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Miki Yamanaka, Miki (Cellar Live)

That was recorded as a direct to disc recording on East Wind. That LP sounds good.

Jimmy Heath, Love and Understanding (Muse) Miriam Makeba, Makeba Sings (RCA) The Definitive Jazz Scene, volume 1 (Impulse)

David Murray, Blues for Memo (Motema)

Clark Terry Big Bad Band, Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival 1974 (Vanguard) Vasant Rai, Spring Flowers (Vanguard). A fantastic Indian/jazz fusion record.

Don Wilkerson, Texas Twister (Riverside)

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Black Times (Strut)

Sidi Toure, Toubalbero (Thrill Jockey) Lobi Traore, Raw Electric Blues from Bamako, volume 1 (Kanaga System Krush)

Elvin Jones, Soul Train (Denon)

It is only partly jazz, but WWOZ in New Orleans is my favorite radio station.There is an iPhone app for streaming the station.

John Mehegan, Eddie Costa and Vinnie Burke, A Pair of Pianos (Savoy) Milt Jackson, Frank Wess, Opus de Jazz (Savoy)

Blue Note's Three Decades of Jazz (1939-1969), Volume 1 (Blue Note Liberty). A fine 2LP anthology from the 1959-69 decade, except that, there is not a single mention of the names, Alfred Lion, Reid Miles, Francis Wolf, or Rudy Van Gelder in the album's credits, or in the liner notes (by Leonard Feather). Wes Montgomery, Fusion! (Riverside, Orpheum) MJT Plus Three (Veejay)

The Jamie Saft Quartet, Blue Dream (Rarenoise)

Depressingly, the excellent Greenwich Village music venue, Cornelia Street Cafe, is closing in January after 41 years. http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/12/cornelia-street-cafe.html

Jupiter and Okwess, Kinsonic (Glitterbeat) Jason Moran, Mary Halvorson and Ron Miles, Bangs Lonnie Smith, All in My Mind (Blue Note) Harriet Tubman, The Terror End of Beauty (Sunnyside) Sameer Gupta, A Circle Has No Beginning Sona Jobarteh, Fasiya (West African Guild) Sidi Toure, Toubalbero (Thrill Jockey) Trumpet Mafia, Live at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck) Terrence Blanchard and E Collective, Live (Blue Note) Fatoumata Diawara, Fenfo (Shanachie) Logan Richardson, Blues People (Ropeadope) Jason Marsalis and the 21st Century Trad Band, Melody Reimagined, Book 1 (Basin Street) Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile (Impulse) Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note) John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once (Impulse) Erroll Garner, Nightconcert (Mack Avenue) Wayne Shorter, Emanon (Blue Note) Cedric Burnside, Benton County Relic (Single Lock) Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit Nikki Hill, Feline Roots Sun Ra, God is More than Love Can Ever Be Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider, Dreamers (Sony) African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa)

Merry birthday!

Asnakech Worku, Asnakech (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

It doesn't seem likely that Ahmad Jamal would write the liner notes or Roy Ayers would do an interview for a bootleg label.

Preordered already.

Lala Njava, Malagasy Blues Song (Riverboat)

Harriet Tubman, The Terror End of Beauty (Sunnyside)

Walter Bishop Jr., Hot House (Muse)

Willis Jackson, Headed and Gutted (Muse)

The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker (Riverside), and Art Farmer and Donald Byrd, Two Trumpets (Prestige)

Only six of the ten venues carry over from last year. And the New School is not a part of the festival this year. It seems a bit more spread out this year, with more venues in the lower East Side. I worked up my own tentative (revised) schedule: Friday, January 11 6:40: Jamie Saft Quartet, Soho Playhouse 8:40: Mary Halvorson Code Girl, Sheen Center 9:40: Aaron Parks Little Big, Subculture 10:40: Artifacts Trio, Zinc Bar 12:20: Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Subculture Saturday, January 12 6:00: Evan Christopher's Clarinet Road, Public Arts 7:00: Sisterhood of Swing, Sheen Center 8:20: Pocket Science (Gary Bartz, Kahil El Zabar, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Robert Irving), Sheen Center 9:40: Impressions of Pepper, Sheen Center [9:20: Liebman, Rudolph, Drake, Subculture] 11:00: Amina Claudine Myers, Sheen Center 12:00: JD Allen Encounters David Murray, Subculture 1:20: Kassa Overall Trio with Mark Shim, Subculture