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By 2006, I had a job at Analog Devices which didn't require me to be on the road all the time. That said, I still had to make a few trips. One was to Hong Kong to visit one of Analog Device's assembly houses. While there, I caught the Tomio Morota Sextet at a really nice club.

I'm not surprised, as Wergo is the label of his publisher, Schott. All, really all of his works were published by Schott. A lot of works were issued on Wergo in reference recordings. I happen to be friends with two people working there, and one of them once invited me to a tour through their cabinets with autographs, memorabilia and the like - very nice. 

Per CDJapan, the following titles will be reissued on August 13, 2025:   Monty Alexander/Live At The Cully Select Jazz Festival 1991 Scott Hamilton & Rein De Graaff Trio featuring Marcela Hendriks/Back to the Jazz Room Carter Jefferson/The Rise Of Atlantis Timeless Allstars/It's timeless Kenny Drew Trio/Cleopatra's Dream Tete Montoliu/Catalonian Folksongs Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.6 Lex Jasper/Solo Great Jazz Trio/Standard CollectionVol.2 Timeless Allstars/Timeless Heart Carlo Atti Quartet/Straight Ahead Lex Jasper Trio with Orchestra/Lexpression Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion 2 Art Blakey - Freddie Hubbard/Feel The Wind Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/In My PrimeVol.2 Tommy Flanagan/Jazz Poet European Jazz Trio/NORWEGIAN WOOD Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.7 George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet/Live at Montmartre Chet Baker/Live In Japan - 1987 FukuiVOL.2 Eugen Cicero/Jazz Bach Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/BLUE NIGHT Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion 3 Johnny Griffin/The Jamfe Coming! Dave Liebman/Do in it again Herman Forster/One And Only Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/OH-BY THE WAY Irvin Rochlin Trio/Quirine George Adams/PARADISE SPACE SHUTTLE Tommy Flanagan featuring Kenny Burrell/Beyond The Bluebird McCoy Tyner/Bon Voyage George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet/Decisions Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion 4 Archie Shepp/I Didn't Know About You Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.8 George Adams - Don Pullen/Earth Beams Al Cohn/Rifftide Great Jazz Trio/Standard CollectionVol.1 European Jazz Trio/Orange City Eugen Cicero/Rococo Jazz 2 Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.1 Machito And His Salsa Big Band/Machito!!! Cedar Walton - Ron Carter/HEART AND SOUL Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/Chippin' In Ann Burton/It Might As Well Be love Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion Hank Jones - Red Mitchell/Duo V.A./Timeless Jazz Classic - Now and Then Compiled by Gilles Peterson Rene Thomas/Hommage A Rene Thomas Chet Baker/Cool Cat - Chet Baker Plays, Chet Baker Sings Dave Liebman/If They Only New Art Farmer And European Jazz Trio/Ballad Of The Sad Young Man Joanne Brackeen - Clint Houston/New True Illusion George Adams - Don Pullen/Melodic Excursions Bill Evans/MomentumVOL.2 George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet/City Gates Joanne Brackeen & Ryo Kawasaki/Trinkets And Things Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/In My PrimeVol.1 Lou Donaldson/Forgotten Man Bill Evans/MomentumVOL.1 Ben Webster/Live At The Haarlemse Jazz Club Chet Baker/Sings Again Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.4 Chet Baker - Philip Catherine/There Will Never Be Another You Curtis Fuller/Meets Roma Jazz Trio John Hicks/Is That So New Edition Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.3 Karel Boehlee Trio/Switch George Coleman - Tete Montoliu/meditation The Red Garland Trio/Misty Red Kirk Lightsey - Chet Baker/Everything Happens To Me George Adams - Don Pullen Quartet/Life Line Ronnie Mathews/Selena's Dance Eero Koivistoinen/Pictures in Three Colors Chet Baker Quartet/Live in Rosenheim Kirk Lightsey Trio Featuring Freddie Hubbard/Temptation Debbie Poryes/Trio Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.5 Bill Evans/Live at Keystone Korner 1980VOL.2 Tete Montoliu/Secret Love Tete Montoliu/Live At The Keystone Corner Joanne Brackeen/AFT Pharoah Sanders/Africa Chet Baker/Mr.B Benny Golson Featuring Curtis Fullert/California Message Rene Van Helsdingen/Healthdingen Jazz Steve Grossman/Live At Cafe Praga Great Jazz Trio/Great StandardVol.3 Bill Evans Trio/Consecration1 European Jazz Trio/Night Train Dannie Richmond & The Last Mingus Band/Plays Charles Mingus Mikesch Van Grummer feat.Lee Konitz/Balraha Jikurasu Bill Evans Trio/Consecration2 Freddie Hubbard - Woody Shaw - Benny Golson/Time Speaks Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/Reflection In Blue Bill Evans Trio/Consecration3 Louis Hayes - Junior Cook/Ichi-Ban Curtis Fuller/Four On The Outside Pharoah Sanders/Moon Child Benny Golson - Curtis Fuller/One More Memory Tone Jansa Quartet featuring Woody Shaw/DR. CHI George Coleman/Amsterdam After Dark Chet Baker/Live In Japan - 1987 FukuiVOL.1 Joe Farrell/Vim'n'Vigor Monty Alexander/Saturday Night John Hicks Trio/I'll Give You Something To Remember Me... Art Blakey And The Jazzmessengers Big Band/Live At Montreux And Northsea Woody Shaw/Woody Shaw With Tone Jansa Quartet Jaco Pastorius - Rashied Ali/The Blackbyrds Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers/Album of the year     Some rarities on this list!    

