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15 June 2016

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Will Friedwald sees John Murray Anderson's film "The King of Jazz" as being on the cutting edge of 1930s film technology ( Wall Street Journal).
--- Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann talks to Milli Häuser who since ten years organizes the concert series "Tatort Jazz" in Bochum, Germany ( WAZ).
--- Richard Williams remembers the late trumpeter Harry Beckett (who was a regular musical visitor to Darmstadt) ( The Blue Moment).
--- Edward Faine remembers the Modern Jazz Club in Cleveland, Ohio, and his first and only encounter with Miles Davis ( Fainebooks). At the same time we were notified of an amateur recording documenting Miles Davis sitting in with the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard in 1981 ( YouTube; thanks to Bill Kirchner).
--- Ben Ratliff attends the Vision Festival in New York ( New York Times).
 --- Jim Farber feels sad for the closure of vinyl record shops in Greenwich Village ( New York Times).
--- Nadine Jones recalls meeting Duke Ellington at a 1970 Salvation Army funding drive ( Richmond News).
--- Ben Ratliff hears the drummer Makaya McCraven and his band at Le Poisson Rouge in New York ( New York Times).
--- Jürgen Schmich talks to the German book and record dealer Wolfgang Stephan about being a jazz collector and a dealer at the same time ( Plattensüchtig).


Obituaries
We read another obituary about the author Claire Gordon ( Los Angeles Times). --- We learned of the passing of baritone saxophonist Tom Olin (courtesy of David Gibson), the Austrian jazz historian Klaus Schulz at the age of 76 ( Badische Zeitung), the Brazilian pianist Aloisio Milanez Aguiar ( Jazz Station), as well as the German double bassist Chris Lachotta at the age of 57 ( BR-Klassik, Süddeutsche Zeitung ).