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I have three of the four (all except Takayanagi) and they're excellent. Non-speakers of Japanese don't get the full "box set experience" because the booklets are in Japanese sans translation. 😉

June 27-28, 2025: Tatiana Eva Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band, Windmills, The Colony June 30, 2025: Tatiana Eva Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band, Antone's, Austin July 5, 2025: Zac Harmon, First Unitarian Church of Dallas July 12, 2025: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth July 19, 2025: Eric Gales, Billy Bobs, Fort Worth July 25, 2025: Shemekia Copeland, Kessler Theater, Dallas July 26, 2025: Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth July 29, 2025, Jazz is Dead: Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Antone's, Austin August 2-3, 2025: Satchmo Summerfest, Old Mint, New Orleans August 22-23, 2025: Jamille Brazilian Quartet, Windmills, The Colony August 23, 2025: Pt Kushal Das (Sitar) & Sandip Ghosh (Tabla), ICMC, Plano 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 6, 2025: Xuefei Yang, Unity of Dallas September 11, 2025: Miguel Zenon Quartet, Parker Jazz Club, Austin September 12-13: Miquel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston September 11-14, 2025: Ben Lamar Gay, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Feragutti and Frank Rosaly, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Austin September 13, 2025: Pt Sandeep Chatterjee (Santoor) & Shubhojyoti Guha (Tabla), ICMC, Plano September 23, 2025: Mdou Moctar, White Oak Music Hall, Houston September 24, 2025: Mdou Moctar, Radio/East, Austin October 5, 2025: Kushal Das (sitar), Abhijit Banerjee (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin October 10-12, 2025: Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans November 12, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Meyerson, Dallas November 15, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Auditorium, Austin 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 23-26, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30-May 3, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Is anyone longing for Dave Holland to return to more compelling music?  The man is a legend, one of the great bassist leaders along with Mingus and Haden (and ahead of Ron Carter, who has been putting out sedate records for quite a long time).  Holland peaked on ECM with one of the great runs (ever!) on that label.   Most notable were the two quintets—the first with three horns, bass, and drums; the second with sax, trombone, vibes, bass, drums.  Holland really established himself as bandleader, bassist, and composer; and he gave exposure to young and veteran players (Kenny Wheeler, Steve Coleman, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson, Chris Potter, Kevin Eubanks, Julian Priester Billy Kilson and many more).  To my mind he created some of the best jazz of  the last two decades of the 20th century and a bit into the 21st.  He also had nice records on the Dare2 label in sextet and octet format. But his later projects have not really engaged me.  He has worked in a lot of duos and trios, and nothing is really sticking with me. I was hoping Another Land with Kevin Eubanks would be a good one, but I found it to be pretty disappointing.   Well, he is up and years and owes us nothing.  But this was a guy I followed closely for a long time, and that just isn’t the case anymore. I welcome comments of any sort on Dave Holland and his usually superb music.

Is there any way to simply eliminate the ability to delete an old post while letting posters retain the ability to edit a post without a time limit? I have dozens of edits that I need to make in the jazz radio forum (updating links after our website moved) and would rather not bombard you guys with ongoing permission requests.