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Daughter of Cochise from Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream. Not sure how authentic.

When the street team is also the artist, that's kind of cool. Tell us about yourself and your bandmates.

Grabbed the new Nels Cline, along with Sheila Jordan, Frank Kimbrough, Harvey S and Kenny Barron

The two LP set tended to feature the "new thing" more prominently, but the 3 CD version included more "inside" performances. The tribute to Britt Woodman is just plain gorgeous.

Ah, the complete Concord recordings of Sun Ra!!!

The leader has done fine work with Sheila Jordan and Kenny Barron. Although the band lacks big names, my interest in hearing this was enhanced by seeing Woody Witt's name. He's a Texas tenor whose album I heard and enjoyed as part of AAJ's review copy thread a few years ago. The first two tracks feature the leader's bass prominently and Witt seems comfortable with the ECMish direction of the compositions he plays on. Very pleasant, this will get some repeat listenings. Available on eMusic.

Grabbed it from eMusic, loving it on first listen. Well done, Frank.

Lee Morgon was great in the 70's. Live at the Lighthouse and Lee Morgan (Last Session) are my favorite Lee, but I do realize they were starting to depart Dan Gould's comfort zone.

Trane's Body and Soul from Coltrane's Sound. Honorable Mentions Trane - Africa Rollins - G-Man McCoy Tyner - Walk Spirit Talk Spirit Woody Shaw - Obsequious

Fair enough Dan. Yes it's wrong to stop the performance and criticize the audience. If he can stop it he'll be a better man and artist.

Note absence of Bud Powell bashing thread. Sometimes it helps to be dead.

Prayer from Death and the Flower (featuring just Haden and Jarrett) is an all time favorite. No question that I'm going to grab this when it comes out.

For pure fire breathing, check out Cecil Taylor - Dark To Themselves, one of Ware's first recordings back in the mid 70's. I haven't listened to many of his recordings as a leader, but I do have and return to Surrendered.

Wow there is a Ralph Towner thread and I haven't pitched in. One of my favorites. Solstice is indeed gorgeous and was a great bridge for a prog rock fan like me back in the day. On the whole I love the sound of his twelve string most of all, but my single favorite cut, Oregon's Yet To Be doesn't feature 12 string at all, Ralph is on piano. The solo versions of the "Hits" on Diary are to die for, Icarus and Silence of a Candle. A melodist and composer first and an improviser second, his projects denied easy genre classification. One could view him as a pioneer paving the way for increased prominence for both New Age and World Music.

Delius (am I thinking of On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring?), Sibelius (Swan of Tuonela) and Aho (Quintet)

I'm liking both discs so far. John Lindberg simply wails on the first track on CD2. I did enjoy both Yo Miles! and much of the Miles electric era.

Got this from eMusic and it's good, in a Paul Bley or Ran Blake sort of way. Lyrical, somewhere between thoughtful and ponderous, and a little chromatic. I find myself not really being sure what came out this year when the Best Of lists for the year appear, so I made a special effort to hear something new soon after it came out.

I'm grabbing this from eMusic as soon as I get home. In addition to the leader, Michael Gregory appears on CD2 and I've followed him since Clarity. AAJ has a writeup which indicates this is both freer and funkier than other recent projects by the leadeer. Anyone heard it yet?

Presumably not the former Penn State and pro linebacker who gave up football for music?

The Van Morrison back catalog is pretty much a no-show. (I have almost everything on CD anyway, but I was curious.) Recently I've grabbed the new solo Marc Copland, Gary Burton Alone at Last, World Saxophone Quartet - Rhythm and Blues, Shorty Rogers - Martians Come Back and the two missing tracks from the Bill Evans Fantasy box I downloaded during my club 2K days.

It can be previewed on a site called bluebeat.com

Back in the 70s, the late and beloved Harrison Ridley Jr. cited Wayman Carver's solo on Devil's Holiday as the first jazz flute solo. This fascinating site indicates that there were a few earlier instances http://www.flutehistory.com/Playing/Jazz.php3 1927 Alberto Socarras solos with Clarence Williams band on 'Shootin' the Pistol' 1931 Wayman Carver solos with Dave Nelson band on 'Loveless Love' 1933 Wayman Carver solos with Spike Hughes band on 'How Come You Do Me Like You Do?', and 'Sweet Sue, Just You' 1933 Wayman Carver solos with Benny Carter band on 'Devils' Holiday'

I tried passing on this info to Ned Judy, the page's author, but it looks like I would have to join MySpace to do so. If anyone's already on MySpace, maybe they could drop him a note.

I was googling for the answer to the question posed by the title and came up with this link: http://nedjudy.com/jpt/ suggesting that the first was: December 18, 1944. Eroll Garner records with bassist John Simmons, and drummer Harold "Doc" West, establishing a new standard format for the jazz piano trio. Wow, that seems late. I would have guessed Teddy Wilson but the onling Discographies I have fouind are pretty weak.

I was talkin' bout Trane!