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Women of the Blues (RCA Vintage)

Jack Wilson Quartet, Call Me: Jazz From the Penthouse

Jay McShann, New York: 1208 Miles (1941-43) (Decca).

I saw Amina Claudine Myers ln person leading an organ trio one time; it was great.

Amina Claudine Myers, Songs for Mother E (Leo)

Andreas Arnold, Odisea (Bayla Records)

Tarek Yamani, Lisan Al Tarab (Edict Records)

Bud Freeman, Something Tender (United Artists). This was a very happy find at my visit to the Jazz Record Center in NYC a week ago. Bud Freeman playing with two guitarists, George Barnes and Carl Kress. There is no rhythm section. An unusual and beautiful record.

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Ditto.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has always featured World music, often from Africa. The 2018 festival featured three African bands: Jupiter and Okwess (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Sona Jobarteh (Gambia), and Sidi Toure (Mali). It was a thrill and a treasure to hear these three terrific bands in person. Now the 2019 festival line-up is out and there are four African bands this year. Please pardon my excitement. Jupiter and Okwess returns, appearing on two days of the festival (and at Tipitina's). In addition, there is Niger guitarist Mdou Moctar. And Ivory Coast vocalist Dobet Gnahore (two performances). Finally, Diassing Kunda, from Senegal. I can't find out anything about the last band on the internet, except for one brief cellphone video on youtube. Anyone know of them?

February 4, 2019: Caroline Davis, UNT Music 282, Denton Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin February 7, 2019: Caroline Davis, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston Kara Grainger, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney Alfredo Rodriguez and Petritao Martinez, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio Kara Grainger, The Comfort Backyard, Comfort February 16, 2019: Bria Skonberg, Duet, Tulsa February 18, 2019: Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio March 9, 2019: Anoushka Shankar, Riverbend Center for the Arts, Austin March 10, 2019: Anoushka Shankar, Stratford Centre, Stratford, Texas March 15, 2019: Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart Trio, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas March 16, 2019: Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, Carver Center, San Antonio March 19, 2019: Eric Gales, Rockefellar's, Houston March 20, 2019: Eric Gales, Antone's, Austin March 21, 2019: Eric Gales, The Chop Shop, Roanoke March 22, 2019: Eric Gales, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio March 29, 2019: Bill Frisell Trio, Duet, Tulsa Mimi Fox, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney March 30, 2019: Fire (Mats Gustafsson,Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin), The North Door, Austin March 31, 2019: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour (Melissa Aldana, Bria Skonberg, Christian Sands), Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris, Bass Concert Hall, Austin Evan Christopher's Clarinet Road, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Leroy Jones, Little Freddie King, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin Carl LeBlanc, Ellis Marsalis, Leroy Jones Original Hurricane Brass Band, Walter Wolfman Washington, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 14, 2019: Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Astral Project, Calvin Johnson Native Son, Jamil Sharif, Jason Marsalis 21st Century Trad Band, Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs, Tuba Skinny, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 19, 2019: Benny Green Trio, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas April 24-28, 2019: Moonlight Benjamin, Festival International De Louisiane, Lafayette, Louisiana April 25, 2019: James Carter Organ Trio, Django Festival All Stars, Jason Marsalis, Charlie Gabriel, Toronzo Cannon, Rev. John Wilkins, Diassing Kunda (Senegal), Sasha Masakowski, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 26, 2019: Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective, Kidd Jordan Family Band, Astral Project, Roger Lewis and Baritone Bliss, Louis Ford, Robert Cray, Chris Thomas King, Jose James, Diassing Kunda (Senegal), New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 27, 2019: Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Leroy Jones, Blodie's Jazz Jam, Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Laurence Sieberth and Fareed Haque, Mr. Sipp, Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Diassing Kunda (Senegal), Gregory Porter, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 28, 2019: Maurice Brown, Give the Drummer Some (Herlin Riley, Shannon Powell, Terence Higgins, and Johnny Vidacovich), Marsalis Family Band, Mdou Moctar (Niger), Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Cedric Burnside, Walter Wolfman Washington, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 2, 2019: Nicholas Payton, Regina Carter, The Rolling Bones, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 3, 2019: Trumpet Mafia, Kamasi Washington, Mathew Whitaker Quartet, Jamil Sharif, Jarekus Singleton, Cecile McLoren Salvant, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Paramount Theater, Austin May 4, 2019: Jupiter and Okwess (Congo), Kenny Neal, Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti), Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, Jeremy Davenport. Panorama Jazz Band, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5, 2019: Jupiter and Okwess (Congo), Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, Little Freddie King, Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti); Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Lil Buck Sinegal, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 8, 2019: Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Majestic Theater, Dallas May 11, 2019: Tejendra Majumdar (sarod), Austin May 23, 2019: Peter Brotzmann, The North Door, Austin June 15, 2019: Godkihindi Family Recital (bansuri), Houston July 10, 2019: Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Dosey Doe, The Woodlands July 13, 2019: Josh Feinberg (sitar), Houston August 15, 2019: James Brandon Lewis Trio, Beerland, Austin September 5, 2019: Nels Cline, Joe McPhee & Tom Rainey, The North Door, Austin

