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Dear Dan, First of all thanks for the great compilation. I learned that several people have posted their thoughts about it. I'll share my thoughts about two tracks. 1. Very groovy and I thought it could be Jimmy McGriff atr the hammond. 6. I also believed Milt Jackson was at the vibes, but isn't there another one too? I'll post some thoughts about disc 2 later. Keep swinging Durium

I like his tune My Heart Skips a Beat as played by the Duke Jordan Quartet with Art Farmer on trumpet. Keep swinging Durium

The recording Ben op zijn best ( to be translated as Ben at his best) is one of my favorites. It was recorded in 1970 in Laren ( The Netherlands) with a Dutch line up, featuring Ray Kaart, Herman Schoonderwalt, Rudy Brink, Cees Slinger, Rob Langereis and John Engels. If you like the music of Ben you should try to find a copy of this LP. As far as I know it was never reissued on CD. Anxious to learn more about this record? Keep swinging durium

Conversations with Michel This CD contains an interview of Michel Petrucciani with the producer Ben Sidren for a 1988 radio program. For me this interview, although very informative, is a bit superfluous as it is printed entirely in the liner notes. The Conversations between Bob Malach on tenor sax and Michel Petrucciani on piano are great and make this CD worth to listen to. 1-2-3-10 My Bebop Tune 5. For All Time's Sake 6. Contradictions 7. Theme For Ernie 8. You Must Believe in Spring 4-9 Interview More about the CD Keep swinging Durium

I got mine, Don ! When will the party starts? Keep swinging Durium

I found the 1948 Stan Getz Quartette recordings on a History 2CD ( now out of print). I have no info about the other items. The CD is to obtain by internet. Ask information directly at the producer Tohru Seya ( fa83547@da2.so-net.ne.jp). You can give him my name. Keep Swinging Durium

MODERN SAX STYLISTS 1947 – 1953 Audio Park APCD-6106 STAN GETZ QUARTETTE ( 25-26 Nov.( = Oct.) 1948) / 1. Pardon My Bop - 2. As I Live And Bop – 3. Interlude in Be Bop – 4. Diaper Pin STAN GETZ with AL HAIG QUINTET ( 12 May 1949) / 5. Poop Deck – 6. Pennies From Heaven WARDELL GRAY QUARTETTE (Late 1948) / 7. Light Gray – 8. The Toup WARDELL GRAY with BUDDY STEWART QUINTET (ca. Apr. 1949) / 9. Shawn WARDELL GRAY with AL HAIG QUINTET ( ca Apr. 1949) 10. Five Star – 11. Sugar Hill Bop ALLEN EAGER with RED RODNEY’s BE-BOPPERS ( 29 Jan. 1947) / 12. Elevation ALLEN EAGER with DAVE LAMBERT TRIO (ca. May 1948) / 13. Deedle ALLEN EAGER QUARTETTE ( Summer 1948) / 14. The Way You Look Tonight HERBIE STEWARD QUINTET ( 17 Jan. 1950 - * 9 Feb. 1951) / 15. Medicine Man – 16. Passport To Pimlico 17. T’ant No Use – 18. Sinbad The Tailor - * 19 My Last Affair – * 20. My Baby Just Cares For Me This CD opens with recordings Stan Getz made for the rare “Sittin’ in with” label October 1948 (The CD info gives November). Half a year later he’s also present on some Al Haig’s Quintet recordings for the Seeco label. Getz, who had been one of the so called Four Brothers in Woody Herman’s band started his own groups and his name was raising in the polls. His Royal Roost recordings are known and belong to the best Getz made. It is great to listen here to other, less known tunes from the same period. Al Haig, was a skilled piano player, unknown to the general public. His exceptional technique gave him a flexibility and quickness of response that made him a fine accompanist to soloists as Stan Getz, Wardell Gray, Allen Eager and Herbie Steward, all on this CD. Haig is to be found on almost all recording on this compilation. Wardell Gray is on five tracks. Gray, influenced by Lester Young, had experimented with the modern music styles in Benny Goodman’s small groups. He became, like Haig, undervalued, due to the fact that he died a few years later before he could make a name for himself. Another remarkable sax player from this period is Allen Eager. He plays on this compilation in the bands of Red Rodney and Dave Lambert. Dave Lambert, one of the pioneers in bebop singing, became famous with his group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. The final tracks of this CD have been reserved for Herbie Steward’s Royal Roost recordings from the early 1950s. Like Stan Getz Steward was discovered by Woody Herman while they were in Butch Stone’s band. They became part of the Second Herd. Getz was impressed by Herbie Steward’s sax playing: “Herbie’s got such beautiful soul. Even playing lead chair. His lead alto is the nearest thing to a human voice I’ve ever heard”. He said about him. I like the tune “Passport To Pimlico” very much, a great performance with contributions of Herbie Steward, Al Haig and Jimmy Raney. Audio Park has create a great second item in its series of Modern Stylists (The first one was the Audio Park 6102 “Modern Clarinet Stylists”) and I’m anxious to hear their next Modern Stylists release. Keep Swinging Durium

