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I did see Jaco as a leader live once in Austin (1982 I think), and Joe Zawinul at the Caravan of Dreams a few years later--the latter was especially good, so yes I missed out on something I probably would have loved. From last weekend's concert I attended, Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, Matt Garrison sounds adventurous to me.

One of my musical follies was that when Weather Report was active, I was an acoustic jazz snob, generally rejected their music, and never saw them live. Thank goodness those chains have been cast aside.

Weather Report, Night Passage

Gene Krupa, Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Verve) Shelley Manne and His Men, More Swinging Sounds Volume 5 (Contemporary)

That was September 11, 2005 at the Jazz Gallery, when it was located near to the site of the Half Note.

I should have mentioned that it is a good idea to buy the Marathon pass in advance because they do typically sell out one or both nights.

Basie in London (Verve)

The first time I heard him was at a Freddie Hubbard engagement, when he was still in high school. Freddie was in top technical form that night, playing as the sole horn with an ace rhythm section (I don't recall but it likely included some or all of Larry Willis, Idris Muhammad and Walter Booker). Towards the end of the second set, Freddie, sounding reluctant, announced that the club had asked him to let a local player sit in with him, which proved to be Roy Hargrove. When asked what song, Roy called a Kenny Dorham tune, It was rather amazing how well he played, and you could see that Freddie Hubbard was impressed. Another concert that stands out was at the Jazz Gallery, where he was paired in a dual trumpet front line with Marcus Belgrave, for an exceptional concert.

November 17, 2018: Bnois King, Babb Bros., Dallas November 18, 2018: Kalyanjit Das (sitar), Gourisankar (tabla), Austin School of Music November 20, 2018: Melissa Aldana with One O'Clock Lab Band, Murchison Performing Arts Center, Denton November 23, 2018: Roseanna Vitro, Kitchen Cafe, Dallas November 24, 2018: Ally Venable, Six Springs, Dallas December 1, 2018: Pedrito Martinez, Wortham, Houston 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 22, 2018: Shelley Carrol, Robert Glasper, The Performance Center-Ensemble Theatre, Houston 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

Last night, Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison at Wortham, Houston.

Same here, I'll only be there for the Friday and Saturday marathons, but I'm not going home until Monday, so extra one night for the more normal NYC jazz club experience; the line-up listed on the website has expanded some in the last couple of days.

Thumbscrew, Ours (Cuneiform)

The Al Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet (Argo) Norman Granz Jam Session No. 1 (Verve)

Montana Taylor/Cripple Clarence Lofton, Low Down Piano (Riverside) Johnny Hammond (Smith), Higher Ground (Kudu) Shelley Manne and His Men at the Blackhawk, Volume 3 (Contemporary)

Happy birthday!

I stop at Half Priced Books a couple of times a week, and Josey Records once a week usually; I only listen to LPs on the weekend (CDs during the week); this often results in finding more interesting LPs in a given week than I have time to listen to; couple that with persistence over a long period of time and it leads to a substantial backlog.

Morgenland All Star Band, Dastan (Dreyer Gaido)

I've gone the last four years and have only had good experiences, other than some rather cold weather and some snow. So far I've been lucky in terms of snow not affecting any flights. I haven't had any problems accessing venues, but I think some of the smaller venues (like the Zinc Bar) do get full. My approach is to mostly stick to the larger venues and not move around a lot. Some take the opposite approach of going from venue to venue after each set. The largest number of venues the past three years has been at the New School, so I've mostly been in that vicinity. The venues tend to be in clusters, some in short walking distance, others a bit further. Nublu (in the West Village) was the furthest from the action. One difference from Big Ears is they don't turn the audience after every show, so you can find a good seat and have a sequence of concerts in one venue if you like. Also, the ticket prices for the Marathon are quite reasonable. Soundwise, it has been pretty consistently good.

Keith Jarrett, Treasure Island (Impulse)

I should have mentioned him except I went to see him Saturday night and he didn't show up.

With a closed mind, the odds are zero.

