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A new discovery. Includes Frank Strazzeri on piano, one of my favorites.

Hello April O'Neil! TRACK ONE - Ra, "Fall Off The Log". from the Transition sessions. Unmistakable. TRACK TWO - No idea, but it's locked in solid. I like it. TRACK THREE - Pretty specific alto vocabulary, spoken with confidence and command. No idea who it is. Jarman/Moye? TRACK FOUR - Good continuity, if not particularly creative TRACK FIVE - Sonny Simmons? Good directed energy. Direction gives shape, shape gives form. This quite coherent within itself, very nice. TRACK SIX - Gain, great focus, direction. No idea who it is, but I like it. TRACK SEVEN - Sure sounds like Sonny Fortune, his voice. Nice tune, and very vocally played. Sonny Fortune has kinda stayed further under the radar than maybe he deserves. This got that spling! TRACK EIGHT - That's gotta be that comb guy - Red McKenzie, right? Oh, Hawk! Mound City Blue Blowers. Definitely a keeper, if only for Hawk, who is (hopefully) eternal. TRACK NINE - That one flute sounds no unlike the comb on the previous cut. Was that intentional sequencing on your part? No idea who this is, not really my hunker down bag, but it's welcoming nevertheless. TRACK TEN - Oh, the long shadow of The Meters, "Cissy Strut" in particular. That sounds like Grant, and that's definitely a Van Gelder joint. But not Grant's record. Oooh, nice tenor. I don't know this record, at least not off the top of my head, but I should probably get there sooner rather than later. Good stuff! TRACK ELEVEN - "By Myself" at a very fleet tempo! Johnny Hartman, Frank Wess, probably from a Beehive record? Faster than I like my Heartman, but oh well about that. Cats be dealin anyway! Very nice collection for April. Kudos 2tha Kompiler

Bingo. And if you're talking the Mosaic set, that's exactly where this was pulled from. 🤔 @randyhersom you are right about Darktown Strutter's Ball being the song on # 8, as well as it not being Armstrong. Not Bellerose or Jeff Parker. Definitely contemporary drumming though.

2. Contemporary drumming, Jay Bellerose? It sounds to me like the Jeff Parker circle without guitar.

Looks like some good local talent throughout April at The Rex and Hirut. I see that Rez Abbasi will be at the Rex April 29-May 2, and I'll try to make at least one of those dates. I have listened to a lot of his work when he teamed up with Vijay Iyer. I don't think I've seen him live, but maybe he was there at one of the Chicago Jazz Fest concerts featuring Iyer. I can't recall now though.

Would have been hard to find me in that crowd. I was standing about 6 feet from Roscoe. I started a bit further back but as people left I could inch up.

Time to re-listen to this recent release. Melissa Aldana “FILIN” Blue Note cd

Bud Freeman - The Test of Time (Bethlehem Records)

The vocalist on 8 is definitely not Louis.

I’ve done it a few times but it’s not for me I guess.

