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The first album is odd, half of it is in an odd calypso jazz style. Not sure who thought that was a good idea. It wasn’t!

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John Lennon Signature Box (CD)- Discs and contents are mint. Box is VG++ $50 Steve Miller Welcome to The Vault- Discs and contents mint. Box M- $50 John Mayall The First Generation 1965-1974- Discs unplayed. Contents briefly perused. One corner slightly crunched in shipping. Photo on request. $150 Shipping is at cost for USPS Media Mail. The Mayall set is a beast in terms of its weight. Payment via PayPal FF Thanks for looking

What are your impressions of this one, @kh1958?

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, 2025: Victor Campbell, Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Joe Lastie and New Orleans Sounds' Tribute to Louis Armstrong Hot Fives, Jesse McBride, Wendell Brunious, Satchmo Summerfest, Old Mint, New Orleans August 3, 2025: Doreen's Jazz, Kyle Roussel's Church of New Orleans, Jamil Sharif and Lawrence Sieberth, Keiko Komaki, Satchmo Summerfest, Old Mint, New Orleans Clarence Johnson III, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth August 22-23, 2025: Jamille Brazilian Quartet, Windmills, The Colony August __, 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 9, 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio October 10-12, 2025: Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 17, 2025: Walter Smith III Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston 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 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 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

This again: Followed by more Tsilis:

Tony Williams Lifetime!!!!

The Three Sounds, Feelin' Good (Blue Note) Milt Jackson and Oscar Peterson, Two of the Few (Pablo)

Andrew Hill “Lift Every Voice” Blue Note Japan cd I’ve grown to really love this one. This cd has the original 1969 session and a previously unreleased session from 1970. 300×300 7.4 KB

Yes definitely a disc at a time box set I agree. I hope I didn't shout out anything embarrassing 😀 I have never bought the CD to find out...

Sorry to hear this.

Starting off a warm morning with the lovely sound of Ruby Braff & His Buddies “Controlled Nonchalance: Live at the Regatta Bar (Vol. 1)” Arbors Jazz cd A very nice way to greet the new day.

Thanks Mark I think I will but will consume in small doses one disc at a time this kinda music asks all your attention is my experience. Must have been an amazing experience being there. Fun idea when I’ll listen that I know you were applauding there on my cd

A bit OT, because because I cannot add more about the Polydor connection of Freedom ... But as for the black-and-white (predominantly black) Black Lion covers that you mention, they were very typical of Black Lion LPs, and these very often came on reissues of music not just a few years old, but decades-old, sometimes dating back to the 78 rpm era. In fact, Black Lion has always seemed like a reissue label to me (maybe my tastes dictated where I came across Black Lion LPs). Earlier Black Lions (released in the 70s and distributed by Intercord here, by Audiofidelity in the USA and by RCA (!) in France) had white covers and differently-styled artwork (reissuing music from Eddie Laguna's label and from the SwingTime label, for example). The typical black covers must have come along in the 80s (typically with LP catalog numbers in the 60000s). Those black ones reissued a lot from the Storyville label of the 50s (Ruby Braff, Zoot Sims/Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz, Jackie and Roy, a.o.), but also some extremely early Miles Davis. Not sure what you mean with "inferior-looking" covers, but to me the main snag with these was that they almost always used MODERN (very recent) photographs of the artists, which was extremely out of tune with the musical contents inside.

RIP Victor!

I hope you enjoy the box Pim, it's a lot of EP, a treasure trove. I was at that Vortex gig in '96

Am I the last man in America to have read this? More novellas. Memoirs of a drug smuggler. Apparently, it's easy until they all start ratting on each other.

a lovely deal on Discogs (excluding the Parker boxed set). Couldn’t resist. Haven’t spun the Evan Parker box yet but it looks like a piece of art

Encore!

Saw her about a year and a half ago at Big Ears. Really good show!

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Not a trumpet guy, got it, thank you.

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