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The Jazz Connection was a trip. A serious fan ran it and thought it would be a great idea to combine a jazz record store and a jazz nightclub into one unit. Well, it was a great idea, but not for Dallas. But I did pick up a couple of Sonny Simmons CDs the one time I played there! Sambuca can stay gone afaic. Whatever light they might have had when they opened died pretty quickly. NOT nice people. Musicians - WORKING jazz musicians, mind you, cats who need the work, actually organized a boycott of the place. So they went to smooth jazz soloists playing over tracks. Not nice people.

The Jazz Connection was pretty short-lived, located on Lovers Lane and Inwood. I also saw Marchel Ivery there with Joey DeFrancesco. It may have been one night only so perhaps we were there on the same night. Sambuca in Addison is also long gone. I recall seeing Marchel there, opening for David Newman, and another time, Terence Blanchard.

1941, live in Balboa. Howard Rumsey on upright electric bass. "Lunceford on steroids"? Sure. But at this point it's honest and exciting!

I think it was called The Brick House? Loud as fuck and not always the best audiences. Or maybe it had something to do with blood, the name? All I can recall is that it was not really fun to play there.

RIP - she was often tied to horrible songs and production, but she was not without talent, and survived a lot of personal trauma. She was 19 when "Who's Sorry Now" hit in the late 50's, 26 when she had her last top 40 hit in 1964.

A favorite, for obvious reasons - and it just dawned on me that the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection has two recordings from the October 1982 Rhythm 'n' Jazz group engagement, which was making its debut under that name and featured Bob Neloms. And check out the Percy photo credit.

“Kenny Drew Trio” Riverside/JVC XRCD I always wanted a copy of this XRCD but didn’t see one that wasn’t expensive. . . until last week, when I saw one on ebay for 5.99 and free shipping. Took a chance that it was in good shape, and it arrived today in EXCELLENT shape.

well what people would probably really enjoy are some of the 1940s-50s flyers found in Leonard Gaskin's Papers at the Smithsonian.

NP: Carol Sloane with Roland Hanna & George Mraz - Spring Is Here (Take 1 & 2) (Solid JP, rec. 1977)

Hardy and Horwich had similar sounding names and ran a label together but they both had significant parts of their lives outside jazz and apart from each other... Hardy was an ornithologist of renoun (obit, 1930-2012) and Horwich was L Ron Hubbard's son in law which put him into a remarkable place in 20th century America (as you all know much better than me)

Hey Kids!!!! Here's you chance to catch up all at once!!!

Week 7 picks https://doorfliesopen.com/2025/07/17/cfl-beat-240/ https://3downnation.com/2025/07/17/3downnation-cfl-picks-straight-up-against-the-spread-week-7/ https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/piffles-picks-week-7-2025/ My picks... Als over Argos - Alexander will be back, but Kelly will not. Stamps over Bombers - The Stampeders are rolling, but the Bombers are the most likely team to stop them. Lions over Riders - The Lions were cohesive last week, and I'm still not sold on the Riders. Ticats over Redblacks - The Ticats are getting better, while the Redblacks find ways to lose. ***** ***** Game Notes https://www.cfl.ca/2025/07/17/game-notes-what-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-week-7/ ***** Week 7 previews https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-schedule-today-july-17th-2025-toronto-argonauts-vs-montreal-alouettes-tv-channels-live-stream-odds/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/toronto-argonauts/ailing-argos-face-uphill-battle-against-alouettes-tonight/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/game-preview-calgary-stampeders-4-1-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers-3-1/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/07/17/3-keys-to-victory-for-calgary-winnipeg-in-week-7/ ***** Season reviews https://www.cfl.ca/2025/07/17/10-off-season-additions-that-are-paying-off-big-time/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/07/17/way-too-early-all-cfl-picks/ ***** David Naylor: Which schools produce the CFL players? https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/from-dave-naylor-a-closer-look-into-where-the-cfl-finds-its-talent-1.2336226

Interestingly, the JSQ continued to "record for" Epic all the way through 1966, while simultaneously recording for Columbia (again). Same company, but still, I wonder if the Epic deal was for recording more "popular composed. For Columbia, in 1963, the recorded their epochal Bartok cycle. In spite of the fact that it's somewhat "legendary", it has yet to receive a CD release in America. However...French Sony Classical put this out in 2002: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2422878 I monitored this item and one American seller popped up with a quite affordable set. So it does exist, and I did Carpe Diem all over it: Could probably benefit from a modern remastering, and its a drag that #4 is split between two discs. But these are THE 1963 performances, it IS on legit CD, and you CAN make it into 3 CDs of your own making AND have them all in sequence. So overall, life is good, and Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet continues!

Post away... I tried making the thread topic have a "hook", but flyers are flyers, no matter where you get 'em. I think people would like to see them, even if they're not scans of shows you've actually attended. I just happened to have a file folder full of them that I kinda tripped upon this morning, so I thought people here would get a kick out some of them. And maybe the stories too.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 83.

Not quite on topic but I did receive a variety of West End flyers from Vanderbilt out of the Phil Schaap archive but if Kevin prefers actual saved flyers from venues visited, I will refrain from posting the best ones.

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 1 to 6) 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.