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Now I'm having doubts if it was Carla Bley I saw him with. As you remind me, Gary Valente was certainly featured in the concert I went to, along with the recently departed Lew Soloff and Victor Lewis on drums. What an amazing trombonist Valente was and is - he sounded like a latter day Kid Ory!

Ah yes, that's it. I remember now. The two big bands I saw him in were the Carla Bley Orchestra and the Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra.

I saw Steve Turre twice in the 90s in big bands. My memory fails me on which bands they were - was one the Carla Bley Orchestra? On each occasion he did his seashell bit. I agree that One 4 J is a nice album and I also like the Woody Shaw date The Time Is Right on which he appears. I've just come across his recent one on Spotify and am giving it a first listen: He is more or less unnoticed in my record collection as a sideman on Horace Silver's Hardbop Grandpop. His Wikipedia entry shows a formidable discography, particularly as a sideman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Turre

How about this?

Another cheapo album from my youth that I once owned.

Enjoy! I did! It was the best concert I have been to in ages! Truesdell is an excellent and personable and enthusiastic leader who obviously loves Gil's music. Along the way he gave little insights into Gil's arranging craft which were not over the head of the laypeople in attendance (thankfully it was a full house, lots of grey for sure, but still full). The music was taken basically from the Thornhill years up to and including the Individualism album. ( I felt really good when Ryan said that The Individualism of Gil Evans was his favorite Evans recording, because it's mine too!) The only later chart was Gil's mid-seventies updating from Miles Ahead of The Meaning the Blues which on this night featured Scott Robinson on tenor. And the band was superb, so in tune, so well-balanced. A lot of the names were new to me, but some there were some terrific solo performances - Robinson and Tom Christensen on tenor, Mike Rodriquez and Mat Jodrell on trumpet, (great lead by Augie Haas), Nick Finzer and Ryan Keberle on trombone and monster bass trombonist George Flynn. The rhythm section - Frank Kimbrough, Jay Anderson, and Dennis Mackrel was a model of taste and swing. I bought the band's newest CD released just two weeks ago Lines of Color and Ryan signed with "Gil's Music Lives". Indeed it does. An evening to remember, for sure. Sounds great, John!

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Re "off mic", Gilad moves around continually at his gigs. I suppose they manage to get him to stand still in the recording studio!

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Here's one I'd like to see: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/sonia-delaunay-avant-garde-queen-art-fashion-vibrant-tate-modern

Talk Music has a lively and well-informed jazz section. http://talk-music.proboards.com/

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/27/record-collector-zero-freitas-worlds-largest-vinyl-hoard

Really like the work of Diebenkorn.

Not read any of Middleton, but sounds like he has affinities to Arnold Bennett (stories of the Five Towns, etc) ? Yes, a similar world geographically and I suppose socially to Bennett, except that he's more or less of our own times.

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Still with the albeit flawed novels of Stanley Middleton. Perhaps it's because he writes of the middle-class life of northern English cities that I know so well.

The late Ed Dipple of Mole told me that one involved some very tough haggling over cash!

Video clips of March 13th David Newton solo piano gig at a friend's house now posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHikwP5iDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKtYLdqUIk

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