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August 14, 2025: Shelley Carrol Quartet, Kitchen Cafe, Dallas 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: Miguel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston September 11, 2025: Ben Lamar Gay, Damon Locks, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Draylen Mason Music Festival, Austin September 12, 2025: Ibelisse Guardia Feragutti and Frank Rosaly's Mestizx, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Austin Scottish Rite Theater, 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 12, 2025: Joy Clark, Little Freddie King, Bobby Rush, Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 17, 2025: Walter Smith III Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston October 21, 2025: Lila Downs, Jones Hall, Houston October 24, 2025: Jackie Venson, Tulips FTW, Fort Worth 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 November 16, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hobby Center, Houston 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 May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin

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Eliane Elias “Love Stories” Concord cd

What a lovely resource - not all my cup of tea but this little gem looked interesting: https://www.otrcat.com/p/jazz-club-usa

A cool morning punctuated by the sound of the garbage trucks in the neighborhood. Squeezing in some listening before going off to the car dealer. . . . Horace Tapscott and the Pan-Afrikan Arkestra “Live at the UCC March 25, 1979” Nimbus West cd Alll these in the series are great listens. This one is nicely recorded.

Thanks! It was nice and mellow.

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August 5 Airto Moreira - 1941

So GREAT !!!!! I LUVE Billy Holiday. And sure the girl I chose as a singer for my next album we gonna record early this autumn has some of the voice and feeling of Lady Day, I heard that girl sing and I knew something great will happen and it happens. GOOD MORNING HEADACHE here in Europe, it´s morning and it´s quite sour I don´t like that time of the day even if I didn´t sleep the whole nite, too focused on everything that´s happenin.....

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@ Gheorghe: I get it, what you say here resonates with me: "Nowadays I rarely listen to "straight ahead jazz" because my moods and spirits go more into other stuff in "so called jazz", mostly in awareness of geniusses like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and my beloved Sun Ra. Almost all music I have in my head, all the sounds I hear, all the feelings come from that directions, period." Awesome.

Meaning the Coltrane set. Everything looks great about it, how is it? For my wife (and me🙂) She loves Chet 😍 Yeah, this and

Happy Birthday, Lon!

Washington Black - HULU

Third or fourth or wherever I am in line for endorsing the Donald Clarke bio, which iirc was written with some limited access to the Kuehl material. Though it's now been 30 years since that book came out, and I haven't read everything about BH that's been published since. Another title that comes to mind is Robert G. O'Meally's Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, which offers a good overview of her musical career and life and includes photographs on nearly every page. Plus Farah Jasmine Griffin's If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday, although that one's been out for awhile too, now that I look it up.

Episode 44 https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-four ***** Episode 42!!! https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-42

I finally got around to hearing this album and it’s really great! Maybe not the BEST Waldron I’ve heard, but in the top 10

Wow, I didn't know it was his birthday as well!