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13 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

I've got a copy of the complete 1953 Salle Pleyel concert on the  way and am looking for an inexpensive copy of the Blue Star recordings.

The Salle Pleyel gig is something I knew from it being parted out on Roulette in the 70s, but hearing it complete is a trip. That group was leaning in to backbeat (implied and literal) music in a way that anticipates the Messengers by a few years! The drummer Al Jones is bringing it! And Wade Legge!

 

That 1953 concert recording is one of my favorite Dizzy recordings. His trumpet playing is unreal on that one.

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Chief Adjuah, Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning

[Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Etc. Jazz & Other Concerts]

UNT Jazz Community Event - Billy Harper Live at Steve's!

Date:	Sat, Jun 15, 2024
Time	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

In partnership with UNT Jazz Community Events, Steve's Wine Bar Presents

The Billy Harper Quintet

In 1964, Harper was the first Black student accepted into the prestigious One O’Clock Lab Band. Billy Harper’s experience during integration paved a pathway for Black students at UNT, which is now a Minority-Serving Institution.

Billy has performed with the likes of Gil Evans, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and many others solidifying him as the Jazz great he is today. “Billy is a griot, a storyteller,” said T.K. Blue, the saxophonist and flutist who performed with Harper for 30 years in bands led by the pianist Randy Weston. “I can hear the history of where he comes from in that music. It’s regal. I hear Africa. I hear Texas. I hear the blues.”, “...At 82, he is still a force in the community and turns heads with his sound and compositions.” The New York Times

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Clifford Jordan, Remembering Me-Me (Muse)

Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, Blues in Time (Verve)

 

 

[What live music are you going to see tonight?]

Last night, at the Memorial High School Auditorium in Frisco, a Jugalbandi featuring Hindustani Flute By Praveen Godkindi and Carnatic Violin By Ambi Subramanian - son of L Subramanian, with three percussionists -Yashwant Vaishnav on Tabla, Sowmi Narayanan on Ghatam, and Akshay Anthapadmanabhan on Mridamgam.

An excellent concert of Indian classical music, the violinist was exceptional.

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Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Chicago Hustle '82 (Cleopatra Blues)

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Pat Metheny, New Chautauqua (ECM)

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Louis Ford, It's All Relative

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Jasmine Myra, Rising

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Per Billy Harper's facebook page, in addition to Houston and Austin, the Billy Harper Quintet will be at Steve's Wine Bar in Denton on June 15.

[Bluegrass, Newgrass, or Dawg music covers of jazz tunes]

Tray Wellington's Black Banjo includes versions of Naima and Roy Hargrove's Strasbourg/St. Denis.

 

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7 hours ago, BFrank said:

I have a list of every concert I've been to since 1968. Not sure why I started it in the first place, but very happy to have it. It's a great reference, especially for the shows that I  don't even remember going to 😜

Me too, except it's since 1974.

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Kaia Kater, Strange Medicine

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy, Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1968 (Cleopatra Blues)

If you are a fan of the Delmark classic Hoodoo Man Blues, this is insanely good (well recorded and licensed from the Junior Wells estate), with Fred Below, Jack Myers and A.C. Reed.

[What live music are you going to see tonight?]

Friday:

Rex Gregory Quartet with Amina Figarova at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Stephen Walker's Swingin' in New Orleans at the Royal Frenchman Hotel.

Jason Marsalis Trio Excursions with Ricardo Pascal (saxophones) at Snug Harbor.

Saturday:

Herlin Riley Quartet at Snug Harbor (2 sets). Absolutely amazing.

Sunday:

Leroy Jones and the Preservation All Stars, Preservation Hall.

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Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux, Live in France 1969 (Elemental)

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Vinicius Cantuaria, Silva

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22 hours ago, mjazzg said:

That looks like I need to investigate it

A few tracks are not for me, but I do like the majority of them.

[What live music are you going to see tonight?]

Last night, Tutu Jones and His Twisted Soul Band at The Goat. An amazing and unique guitarist.

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Ghana Special 2, Electronic Sounds and Highlife in the Diaspora 1980-93 (Soundway)

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

The Trumpet of Pete Condoli, Blues, When Your Lover Has Gone (Somerset)

Duke Ellington, Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo)

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Columbia)

Roland Hanna, Impressions

Billy Ver Planck Orchestra, Jazz for PlayGirls (Savoy)

[David Sanborn R.I.P.]

I saw him only once, two years ago at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. It was basically a straight ahead jazz set, with an alto/trombone frontline and Geoff Keezer on keyboards.

Favorite solo by David Sanborn for me is on Billy Harper's Priestess, on the Gil Evans album of the same name.

[Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Etc. Jazz & Other Concerts]

June 6, 2024: Bill Frisell Trio, Lowdown, Tulsa

June 14, 2024: Billy Harper Quintet, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston

June 15, 2024: Jugalbandi of Hindustani Flute By Praveen Godkindi and Carnatic Violin By Ambi Subramaniam - son of L Subramanian -Yashwant Vaishnav (Disciple of PT Yogesh Samsi) On Tabla, Sowmi Narayanan on Ghatam, Akshay Anthapadmanabhan on Mridamgam, Durga Bari Auditorium, Houston

                         Billy Harper Quintet, Steve's Wine Bar, Denton

June 16, 2024: Billy Harper Quintet, Stateside Theater, Austin

June 18, 2024: Peggy Stern, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin

June 21, 2024: Buddy Guy, Shreveport, Lousiana

June 22, 2024: Buddy Guy, Hot Springs, Arkansas

June 29, 2024: Mokoomba, Thomas Mapfumo, African Vibration Festival, McKinney

July 3, 2024: Mokoomba, Antone's, Austin

July 18, 2024: John Primer, Antone's, Austin

August 24, 2024: Bobby Rush, Arlington Music Hall

September 21, 2024: Mandolin Rajesh (mandolin) and Rajhesh Vaidya (veena), Frisco

September 28, 2024: Abhishek Borkar (Sarod), Yashwant Vaishnav (tabla), Cullen Hall, Unverisy of Saint Thomas, Houston

October 4, 2024: Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Cullen Theater, Houston

October 6, 2024: Delvon  Lamarr Organ Trio, Antone's, Austin

October 11, 2024: Branford Marsalis, Bates Recital Hall, Austin

October 13, 2024: Branford Marsalis, UTD

October 17, 2024: Buena Vista Social Orchestra, Majestic Theater, Dallas

October 22, 2024: Joel Frahm Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio

November 16, 2024: Matthew Whitaker, Eisemann Center, Richardson

December 6, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Sam's Burger Joint, San Antonio

                                 Terri Lynne Carrington's New Standards, Cullen Theater, Houston

December 7, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Kessler Theater, Dallas

January 25, 2025: Lakecia Benjamin, Cullent Theater, Houston

February 14, 2025: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Zika Hall, Houston

March 1, 2025: Vijay Iyer Trio, Cullen Theater, Houston

March 15, 2025: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival

March 18, 2025: Anoushka Shankar, Eisemann Center, Richardson

March 27-30, 2025: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee

March 28, 2025: Jason Moran's Duke Ellington Project, Cullen Theater, Houston

April 11, 2025: Brad Mehldau Trio with Christian McBride, Cullen Theater, Houston

April 12, 2025: Hiromi's SonicWonder, UTD

April 24-27, May 1-4, 2025: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival