Hot Ptah

Dan, Withoout checking my entire collection, I have at least 25 of the albums on your excellent list. The Benny Carter is an especially great session, which I had forgotten about. Harold Ashby made a string of excellent albums toward the end of his career, including the one you picked. The Norris Turney album is very strong. I picked John Hicks' "Inc.1" on my list--it is my favorite album under Hicks' name in his entire discography. The Pharoah Sanders album is very appealing.

Da Da had some excellent straight ahead cuts, and then a few insipid commercialized ones, which were jarring and completely out of character with the rest of the album. I thought at the time that the record company had to be dictating these commercialized recordings. Blythe was thought of as a up and coming major figure in the first half of the 1980s. I have always seen him as a Jaki Byard type of jazz artist, a great player who somehow never broke through to stardom at the level that his talents deserved.

I wonder if Obama really loves jazz, or if a team of highly paid consultants put together a list of artists for his imaginary IPod which would appeal to every demographic.

I am not sure if this qualifies as a bag or box, but it is a container:

Peter, That is a great list. The Roy Eldridge 4 on Pablo is a great choice. I have it on vinyl but had not thought of playing it in some time, which will now be remedied. I remember it as a very hot session.

Has Bill Jackson's "Long Steel Rail" on Testament Records been mentioned yet? Dan, I did not know that the Grand Emporium had been the venue of such a worthy album. I spent many evenings at the Grand Emporium, which was Kansas City's leading blues club for over a decade.

That looks like a great set. I want more good Little Brother Montgomery in particular. Any word on a release date?

The Complete Recordings of Stanley Crouch on Drums

I find it sad that this album is on the featured new albums rack at the end of the aisle at my Barnes and Noble, set out as one of the hot new albums to have come out recently. From the front cover packaging it is not obvious that this is a flawed recreation.

Well, I thought I had a pretty decent blues collection, but I have only two albums on this list! There is much to check out here. Thanks so much for this list. I know what you mean about being through with lists--I posted one a little while back, and it takes a surprising amount of work and mental energy to do a good job with it.

Is that the same album as the one pictured in the first post on this thread?