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Sounds like something I might like. Oh.....Beaver Harris 😄 Buster Williams 😄 I saw Larry Coryell only once but liked it very much. It was shortly after he had recorded with Sonny Rollins ("Don´t Ask!")

I think I might give it another try. I have it somewhere but I doubt I listened to it more than twice. If I remember, I was a bit disappointed by the sound of Hank´s tenor and had the impression, that his lung problems had started since he sounds if he was very short of breath... But as I said, maybe if I don´t have anything better to do, I´ll give it another try.... oh oh ! this might be something for ME !!!! I am so much into those more spiritual kinds of the music now, late Trane, Pharoah, Albert Ayler and Alice Coltrane I might love it. Seems to be a must for me. And .....Pharoah Sanders is.....maybe my most favourite of all of them....watch out my upcoming album with an original I dedicated to him !

I don´t see the point, Hank Mobley was one of my favourites and sure of a lot of fans and I think there is an increasing interest in his music. Music students get better and better and really dig what was stuff. So I don´t really care if Hank Mobley smoked or not. I practically grew up in jazz joints with all that smoke in cellar clubs, I was underage when I started to go to them joints, and like all of us guys I started to smoke early. Right now I couldn´t imagine to smoke in a club, that´s over, indifferent whether it´s allowed or not, it´s just out of fashion. If you want to smoke, you go out in front of the door during intermission or so, that´s everybody´s own business, but I am glad my clothes and my hair don´t smell smokey anymore.

I remember I saw and heard her in Miles´ band from late 1985. Mike Stern had returned after Scofield left, and I must admit I liked Stern more in Miles´ band than Scofield, maybe for a lot of you that might be a sacrilege but Stern had more the power I enjoyed from Miles guitarists from 1973 on....(Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey !). Yes, I remember Marilyn Manzur had a special solo spot and maybe also danced a bit. But in general it was not the most memorable Miles Concert: I saw him in the same year in summer and somehow the band, or Miles himself had more power, and as I remember the November 85 concert was the only Miles Concert I ever saw that was not sold out ! Maybe there was a kind of unsureness of Miles where to go next musically, since the deal with Columbia ended and it was before the deal with Warner Brothers.

RIP, I still remember when I first heard Oregon's album Distant Hills.

In any order: Billy Harper - Black Saint Billy Harper - In Europe Cecil Taylor - Winged Serpent Henry Threadgill - Spirit of Nuff Nuff Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins Julius Hemphill - Flat Out Jump Suite Mal Waldron - Seagulls of Kristiansund Mal Waldron - Crowd Scène Marc Copland - Paradiso Micha Mengelberg - Change of the Season Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron - Sempre Amore Steve Lacy - Revenue Steve Lacy - The Window Steve Lacy - Trickles

RIP

What a wonderful musician he was. RIP.

RIP, sir.

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio at Windmills.

Lee Konitz, Jazz a Confronto (Horo)

Ernest Dawkins, Afro Straight (Delmark)

That is terrible, such a wonderful acoustic guitarist. I saw him several times with Oregon, and twice in solo concerts, the last a few years ago at the Big Ears Festival.

Ornette Coleman, Opening the Caravan of Dreams Ronald Shannon Jackson, Live at the Caravan of Dreams Ronald Shannon Jackson, When Colors Play Ronald Shannon Jackson, Earned Dreams James Blood Ulmer, Live at the Caravan of Dreams James Clay, David Newman, Cornell Dupree, Texas Jazz Reunion, Return to the Wide Open Spaces George Coleman, Manhattan Panorama Buddy Guy, The Real Deal

Ah, too bad.

Hoping to get a little more action in the final two weeks so ... friendly reminder to @Joe @webbcity @tkeith (who I know has family obligations) that y'alll might listen and post. And here is the first hint to help wrap this one up .. #5 was ID'd as Frank Wess - amongst the previously ID'd tracks is one from the same label.

Sad news. He has been among my favorites for since the 1970s. I'll have to spin some of my Towner CDs as well.

Ralph Towner, 85, has died. I'm a big fan of ECM Records, so I have many Towner albums, some of which I'll revisit today

To wit:

I've been able to document Percy France with Big Joe Turner and Papa Jo Jones, how about the Basie alto/clarinetist Earle Warren?