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Don Patterson - Patterson's People (Presting mono). Another from my real estate agent friend - probably the last I'll play before I get the rest cleaned.

Wow - what label is that on?

Max Roach - Chattahoochee Red (Columbia) Steve Lacy - Flakes (RCA Vista Italy)

Last "basement album" of the night - Pat Martino - El Hombre (Prestige stereo) Edit: Since I've been posting the conditions of the records, this one is around VG: nice listening, but with surface noise.

The next round of my real estate freebies: Cannonball Adderley - Why Am I Treated So Bad (Capitol mono). I chose this next because it appears to be in the best condition of all the records I picked up today - VG+ approaching NM. But I dislike the distant recording quality, and Cannonball in this period has always been somewhat disappointing to me, considering what an interesting band he had. Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 (Atlantic stereo). VG+, and the music is excellent - no surprise there. I wasn't familiar with the album before now - it's more jazz/blues oriented than most of Aretha's Atlantic output.

A friend who is a real estate agent in Atlanta called me this afternoon; he had just listed a house. It was empty except for some stuff in the basement that the family was going to take to Goodwill. Among the "junk" was two boxes of records. My friend noticed a good bit of jazz, along with R & B and blues - would I like to take a look before they went out for donation? Well, yes. I came home with about thirty records, although because of the widely varying condition I probably won't keep them all. The first three: Cecil Taylor - Stereo Drive (United Artists stereo). About VG: quite listenable, but with consistent low-level hiss. Ronnie Scott/Tubby Hayes - The Couriers of Jazz! (Carlton mono). Solid VG+, and excellent music I had never heard. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightinin' Strikes (Verve Folkways stereo). Strong VG, almost VG+. A nice 1965 date recorded in LA, with Jimmy Bond on bass and the great Earl Palmer on drums.

George Van Eps - Soliloquy (Capitol)

Love that album. And this one, which is one of my desert island discs. It has been discussed here recently, but I didn't know that when I chose this one tonight: Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (BN McMaster)

When I was a teenager getting into jazz, my mother got me that book for Christmas. It's a hoot. My favorite aspect is that before publication, Simon sent his band reviews to those bandleaders who were still living, and printed their responses beside the original reviews. Those comments range from, "Yeah, you were right" to indignant rebuttals.

Wooden Joe Nicholas - Rare & Unissued Masters 1945-1949 (American Music). The 1945 sides are really excellent - most were not released at the time because Bill Russell was concerned about the excessive echo of the dance hall where they were recorded. Nicholas has lost a step or two by the 1949 sessions, but there is still much to enjoy, such as the previously unissued spiritual by Ann Cook, who made one record for Victor in the 1920s.

Paul Motian Trio - At the Village Vanguard: You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart (JMT) The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (BN)

I know I'm repeating myself, but that's my all-time favorite solo Lacy recording. The first notes of the first track, Monk's "Shuffle Boil," always fill me with an intense sadness. Which is an enigma, since in Monk's hands it was always a bouncy, if off-center little piece.

Joseph Jarman - Song For (Delmark) The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (Mapleshade) Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame (BN RVG)

So I've got four 78s / six sides (two of the records have other bands on the flip) by the 1923 King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. For the first time tonight, I did an A/B toggle-back-and-forth test between each 78 and the Off the Record CD set. I love that CD set, but now I want to invite you all over to my house to hear the 78s. It's another level.

So sorry to hear this news.

I like that set.

Steve Lacy - Eronel (Horo). Solo Monk tunes, 1979. Austere and beautiful.

Happy birthday! You're catching up to me... or is that how it works?

Olympia Brass Band - New Orleans Street Parade (BASF). Some of the Olympia's recordings are kind of trite and "touristy," but this 1968 German studio date is raw and fiery. The band is filled out with a few European ringers, including German trombonist Frank Naundorf. This was his first recorded appearance with the Olympia, but apparently it was a fit, because the next year he moved to New Orleans and became a regular member of the band.

Lonnie Smith - Think! (BN UA)

Ralph Towner & Gary Burton - Matchbook (ECM) Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations of Man (El Saturn). Live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, November, 1977. My copy is in a plain black sleeve, but the label looks like this.

Chick Corea - Inner Space (Atlantic). Record one, which is a reissue of Tones for Joan's Bones. John Coltrane - Kulu se Mama (Impulse stereo)

Paul Bley - Ballads (ECM)

Earl Hines - My Tribute to Louis (Audiophile). Chuck Nessa gave me the heads up about how special this one is. Recorded less than two weeks after Louis Armstrong's death on a fine Steinway piano, with engineering by the recording genius Ewing Nunn.

Max Roach - Parisian Sketches (Mercury/Verve) Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Volume Nine (Saja)