This question got me to thinking: which tenor saxophonists have I seen in person at least once over the last ten years that I quite enjoyed hearing? Younger Generation: James Brandon Lewis Jimmy Greene Mark Shim Noah Preminger Meiissa Aldana Stacy Dillard Calvin Johnson Wayne Escoffrey Ravi Coltrane Tivon Pennicott David Sanchez Abraham Burton Older Generation: Chico Freeman Billy Harper David Murray Pharoah Sanders Charles Lloyd Houston Person David Schnitter Wayne Shorter Kidd Jordan Ron Holloway Pete Christlieb Charlie Gabriel Chris Potter Ernest Dawkins James Carter Hakan Kornstad

Grasella Oliphant, The Grass is Greener (Atlantic) Duke Ellington, A Date with the Duke, volume 5 (Fairmont) Jimmie Lunceford, Rhythm is our Business, volume 1 (Decca)

First Lineup announcement: MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO (ARTIST IN RESIDENCE) - AKENYA - ALEXIS CUADRADO GROUP PERFORMS SHOES (LIVE SILENT FILM SCORE) - ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ & PEDRITO MARTINEZ DUO - ALLISON MILLER AND CARMEN STAAF SCIENCE FAIR - AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS - AMIR ELSAFFAR'S RIVERS OF SOUND - ANGEL BAT DAWID & THE BROTHAHOOD - ARTIFACTS TRIO (TOMEKA REID, NICOLE MITCHELL, MIKE REED) - BEN LAMAR GAY - BEN WENDEL “HIGH HEART” - BILLY HART QUARTET - BLAKE MILLS & PINO PALLADINO - BRIA SKONBERG - BUTCHER BROWN - CLEAVER, CLINE & OCHS - DAVID VIRELLES SOLO - DONNY MCCASLIN GROUP - EDMAR CASTANEDA - EMMA-JEAN THACKERAY - EXPANSIONS: THE DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP - EZRA COLLECTIVE - GARY BARTZ PLAYS ANOTHER PLANET WITH PHAROAH SANDERS - GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA PLAYS MOONDOG - GILLES PETERSON - JASON LINDNER’S NOW VS NOW - JD ALLEN ENCOUNTERS DAVID MURRAY - JENNY SCHEINMAN & ALLISON MILLER’S PARLOUR GAME - JEREMY CUNNINGHAM - JOEL ROSS - KANDACE SPRINGS - KASSA OVERALL BLUE SWAMINI - KASSA OVERALL TRIO FEATURING MARK SHIM - LARRY GRENADIER - LEYLA MCCALA - LIEBMAN, RUDOLPH & DRAKE - MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - MARIA GRAND - MARY HALVORSON CODE GIRL - MATHIAS EICK - MATTHEW STEVENS TRIO - MELISSA ALDANA - MICHAEL FORMANEK, MARY HALVORSON, TIM BERNE - MIKEL PATRICK AVERY'S PLAY - NATE WOOD: FOUR - NUBYA GARCIA - PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP - POCKET SCIENCE W/ GARY BARTZ, KAHIL EL ZABAR, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA, ROBERT IRVING III - RALPH ALESSI QUINTET FEATURING RAVI COLTRANE - RALPH PETERSON AND THE MESSENGER LEGACY - ROXY COSS QUINTET - SAMORA PINDERHUGHES TRANSFORMATIONS SUITE - SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES AND SCOPE - SEUN KUTI - SHAI MAESTRO TRIO - SISTERHOOD OF SWING (LED BY BRIA SKONBERG) - SPENCER ZAHN - SUBTLE DEGREES: TRAVIS LAPLANTE & GERALD CLEAVER - TAKUYA KURODA - TAWIAH - TERENCE BLANCHARD FEATURING THE E-COLLECTIVE - TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON AND SOCIAL SCIENCE - THE JUJU EXCHANGE - THEO BLECKMANN AND THE WESTERLIES - TIA FULLER - UNFOLD ORDINARY MIND - VIJAY IYER & CRAIG TABORN DUO - WILL MILLER'S RESAVOIR - YAZMIN LACEY - YUSSEF DAYES - + MANY MORE ARTISTS TBA

Dur Dur Band, Volumes 1 and 2 (Analog Africa) Stan Getz, Live in Paris 1959 (Fremeaux)