their commends and I don't think new information will be posted. I gues it's time to rise the curtain !! CD two 1. Faux departs sur Kansas City Kitty / Kansas City Kitty (Leslie – Donaldson) ( 5:01 ) Sharkey et co ( later Charquet & Co. ): Jean-Pierre Morel co as kazoo dir vo, Emmanuel Hussenot co vo, Gabriel Conesa jr. tb, Alain Marquet cl ts, Daniel Huck as ts cl vo, Jean-Jacques Bodu ts cl, Norbert Claro p, Alain Marcheteau banj, Sandrik de Davrichewy g, Bert Jouis tu. Gill’s Club, 5 May 1972. This hilarious start of the second selection shows the fun and enthusiasm of one of the hottest French traditional jazz bands of the 1970s, Sharkey et co. This false starts of this 1920s traditional is to be found on their 2nd LP titled Kansas City Kitty. The leader of the band was Jean-Pierre Morel. They changed their name in Charquet et Co and during the 1970s they made several LPs and were on stages all through Western Europe. At the top of their success, in 1978, Morel felt in necessary to leave music for a while and Charquet et Co was disbanded. It is, looking back, an unforgivable mistake that I never visited a concert of this band during that period. In the 1980s some other hot bands became important, like the Hot Antic Jazz Band and the Orpheon Celesta. They continued to play in the tradition of the hot jazz music style. Some of the musicians of Charquet et Co played in the Orpheon Celesta, like Emmanuel Hussenot and Daniel Huck. I heard this great band at a 1985 concert in Maastricht ( The Netherlands) Due to the fact that one of the members of Charquet et co passed away, the 1970s members reunite at his funeral and decided to make an engagement for a jam session some month later and so the band reunited. In November 1996, the Petit Jazzband de Mr. Morel had his first public appearance and I was so lucky to hear this rebirth Charquet et Co, in May 1998 at the Chassé Theatre in Breda ( The Netherlands) featuring Jean-Pierre Morel, Alain Marquet and Daniel Huck as members of the original band. Although I suggested the fall of Charquet & Co and the rebirth of a small orchestra by the leader, most of you couldn't label this famous band. The LPs are now collectors items ( one CD was released), but the music of Le Petit Jazz Band de Mr. Morel is still available. In my Keep Swing web log I posted information about this great Charquet et Co band and some film fragments. Hot Antic Jazz Band 2. O.A. 1926 ( Oscar Aleman) Oscar Aleman: Oscar Aleman cavaquinho vo. Recorded in Buenos Aires Sep-Oct. 1972 ( Redondel LP SL-10508 // CD 45025 ) There was no discussion - Oscar Aleman should be in this blindfold test. As the compiler of the first internet discography of this guitar player I researched his life and music. Oscar Aleman might be one of the most underestimated jazz guitar players of the XXth century. He started his carreer as a young boy in Argentina and Brazil en learned to play the cavaquinho, the Brazilian ukulele. His carreer in France in the 1930s is known by some jazz historians, but what happened after 1940, when he returned to South America is only known in Argentina. He is still immense popular there, although he died more then 25 years ago and all his records are available on CD. The very first tune he could play on the cavaquinho, somewhere in the 1920s, was titled O.A. 1926 and he played in obscure venues all around Buenos Aires. It was never recorded, of course, but he played it in 1972 for a Redondel session and on numerous radio programs. Mind that you only hear the cavaquinho, the rhythm is made by his feet. And … by the way: I learned that O.A. didn’t mean Oscar Aleman, but Oceano Atlantico. I hope someone in Argentina or beyond can confirm that. El Redescubrimiento de Oscar Aleman project Oscar Aleman web log 3. Sweet Sue ( Young-Harris) 2:49 Jam Session : Henry Hagemann cl ts, Svend Asmussen v, Oscar Aleman g, Helge Jacobsen g, Alfred Rasmussen b, Bibi Miranda dm. ) Recorded in Copenhagen, 5 Dec.1938 ( HMV (Dk) X 6212 ) This session was organized by Svend Asmussen, the Danish violin player and entertainer. Thanks to the fact that Oscar Aleman was in Copenhagen with the Josephine Baker revue this tune could be made, titled jam session or Danish jam session, as it was a rather spontaneous event. It is said that this 1938 recordings session contains the best guitar music of the 1930s. Jam Session This Jam Session was the central item at a presentation I made, with the helps of my friends and also passioned Alemaniacs Joergen and Theo, at the 2005 IAJRC convention in the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen. During this presentation Svend Asmussen, then nearly 90 years young, was present and took part of my presentation. It was a great moment to meet this great personality, musician and friend of Oscar Aleman. I'm glad I found a rare film fragment with Oscar playing the guitar in one of his films: Oscar Aleman in Idolo del tango Hot Club de Boedo web blog ( The Alemaniacs ) 4. Runnin’ Wild ( Joe Grey Gibbs / A. Harrington) ( 7:05) Svend Asmussen Quartet: Svend Asmussen v, Jacob Fischer g, Jesper Lundgaard b, Aage Tanggaard dm Recorded inn Linkoping, Sweden - 30 March 1996. ( Fit as a Fiddle – Svend Asmussen Quartet ( Dacapo )) Svend