The Louis Armstrong Story volume 3, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines (Columbia) Mdou Moctar, Afelan (Sahel Sounds)

Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones, Holy Science (Northern Spy)

Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Inner Dialogue

Additions to lineup, including Aurora Nealand. 01.17.2019 MORE BIG EARS SURPRISES! Big Ears celebrates its first decade in just more than two months in Knoxville, Tenn., with a roster that already includes 90 of the world’s most legendary composers and performers, cutting-edge musicians and bands, and multiple projects that you won’t see anywhere else during the same long weekend. Today, we are thrilled to announce several additions to this year’s festival that help confirm 2019’s status as the broadest but deepest Big Ears yet. ABSÎNT Big Ears 2019 will also include the world premiere of an incredible new band, Absînt. New Orleans saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Aurora Nealandlearned the lingua franca of the city’s vintage jazz past (including an extended exploration of the Sidney Bichet songbook at Preservation Hall) before unapologetically pushing it ahead. For the first time, she will join a loaded ensemble of Bill Frisell, David Torn, and Tim Berne (who brought this possibility to our attention) for this special occasion, which you’ll only see at Big Ears 2019. IAN CHANG One of our favorite exceptional young solo instrumentalists, the drummer Ian Chang will do more than join Rafiq Bhatia’s incredible trio at Big Ears 2019. Chang has played with the likes of Matthew Dear and Moses Sumney, but he recently began writing his own music using a cutting-edge system that allows him to trigger and manipulate samples simply by playing the drums. His compositions, animated by an intoxicating light show, are kinetic and considered, punching you in the chest as they compel you to ponder the drum’s digital past and future. MARY LATTIMORE The harpist Mary Lattimore, on the heels of releasing two of 2018’s most lauded albums, will perform her first proper Big Ears solo set after appearing as a special guest in the past. With her harp, Lattimore creates brilliant vistas, which seem to hover just above the surface of the earth. NPR calledher recent album, Hundreds of Days, “a collective testament to the power of the beginner’s mind, or of allowing what you don’t know to reinvigorate the possibilities of what you’re known for.” Her subsequent collaboration with guitarist Meg Baird made a New Yorker list of the 10 best albums of 2018. CARNIVAL OF SOULS WITH LIVE SCORE BY MERCURY REV’S CLEAR LIGHT ENSEMBLE In addition to their own full performance, Mercury Rev will make a rare stateside appearance with one of its multiple alter egos—the Clear Light Ensemble—to provide a live score for the 1962 cult-horror favorite, Carnival of Souls. On occasion during this decade, the band has incorporated favorite collaborators into their textural expanser to offer new sounds for forgotten silent or avant-garde films. In Knoxville, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, the Bad Seeds’ James Sclavunos, Hugo Largo’s Mimi Goese, mutantrumpet pioneer Ben Neill, saxophonist Tim Berne, Jesse Chandler, Jonathan and Grasshopper will round out this all-star Mercury Rev permutation. MIMI GOESE & BEN NEILL Goese and Neill won’t only be joining Mercury Rev. Though they come from seemingly different musical worlds—she from the art-rock of Hugo Largo, he from the experimental intersection of jazz and electronics—they connected at the start of this century and began building Persephone, a multimedia concert of dream-pop songs and near-symphonic abstraction. With her beguiling voice at the fore and his “mutantrumpet” wrapped around it like surreal lace, they shape gorgeous songs that, these days, use raw environmental data as the input for new tunes. TIM STORY presents THE ROEDELIUS CELLS Composer Tim Story will bring his installation, The Roedelius Cells, to the festival, too. After decades of work with Cluster and Harmonia co-founder (and longtime Brian Eno collaborator) Hans-Joachim Röedelius, Story edited and manipulated slivers of effortless piano vamps from the krautrock master, splitting the results across a circle of eight speakers. The audience moves within the sound field, allowing their perception to shift with their perspective in this awesome feat of meta-musical imagination. ST JOHN’s CHOIR presents ARVO PÄRT’S PASSIO And the St. John’s Cathedral Choir of Knoxville returns to Big Ears for a full Sunday afternoon performance of Arvo Pärt’s 1980s masterpiece, Passio. This seamless 70-minute passion exquisitely renders the arrest, sentencing, and crucifixion of Jesus in a powerful dramatic arc. First recorded by the Hilliard Ensemble for ECM’s New Series, it is a fitting work for ECM’s 50th anniversary. ADDITIONS TO TRANCE MAP+ And, finally, drummer Mark Nauseef, perhaps familiar from collaborations with the likes of the Velvet Underground and Steve Swallow, and acclaimed double bassist Adam Linson will join Evan Parker and Matt Wright’s immersive project, Trance Map+, at Big Ears 2019. These additions come on the heels of last week’s announcement of MOSAIC Interactive , a world premiere that puts musicians from the Muslim world in collaboration with several Western musicians, and the second edition of All Night Flight, our 12-hour drone concert. Look for additional announcements—workshops, artist talks, panels, and more—in the weeks to come. Tickets are available for Big Ears 2019 at bigearsfestival.org/tickets.

Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Free of Form (Ropeadope)

This is now available for pre-order on amazon.

Today was line-up announcement day at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 50th Anniversary. And the line-up highlights (to my tastes and complete indifference to the BNAs) are: April 25: James Carter Organ Trio; The Django Festival Allstars; Jason Marsalis; Charlie Gabriel; Toronzo Cannon; Rev. John Wilkins, Diassing Kunda (Senegal), Sasha Masakowski, Bill Summers. April 26: Kidd Jordan Family Band; Terence Blanchard featuring the E Collective; Robert Cray; Chris Thomas King; Roger Lewis and Baritone Bliss; Astral Project; Louis Ford; Diassing Kunda (Senegal). April 27: Mr. Sipp; Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher; Leroy Jones; Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses; Blodie's Jazz Jam; Diassing Kunda (Senegal). April 28: Maurice Brown; Mdou Moctar (Niger); Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast); Cedric Burnside; Give the Drummer Some (Herlin Riley, Shannon Powell, Terence Higgins, and Johnny Vidacovich); Marsalis Family Band; Walter Wolfman Washington. May 2: Regina Carter, Nicholas Payton. [This is Rolling Stones day. Admission is $185. Skipping it.) May 3: Trumpet Mafia, Mathew Whitaker Trio; Kamasi Washington; Jarekus Singleton; Jamil Sharif. May 4: Jupiter & Okwess (Congo); Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti); Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez; Kenny Neal; Jeremy Davenport. May 5: Herbie Hancock; Jupiter & Okwess (Congo); Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti); Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra; Buddy Guy; Little Freddie King; Lil Buck Sinegal; Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.

Well, we had one set in common (but I think one of the best at the Festival). I wanted to hear JD Allen with David Murray but it was too crowded for me. And picking Impressions of Pepper over the Liebman set was undoubtedly a mistake attributable to inertia.

Sure, I had a great time. The first night was the best for me. Jamie Saft, his group from the Blue Dream CD, with a terrific rhythm section (Brad Jones and Nasheet Waits). The only negative was there was no piano or organ in the Soho Playhouse. Mary Halvorson Code Girl. The group seemed under-rehearsed to me. Reading all the music. I was a bit disappointed. Then I had the best sequence of three sets of the weekend at Subculture (unlike Code Girl these groups all sounded like real working bands): Aaron Parks Little Big. I liked his new album a lot so I really liked this set. Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones. I was not expecting to like this set so much, but I did. Fusion of Indian vocal tradition with avant garde jazz group. Set was great. Sarah Elizabeth Charles. Another unexpected pleasure. A jazz/neo-soul hybrid music. An exciting vocalist and dynamic band. Ordered two of her CDs right away (along with Kildambi's CD). Saturday: Sisterhood of Swing: A retro set, playing charts of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. A pleasant, modestly enjoyable set of swing era music, with nice soloing from Bria Skonberg, Caroline Davis and Sherel Cassity. Pocket Science: Definitely the best set I saw on the second day of the festival. Bartz/Tacuma/Irving/Zabar were exciting. Looking forward to their CD. Impressions of Pepper: This was a series of soloists or duets of songs from St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Some of the interludes were good: Liberty Ellman, Brandee Younger, David Virelles. Overall it got a little wearisome. Amina Claudine Myers: This was not a jazz set but rather a gospel set, and a good one. Amina played piano and sang, with three other young women vocalists, two of whom were Threadgills, and the other an Abrams. Kassa Overall Trio with Mark Shim. It was actually a quintet. The jazz parts were quite exciting. The drummer leader seems to aspire to be Drake, or some sort of hip hop/neo-soul vocalists. He actually sings well, just not my cup of tea.

Last Friday night at the Winter Jazzfest: Jamie Saft Quartet (with Bill McHenry, Brad Jones and Nasheet Waits), Mary Halvorson Code Girl, Aaron Parks Little Big, Amirtha Kildambi Elder Ones, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles and the Source. Saturday night at Winter Jazzfest: Sisterhood of Swing (including Bria Skonberg, Caroline Davis, Sherel Cassity), Pocket Science (Gary Bartz, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Robert Irving, Kahil El Zabar), Impressions of Pepper Roundrobin (including Liberty Ellman, David Virelles, Makaya McCraven, Brandee Younger), Amina Claudine Myers Generations 4, and Kassa Overall Trio with Mark Shim. Sunday night at Drom, for the Mediterranean Jazz Festival: Giannikou / Kontanis / Klampanis / Woloski, Lluis Capdevila, Trakek Yamani Trio with Antonio Lizana, Lau Noah, and Andreas Arnold.

This website has a map of jazz clubs on 52nd Street and vicinity and a variety of photos. http://popspotsnyc.com/jazz_clubs/

Salif Keita, Un Autre Blanc

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/zev-feldman-blue-note-jazz-don-was-1203101919/ Archival Music Producer Zev Feldman, the ‘Jazz Detective,’ Takes on New Blue Note Role