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Big Sid Catlett

Kitty Callen and Doris Day

Nat Cole Trio

Portrait of Ted Kelly, Kenny Kersey, Benny Fonville, (Scoville) Toby Browne, Shep Shepherd, and Buck Clayton, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1947

Portrait of (Scoville) Toby Browne, Kenny Kersey, and Buck Clayton, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1947

Portrait of Serge Chaloff, Georgie Auld, Red Rodney, and Tiny Kahn et alii New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947

Louis Jordan. . . and can these all be named Moe?

"Jonesy" and Strays.

Sol (Solomon) Yaged, John (O.) Levy, Jimmy Jones, and Rex William Stewart, Pied Piper, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947

Portrait of Jay Higginbotham, Pete Johnson, Henry Allen, and Lester Young, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., ca. 1940

Mr. and Mrs. Bunk Johnson

A Texan. . . Mr. Harry James

Jacquet

Bags

SHE WOULD NOT DO THAT!

Left to right: Tadd Dameron, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, in Mary Lou's apartment.

I picked up Love Call years ago because it was said to be being deleted. . . boy was I jumping the gun! But it's a good session indeed. Not sure if it's going to be remastered and rereleased again soon. . . that is getting harder and harder to call these days! I guess I better get the Di Battista soon if I'm going to get it. . . .

Well, I've gotta be different. . . the Gil Evans set for me. Fantastic music, and the new material really gives insight into its construction. I like all the dates, and the booklet is fascinating. . . I l just dig this one a lot! I love the others too. I'm so happy to have them all. But the Gil Evans set really I value a bit more as a box.

I think this is a great Mosaic set, the sound is better than the Fresh Sounds/Blue Moon cds (remixed by Malcolm Addey, so they don't sound exactly the same as the lps, but boy does the sound smoke on this compared to the other cds!) And there is a lot of great music here. I've had this material in several formats and this is the one I kept. For me it's a really pleasurable set.

It's a good read. It's poetry in comparison with the others if you ask me. . . a little bit romantic and fantastic.

Yeah, it's nowhere near his best, but the show is always Hawk himself, and he plays really well on that to my ears, with that wonderful sound that conjures up ghosts and images, and the strength and power even in the tenderest moments. . . . In that way I feel it is representative of his work. I was listening Sunday to his two Moodsville sessions, out on cd by OJC, both with Tommy Flanagan on piano. . . . Man, that is some great stuff. Worth checking out to see other sides of this duodecagonal (at least!) artist!