Asmussen, now 91 years old, is still active as a jazz performer. This recording was made in 1996, when he was in his 80s, with his regular group, featuring some skilled Danish musicans, like Jacob Fischer on guitar, Jesper Lundgaard on bass and Aage Tanggaard at the drums. I heard this group playing in 2005 at the IAJRC convention in Copenhagen ( Denmark) where I made a presentation about Oscar Aleman. Svend Asmussen Quartet 5. Daydream( Jackie McLean ) 4.59 Steve Davis Quintet: Steve Davis tb, ( Roy Hargrove tp,) Peter Bernstein g, ( Anthony Wonsey p,) Nat Reeves b, Joe Farnsworth dm. Recorded NYC 1 Dec. 2005 ( Steve Davis - Update( Criss 1282 CD)) ( not on this track ) The trombone player seemed to be very difficult to trace. Well to be honest ..... for me Steve Davis was unknown too. I bought this CD due to the presence of Roy Hargrove (not presence on this track). So for me too Steve Davis was new, but he started his career as a sidemen with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1990 and Jackie McLean’s Sextet ( 1992 ) and during recent years with Freddie Hubbard and Chick Corea. This is his second album for Criss Cross and I have chosen Daydream because I like this ballad. He became inspired by a version of this tune played by Grover Washington and Kenny Burrell, wehich his father had in his collection. His father sugested him to play this in a piano less quartet with a guitar. Peter Bernstein is the guitar player, recognized by several members. A great performer ! 6. Sail Away ( T. Harrell) ( 8:09) Christina von Bülow Trio (featuring Jan Allan): Christina von Bülow as, Jan Allan tp, Jacob Fixcher g, Jens Skou Olsen b. Recorded ca. 2002 ( West of the Moon – Christina von Bülow Trio ( Music Mecca CD 3059)) I heard Christina von Bülow for the first time in the summer of 2005 in the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen. She is one of the leading alto saxophone players of Denmark. Her trio is one of the best Danish chamber jazz groups and plays on this record with the Swedish trumpet player Jan Allan. She has a warm and soft sound. For me was Jacob Fischer, as I was not an expert in Danish jazz, a surprise. It is a pity that such a great guitar player is unknown outside Denmark. I heard him in the trio that accompanied Svend Asmussen, in the group String Swing and just free jamming at a café somewhere in Copenhagen with members of the group Choro Brasil Scandinavia. Christina von Bülow homepage | Christina von Bülow | Jacob Fischer 7. Walking Shoes ( Gerry Mulligan) 5:01 Fay Claassen: Fay Claassen vo, Jan Menu bars, Hein van de Geyn b, John Engels dm. Recorded Amsterdam July 2005 ( Fay Claassen sings Two Portraits of Chet Baker ( BMCD 484 ) This album was made in remembrance of the 75th birthday of the late Chet Baker by the Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen. She made a series of concerts titled Fay Claassen sings Two Portraits of Chet Baker. In the first set she makes tribute to the early Gerry Mulligan – Chet Baker sessions by imitating Chet’s trumpet with her voice. In the second set she sings Chet’s vocals as he did at the end of his life – Chet on trumpet is played by Jan Wessels in a great way. This song, Walking Shoes, is of course from the first set. Jan Menu on baritone saxophone plays Gerry Mulligan part. The second part of this tracklist of CD 2 will be published later !! Survey | Keep swinging Durium

BO GRUMPUS Trio I was surprised by this Stomp Off CD with the Bo Grumpus Ragtime Trio ( + Rob Kerwin on the fiddle). Nice music played and directed by the guitar player Craig Ventresco, a great musician Bo Grumpus plays String Band Classics Subjects | Keep swinging Durium

KEEP SWINGING CD one to be continued ... 10. Cheryl ( Charlie Parker ) 6:52 Herb Geller / Rein de Graaff: Herb Geller as, Rein De Graaff p. Recorded in Leersum (The Netherlands) 6 February 2002 ( Herb Geller / Rein de Graaff – Delightful Duets volume 2) ( Blue Jack BJJR 022)) This is the third Dutch jazz musician that seem to be unknown to most of you. There ought to be a track in this selection played by Rein De Graaff, the bebop piano player pur sang . Rein grew up in the far north of the Netherlands and learned to play the piano. He played the tunes he heard on the radio and at school he was a member of the school orchestra. The first records he bought were the Dutch Swing College Band and Lionel Hampton, but soon he got interested in the Bebop and West Coast styles. When he had finished the High School he got an engagement at the Mister Adams Jazzopators, a German jazz orchestra., that originally played Dixieland music, but also in the more mainstream styles. While in Germany he met real American musicians he played with at jam sessions. In September 1967 Rein organized a trip for himself to New York, where he met musicians like Kenny Dorham, Joe Chambers, Chick Corea en Hank Mobley and played with them. To make a long story short ( it’s all written down (in Dutch)in his biography Belevenissen in Bebop ), back in Holland he got a job, got married, got a family, but still played in his spare hours. He organised, since 1987, so-called Bebop courses, concerts, in which he invited American jazz musicians for a short tour through