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I wish I could have heard that!  I love Carol Sloane's singing, and I imagine she would've been an ideal replacement for Ross.  

August 22-23, 2025: Jamille Brazilian Quartet, Windmills, The Colony August 23, 2025: Pt Kushal Das (Sitar) & Sandip Ghosh (Tabla), ICMC, Plano                                   Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth August 30, 2025: Doreen Ketchens, Pete Escovedo, Riverfront Jazz Festival, Fair Park, Dallas August 31, 2025: The Texas Tenors (Shelley Carrol, Jason Davis, Quamon  Fowler), Riverfront Jazz Festival, Fair Park, Dallas September 2, 2025: Isiah J; Thompson Quartet, JazzTX, San Antonio September 6, 2025: Xuefei Yang, Unity of Dallas                                    Andrew Griffith Quartet, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth September 11, 2025: Miguel Zenon Quartet, Parker Jazz Club, Austin                                   Ben Lamar Gay, Damon Locks,  Sonic Transmissions Festival, Draylen Mason Music Festival, Austin September 12, 2025:   Ibelisse Guardia Feragutti and Frank Rosaly's Mestizx, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Austin Scottish Rite Theater,  Austin                                      Miguel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston September 13, 2025: Pt Sandeep Chatterjee (Santoor) & Shubhojyoti Guha (Tabla), ICMC, Plano                                    Miguel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston                                      Clarence Johnson III, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth        September 23, 2025: Mdou Moctar, White Oak Music Hall, Houston September 24, 2025: Mdou Moctar, Radio/East, Austin September 27, 2025: Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth October 5, 2025: Kushal Das (sitar), Abhijit Banerjee (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin October 9, 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio October 10 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin October 12, 2025: Joy Clark, Little Freddie King, Bobby Rush, Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 17, 2025: Walter Smith III Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston October 21, 2025: Lila Downs, Jones Hall, Houston October 24, 2025: Jackie Venson, Tulips FTW, Fort Worth October 29, 2025: Chuck Redd, Parker Jazz Club, Austin November 12, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Meyerson, Dallas November 14, 2025: Nicholas Payton Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston November 15, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Auditorium, Austin November 16, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hobby Center, Houston February 22, 2026: Branford Marsalis Quaret, Wortham Theater, Houston March 7, 2026: Pat Metheny Side-Eye, Wortham Theater, Houston March 21, 2026: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, Southside Preservation Hall, Fort Worth March 26-29, 2026: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee April 2, 2026: Kaia Kater, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas April 10, 2026: Coltrane at 100 (Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Ndudzo Makhathini, Matt Garrison, Jefftain Watts), Cullen Theater, Houston April 23-26, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30-May 3, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin

Thanks! I admit to not keeping up with Confront enough, it's a lot. Dog Star is new to me but looks excellent.  Hammer, Roll, and Leaf is indeed great. I haven't heard Stumps from SAJ yet but Rotations is very strong, I need to pick up CDs of both sooner rather than later. And very much looking forward to hearing the new 2xCD from Cafe Oto once it hits the US, the overseas shipping is just too much for me. Plan to check out the Foster trio and Lifeline discs (as well as the new Shifa CD on Discus). The two latest McPhee discs on Klanggalerie and RougeArt are good quite good, as are the Graewe on Random Acoustics and the Perelman/Shipp on Tao Forms. Some others that I have enjoyed a fair amount so far: Das B - Love Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers  Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot  Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust  Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision  Tatsuya Yoshida & Martin Escalante - The Sound of Raspberry and a lot of great archival stuff: Irene Schweizer, Marco Eneidi, Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley, AMM/Sachiko M, Stabbins/Tippett/Moholo, Joseph Holbrooke, Sun Ra So overall, hearing a lot of good new stuff but not a ton that is grabbing me overmuch.   

I like Sloane also, and agree with your assessment, thanks.

I really like that one (I have it on an OJC CD).