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with Larry Willis, Blood Ulmer, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette Craft "Jazz Dispensary" series reissue Tremendous. One of Joe Hen's very best records, IMO.

I don't blame CDJapan a bit. My blame is pointed elsewhere.

love it ... just finished listening to the Sonata.

Marion Brown / Gunter Hampel: Reeds' N Vibes. Improvising Artists Inc.123855-2 [Italy 1978]

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 Tutu Jones, The Goat, Dallas 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: 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 Stanley Clarke, Carver Center, 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 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 Kunal Gunjal (Santoor) & Amit Kavthekar (Tabla), ICMC, Plano 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

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Pure Pleasure reissue

Seems eminently reasonable on cdjapan's part and basically what cliff predicted above. If I wanna get mad, I'll look elsewhere. 👎 But say no more due to forum policy. 😶

This past weekend, at the Riverfront Jazz Festival in Fair Park, Dallas. There were slim pickings for a non-smooth jazz fan, and the sound in the cavernous Centennial Hall was less than ideal, but brief targeted attendance proved worthwhile as there were two really good concerts. On Saturday, Doreen Ketchens and her band from New Orleans performed a set of New Orleans traditional jazz. She is masterful and exciting on clarinet and a true outsider musician. On Sunday, The Texas Tenors appeared. This features Shelley Carrol, Jason Davis and Quamon Fowler on tenor saxophones. This was a truly a thrilling set of music. It was the "State of the Texas Tenor" while channeling the greats from the past (Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, David Newman, etc.) I would run, not walk, to see this band again.

Larry Coryell, Aurora Coryellis

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That's great news, thanks for the heads-up! Pre-ordering now! Now if we could just get the Archie Shepp and Nathan Davis ORTF sets on CD.

The Isle of Wight version:

Great set. Ridiculous price.

I was thinking about this after have posted it. I think it is a Music Matters indeed.

Some favorite music, known for decades in edited form, a prayer was answered and it was released in unedited form Miles Davis “The Bootleg Series Vol. 3: Miles At The Fillmore 1970” disc 2, “Thursday Miles” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 300×272 9.85 KB

The last un-listened to disc in the "Enjoying the Ride" box set from the Grateful Dead. Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (5/1/81) disc 3

A little warmer this morning, and it will be warmer still later this morning and this afternoon, which is good for the planned outdoor event. Starting off with a cd that I have neglected, and I realize I have yet to watch the Blu-ray in this set, need to correct that! Wes Montgomery “The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings” Jazzline cd and Blu-ray set

Yes! I pre-ordered last week.

just noticed that the cd set is available for preorder on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Here-Complete-Paris-Recordings/dp/B0FCS9QPF9 And, also at Dusty Groove.