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My take: If he issues an LP that I'd like to hear & have, I'll buy it. If he doesn't, I won't.

He delegates plenty. The Mingus Ronnie Scott was also hardly lost.

Oh yeah.

From my brief experience trying to help him, 'easily distractable' is the understatement of the year. Is this the Dolphy thing with Joe Chambers or something else? The tapes for the one with Joe have not been located yet, IIRC.

hehe, me dancing 😄

This one is da'bomb:

yeah, he wanted me to do some Dolphy research for him at one point and it wasn't clear to me that he had the rights to the music or even the information... he came off very high and mighty as well as being easily distractible. I was not impressed.

I'd think that the best way to promote shit is to simply get it right every time out. Or if something slips by, admit it and do what can be done to fix it. This guy just plows ahead with no acceptance of his failures whatsoever. I don't know the guy, but to me he projects an arrogance about his responsivity.

all of this. Tell the Ghost/McPhee hello for me!

Never heard that one but I bet it is good. Fabulous LP. Have the older Think! reissue. The original is nigh impossible... though onetime poster homefromtheforest has one.

Fats Navarro: Vol. 2 Nostalgia. BYG Records 529 103 [France s.d.]

Zev is no Michael. Zev seems like more of a promoter. Michael more a fan and lover of the music which is not to say that Zev doesn’t like the music but in a different way.

I'm definitely going to follow up on 'Hammer, Roll and Leaf' simply as it has Gouband on. I saw him a few years ago play an astonishing set on stones with Evan Parker. I don't know the other two but look forward to hearing them. I'll be getting the new Shifa too. Still yet to catch them live which is unforgivable considering they play London more than anywhere else

Seeing Ghost with Joe McPhee again on 10/1 in Philly Ghost is Michael Foster, John Moran & Joey Sullivan last year they were spectacular at Tubby’s in Kingston, NY. McPhee played the foil to Michael. Deep respect for the great young saxophonist/musical inventor. Foster is the best of his generation as far as NYC saxophonists go. I’ve seen the trio with Michael, Webb & Joey at least 5 times over the last 18 months. Seeing Webb with Trevor Dunn & Chris Corsano on 8/27 at The Stone. Webb is one of the best improvisers on guitar I’ve heard. Along with Chuck Roth & Luciana Bass, the best young improvisors I’ve heard on the guitar. Fwiw the trio recordings with Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter are all spectacular. Sandy Ewen is a genius. Plus she’s great to watch music with. Big ears.

Lewis Porter has posted some unreleased Steve Lacy on his substack.

I wish I could have heard that! I love Carol Sloane's singing, and I imagine she would've been an ideal replacement for Ross.

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 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 24, 2025: Jackie Venson, Tulips FTW, Fort Worth October 29, 2025: Chuck Redd, Parker Jazz Club, Austin 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 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

Thanks! I admit to not keeping up with Confront enough, it's a lot. Dog Star is new to me but looks excellent. Hammer, Roll, and Leaf is indeed great. I haven't heard Stumps from SAJ yet but Rotations is very strong, I need to pick up CDs of both sooner rather than later. And very much looking forward to hearing the new 2xCD from Cafe Oto once it hits the US, the overseas shipping is just too much for me. Plan to check out the Foster trio and Lifeline discs (as well as the new Shifa CD on Discus). The two latest McPhee discs on Klanggalerie and RougeArt are good quite good, as are the Graewe on Random Acoustics and the Perelman/Shipp on Tao Forms. Some others that I have enjoyed a fair amount so far: Das B - Love Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision Tatsuya Yoshida & Martin Escalante - The Sound of Raspberry and a lot of great archival stuff: Irene Schweizer, Marco Eneidi, Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley, AMM/Sachiko M, Stabbins/Tippett/Moholo, Joseph Holbrooke, Sun Ra So overall, hearing a lot of good new stuff but not a ton that is grabbing me overmuch.

I like Sloane also, and agree with your assessment, thanks.

I really like that one (I have it on an OJC CD).

What really turns me off with all of the Horace Silver live recordings I have heard are the faster tempos he chose on those gigs. I think e.g. Song For My Father is much less enchanting than the studio version.

More Beethoven. This time, it's the mighty Ninth conducted by Bruno Walter.

When Annie Ross fell ill during a stay in GB she stayed behind for health care/insurance reasons. Yolande Bavan was a short term replacement to fulfill the tour comitments and probably the only singer available on such short terms with the chops to handle the music. Pony Poindexter said in his memoirs that he thought she wasn't a jazz singer in his view and left soon after - there must have been some wild scat exchanges between LHR and him that unfortunately never were recorded. The MPS live album with Ross and Poindexter gives an idea of what they had been doing. I like Bavan, too, but she and Ross are totally different vocal worlds. Carol Sloane had subbed for Ross earlier - she would been a better choice.

What I would really like is a CD with all tracks from this session: 660202 JOHN COLTRANE SEXTET: Personnel: John Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo; Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; Ray Appleton, perc Location: 'Coast Records', San Francisco CA Date: 2/2/66 Engineer: Rudy Hill a. "Manifestation" (J. Coltrane) 11:44 CRC AU4950; Imp AS9223-2 more b. "Reverend King" (J. Coltrane) 10:45 CRC AU4950 more c. "Peace On Earth" (J. Coltrane) 9:03 Imp A9225, IA9360 more d. "Leo" (J. Coltrane) 10:08 Imp A9225 more NOTE:Sanders plays pic and ts on 660202a; Coltrane plays bcl and ts on 660202b. See Note for a discussion of this session. From http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/jcdisc66.htm