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Gene Ammons “Legends of Acid Jazz” Prestige cd The man with the horn that could do it all, from swing to funk and beyond. Bass – Ron Carter (tracks: 1 to 6) Drums – Billy James (tracks: 13, 14), Idris Muhammad (tracks: 1 to 12) Guitar – George Freeman (tracks: 1 to 12), Paul Weeden (tracks: 13, 14) Organ – Don Patterson (tracks: 13, 14), Leon Spencer (tracks: 7 to 12) Piano, Electric Piano – Harold Mabern (track Tenor Saxophone – Gene Ammons (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 14), Sonny Stitt (tracks: 7 to 10, 12) 1-6 recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on Nov. 11, 1970 and originally released on Prestige 10006 as Gene Ammons - The Black Cat! 7-12 recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on Feb. 8, 1971 and originally released on Prestige 10019 as Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - You Talk That Talk! 13 and 14 recorded in Chicago, May 1962 and originally released on Prestige 7791 as Various - The Soul/Jazz Giants                

Oh right, the International Phonograph dude was posting as Horwich… been awhile, couldn’t remember whose handle was whose.    That Daley would be a revelation, surely, if it ever gets released.

1999 was the one year I lived near enough to New York City that I could head in if I wanted to skip work the next day. This is from the Spring of 1999. I saw Andrew Hill and his sextet play there March 13, which I know because Andrew signed an LP and dated it. It was really one of my more memorable Jazz shows. They recorded it for release but there was some sort of technical glitch, so they recorded them again and that was what was released. For a short time in the summer of 2004, Amesbury, MA had a nice pub downtown that offered live Jazz nights. You know I had to go when pianist Alex Minasian brought Curtis Fuller in for a show. This is timely finding this, as Alex is coming to Jimmy's in Portsmouth, NH tonight and I'm sitting right up front with my two daughters.

Bump- both sets now $45 each.  Take them both for $80 plus shipping. 

Another club that I went to frequently but never got a slyer from was the Blue Note Club in Taipei. No matter the name, this club is not affiliated with the Blue Note chain of clubs. It's a cool place, which is why I went often, but the cigarette smoke back in the 90s was really bad. I don't know if they still allow it in there today. I don't know what year this is from, but I think it's from 1994. I wish I could remember what show I saw from this list of great shows. For some reason, I think it was one of the shows Mike Ledonne did with Eric Alexander on Tuesdays. But looking at it, it may have been Harold Mabern.