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Another weird thing: no public statement from Kenny about this.

At one point, Sonny was selling downloads on his website (sonnyrollins.com). I nabbed that download of "Lover." I don't remember him offering the other 2 tunes.

Dodo is like Gloria Lynne (maybe not so over the top, but in that general style). She would have been at home on the Ed Sullivan Show. Hardly jazz, even with the stellar accompanists. How are those two Blakey Holiday for Skins albums? Are they similar to his other drum-focused albums (Orgy in Rhythm, Drums Around The Corner, Drum Suite)? I kinda liked DATC, never cared for Orgy, haven't heard Drum Suite. Oh yeah, The African Beat too; never heard that one either.

I always thought he was an anti-semite. I won't miss him.

That's good to know. I shall donate.

Can anyone ask Jimmy Eigo where he got the info? Similar discussion on another Web page: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/kenny-burrell-facing-serious-health-challenges.2045193/

Before I posted, I did a cursory Web search, and was surprised at how little personal information I could find about KB. No mention of his wife's name or where he currently lives. It does seem that his 85th birthday concert was his last one to date, but I couldn't find a mention of a subsequent accident. The rest of the GFM story...I dunno, but I'd think that someone who's the director of UCLA's Jazz Studies program wouldn't be in such dire straits. This, however, surprised me: https://news.allaboutjazz.com/david-burrell-son-of-kenny-burrell-dead-at-49.php

No mention of this on Kenny's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Kenny-Burrell-109029095795560/

Received the Oscar Pettiford discs today, in great condition. Thanks!

I'd love to find the OTC box at a decent price. The download is $39.99, but I want the discography and liner notes.

PM sent on the 3 Oscar Pettiford titles: Oscar Pettiford - Bass (Bethlehem) Oscar Pettiford - Baden Baden Unreleased Radio Tapes (Delta) Oscar Pettiford - Discoveries (Vogue)

This is what was printed: So I'm talking a little earlier to a dear friend and fellow record collector about a short stack of Lester Young 78's that he's currently got for sale. And one of them in the stack happens to be on the Mercury label. Now, those in the know about these things (namely, for the most part, a large gathering of proud 78rpm record collectors, natural masochists that we are ) know that Mercury Records, in the late 1940's, acquired the entire catalog of a small, independent label called "Keynote Recordings", which happened to have a big chunk of exceptional jazz. Well, not only did Mercury acquire their complete catalog, but they also took a lot of Keynote's pressing back stock and simply pasted their own labels over them. The conversation reminded me that I happen to have one of those pasted-over back stock pressings - and it happens to be a pair of real doozies on a 12" 78 by the "Kansas City Seven" or, as the Mercury label lists, "Count Basie and his Kansas City Seven". And, the one I've got (originally Keynote 1303-B), you can actually peel back the Mercury label some to reveal the original Keynote label beneath! And it's only on one side - the original Keynote label remains on the flipside ("Destination K.C." by the Kansas City Seven). It's kind of weird to look at that Mercury label listing Count Basie at the piano because the original Keynote labels list only a "Prince Charming" at the piano instead. No, that's really Basie, but Keynote had to list Basie under a pseudonym because, at the time these we're originally issued (mid-1944 - recorded March 22, 1944), Count Basie was under exclusive contract to Columbia Records and, as such, while he was free to record on different labels, he could not, in any way, appear listed under his own name. But, by the time Mercury got hold of Keynote's catalog and back stock of pressings, Count Basie was recording for Mercury, so he could be listed correctly (Mercury "released" these recordings around 1950). Anyways, enough gabbage - enjoy a little collecting eccentricity below. Got both original KC Five/Seven 12" 78rpm Keynote pressings below. :

Release date May 10:

Release date June 14:

Any further developments on the CD that Uptown was preparing of early recordings?

There was a Herbie Mann CTI?

Thanks for the tip! I got one too.

I can't remember where I read that.

Yes, if you count a pair of trousered legs in the background of Cool Struttin'.

There is a cheaper way to go: a Collectables two-fer of Hasaan and Roach's Drums Unlimited for $4.98 from oldies.com: https://oldies.com/product-view/62562.html

You are correct. I was mistaking this album for Spontaneous Combustion.

Excellent!

https://www.amazon.com/Roach-Trio-Featuring-Legendary-Hasaan/dp/B07Q8Q6P3M/ref=sr_1_111?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1556301780&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-111

I noticed the difference when I looked at the photos included in the Hank Mobley Mosaic box. Man, those guys were sharply dressed!

Looking again at the Bohemia After Dark cover, the photo seems to have been taken at Rudy's (by the curtains). I'm struck by Paul Chambers doing the date in his undershirt. Granted, it was recorded in July, but it struck me that in all of Francis Wolff's photos taken during recording dates, you never saw the musicians underdressed. I wonder if BN had a dress code for musicians because they knew Frank's photos might be used on covers.