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 Melissa Aldana, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 7, 2026: John Fedchock, Parker Jazz Club, Austin April 10, 2026: Coltrane at 100 (Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Ndudzo Makhathini, Matt Garrison, Jefftain Watts), Cullen Theater, Houston Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth April 11, 2026: Rakesh Charaurasia (flute) and Amit Kavthekar (tabla), Matchbox4, Houston Bnois King, Balcony Club, Dallas April 12, 2026: John Beasley's Unlimited Miles (John Beasley, Mark Turner, Sean Jones or Marquis Hill, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Williams, Terreon Gu)), Eisemann Center, Richardson April 16, 2026: Leroy Jones, Yusa and Mahmoud Chouki, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 17, 2026: Eddie Gomez Trio, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth Kyle Roussel, Joe Lastie, People Museum, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 18, 2026: Wendell Brunious, Victor Campbell, Joy Clark, Secret Six Jazz Band, Stephen Walker, Shake Em Up Jazz Band, Jamil Sharif, Marlon Jordan, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 19, 2026: Tuba Skinny, Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Rod Paulin, Astral Project, Helen Gillet, Leyla McCalla, Louis Ford, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 22-26, Delgres (Guadeloupe), Natu Camera (Guinea), Vieux Farka Toure (Mali), Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette April 23, 2026: Nicholas Payton featuring Butcher Brown Presents the Supreme Blue, Monty Alexander "Jamericana", Charlie Musselwhite, Kyle Roussel, Kenny Neal, Vieux Farka Toure (Mali), Nidia Gongora (Columbia); Yusa (Cuba), Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Jamil Sharif, Peter Harris Presents Double Bird, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 24, 2026: Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Andromeda Turre, Astral Project, Parlor Greens (w/Jimmy James), Tribute to Ragtime Piano Legends feat. Terry Waldo, Tom McDermott, and David Boeddinghaus, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Sevana (Jamaica), Joy Clark, Wendell Brunious, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 25, 2026: Mahmoud Chouki, Louis Ford, Little Freddie King, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 26, 2026: Ron Carter Quartet, Catherine Russell, Roger Lewis and Baritone Bliss, Love Is Supreme: A Tribute to John Coltrane feat. Derek Douget, Trevarri Huff-Boone and Ricardo Pascal, Chris Thomas King, Tuba Skinny, People Museum, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festiva April 28, 2026: Robert Cray, Empire Theater, San Antonio Joe Alterman, JazzTX, San Antonio April 29, 2026: Robert Cray, Heights Theater, Houston April 30, 2026: Isaiah Collier (The World is on Fire), Steve Masakowski Family Band, Sasha Masakowsti as Trash Magnolia, Helen Gillet, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 1, 2026: Terence Blanchard with Ravi Coltrane; Charlie Gabriel; Victor Campbell, Stephen Walker, D.K. Harrell, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Jackie Venson, Main Street Crossing, Tombull May 2, 2026: Dianne Reeves; Uptown Jazz Orchestra; Alexey Marti, Leroy Jones, Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers feat. Dr. Michael White and Shaye Cohn, Larry McCray, Leyla McCalla, , New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Kenny Garrett, Jazz and Blues Market, New Orleans Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan (sitar), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin May 3, 2026: Herbie Hancock; Jason Marsalis, Trumpet Mafia featuring Keyon Harold, Jackie Venson, Lila Ike (Jamaica), Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 8, 2026: Guitar Prasanna, Windmills, The Colony May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston Guitar Prasanna, Windmills, The Colony May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin Sandip Chatterjee (Violin) & Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano May 17, 2026: Lucia, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston May 30, 2026: Jackie Venson, Beer City Music Hall, Oklahoma City June 6, 2026: L Shankar (double violin), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod) & Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano 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 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

I also got early Ra vibes from the intro of #1, but eventually decided it's probably somebody else.

1. Something a little tart in the harmonies of the theme has me thinking early Sun Ra, but the alto solo leads me away from that. Art Pepper? 2. Bass is upfront in the recording, suggesting late seventies or later. I'd suspect the bass is the leader, but get no Mingus vibes at all. Maybe not, maybe Kahil El-Zabar? 3. Post-Ayler tenor meets hand drums. Joe McPhee? 4. Back inside. Stanley Turrentine? 5. Back out with awesome horn control and facility. I didn't start thinking Coltrane Interstellar Space until the second half, and I don't think it is, but that's a reference point. The first part is edgy and precise. How about Sam Rivers? 6. Still out, but seems to be an older recording. The bowed bass should be a clue ... Two basses? Maybe Sonny Simmons? 7. Sunny inside theme. Since I can't get a handle on the horn, I'll guess it's the pianist's data - Kenny Barron? 8. Is that lead kazoo? Yields to excellent clarinet. Darktown Strutters Ball. Length doesn't rule out pre-50s and the style fits. Louis Armstrong? 9. Two different lower flutes? alto and bass flutes? if it were Art Ensemble of Chicago, we would hear some bass too, so no. Cant buy Mann, Laws or Steig. Lloyd McNeil? If so, who's the second flute, it doesn't sound overdubbed. 10. Some electric bass and R&B elements. Fathead Newman? 11. Sounds like the vocalist is an earlier generation than the rest of the band - I thought of Al Hibbler.

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks, Volume 10 (Thelma, Los Angeles, CA)” 12/12/69)" 3 cd set, disc 2

Liking this so far. 11 is the only one I recognize offhand: A4 here, though I have it on a multi-artist compilation.

Yes. I used to sail and race 4.2 meter boats back in college sailing club. It's a fun thing to do!

Only know power boats. Have been on a sailboat and catamaran but no knowledge of how to operate them.

Like a boat and shit? On the actual water!

I had never heard of these releases until now. Learned something new today. Mosaic box?

Teddy Edwards, Heart and Soul

Milt Buckner, Arnett Cobb, Candy Johnson – Midnight Slows Vol 3 I love Black and Blue but hadn't listened to any of the Midnight Slows records before. It seems to be Black and Blue's answer to Moodsville. This one is really good.

This doesn’t take into account the people who post about jazz at Hoffman.

I think I joined within a few days.