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To my ears, Jackie McLean had his own "Voice" back in the 50's . I first became a serious fan with Jackie's first album as leader on the Ad Lib label, and his sideman playing on "George Wallington Quintet - Live at Cafe Bohemia'. Both were recorded in 1955. I purchased both when they were first released on LP. Those two LPs infected me with a life long affection for the playing of Jackie McLean.

Last night at Solar Myth in Philly Sun of Goldfinger Tim Berne, David Torn & Ches Smith 59 minute piece with 18 minute coda Last Tuesday reprise of the Berne band with Aliya Ultan on cello, Greg Belisle-Chi on guitar, Trevor Dunn on contrabass & Ches on drums even better than the gig two weeks prior. Astounding. incredible. 53-54 minute piece with 15-16 minute piece. as good as Sun of Goldfinger was last night, the 5 piece is on another level. both gigs, the shorter pieces raised the level which is very hard to do. All improvised with no filler both nights.

Featuring Kenny Barron on Piano

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Vol.2 - Quartet in E Flat - Aurora Quartet Mendelssohn - String Quartet Vol.3 - Quartet No.5 - Aurora Quartet

Gorgeous.

I have the CD and get what you say, but I believe he became his own voice starting with "Let Freedom Ring" maybe a little before.

May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin Sandip Chatterjee (Santoor) & Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano Joelle Leandre and David Dove, Cloud Tree Studios, Austin May 17, 2026: Lucia, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston May 21, 2026: Stockton Helbing, Bank of America Theater, Richardson May 23, 2026: Ken Vandermark, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin May 29, 2026: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth May 30, 2026: Jackie Venson, Beer City Music Hall, Oklahoma City June 2, 2026: Chuck Redd, JazzTX, San Antonio0 June 6, 2026: L Shankar (double violin), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod) & Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano June 7, 2026: Eleonora Strino Duo, Unity of Dallas June 8, 2026: Eleonora Strino Duo, Bates Recital Hall, Austin June 9, 2026: Eleonora Strino Duo, Dianne Benaco Concert Hall, San Antonio June 10, 2026: Eleonora Strino Duo, Bayou Theater, Houston Bill Charlap Trio, Parker Jazz Club, Austin June 11, 2026: Shelley Carrol, Bank of America Theater, Richardson June 12, 2026: Bill Charlap, JazzTX, San Antonio Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 13, 2026: Bill Charlap Trio, Windmills, The Colony June 17, 2026: Hamilton de Holanda Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio June 19, 2026: Mohini Dey, Windmills, The Colony June 20, 2026: Mohini Dey, Windmills, The Colony Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 21, 2026: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Lowdown, Tulsa June 25, 2026: Youam Silberstein, JazzTX, San Antonio June 26, 2026: Oz Noy, Windmills, the Colony June 27, 2026: Oz Noy, Windmills, The Colony August 1-2, Satchmo Summerfest, New Orleans August 22, 2026: S. Akash (flute) & Vivek Pandya (tabla)/ Manas Kumar (violin) and Ojas Adhiya (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin August 27, 2026: Buddy Guy, Majestic Theater, San Antonio August 28, 2026: Buddy Guy, Austin City Limits August 29, 2026: Buddy Guy, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands August 30, 2026: Buddy Guy, Majestic Theater, Dallas September 5, 2026: Samara Joy, Afro4 Jazz Band (Nigeria), Riverfront Jazz Festival, Dallas September 20, 2026: The Bad Plus, Lowdown, Tulsa October 10, 2026: Niladri Kumar (sitar), Stafford Center, Houston October 11, 2026: Niladri Kumar (sitar), Austin October 18, L. Shankar (violin), Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Swaminathan, Amit Kaythekar (percussion), Matchbox4, Houston

He rips.

Excellent date; have it on a French America Records pressing.

“The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars and MGM Sessions (1943-1954)” Mosaic Records 7 disc box set, cd V I’m glad I am re-visiting this set, great music, great sound. This is still “the band that plays the blues.”

I missed it. Thanks

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Ronnie Laws - Solid Ground

I have a cd of this one. . . .https://www.discogs.com/release/3037083-Charles-Mingus-Right-Now-Live-At-The-Jazz-Workshop

Is it possible that this one was never released? I cannot find it... https://www.discogs.com/release/2797379-Charles-Mingus-Right-Now-Live-At-The-Jazz-Workshop

Now in the quiet cool of the morning I’m enjoying a Bill Evans that I had not paid enough attention to when released, “Bill Evans in Norway, The Kongsberg Concert,” Elemental Records cd. This one with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell is in very good stereo sound and a nice set of performances.

Epistrophy was Monk's closing theme.

Very much missed:

I much miss the Connoisseur Series and Deep Grooves CD issues. So much has been released on vinyl now, in the right album sleeve artwork, down to the right catalogue number, it cringes my very fabric of the CD buying sector to the point I just largely stopped buying anything at all; blah. What about those listeners stuck with all these CD's, that would've loved to see such attention paid to details in the CD market? This is just a snippet of what I loathe of this vinyl outbreak. A total turnoff.

I confess that it is kind of hard to tell him apart from Jackie Mac on the Alto Madness record.

"Bass Notes- Jazz in American Culture A Personal View" by Chuck Israels Chuck was the bass player for the Bill Evans Trio, after Scott La Faro (25 years old) died in a car accident, for six and a half years. This is the third book written by a Bill Evans sideman in the last few years. There was a book written by Evans' 23 year-old girlfriend, there was a novel written that deals with the time when Evans' took an "Intermission" after LaFaro died, now there's going to be a movie about that book, there was a documentary made about Evans that I went to the New School to see the premiere of, and I got in an argument with a friend of Denny Zeitlin's, and finally there were two bios of Evans that came out at the same time. There was also a recent book called "Three Shdes of Blue" about three musicians who played on the most popular jazz album ever, "Kind of Blue", Miles Davis, John Coltrane and of course, Bill Evans. And yet there are people here that think that BE had nothing to do with the greatness of that album. Anyway, Chuck is about 90 now, and he is not going gentle into that great dark night. He takes down everyone in this book, even Bill Evans. This is an autobio of sorts. He talks about his one great fault; when he was young, he never thought that people studied or practiced to get good at what they do; they were just born with that particular talent. He was good at math, so he wound up getting into MIT majoring in engineering. He had a natural talent for the cello, so he became a cellist in his HS orchestra, and later switched to bass. He found he had a natural ability for playing bass in small jazz groups, and he fell head over heels in love with jazz. So much so, that he realized he had to study for the first time in his life at MIT and couldn't catch up and flunked out of MIT He was a "Red Diaper Baby" so his family had connections, and Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a letter that got him into Brandeis, where he happened to meet Bill Evans at the famous 1957 Third Stream Concert featuring works by George Russell, Gunther Schuller, etc... and impressed Bill a great deal at a jam session they had in the cafeteria. In early 1958 he became friends with the famous producer Tom Wilson and made a trip to NYC with him to play on his first jazz recording session with Cecil Taylor. On the session were Kenny Dorham, Louis Hayes and John Coltrane. They warmed up with a few standards, and it became obvious that Cecil was in one place rhythmically, and the other four musicians were in another place. Thus begins the observations of CI which make this a fascinating book. Check it out.