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Samba Toure, Albala (Glitterbeat)

Mose Allison, Local Color (Prestige) Vido Musso/Eddie Safransky/Kai Winding, Loaded (Savoy) Wilbur DeParis, Plays Cole Porter (Atlantic)

Djavan, Vidas Pra Contar (Sony)

That is a very good musical combination (all of Magos' albums are good).

Lineup for the Jan. 11-12 Marathon: JANUARY 11-12 LINEUP WINTER JAZZFEST MARATHON AARON PARKS 'LITTLE BIG' - AKENYA - ALEXIS CUADRADO GROUP - SHOES LIVE SILENT FILM SCORE, DIRECTED BY LOIS WEBER (1916), MUSIC BY ALEXIS CUADRADO (2018) - ALLISON MILLER AND CARMEN STAAF - SCIENCE FAIR - ALPHONSO HORNE AND THE GOTHAM KINGS - AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS: GENERATIONS 4 - ANGEL BAT DAWID & THE BROTHAHOOD - ARNAUD DOLMEN "TONBÉ LÉVÉ" + GUEST: MARIA GRAND - ARTIFACTS TRIO (TOMEKA REID, NICOLE MITCHELL, MIKE REED) - BEN LAMAR GAY - BILLY HART QUARTET - BLAQUE DYNAMITE & THE MURDER ANGELS - BLICK BASSY « 1958 » - BRANDON COLEMAN - BUTCHER BROWN - CAMILLE BERTAULT - CHRIS DAVE & FRIENDS - CYNTHIA SAYER & HER JOYRIDE BAND - DJ CASEY BENJAMIN AKA DJ STUTZMCGEE - DJ RAYDAR ELLIS - DOMI - EZRA COLLECTIVE - FAY VICTOR'S MUTATIONS FOR JUSTICE - FLORIAN PELLISSIER QUINTET "BIJOU VOYOU CAILLOU" + GUESTS: SHOLA ADISA-FARRAR & ROGER RASPAIL - GILAD HEKSELMAN - GUY MINTUS TRIO + ROOPA MAHADEVAN - HAILEY TUCK - INGRID JENSEN - IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS - JAMES FRANCIES' KINETIC - JAMES POYSER AND FRIENDS - JAMIE SAFT QUARTET - JAZZE BELLE - JD ALLEN ENCOUNTERS DAVID MURRAY - JEN SHYU SOLO: NINE DOORS - JENNY SCHEINMAN & ALLISON MILLER’S PARLOUR GAME - JON IRABAGON - JOSHUA ABRAMS NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY - JUSTIN BROWN NYEUSI AND GEORGIA ANN MULDROW - KANDACE SPRINGS - KEVIN BOWERS - KRIS DAVIS BORDERLINES - LEA BERTUCCI - LIEBMAN, RUDOLPH & DRAKE - MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - MARCUS STRICKLAND'S TWI-LIFE - MARÍA GRAND DIATRIBE - MARY HALVORSON - MATHIAS EICK - MATHIS PICARD - ANCESTRAL SIDE - MATTHEW STEVENS TRIO - MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO & JEFF PARKER MUSIC OF BROOKLYN - MICHAEL FORMANEK'S VERY PRACTICAL TRIO WITH TIM BERNE AND MARY HALVORSON - MIKEL PATRICK AVERY'S PLAY - MILES OKAZAKI: WORK (MUSIC OF MONK, SOLO GUITAR) - NATE WOOD: FOUR - NELLIE MCKAY - NOW VS NOW (JASON LINDNER) - NUBYA GARCIA - POCKET SCIENCE WITH GARY BARTZ, KAHIL EL ZABAR, JAMALADEEN TACUMA, ROBERT IRVING III - RALPH ALESSI QUINTET - RESAVOIR - ROY HARGROVE TRIBUTE - SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES - SASHA MASAKOWSKI - SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 - SHAI MAESTRO TRIO - SISTERHOOD OF SWING LED BY BRIA SKONBERG - SUBTLE DEGREES: TRAVIS LAPLANTE & GERALD CLEAVER - SUSAN ALCORN - TAKUYA KURODA - TATIANA EVA-MARIE & THE AVALON JAZZ BAND FROM PARIS TO NEW ORLEANS - TAWIAH - THE JUJU EXCHANGE - VIJAY IYER & CRAIG TABORN - YOSVANY TERRY - BAPTISTE TROTIGNON "ANCESTRAL MEMORIES"