This next scan is near and dear to my heart... I loved traveling to Germany and it's one of the few things I missed during those many years of travel. I used to fly into the Munich Airport and stay in Freising, which is where the Munich Airport is actually located. The taxi drivers hated when I jumped in and had them drive me to downtown Freising instead of downtown Munich, as the fare was about $50 Euros cheaper. Freising is a great little German town, with the Weinenstephan brewery/beer garden on the lonely hilltop in the town center and at least one time I visited in May of 1997, a little Jazz club that had a really good bari sax player playing with Victor Alcantara's quintet the night I stopped in. This next shot is something I've posted on my Facebook account. It was from a trip to Taiwan and I managed to meet up with someone I had communicated with on the rec.music.bluenote newsgroup. He bought me tickets to see Zorn's Masada for two of the four nights they played at the tiny Crown Theater in Taipei. I had a blast. My wife was really freaked out that I was going to meet someone I only knew from the Internet. She had nothing to worry about. I had so much fun with David Toman the first night that he asked me to crash at his apartment the second night to avoid the train fiasco of that first night. That was a story in itself... What the heck, here's the story... So I was staying in Hsinchu, a city about 45 minutes by train from Taipei. I went to the first night's shows and David dropped me off at the train that would bring me back to Hsinchu. Three unfortunate things happened next. The first was that the signs for the stops changed from Chinese/English to only Chinese, which I don't speak. Luckily a young woman on the train with me spoke a little English, so she was able to tell me when to get off the train. The second problem was that when I got off the train at about 2:30 AM, the station was pitch black and there wasn't a taxi to be seen. I could see my hotel so I figured I could walk... which bring me to the third problem. As I started walking (in my leather work shows), I saw a bunch of shady looking dudes start peeking out from doorways and alleyways. Once I saw a couple jump out and start following me, I put on the jets. Luckily I was still young then.  Scared the shit out of me, I tell you.

Over the years, especially during the years 1995-1999, when I had a job requiring me to travel all over the world, I accumulated flyers/ads/schedules from Jazz clubs all over. I recently retired and was going through my old work folders and found a stash of them. I'll scan and post them and see if I was there with any of you. First up was from one of my first trips to New York City, which was for vacation and not work. Next up is a memorable one. It was the only time I got to see Teddy Edwards. It was a weird place... set up as a restaurant first & foremost (they required that I order a meal) and they acted like I was a weirdo for requesting the table near the stage. I was the only one clapping for the band, which was pretty sad as Teddy was playing his ass off. Once you look at it, you can see why I tried getting my boos to let me go out a week earlier and make it a three week stay.  He didn't buy my story about wanting to visit some other customer sites in the LA area. I'm still kicking myself as I never did get a chance to see Horace Tapscott or Red Holloway play live. Heck, I would've liked to have made it 4 weeks and caught Maupin's band too.. This one is hard (impossible?) to read but I couldn't get the scan any clearer. It is a scan of a folded up schedule for the Goteborg Jazzdagar's October 23-28, 1996 schedule. Sadly, I was not able to go to the one show on here that I really really wanted to see and that was Arne Domnerus with Bengt Hallberg on the 28th, as work intruded and I had to go out with a customer (who was not into jazz).