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The great Atlanta Airlift will be tomorrow. I'll be going to the post office to mail: Art Pepper Select to Werf Dexter Gordon Select to djcavanagh Andrew Hill Select to Guy as well as Kenton's Back to Balboa (which the same store had) to bebopbob. Sorry I couldn't make someone's day with the PJ Piano Trios - it was still available when I left work that day, so I didn't pick it up.

PM sent on Teddy Hill.

actually it is now - i'm having one tomorrow. purely precautionary as i turned 50 in april. if you are 50 or older and have not had one yet - now is the time! Dude, I'm sorry about the day you're going to have today. The procedure itself is a breeze, but the day before was pretty awful. Hope yours is better.

Atlanta Blues 1933 (JEMF/Arhoolie) Previously unreleased test pressings by Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver, and Buddy Moss.

Resting at home for an hour after playing an in-store performance at Criminal Records in Atlanta with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra. Soon I'll be leaving for Eyedrum to hear the Shaking Ray Levis.

Starting the day with Art Farmer's Perception from the Jazztet set.

Eureka Brass Band: Music of New Orleans, Vol. Two (Folkways). The greatest New Orleans brass band on records, in my opinion. I love the way Percy Humphrey's pre-Armstrong trumpet soars over the last chorus of most tracks. I want "Just a Little While to Stay Here" played at my funeral.

I'm listening to a very cool Tiny Grimes set from The Guitar Album - a Columbia double LP from a 1971 concert at Town Hall. Grimes plays a strong, bluesy set with a hip rhythm section: Larry Ridley and Al Harewood. He even uses a wah-wah pedal on "Watermelon Man." It's a pretty interesting album. The other guitarists featured are Charlie Byrd, Joe Beck, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Chuck Wayne, and John McLaughlin. The album has a few "Age of Aquarius" touches (Byrd plays "You've Got a Friend," Pizzarelli and Barnes do the "Love Story" theme), but that's part of the charm.

Etta James James Last Zamfir

Okay, here's my aphorism on this subject, which is either Zen-like in its wisdom or just stupid: No musician is self-taught, and all musicians are self-taught.

Lately I seem to need a daily dose of Monk. Tonight's choice is the second disc of the Prestige 24000 series Thelonious Monk two-fer - the 1954 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" quintet session and the "Blue Monk" trio session. I had forgotten or never noticed that Rudy Van Gelder did the remastering for this reissue. It sounds really good, and the music is incredible.

I am now officially jealous to the point of hatred.

I know you're going to get a million great suggestions, but think about some early Ike Turner.

The Freddie Roach Soul Book (Prestige stereo)

Great post. When I was younger, I thought of New Grass, Healing Force, and Last Album as being cut from the same cloth, but that was just ignorance. New Grass is a highly compromised offering, but the last two albums seem to actually represent Ayler's (and Mary Maria's) vision at the time. Ep1str0phy went into detail, so I'll just say that I like about half of the music from these records. "Water Music" in particular is a beautiful thing. And I don't mind Mary Maria's singing so much as her lyrics, which at times painfully trite and inane. Basically, no Ayler fan should discount the albums from the final sessions, even if nothing here will make you forget Spiritual Unity or "For John Coltrane."

Marion Brown: Geechee Recollections (Impulse). Mighty, mighty.

On to the real deal. Fats Navarro - Fat Girl: The Savoy Sessions.

Morris Grants Presents J.U.N.K. (Argo). I needed some comic relief.

A couple of folks have asked me about the PJ Piano Trios set. I regret to say that it has been sold by the store - and not to me. It was there about 4:00 PM EDT, but when I called a couple of hours later to hold it, it was already gone. Sorry - I wanted to help out as many people as possible.

Bennie Green Select. I really like it. Green was one of the first jazz trombonists I became aware of - he played on the boxed 45 RPM Charlie Ventura album my mom brought home for me when I was 16 or so.

It's still early in the month - I wouldn't wind things up yet. In the few BFTs I've participated in I have posted both early and late in the month. I hope I didn't show bad form in posting my answers so early. I just figured that people would do what I've done in the past - not read the thread until they had their comments ready. I had a lot of fun with this one and hope that I didn't spoil anyone else's fun with it.

Holding the Dexter set for John Tapscott....

Werf has laid claim to the Art Pepper.

I read this thread just before leaving work, so I stopped on my way home at a great local CD store that carries many of the Selects. I bought Bob Brookmeyer (it's on now) and Bennie Green for myself. I also picked up copies of the two no-longer-available sets the store had: Dexter Gordon and Art Pepper. I have offered them privately (at my cost) to John Tapscott and Werf, respectively, since they they were the earliest to post lamenting them. If they don't want them, I'll sell them (again, at cost) to the first board member who wants them. The store had one more copy of the Dexter Gordon, and one copy each of the Pacific Jazz Piano Trios, Duke Pearson, and John Patton. If anyone wants these, I'll go by tomorrow and pick them up if they're still there, which of course I can't guarantee. I'm glad I recently picked up Curtis Amy and the PJ Piano Trios.

Billy Bang: Untitled Gift (Anima). The new Denis Charles thread reminded me that I had been wanting to hear this one again.