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I feel it was worth it. Sound quality is exceptional and they give you a code for downloading lossless digital files. I’m very happy with the purchase.

1 – Excellent cut, great swing and energy, no guesses. 2 – Another very nice cut, positive funk factor! Julius Hemphill with Abdul Wadud? 3 – I hope they put him out of his pain soon. No thanks. AEC? 4 – Back in the groove. Classic stuff. 5 – Now I like this a lot, where #3 annoyed me. Dewey Redman? 6 – Way better than #3, worse than #5 to me. It’s OK, grows old to me. Three free cuts out of six total so far? Dan Gould will not be amused! 7 - Love this, a cut that gets past my head to my soul. Can’t wait for reveal, and sure hope I have it on the shelves somewhere (or if not, that I can remedy it soon). Master players. 8 – My wife was very fond of Bosco cartoons as a child, but this one is not for me. 9 – Also not for me. World music, I guess. 10 – Get on the good foot! Plays great in the background, smooth as can be. 11 – Cut #4 from this, much better known from the soundtrack of a movie I’ve never seen. I’ve never really connected with this singer. What a varied BFT, thanks! 7 is sublime, 2, 4 and 5 of definite interest. 1 and 10 also winners in my book.

Retrospective features for April 2026 Named artist's music is heard in the first 20 minutes or so of each hour. Wednesdays at midnight to 1 a.m. Thursday morning, "Out On Blue Lake." Then all stream the next day from www.bluelakeradio.org 1. Booker Little, trumpet/composition 2. WFMT 3. Coleman Hawkins with Oscar Pettiford Trio live in Essen, Germany 6. Paul Keller, bass 7. Billie Holiday, voice 8. Organissimo, band 9. Steve Talaga, piano/composition 10. Freddie Hubbard, trumpet 13. Bud Freeman, tenor saxophone 14. Aubrey Johnson, voice 15. Alice Coltrane, piano/harp 16. Klas Lindquist, alto saxophone 17. Miles Davis, trumpet/bandleader 20. Nicole Zuraitis, voice 21. Dave Douglas, trumpet 22 Charles Mingus, bass/piano 23. Dave Slonaker Big Band 24 Ella Fitzgerald, voice 27 Scott Robinson, multi-instrumentalist 28 Supersax, band 29 Duke Ellington, composer/bandleader/pianist 30 Herbie Hancock, keyboards/bandleader

The cd set has not yet been released, so that may explain no reviews of that, and the LP set is even more prohibitively expensive. I have the cd set on pre-order and ordered the two volumes of Stan Getz at Zardi's to help with the postal bite, but have about three to four weeks to wait yet before one is received. Judging from the other sets of theirs I have I expect the sound quality to be the best the source would be.

10. Of course it reminds The Meters "Cissy Strut", another one similar is Reuben Wilson "Bus ride". Ultra funky.

Try the Strings Attached record he made with Jimmy Rainey. Al aways had a beautiful touch but he just didn't get modal playing like some others of his generation.

I haven't seen any reviews on Hoffman or here regarding these releases. About a $60 investment with shipping. Worth it?

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Not far off. I was in the front row, leaning on the rail, on the far left facing the stage.

I really dig the bowed bass in #2, which ought to give some pointer, but no guess as yet.

Artemis on Sunday at Keystone Korner. Fabulous!

A new discovery. Includes Frank Strazzeri on piano, one of my favorites.

Hello April O'Neil! TRACK ONE - Ra, "Fall Off The Log". from the Transition sessions. Unmistakable. TRACK TWO - No idea, but it's locked in solid. I like it. TRACK THREE - Pretty specific alto vocabulary, spoken with confidence and command. No idea who it is. Jarman/Moye? TRACK FOUR - Good continuity, if not particularly creative TRACK FIVE - Sonny Simmons? Good directed energy. Direction gives shape, shape gives form. This quite coherent within itself, very nice. TRACK SIX - Gain, great focus, direction. No idea who it is, but I like it. TRACK SEVEN - Sure sounds like Sonny Fortune, his voice. Nice tune, and very vocally played. Sonny Fortune has kinda stayed further under the radar than maybe he deserves. This got that spling! TRACK EIGHT - That's gotta be that comb guy - Red McKenzie, right? Oh, Hawk! Mound City Blue Blowers. Definitely a keeper, if only for Hawk, who is (hopefully) eternal. TRACK NINE - That one flute sounds no unlike the comb on the previous cut. Was that intentional sequencing on your part? No idea who this is, not really my hunker down bag, but it's welcoming nevertheless. TRACK TEN - Oh, the long shadow of The Meters, "Cissy Strut" in particular. That sounds like Grant, and that's definitely a Van Gelder joint. But not Grant's record. Oooh, nice tenor. I don't know this record, at least not off the top of my head, but I should probably get there sooner rather than later. Good stuff! TRACK ELEVEN - "By Myself" at a very fleet tempo! Johnny Hartman, Frank Wess, probably from a Beehive record? Faster than I like my Heartman, but oh well about that. Cats be dealin anyway! Very nice collection for April. Kudos 2tha Kompiler

Bingo. And if you're talking the Mosaic set, that's exactly where this was pulled from. 🤔 @randyhersom you are right about Darktown Strutter's Ball being the song on # 8, as well as it not being Armstrong. Not Bellerose or Jeff Parker. Definitely contemporary drumming though.

2. Contemporary drumming, Jay Bellerose? It sounds to me like the Jeff Parker circle without guitar.

Looks like some good local talent throughout April at The Rex and Hirut. I see that Rez Abbasi will be at the Rex April 29-May 2, and I'll try to make at least one of those dates. I have listened to a lot of his work when he teamed up with Vijay Iyer. I don't think I've seen him live, but maybe he was there at one of the Chicago Jazz Fest concerts featuring Iyer. I can't recall now though.

Would have been hard to find me in that crowd. I was standing about 6 feet from Roscoe. I started a bit further back but as people left I could inch up.

Time to re-listen to this recent release. Melissa Aldana “FILIN” Blue Note cd

Bud Freeman - The Test of Time (Bethlehem Records)

The vocalist on 8 is definitely not Louis.

I’ve done it a few times but it’s not for me I guess.