Ran Blake Film Noir Regional Premier: renowned pianist plays original scores and improvisations to excerpts of classic film noir Friday, January 11, 2019 8PM at MATCH 3400 Main St Ran Blake (Boston, MA) - piano Tickets available for purchase on the MATCH website. General seating. Pay what you can/pay what you will. Everyone under 18 gets in for free. Parking details: https://matchouston.org/location-parking Nameless Sound presents the regional premiere of Ran Blake Film Noir, featuring the renowned pianist performing original scores and improvisations to excerpts of classic film noir. "Blake has a singular ability to make a single note speak volumes about the human condition, and to turn silence into a withering cry." - Bill Shoemaker, Jazz Times Deeply introspective, often starkly expressed and sometimes beautifully austere, Ran Blake possesses one of the truly personal stylistic voices of modern jazz. It's is a piano music that is unquestionably of the idiom. Yet it defies the easy linear histories that simplify jazz as a succession of heroic musical innovations, and that position artists on a chronology of what is supposedly avant-garde. Much of Ran Blake's unique musical world is constructed from a combination of clear yet seamless inspirations. His deft ear and adroit touch that dovetail blues tonalities and atonalism are likely born from the marriage of early influences such as Bartok, Debussy, Stravinsky, Monk and Ellington. But other influences may be more surprising. Important to Blake is his love of singers like Mahalia Jackson, Al Green and Ray Charles. Far from mere stylistic influences, they are inspirations in the deepest sense, and subjects of study. One of Blake's most important influences is not directly musical. He apparently had a life epiphany at the age of 12, when he saw the film Spiral Staircase. And he watched the thriller 20 times in a three-week period. Of this period, Blake said: "Plots, scenes, and melodic and harmonic surfaces intermingled, obtruding into my day life as well as my dreams." He began mentally placing himself inside noir films. This, as well as real life scenarios, inspired his first original compositions. The influence of the Pentecostal church music he heard growing up in Suffield, Connecticut, combined with his musical immersion in what he terms "a film noir world" and laid the groundwork for his earliest musical style. He was formally and informally a student of some of the most impressive names in modern jazz, including Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Peterson, Mal Waldron, Bill Russo and Gunther Schuller. It was Schuller, who brought him on to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, the first American conservatory to offer a degree in jazz. There, the future MacArthur "Genius" founded the Contemporary Improvisation Department and developed his pedagogical approach, called "The Primacy of the Ear". At New England Conservatory he became highly influential himself, mentoring generations of musicians including Matthew Shipp, Don Byron and John Medeski. "Here there is jazz per se, and there is music that sounds like Debussy improvising alone at night in a big room, trying to scare himself." - Ben Ratliff, New York Times Link:

Ottawa 60

Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit, Strata Concert Gallery, disc 3.

It is a beautiful album. With Coleman Hawkins as a bonus.

Ruby Braff, Braff (Epic) Elvin Jones, The Main Force (Vanguard)

These are the current members of the Arkestra listed on the website. CURRENT MEMBERS MARSHALL ALLEN MICHAEL RAY FRED ADAMS KNOEL SCOTT VINCENT CHANCEY CECIL BROOKS DANNY RAY THOMPSON ABSHALOM BEN SHLOMO REY SCOTT DAVE DAVIS ELSON NASCIMENTO CRAIG HOLIDAY HAYNES D. HOTEP YAHYA ABDUL-MAJID KASH KILLION BILL DAVIS TYLER MITCHELL JUINI BOOTH FARID ABDUL-BARI BARRON JAMES STEWART CRAIG HARRIS WAYNE ANTHONY SMITH JR. TARA MIDDLETON ATAKATUNE (STANLEY MORGAN)