I enjoyed the Thelonious Monk Quartet ( featuring John Coltrane) live recordings at the Five Spot Café in New York City 11 September 1958. These recordings are previous released by Blue Note (although wrong dated as summer 1957), but are now complete available and in the correct chronological order at Gambit Records. More info Keep swinging Durium

The Crisco commercial Goodbye Blues as sung by the Mills Brothers in 1932 is a well known Durium advertisement record. I got a link to the 1932 Max Fleischer Follow The Bouncing Ball cartoon, featuring the Mills Brothers singing I Ain't Got Nobody ( introducing that same Goodbye Blues) and I was fascinated by the similarities between the durium record and the first scene of the film. If you like you can enjoy this item at my Hit of the week blog spot Keep swinging Durium

Tonight I will join the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. Sixty seven years ago another great jazz festival was organized in the Netherlands by the jazz magazine De Jazzwereld. It was organised in The Hague ( Scheveningen ). One of the main attractions was scedulded for today but it was replaced to the next day. Learn more about it Keep swinging Durium

Can you imagine? Svend Asmussen - 15 July 2006. In concert at Tivoli, Copenhagen (Denmark) at the age of 90. Keep swinging Durium

You can order this CD directly in Japan without any problems. Send me a message pm and i'll forward you the email address of the producer. Keep swinging Durium

I'd like to recommend you the Japanese re-issue CD on the Audio-Park label titled Modern Clarinet Stylists 1947 - 1953 (APCD-6102). This CD contains the music of three clarinet players who restyled modern playing around 1950. Musicians like Buddy DeFranco, Stan Hasselgard en Putte Wickman. The recordings have never been reissued before or a rare to find items now. More infor to be found at this site Great! A year ago I was at a concert with Putte Wickman in Copenhagen. He played like a young God. He died half a year ago (January 2006) Read about this concert here. Keep swinging Durium

Neil Young Neil Sedaka Sedajazz Big Band Band Zonder Naam De Zangeres Zonder Naam Band Zonder Stekkers ( = Animal Crackers)

A year ago I visited the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. I didn't visit the great concert halls with great names, but visited the small venues in the city. It gave me the opporunity to learn more about the Danish jazz scene that has a great name. Think about Jacob Fischer. Christina von Bülow, Putte Wickman en de groep Choro Brasil Scandinavia. I was very honoured to met the then 89 years old Danish entertainer and jazz violist Svend Asmussen Keep swinging Durium

I'd love to recommend the Japanese Audio Park CD New York In The '30s, a compilation of rare 78rpm material. I like the selection and the sound quality of Audio Park very much. New York In The 30s Keep swinging Durium

I'd like to recommend the great documentary about the Brazilian music style Choro, also called Brazilian Jazz. It is titled Brasileirinho and was made by Mika Kaurismäki. Brasileirinho Keep swinging Durium

Today ( June 29th, 2006), fifty years ago, Helen Merrill and the Orchestra of Gil Evans did record four tunes that became, together with four others made three days earlier, highlights in vocal jazz. If you have the opportunity to listen to these great standards, do so !! Keep swinging Durium

Today ( June 29th, 2006), fifty years ago, Helen Merrill and the Orchestra of Gil Evans did record four tunes that became, together with four others made three days earlier, highlights in vocal jazz. If you have the opportunity to listen to these great standards, do so !! Keep swinging Durium

I was impressed to hear the music of Bud Powell played "live" by this great pianist. And it was very special to speak to her after the concert. More about that in my Keepswinging webblog Durium

I listened to Toshiko Akiyoshi's Time Stream CD last night and remembered a solo concert I heard in 2001. She's a great pianist and arranger. Keep swinging Durium

Fourty years ago Donald Byrd recorded six tracks for his Blue Note album Mustang. It's a style of music I love to hear. Keep swinging Durium

Are you anxious to learn more about Choro? A new Choro blog has been started and filled by Denmarks largest choro fan ( 1.90 m) Joergen Larsen. Enjoy it. Choro blog spot Keep swinging Durium

I was at a solo concert with Toshiko Akiyoshi some years ago and spoke some words with her. I'll tell more about this meeting in my Keep swinging webblog within a few days if you like. Durium

Some times ago I saw the documentary Mingus, iId like to recommendate to you. It's a remarkable document !! Keep swinging Durium