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March 13, 2026: T.K. Blue and African Rhythms Alumni, A Tribute to Randy Weston, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth March 14, 2026: Bnois King, Blues and Tattoos Festival, Gainesville Larry Lampkin, Troy's, Arlington March 20, 2026: Sarah Hanahan, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin Tutu Jones, Balcony Club, Dallas March 21, 2026: Sunny War, Anne Harris, Sable Sisters (Kaia Kater), Buffalo Nichols, Jake Blount, Justin Robinson, Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, Southside Preservation Hall, Fort Worth Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, 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, SML, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 27, 2026: Chucho Valdes Royal Quartet, John Scofield Trio, Roscoe Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey, 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, Saha Gnawa, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 28, 2026: Darius Jones Trio, Either/Orchestra, Marquis Hill Blacktet, Mary Halvorson, Miles Okazaki: The Compete Monk, , Nate Smith, Nik Bartsch Ronin, Hania Rani, Patricia Brennan Septet, Shabaka, Yasmin Williams and William Tyler, Incerto, Electrical Field of Love, L. Shankar, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 29, 2026: Brandon Woody's Upendo, Chicago Underground Duo, Dave Douglas Gifts Quartet, Either/Orchestra Plays Eithiopiques, Hania Rani, 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 May 30, 2026: Jackie Venson, Beer City Music Hall, Oklahoma City 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 April 11, 2026: Rakesh Charaurasia (flute) and Amit Kavthekar (tabla), Matchbox4, Houston 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 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 Firm Roots, 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 Festival April 28, 2026: Robert Cray, Empire Theater, 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 (Santoor) & Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla), Plano May 17, 2026: Lucia, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston June 4, 2026: Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod) & Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla) June 6, 2026: L Shankar (double violin), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin 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

This Saturday afternoon, at the Gainesville Blues and Tattoos Festival, Bnois King Band. He's a fabulous blues vocalist and his guitar is the opposite of the usual blues/rock guitarist of today. Bnois' guitar playing is elegant, measured, unhurried, rich in sound, yet also very intense, and achieved without a single guitar pedal.

I purchased six of those OJcs as well as a couple of other items I hadn’t pulled the trigger on yet. Nothing I wanted was out of stock. I would have purchased more but others I was interested were a little expensive, in my opinion.

I have owned the following for some time: Benny Goodman Jazz Mission to Moscow - Colpix LP 50064 Zoot Sims - Live in Louisville - Gambit CD 69335 Zoot Sims et Henri Renaud (many other musicians) - Gitanes 440 013 037-2 Zoot Sims - In Paris (Quartet) - Liberty CD (J) 5408 Zoot Sims Zoot Sims' Party Choice LP 1006 Zoot Sims Plays 4 Altos LP MCA/Impulse! 29069 Zoot Sims Passion Flower LP Pablo 2312 120 Eldridge-Kamuca - Pumpkin 107 It seems like I owned a copy of Pumpkin 108 but it was defective.

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John Coltrane “Blue Train” Blue Note Japan mono SHM-SACD

I saw the ACS trio twice in 2013. In June at Town Hall for the Wayne Shorter 80th birthday celebration and then at Kennedy Center in October.

The authentic "Autobiography" music is great. I have that 3 cd set, and also any corresponding material (sans "reminiscences") on the Armstrong Decca All Stars set.

No time to sort the details, but I have this 3 cd Verve set.from 25 years ago

More from 1933. 🧨

The recent discussion of the "Oop Pop A Da" bebop tune in the Percy France Thread reminds me of a discographical question I had meant to ask here for a while: Among the records I obtained from the estate of a deceased jazz collector in recent months I came into possession of a number of home-made CD-Rs with jazz radio shows from AFN radio that the owner apparently had taped from radio in his younger days and in more recent times transferred them to CD. Some of these dated back to the early 50s, in this instance one airing of the "Hot House" jazz show hosted by the "Baron of Bounce" (Ken Dunnagan) - aired at the latest in September, 1953, according to certain indications. One of the tunes, in particular, caught my attention - no announcement was preserved but the track listing identifies it as the CHARLIE VENTURA orchestra performing "Good Rockin' Tonight" (the Roy Brown tune first made into a hit by Wynonie Harris)! A live recording before what must have been rather a large audience, clocking in at 4:53, boppish backing but with a boogie piano, plenty of sax solo work (though the sax sounds a bit high-pitched for Charlie Ventura's baritone sax), spirited "Good Rockin' Tonight" vocals that somewhat sound like an extraordinarily freewheeling Buddy Stewart - not totaly impossible; from what I have found online there may have been a small time frame before the departure of Buddy Stewart from the band and after the tune had been released and become a hit in 1948. The vocals then go into "Do You Wanna Rock Children", supported by handclapping and some exuberant yelling in the style of Chubby Jackson, and for the last minute and a half or so the singer goes seamlessly into an "Ool Ya Koo" bop refrain. My obvious question: Does ANYONE know of any such a live recording of "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Charlie Ventura that may have been preserved somewhere else out there too? Needless to say, all the discographies or online sites I have been able to consult yielded ZERO. I cannot upload anything so this description will have to do but it should give an idea of the proceedings. Who knows ... it may be a case of misidentification and a different band after all but at any rate it's another nice example of that post-WWII cross-pollination of bebop and jump blues.

Break a leg, Michael!

Fixed everywhere but the original post which seems to lack an edit option.

Yes, definitely. Oop Bop Sh'Bam was first recorded by the Dizzy Gillespie sextet on 15 May 1946 and released on Musicraft. Oop-Pop-A-Da was recorded by the Gillespie orchestra on 22 August 1947 and released on RCA.

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but isn't the tune recognized as Oop Bop Sh'Bam? Is there a different tune?

How cool is that. Agreed, great story!