December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston Nikki Hill, Continental Club, Austin December 2, 2018: Nikki Hill, Paper Tiger, San Antonio December 3, 2018: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center, San Antonio December 4, 2018: Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, San Antonio December 5, 2018: Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Meyerson, Dallas December 7, 2018: Robert Cray, The Heights Theater, Houston December 8, 2018: Robert Cray, University of Texas at Tyler December 15, 2018: Ashlin Parker and Friends, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth December 22, 2018: Shelley Carrol, Robert Glasper, The Performance Center-Ensemble Theatre, Houston December 27, 2018: Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin December 21, 2018: Lucky Peterson, Poor David's Pub, Dallas January 11, 2019: Ran Blake, Match, Houston February 1, 2019: Joey DeFrancesco Trio, University of Texas at Dallas February 2, 2019: Stefon Harris and Blackout, Carver Center, San Antonio February 8, 2018: Chucho Valdes, Wortham, Houston February 9, 2019, Chucho Valdes, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio February 16, 2019: Bria Skonberg, Duet, Tulsa February 23, 2019: Susana Baca, Carver Center, San Antonio March 23, 2019: Tom Harrell Quintet, Empire Theater, San Antonio 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 April 12, 2019: Dave Douglas, Wortham, Houston April 13, 2019: University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 25-28, May 2-5, 2019: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

I'm not going to be able to see this, as I'm going out of town that morning, but... There's also Vonlane, which is the luxury bus alternative. They will get you there (downtown Houston) in under 4 hours in reasonable comfort (very comfortable seats with wifi and a stewardess serving drinks and snacks like you are on an airplane and it's 1970 again). But priced the same as the lowest Southwest Airlines fare between Dallas and Houston. https://www.vonlane.com

Michael White, The Land of Spirit and Light (Impulse) Eric Kloss, Sky Shadows (Prestige) Art Farmer Quintet, The Time and the Place (Columbia)

I think Changes Two is better.

From Nameless Sound: January 11, 2019 8PM Ran Blake (Boston, MA) - piano at MATCH 3400 Main St

John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once (Impulse)

Terry Gibbs, El Nutto (Limelight). A rather fine small group recording, not reissued on CD (?), with Alice McLeod (Coltrane) on piano. Jazz Brothers, Spring Fever (Riverside)

50TH ANNIVERSARY JAZZ FEST ADDS EXTRA DAY 50TH ANNIVERSARY JAZZ FEST ADDS EXTRA DAY HISTORIC FESTIVAL TO KICK OFF THURSDAY, APRIL 25 Festival Music Lineup to be Announced in December “Jazz Fest Memories” Social Media Series Highlighting 50 Years of Jazz Fest Starts Today New Orleans, LA (November 9, 2018)—Producers of the 50th anniversary Jazz Fest have decided to mark the milestone event with something special: the addition of another day of the signature festival celebrating New Orleans music and culture. Thursday, April 25 will now be the opening day of the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. Both of the event’s weekends will run Thursday through Sunday, April 25 – 28 and May 2 – 5. The Festival also announced that the new day will be “Locals Thursday,” which allows anyone with a valid Louisiana ID to purchase up to two discount tickets at the gate on that day. “Locals Thursday” discount tickets will again be only $50. The lineup for the 50th anniversary Festival and ticketing information will be released in December. Started in 1970, Jazz Fest annually celebrates the unique culture of New Orleans and the region drawing fans from around the country and around the world.

Joe Chambers was the drummer for the Mingus and Friends concert. I made the mistake of ordering the CD set from Bandcamp instead of amazon, and I still haven't received it.

Wes Montgomery, Willow Weep for Me (Verve) Gene Ammons/Jack McDuff/Etta Jones, Soul Summit, volume 2 (Prestige)

The Gene Krupa Sextet No. 2 (Clef ten inch) Wes Montgomery, Goin' Out of My Head (Verve)

Have a very happy birthday!

Gene Krupa, Live at the London House (Verve)

Ravi Coltrane.