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I'm planning to record it in pretty casual fashion - a stereo digital recorder set up in front of the band.

Spiritual Starlites - Long Black Limousine (ASL - Atlanta Soul Liberation). Very cool obscure Atlanta gospel, from 1979 or '80, as far as I can tell.

Alto sax, mostly. I'm also playing bari on a couple of tunes in this concert. I've also been playing more and more clarinet the last couple of years. Thanks for the good wishes.

Just returned from the final rehearsal for the Alec Wilder concert, which is one week from tonight. I think we timed the rehearsal schedule just right - the music flowed easily this afternoon, but it still seems fresh. I'm pretty excited about the show.

McCoy Tyner Trio

Hugh Masekela - The African Connection (Impulse). Reissue of a 1972 Blue Thumb double album. What a great band - Dudu Pukwana, Larry Willis, Eddie Gomez, Nakhaya Ntshoko.

Elvin Jones - Genesis (Blue Note UA). Nice buncha saxists - Frank Foster, Joe Farrell, Dave Liebman.

The Complete Fletcher Henderson 1927-1936 (RCA Bluebird). Not accurately titled, of course - the Victor recordings with no alternates.

My grandmother gave me a big box of 78s - this would have been around 1969, when I was about 11. I liked everything - the big bands, the pop vocals, the country stuff. But, without knowing anything about jazz, I found that I kept going back to certain records - Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong. After that I discovered Bix Beiderbecke and learned jazz more or less chronologically after that.

Coupla more days - all will be revealed on Sunday, Jan. 31.

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (RCA Neon promo)

I agree. She introduced me to The Zoo Bar in Lincoln (one of the country's great blues bars), the runza (for those not from Nebraska, it's a meat and cabbage pie kind of thing - Czech, I think), and Cornhuskers football. I think I was more upset than she was when Nebraska lost the Big 12 championship.

I wanted to hear some more George Girard and early Pete Fountain, so: Basin Street Six (10" EmArcy) from 1951. "When It's Sleepytime Down South" is just beautiful.

I've been in a New Orleans mood today, so earlier this evening I spun: Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Mama's Gone, Goodbye/New Orleans Wiggle (Victor, 1923). I've got these on CD, but it's great to hear them on an excellent 78. Peter Bocage wrote both of these pieces, and his Creole trumpet sounds very sweet here. Wooden Joe Nicholas - Ai Ai Ai/Holler Blues (American Music, 1949). A rougher (and older?) New Orleans style than Bocage and Piron. "Holler Blues" is a different take than the one used on the American Music CD. Santa Pecora - Basin Street Blues/12th Street Rag; My Lou'siana/March of the Mardi Gras (Mercury, 1950). These sides feature the great, ill-fated New Orleans trumpeter George Girard (he died of cancer at 26) and young Pete Fountain. I hope I don't lose any hard-core jazz cred by saying this, but before he joined the Lawrence Welk troupe and became a show biz icon, young Pete Fountain was a fabulous jazz clarinetist - I just love his late-40s/early 50s New Orleans recordings.

Johnny Griffin - The Big Soul-Band (Riverside stereo) Edit: The back cover of my copy has a stamp from an old Atlanta record store - The Music Inn, Hunter St. (now MLK Drive).

Ansamblul Perinita (Electrecord). Romanian folk music. There are some real virtuoso players here, on instruments like taragot, Romanian flute, panpipes, and bagpipe. Edit: Wow - there's a saxophone!

Thanks for your comments. Ironically, in an earlier blindfold test, I thought that the trombonist featured on track 10 might be a French hornist. I'm glad you (and others) like track one - I like that one a lot. And I agree with you that our different preferences are a good thing. And off the subject of music - I had to ask my wife where Papillion is. She's a Nebraska farm girl - from Crete. But she's been in Georgia now longer than she was in Nebraska, and can fry up a catfish as well as any Georgia native.

:tup I love all of these (except some of the vocals on the OM5).

Ma Rainey - Mother of the Blues (JSP) Disc one.

Recommended to me by Paul and others, so I'm reading it now. Nice job on capturing the atmosphere. As to the story - we'll see.

Well, I'm dipping my toe into the water - I ordered this today.

Lonnie Smith - Think! A mid-seventies Blue Note pressing - nothing to get excited about, but it sounds pretty good.

Let me add my thanks for this fascinating thread.

I dug deep to find just the right record for this Sunday morning: Tyree Glenn at the Roundtable (Roulette). Hank Jones sounds really good.