Holland. The list of musicians, he brought to Holland, should be long and incomplete, so I won’t start to list it, but I can give you the names of the artists I saw in concert with the Rein de Graaff Trio ( himself on the piano of course, Koos Serierse on the bass ( now: Marius Beets b) and Eric Ineke on drums): Houston Person – David Fathead Newman ( 1998), Johnny Griffin’ ( 2002), Herb Geller – John Ruocco (2002), Sonny Fortune ( 2005), James Spaulding ( 2006) and Gary Smulyan (2006). This track is called Cheryl, a Charlie Parker composition, and played with Herb Geller. Geller don’t need any introduction I guess – Herb Geller, born in LA was in the 1950s a well known alto saxophonist and performed with Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers and had his own quartet, together with his wife Lorraine Walsh. When she died he left for Europe and became a skilled musician in several German big bands. To be honest – I like duo performances. It’s like pure jazz. The musicians have to interact to each other, that’s why I have selected this duo performance with Rein and not a tune with the trio, although that is great stuff too. Rein De Graaff | More Rein De Graaff - Herb Geller 11. Antea ( Levy) 5:53 Don Ellis Big Band. Recorded Live at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West in San Francisco 18-21 June 1970. ( Don Ellis at Fillmore ) This track wasn't difficult to trace by most of you. I came into contact with the music of the Don Ellis Big Band in a very special way. If you’re anxious please read the story.. Enjoy it !! 12. What Is This Thing Called Love ( Porter ) 9:18 Roberta Gambarini All Star Quintet: ( Roberta Gambarini vo – not on this track), Roy Hargrove tp, Ronnie Mathews, Jimmy Woode b, Willie Jones III. Recorded at the International Jazz festival Bern (Switzerland), 24 April 2003 ( radio program) I thougty it would be very difficult to find out the members of this band, as this group, the Roberta Gambarini All Star quintet didn’t record together, but played at the International Jazz Festival in Bern April 2003, but I had overlooked our Swiss jazz expert. This tune was played as the first title in the second set and Roberta was still back stage. The musicians of her All Star Quintet belong all to my favourites: Roy Hargrove is my favourite trumpet player who visits the Porgy en Bess Jazz Club in Terneuzen (south west part of the Netherlands) at a regular base (I guess I heard him more then ten times during the last ten years ) and he often brings Willie Jones III as his regular drummer man. He will be part of the festivities in April at the 50th birthday of the Porgy en Bess Jazz club . Roberta Gambarini performed in the Porgy en Bess Jazz Club November 2003 featuring David Gazarov and Jimmy Woode on piano and bass and Steve Wiliams on drums. I was impressed to hear and see Jimmy Woode, being an accompanists who seems to have performed with all jazz greats in the world, from Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald ( to name some vocalists), Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Clark Terry, Eric Dolphy, Don Byas, Albert Nicholas, Johnny Griffin to Mal Waldron, ….. Jimmy Woode died in 2005, 80 years old. Roberta Gambarini is not on this track – sorry for that, although I was fascinated by her great voice, of course and impressed by her personality. Although she is a skilled jazz vocalist, she made but few recordings and two years ago when I got this live recording from a nice Swiss collector she hadn't made an album. Now, two years later. Roberta seemed to have released some. Roberta Gambarini website 13. Cherokee ( Ray Noble) 11:00 Lee Konitz – Brad Mehldau – Charlie Haden: Lee Konitz as, Brad Mehldau p, Charlie Haden b - Recorded Los Angeles 21 December 1996 ( Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden – Alone Together ( Blue Note 857150)) This track wasn't difficult to label, as Lee konitz is an alto sax player with his own style. This is really an all-star trio. Three very skilled musicians – all favourites of mine. All three musicians are still very active. They show their craftsmanship in this well known standard in lengthy solos. Great music !! 14. I Want To Be Happy ( Vincent Youmans ) 1:23 Willem Breuker Kollektief ( featuring Toby Rix – toeterix ) Recorded live in Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam Dec. 1988 ( Metropolis – Willem Breuker Kollektief (BV Haast CD 8903 ) ) One of the visitors of my web log wrote once, that he was happy to learn that Dutch jazz is more then Willem Breuker – I guess this is a compliment for Willem Breuker and his Kollektief. One thing is for sure – going to a concert of Willem Breuker is always fun. This time he is accompanied by Toby Rix. Toby Rix was a vaudeville artist who played in the 1950 in the Spike Jones style,using all kinds of instruments making silly noises and effects. Well known was his Toeteriks, an instrument with auto horns , bells, and percussion instruments. This rather funny tune is a great track to conclude the first CD. Willem Breuker - Toby Rix So far CD one. I hope you like it - I liked to read all your commends !! I'll post the ttrack list for the second CD soon. Survey | Keep swinging Durium