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Sonny Stitt - Dumpy Mama (Flying Dutchman, 1975)

Yup, I need to switch from vinyl mode to CD mode, different criteria. I normally purchase vinyl.

I haven't really used AI besides Google search ai summaries, ai summaries of comments on articles in newspapers etc. Those are often useful if not exactly brilliant. As a whole I find AI to be in its infancy and interesting if not quite ready for prime time. Unfortunately the way AI is being developed now it is a huge electricity hog which has already made electric power more expensive and promises to continue to do so. There are a lot of ecological and safety problems around this technology which are not being addressed.

Dizzy says “And now ladies and gentlemen, the greatest. . . the KING. . . Louie Armstrong, Satchmo!” Great sound on this All Star event. Louis Armstrong “Live At the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival” 300×300 9.41 KB

Next up: Gene Ammons - Big Bad Jug (Prestige, 1973)

Took a while to warm up the stereo today. We lost power sometime in the early morning and we were out a few hours. I spent part of that time messing with my Martin 00-15M which hasn’t been out of the case for a spell. Then the power came back and I spent time reseting the softener timer, oven clock, etc. A few things weren’t working so it was down in the root cellar again this time flipping fuses. . . two were tripped. Sigh. Luckily no damages, everything is functioning but by then Lucinda was awake and we were eating and watching the news etc. Started off with Duke Ellington on Nimbus, “From His Treasure Chest 1965 - 1972” . . . some stockpile recordings, some with Wild Bill Davis on organ. Then on to an SACD received yesterday, a new reissue of my favorite Joni Mitchell album. Joni Mitchell “Hejira” Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD

Crink Falton - The Woman Who Wouldn't Plat Bartok

More Jug: Gene Ammons - Free Again (Prestige, 1972)

I had quite an interesting interaction with AI today, with a jazz flavour. I was browsing Ebay for records the other day, and came upon a collection of 100 LPs. They were close to where I live so I messaged the seller to see if he had a list, or any more pics. He responded with a half-finished list of around 45 LPs. This excerpt contained all manner of the "big" modern jazz titles eg Speak No Evil, Song for My Father, Sidewinder, Idle Moments, Cool Struttin', Red Clay, Waltz for Debby, Brilliant Corners, Kind of Blue, Ah Um, Time Out, Saxophone Colossus, Blues & The Abstract Truth etc. A little strange, but I figured this must have been a curated collection, perhaps influenced by those "100 jazz albums you MUST listen to before you die" lists. In between the classics were the usual tiddlers; Oscar Peterson, Pablos, Lionel Hampton on Vogue, Jasmine reissues, Paul Desmond on A&M, Basie and Ellington etc. I bought the collection and arranged pick up for today. I didn't check the LPs on pick up, as I didn't feel the need. Anyway, once I opened the box when I got home, there were indeed 100 LPs, but all those big titles were missing. In the past I've bought LP collections off Ebay where the seller has removed items between listing and handing over, so I messaged the seller to tell him the LPs were missing. He was mystified, and sent me pictures of all the LPs in the collection, all in my box. It turned out that he had taken pics of every LP and uploaded them to Chat GPT to create a catalogue, presumably to save himself the bother of typing all that information himself. Chat GPT then simply invented a list of 100 jazz albums, pulling it out of its metaphorical arse. The seller, totally unfamiliar with jazz, thought nothing of it. He showed me a screenshot of him accusing Chat GPT of fabricating the list of records. It answered "You're right (name) I shouldn't invent records. Thanks for catching that" The seller offered a return, which I declined as the collection was decent anyway, so no harm done. Good job it wasn't reading my CT brain scan, or telling me whether the mushroom I foraged was poisonous....

happily sold my Rainbo pressing for the excellent new BNC. Big difference

NP: Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - Together Again for the Last Time (Prestige, rec. 1973)

Original LP

Thanks! Lord, as often in such cases, lists only one take for all issues. But he can't listen to all of them ..... Richard Bock was a bitch.

200 what?

Outstanding.

August 22-23, 2025: Jamille Brazilian Quartet, Windmills, The Colony August 23, 2025: Pt Kushal Das (Sitar) & Sandip Ghosh (Tabla), ICMC, Plano Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth 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 2, 2025: Isiah J; Thompson Quartet, JazzTX, San Antonio September 6, 2025: Xuefei Yang, Unity of Dallas Andrew Griffith Quartet, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth September 11, 2025: Miguel Zenon Quartet, Parker Jazz Club, Austin 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 Miguel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston September 13, 2025: Pt Sandeep Chatterjee (Santoor) & Shubhojyoti Guha (Tabla), ICMC, Plano Miguel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston Clarence Johnson III, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth September 20, 2025: Bnois King, Denton Blues Festival September 21, 2025: Mathias Latin, Denton Blues Festival September 23, 2025: Mdou Moctar, White Oak Music Hall, Houston September 24, 2025: Mdou Moctar, Radio/East, Austin September 27, 2025: Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth October 1, 2025: Jon Cowherd, Parker Jazz Club, 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 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin 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 23, 2025: Joe McPhee, No Idea Festival, Dallas October 24, 2025: Jackie Venson, Tulips FTW, Fort Worth Camille Thurman Quartet, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas October 24-26, 2025, Joe McPhee, No Idea Festival, Austin October 29, 2025: Chuck Redd, Parker Jazz Club, Austin November 10, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas November 12, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Meyerson, Dallas November 14, 2025: Nicholas Payton Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston Wynton Marsalis, Grand Opera House, Galveston November 15, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Auditorium, Austin Mike Stern Band, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 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 13, 2026: T.K. Blue and African Rhythms Alumni, A Tribute to Randy Weston, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 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 August 1-2, 2026: Satchmo Summerfest

Here is Zev with the Jazz Bums.

I have the Mosaic but I’m sure this is better sounding so I may spring for the CDs.

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According to JEPSEN it is a different take. The one on JWC-512 is listed as the alternate take. The other one (the "master take", then) is listed by Jepsen and Bruyninckx as being the one on "Swingin' Like 60" (WL-1289) but only Jepsen lists PJ-13 (This is The Blues) for this take as well.

Rolf Kuhn - Streamline [Vanguard, Austria 1956]

Charlie Byrd - Byrd by the Sea (Fantasy, 1974)