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Real Gone Music put out the recent Alice Coltrane Warner compilation Spiritual Eternal, which was well done. They also jointly released the Cannonball Adderley albums, The Price You Pay to Be Free and Music You All, with Dusty Groove. And they put out Herbie Mann, Live at the Whiskey, 1969. All are high quality releases.

Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)

Count Basie, Li'l Ol' Groovemaker (Verve) Jazz at the Philharmonic in Europe (Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge) (Verve). This is one of a series of four LPs that includes some of my favorite JATP. On this set, you get to hear Cannonball and Benny Carter together. George Shearing Trio, Jazz Moments (Capitol). George Shearing with Ahmad Jamal's great rhythm section (Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier). Boogie Woogie Revisited (RCA) Bud Powell, Bud in Paris (Xanadu) Hampton Hawes/Paul Chambers, The East/West Controversy (Xanadu)

Bobby Watson, Keepin' It Real (Smoke Sessions)

It seems like a remote prospect at this point. A longer festival is fine, even if I can only attend a part.

Optimistically thinking about the future. TWO WEEKENDS: March 18 - 21 and 25 - 28 It’s been a while since we were last in touch. We hope this message finds all of our Big Ears family healthy and managing to find some joy and peace in these strange, tumultuous, and transformative times. We want to thank all of you for your encouragement and support during this difficult time. Your patience during the process of refunding your ticket purchases for 2020 — and the extraordinary generosity that so many of you showed in donating to Big Ears — has helped us to weather the storm and was deeply appreciated. We’d hoped to share our plans for Big Ears 2021 several weeks ago. We’ve been planning and strategizing the festival’s future since early April, waiting for clarity on the pandemic and its impact on our ability to turn those plans into action. Unfortunately, this that timeline remains uncertain. Our primary goal has been to offer TWO Big Ears weekends in 2021 — each with a unique line up and program of its own — combining as much of the programming scheduled for 2020 as possible with many new programs that were already in the works. We’ve discussed this with many of the artists who were scheduled for the 2020 festival — as well as with others who were planning to play Big Ears 2021 — with very positive response. We are hopeful and optimistic. The two weekends we have in mind are March 18 – 21 and March 25 – 28; however, it will still be several weeks — perhaps until late-August or early-September — before we know for certain if those weekends are actually feasible. The health and safety of everyone who attends Big Ears — and of our community — is our #1 concern. If these dates don’t allow for that, we’ll pivot to weekends later in the year. In the meantime, we’re exploring new ideas and opportunities to support the work of artists we love and share it with you. We’ll stay in touch as these plans evolve., and we eagerly look forward to the time when we can all come together for another unforgettable Big Ears weekend.

Earl Hines, Quintessential Continued (Chiaroscuro) Mary Lou Williams, From the Heart (Chiaroscuro) Bobby Hackett Quartet Plus Vic Dickenson, This is My Bag (Project 3)

Kidd Jordan, A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Mahakala)

Pat Martino, Exit (Muse) Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall (Columbia)

If I never went back to the office again (except one time to pick up some books), that would be okay. Working from home has been perfectly fine.

Fats Waller in London (Capitol) June Christy, The Misty Miss Christy (Capitol)

The Texas governor has actively worked to impede Dallas County authorities from doing the right thing.

I've never run across a copy of Cry Young or The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful.

A hiatus? He released 15 albums from 1960-68. 1960 Happy Moods Argo Trio, with Israel Crosby (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums) 1960 Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet Argo Quintet, with Ray Crawford (guitar), Joe Kennedy (violin), Israel Crosby (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums) 1961 All of You Argo Trio, with Israel Crosby (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums); in concert 1961 Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra Argo Trio, with Israel Crosby (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums); in concert 1961 Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk Argo Trio, with Israel Crosby (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums); in concert 1962 Macanudo Argo With Art Davis (bass), orchestra 1964 Naked City Theme Argo Trio, with Jamil Nasser (bass), Chuck Lampkin (drums); in concert 1965 The Roar of the Greasepaint Argo Trio, with Jamil Nasser (bass), Chuck Lampkin (drums) 1965 Extensions Argo Trio, with Jamil Nasser (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums) 1965 Rhapsody Cadet With Jamil Nasser (bass), Vernel Fournier (drums), orchestra 1966 Heat Wave Cadet Trio, with Jamil Nasser (bass), Frank Gant (drums) 1967 Cry Young Cadet With Jamil Nasser (bass), Frank Gant (drums), choir 1968 The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful Cadet With Jamil Nasser (bass), Frank Gant (drums), choir 1968 Tranquility ABC With Jamil Nasser (bass), Frank Gant (drums) 1968 Ahmad Jamal at the Top: Poinciana Revisited Impulse! Trio, with Jamil Nasser (bass), Frank Gant (drums)

Count Basie Trio, For the First Time (Pablo)

The Blues Piano Artistry of Meade Lux Lewis (Riverside) George Williams, Swing Classics in Stereo (United Artists) Micky Tucker, Mister Mysterious (Muse) Bill Potts, The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess (United Artists)

Ahmad Jamal and Ramsey Lewis lps on Argo are still common in these parts.

Jazz at the Philharmonic Hartford 1953 (Pablo) Duke Ellington, Duke's Big 4 (Pablo) Duke Ellington, The Intimate Ellington Pablo) Thelonious Monk, Monk's Blues (Columbia)

The most obnoxious posters are the most pseudo-knowledgeable and the least thought provoking.

Finally received a shipping notice.

He's a major jazz musician, not a minor one. The place to start is the Mosaic set, or to put your toe in the water first, Cross-Country Tour. He's also still alive and producing excellent recordings at an advanced age (currently 89). For example, Ballades (solo and duo) from 2019 and Marseille from 2016.

Palo Alto is the first of a series of joint releases to come over the next five years from Impulse! Records in conjunction with the Monk estate’s Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, which is led by T.S. Monk. We hope!

13 here.

Omer Avital, Qantar: New York Paradox (Jazz & People)

I should have just left the email alone. Lynch, which technically refers to a mob killing and which in the rest of the world may not be race specific but in the United State has taken on a racial meaning. See the linked story of the last lynching in Dallas, occurring in 1910. There was even a postcard of the event. https://timeline.com/allen-brooks-dallas-lynching-4fc9132ee422