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I did well yesterday to pick up the following,  all for four bucks apiece and all nice and clean.   (The store prices its "auctionable" records accordingly (e.g., Trudy Pitts for 60 bucks),   but everything else gets tossed into crates and blown out at $4 -$5 apiece (buy 2 get 1 free)!    Here's what $20 will buy🙂: -  John Lewis,   P.O.V.  (Columbia)    This was the gem of the day -  a Columbia date cut just after MJQ broke up for the first time,  built around a core trio of Lewis,  Richard Davis on bass and Mel Lewis on drums.  Lewis' delicate single note lines swing with assurance,  and Davis is just all over his bass.   Absolutely captivating,  especially with lights out. -    David and Larry Koonse,  Father & Son Jazz Guitars (Dobre).   I'd never seen this one before.  Larry Koonse was 17 when this was cut,  a quartet with father and son trading leads on five long tracks,  anchored by Putter Smith and John Tirabasso.    A relaxed,  swinging and well-recorded session.    - The Trio (Milt Hinton,  Bob Rosengarden/ Hank Jones (Chiaroscuro).    Given the up-front prominence and swing of Milt Hinton's bass,  I'll assign him the leadership role on this 1977 date,  but the group was brought to Hank O'Neal's attention by Rosengarden,  who raved that it was working a gig in Florida and had developed a ferocious groove.    -  Cornell Dupree,  Shadow Dancing (Versatile).   This a CTI-style date,  with arrangements that strike me as unsubtle and dated.   But the sound of the record is great and Dupree plays some mean, unadorned guitar.    -   Al Cohn and his Orchestra,  That Old Feeling.   This is one of Cohn's series of fifties LPs for RCA,  with full arrangements, including strings,  by Ralph Burns, Manny Albam,  Ernie Wilkins and Cohn himself.    Soloists are by Cohn, and Joe Newman on trumpet.    -    Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic,  Hartford, 1953.  This is a Pablo issue of previously unheard JATP fun from long ago.   Three tracks feature Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson trio.   I love fifties Lester,  his sound a big less ephemeral,  a bit more earthy,  than in his late thirties heyday. - Humphrey Lyttleton and His Band,  Humph In Perspective.    This is one of Lyttleton's best bands,  recorded in 1958 by Denis Preston,  comprising an octet with a front line of Lyttleton on trumpet,  Johnny Picard on trombone  Jimmy Skidmore and Tony Coe on tenor,  and Joe Temperly on baritone.    With that lineup,  it's hard not to hear a Benny Carter-like sound.   This was a transition record for Lyttleton; he was moving away from trad and towards the swing/jump band sound but hadn't yet recruited Bruce Turner.   So the repertoire included both modern jazz and pre-bop material like Out of the Gallion,   arranged for the octet.    Very cool stuff.     

Dyan Cannon's brother!

Correct.  Teo Macero copped the writer's credit.

Also available via MP3.   I had the Mosaic, but couldn't resist the crazy money it started selling for. 

Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra "Live at the I.U.C.C. 3/30/80" Nimbus West cd