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The Gospel Soul of Houston Person (Savoy)

Lou Donaldson - Possum Head (Cadet stereo). I found this copy a few months ago - it's not in great shape, but a good cleaning put it (barely) into the listenable category. I loves me some Lou and some John Patton, so I'll keep it until I find a better copy.

I've loved Tchicai's music for years, and you guys who have heard him play in person are making me jealous. I visited Copenhagen a couple of years ago and missed him by one night.

Defunkt - Razor's Edge/Strangling Me With Your Love (Hannibal 12" single). A great record, circa 1980, by Joseph Bowie's funk band with some nice playing by brother Lester. Julius Hemphill - Roi Boye & the Gotham Minstrels (Sackville). Disc one.

The Dixie Hummingbirds - We Love You Like a Rock (Peacock). A little 1973-trendy, but still very good.

I love his arrangement on Professor Longhair's "Big Chief," originally released as a two-part single on the Watch label. At the session, supposedly, when the big band came in, Fess was so shocked and overwhelmed that he stopped playing and left the studio; he had to be convinced to return and finish the recording. RIP, Mr. Quezergue.

Herb Pomeroy - Life is a Many Splendored Gig (Roulette mono)

Kid Thomas + The Hall Brothers Jazz Band (GHB mono). This 1964 album follows a familiar formula - half of Kid Thomas's regular band, plus four young disciples, from Minnesota, in this case. One of the "kids" is Butch Thompson, playing clarinet here, rather than piano.

Whitey Mitchell Sextette (ABC Paramount mono) The best soloist here is Steve Lacy, barely out of his teens.

A radio show in Barcelona played one of our recordings, my arrangement of "Yemenite Tanz," recently. We're just past the 12-minute mark. Mundofonias

Dick Hyman Trio - Swingin' Double Date (Lion mono). I picked this out of the dollar bin of a local record store a few years ago. It's a "double date" because Hyman plays organ on one side and piano on the other. The organ side is fairly corny, but the piano side swings in a kind of Billy Taylor-ish way. It's a fun record to spin every once in a while. Lion was MGM's budget label, by the way.

That's a great one.

Thelonious Monk (Prestige two-fer). Still my Monk Prestige edition. (I have the sessions with Sonny Rollins elsewhere.) The 1954 quintet session with Frank Foster and Ray Copeland is very underrated, in my opinion. And has anyone else ever noticed that there is apparently a fourth "musician" on "Bye-Ya?" I put "musician" in quotes because someone is playing a clave rhythm - with a pair of drumsticks, maybe - and his time isn't very good. It's not Blakey - I can account for what each of his hands is doing.

Jimmy Giuffre 3 - 7 Pieces (Verve mono)

Jimi Hendrix - Nine to the Universe (Reprise)

Yes, mostly, with the caveats that I tend to confuse "Skippy" and "Humph," and I can never remember how "Eronel" goes.

Wow - what a life. I saw him twice in Atlanta, and one about five or six years ago at Rosa's in Chicago. For this Georgia boy, there was something special about hearing him perform "Sweet Home Chicago" in Chicago.

Barry Harris - Stay Right With It (Milestone) Roy Haynes - Hip Ensemble (Mainstream)

Mal Waldron with Steve Lacy - One-Upmanship (Inner City)

John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse); disc one.

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage & Inventions and Dimensions, from the Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions.

I bought it during that period when Horo had ceased operations, but Aldo Sinesio was selling his old stock through via a website. The records were pricey, but much cheaper than they go for these days. I bought as many as I could afford at the time, and wish I had been able to get more.

I don't know if there are any O forum members in the Savannah area, but the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra is playing a gig at the Sentient Bean there this Saturday, August 27 at 8:00 PM. We're opening for Shonali Bhowmik, of Tigers and Monkeys, if that means anything to anyone. I've got a new tune, "Doina Blues," which we'll probably be debuting. Come out if you're in the area. I probably should have posted this earlier, but I fully expected that this gig would be canceled due to the hurricane. It looks like Irene will inflicted its wrath elsewhere, so - good for Savannah, sorry for elsewhere.

Jazz at the Philharmonic - Blues in Chicago 1955 (Verve). Prez ain't no repeater pencil.

Don Pullen - Jazz a Confronto 21 (Horo). Inspired by Thom Keith's blindfold test.