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It has been a while since I had one of my impulsive binges. Peer pressure resulted in me picking up 13 discs from Philadelphia Music and two Bernie McGann discs from another Discogs seller all for about $40: Bruce Barth, Ugonna Okegwo, Al Foster - Live At The Village Vanguard (CD, Album) (MAXJAZZ - MXJ 205) Bebop & Beyond Featuring Dizzy Gillespie - Plays Dizzy Gillespie (CD, Album) (Bluemoon - R2 79170) Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra - Even The Moon Is Dancing (CD, Album) (SteepleChase - SCCD-31208) Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete) (2xCD, Album, Club, RM) (Legacy, Columbia - C2K 64932) Donal Fox, David Murray - Ugly Beauty (CD, Album) (Evidence (5) - ECD 22131-2) Ned Goold - March Of The Malcontents (CD, Album) (Smalls Records - SRCD-0019) Dexter Gordon - The Other Side Of Round Midnight (CD, Album) (Blue Note, Blue Note - CDP 7 46397 2, CDP-7-46397-2) Bernie McGann Quartet - Kindred Spirits (CD, Album) (Rufus Records (2) - RF049) Bernie McGann - Ugly Beauty (CD, Album) (Spiral Scratch (2) - 0010) Bernie McGann - Playground (CD, Album) (Terra Nova Records - TND-9018) Bernie McGann - McGann Mcgann (CD, Album) (Terra Nova Records - TND-9017) Neal Miner - The Evening Sound (CD, Album) (Smalls Records - SRCD-0017) The Modern Jazz Quartet - European Concert (CD, RE) (Label M - 495721) Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson's Finest Hour (CD, Comp) (Verve Records - 314 543 599-2) SaxEmble - SaxEmble (CD, Album) (Qwest Records - 9 46181-2)

I ordered a couple days ago directly from RogueArt. Much looking forward to reading this. I wish I had ordered sooner so that I would have it in hand when traveling next week. I will be spending a lot of time in airports and on flights. Guess I will just have to read the Threadgill bio.

I just ordered that book.

Gary Bartz?

Congratulations! Definite purchase for me.

Congratulations!

Hey - I have caught several of your CT gigs and spoke to you each time! I likely will not be in NY this weekend, but have a great show.

I sprung for autographed copy a couple weeks ago as well.

I am looking at Day 2 and Day 4 as possibles to get down to Brooklyn.

I have heard Bryant live a couple of times in groups led by drummer Yoron Israel, as well as on a couple of recordings. I have dug his contribution to the music when I heard him.

Thank you for the headsup! Ordered!

It was a busy weekend of music for me. Friday - Eric Person Quartet at the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, CT with John Esposito (piano), Adam Armstrong (bass) and Darrell Green (drums). Saturday - Ron Carter Quartet at the Northampton Jazz Festival with Jimmy Greene (tenor saxophone), Renee Rosnes (piano) and Payton Crossley (drums). Sunday - Improvisations Now at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT with Joe Morris (bass), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Lester St. Louis (cello) and Jerome Deupree (drums)

Wasn't Craig Handy replaced by Donald Harrison in the band a couple years ago?

PM re: Brotzmann/Parker/Drake - Never too Late but Always Too Early Eremite MTE 037/038 $15

Another different spin on Mingus with Silke Eberhard (saxophone), Nikolaus Neuser (trumpet) and Christian Marien (drums).

Cecil Taylor - Jimmy Lyons - Sunny Murray

Anthony Braxton has also recorded albums dedicated mostly to Hill's music.

I wonder whether Jaki Byard at times would fit?

I did eventually obtain a copy of the vinyl. If I remember correctly I purchased it directly from Bill Barron's widow at the time.

You are right. Intrigued as to the thought process.

They are not successor bands.

Although Eddie Henderson overlaps in both bands, the Cookers are not a successor. My understanding is that the Leaders were organized by Chico Freeman, while the instigator for the Cookers seems to be David Weiss.

Although they may not have equaled the sume of all the parts, or the expectations based on the caliber of musicians, I enjoyed the group. Yes more straight-ahead than expected, but solid. I saw them live once at Sweet Basil and was not disappointed. Don Cherry was the original trumpet in the band for a period of time before it recorded. Eddie Henderson and Bobby Watson replaced Bowie and Blythe in an even more conservative iteration of the ensemble.