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I posted this to a jazz research list serve and got no response. Maybe someone here knows. On a Jazz Club USA broadcast from (I believe) 1952 devoted to Arnett Cobb and Lester Young, Leonard Feather announces that Prez was recorded at Birdland and that his band consists of Jesse Drake, Earl Knight, Lee Abrams and Gene Ramey. However though all these players were in the band around the same period , neither of the 2 Prez discographies I own show them all in the band at the same time. The numbers played on the broadcast are standard for Prez at that time: "Neenah", "Ghost of a Chance", "Lester Leaps in" and "Destination Moon". Does anyone know when this performance took place and who the players were? (It is possible that the Jazz Club USA broadcast used numbers from more than one night, with different members of the band on separate nights.)

Right, this is a reissue of a Music Masters cd.

Got mine today. Very excited to see 2 photos and one track (Doktor Pitt) from April 12, 1981 at the Great American Music Hall in SF. I was there👍

Those guys have a good show. The problem for me is that they’re very vinyl-focused and I don’t buy vinyl any more.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only The Lonely (Capitol, 1958)

PM on The Ligeti Project (5 CDS)- EX/EX $12

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - All Blues (MPS, 1969)

https://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/2010/Duke_Ellington_NI2736.htm This new CD contains 15 such recordings made between 1965 and 1972. They are said to be "previously unissued" but they were actually first released in 1991 by the MusicMasters label. That's a very good record too.

Congratulate me boys! Davis Sanchez has responded to one of my posts!

Yes, "Hejira" has a fascinating aura about it, and the story-telling seems so true and vivid, in a way that the stories in "Blood on the Tracks" seem so real and experienced. I do not believe that the "stockpile" material in the Nimbus disc appears in any of the "Private Collection."

One more by Jimmy Heath: Picture of Heath (Xanadu, 1975)

Jaco's crowning achievement imo. I'm not really a big fan of his, but Joni taned that beast.

Disc 2: Hard Art My favorite Joni album as well! Something so spell-like about it, and filled with gorgeous songs and stories. Also strikes me as a haunting coda to the Rolling Thunder Revue in all its white-line glory. Re the Ellington, has the private collection material on that Nimbus been issued before, as part of the 10-CD series that came out on Atlantic (iirc) at one point?

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

After spinning a couple of his LPs, I'm now listening to this Jimmy Heath CD: The Time and the Place (Landmark, rel. 1994) with Curtis Fuller, Pat Martino, Stanley Cowell, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins & Mtume Recorded in 1974, this music sat on the shelf for twenty years (!) before getting released.

PM on -John Surman- Glancing Backwards- The Dawn Anthology- 3 CD (back of case cracked- hole punch in UPC) VG+/Ex $12

Presto has this as a download (44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV - cd quality), for a few weeks the price will be $14.25. Thinking of picking it up.

a recording of the buyer whistling Ike's solo on "I've Got the World on a String" note for note

US publishers will stop publishing mass market paperbacks by the end of this year. https://www.underthecoversbookblog.com/mass-market-paperbacks/

Two LPs by Jimmy Heath. Now playing: Jimmy (Muse, rec. 1972) Originally released as The Gap Sealer on Cobblestone Earlier: Love and Understanding (Muse, rec. 1973)

You may not have much longer to get into the format, as there is a lot of talk of it becoming a T20 game in the next year or two, apparently driven by the new owners. I'm sure it will end being an offshoot of the IPL. I hear that Manchester Originals will become Manchester Super Kings and Oval Invincibles are to become "Mumbai Indians London" Something much more low-key. Lancashire vs Durham in the One Day Cup, at Liverpool a couple of days ago. In August, all the Counties' best players are picked for the Hundred, which means that the One Day Cup is now a de facto Second XI competition. Lancashire have lost ten players to the Hundred this year, so are unsurprisingly being battered every game.

Looks well attended. I can’t get into this format of the game at all, perhaps you need to be there. Also, I can’t believe it’s August and there are no test matches and little or no county cricket. As an aside, was in Manchester last Wednesday and Thursday and could not believe the heat! Reminded me of NYC in the summer!

Martin Küchen, Jon Rune Strøm, Tollef Østvang: Melted Snow. NoBusiness Records NBLP 89 [Lithuania 2015]