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December 5, 2025: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth Mathias Lattin, Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas December 6, 2025: Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth January 10, 2026: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin Miquel Zenon and Kinetic Ensemble, Hobby Center, Houston January 11, 2026: Brandon Woody's Upendo, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston January 16, 2026: Delvon Lamarr Trio, Windmills, The Colony January 17, 2026: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin Delvon Lamarr Trio, Windmills, The Colony January 23, 2026: Al Dimeola, Kessler Theater, Dallas January 24, 2026: Jackie Venson, Antone's Austin Al Dimeola, Heights Theater, Houston January 31, 2026: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin February 20, 2026: Shemekia Copeland and Ally Venable, Granville Arts Center, Garland February 22, 2026: Branford Marsalis Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston March 5, 2026: Pat Metheny, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio March 6, 2026: Pat Metheny, Paramount Theater, Austin 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 20, 2026: Sarah Hanahan, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin March 21, 2026: Sunny War, Anne Harris, Buffalo Nichols, Jake Blount, Justin Robinson, Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, Southside Preservation Hall, Fort Worth March 22, 2026: Sarah Hanahan, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston March 26, 2026: Pat Metheny Side-Eye III, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith Clone Row, Isaiah Collier, William Hooker Quartet, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 27, 2026: Chucho Valdes Royal Quartet, John Scofield Trio, Ghost Train Orchestra: The Music of Moondog, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, Miles Okazaki Trickster, Nate Smith, Ned Rothenberg, Nik Bartsch, Sullivan Fortner Trio, Tim Berne, Thomas Fujiwara: Dream Up, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 28, 2026: Darius Jones Trio, Either/Orchestra, Incerto, Marquis Hill Blacktet, Mary Halvorson, Miles Okazaki: The Compete Monk, , Nate Smith, Nik Bartsch Ronin, Patricia Brennan Septet, Shabaka, Yasmin Williams and William Tyler, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 29, 2026: Brandon Woody's Upendo, Chicago Underground Duo, Dave Douglas Gifts Quartet, Either/Orchestra Plays Eithiopiques, Julian Lage Quartet,Marc Ribot, Matt Mitchell's Zealous Angles, Miles Electric Band, Nels Cline: Lovers, Openness Trio, Tom Skinner,, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee April 1, 2026: Samara Joy, Winspear Opera House, Dallas Pat Metheny Side-Eye III, Majestic Theater, Dallas April 2, 2026: Kaia Kater, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas Samora Joy, Austin City Limits April 4, 2026: Samora Joy, Tobin Center, San Antonio 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 May 17, 2026: Lucia, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston

I love the live shows on the bonus discs for this and the Reckoning deluxe edition. I recently picked up Joni Mitchell’s Archives 3 and 4 box sets and am digging into them again this afternoon. So much great music on these! Highly recommended if you’re already a Joni fan.

What makes this particular case potentially tricky is that it's a Polish name, Garbarek's father was Polish ... So unless the pronunciations in the two languages coincide, it also depends on Jan's preferences which of the two pronunciations he prefers for his name...

I've used this site for years and, for me, there's always a button with the triangle "play" icon. The recording is someone saying Yan GAR-bar-ek That means I had it almost exactly right; I would usually tend to say Yan Gar-BAR-ek.

Thanks for participating and some very cogent commentary. Have a good nap on Thanksgiving, and don't smoke!

I'd like to know about that as well, though I expect it is nice. DeFever is certainly a well-regarded mastering engineer (& musician).

Great stuff! Wish RCA, like the Sonny Rollins RCA original albums box set, would treat Paul Desmond's albums the same way. I'd buy that set in a second. I have three of them and would scoop up the others in a nice deluxe original albums box set in a heartbeat.

MUZA SX 1560 - Big Band Katowice " Music For My Friends" - rec. 1977

Gotta be the coolist Bill Evans picture I've ever seen! Now (and I still like the Patrick Roques sleeve):

👍 - 2CD set ...

Thanks Thom! I can do January!

She is pretty mainstream, a bit more sedate at times than I think I would like, but her writing is interesting and she can play, hires good support. Now On to disc 3 of this excellent new reissue of two Bill Evans albums and many alternates/outtakes. “Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings”

https://www.discogs.com/release/23054144-Mozart-Mozarteum-Orchester-Salzburg-Reinhard-Goebel-New-Mozart-Vol-2/image/SW1hZ2U6NzczMTQzNjE=

Funny enough, I think King Japan jacked their own image of Bobby from Inner Glow and used another still from the same photo shoot for the sleeve of Obligue: Weren't these recordings like 8 years apart? Man, Bobby looked good.

I've heard good things about her, so oughta do myself the favor of giving her a listen.

yeah, I like that too -- have the original LP, but not heard the remaster (I don't think).

Very nice! I saw him a few years later with his working quartet. Now: Association P.C. - Rock Around the Cock - MPS German original

Interesting .. What's the main eras/periods covered in that book?

I hope you got a good price as it is only $5 on the jazzology.com website.

Thats great Kevin. Big fan of Andrew Hill. Truly a one of a kind wonder. Judgement was the last record I needed to obtain to complete my Blue Note Hill collection

A tiny bit warmer this morning. It’s the time of year when a tiny bit is a bit bigger than months previous. Starting off the day with “Roxy Coss” self-titled, self-released cd This is my second copy as my first copy had a bad skip in the final track, and a visible scuff. So far this copy is perfectly fine; I really do like the music of Ms Coss.

I saw Hill with his big band at Birdland and I had him sign this LP for me. It's hard to photograph something in a frame covered with glass.