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Matana Roberts has not stopped--I just saw her in October at the Bric Jazz Festival in Brooklyn. She played a solo concert. There was too much talking for me (she alternated improvised solo pieces with commentary), though she is kind of amusing.

Whew!

15 Favorite non-Jazz Concerts of the year: Mokoomba (Zimbabwe). New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Kadri Gopalnath (Carnatic saxophone), Unity Church of Dallas Cedric Burnside Project (Mississippi Hill Country Blues), NOJHF Kenny Neal and His Baton Rouge Blues Revue, NOJHF Joe Louis Walker, NOJHF Nikki Hill (rock/soul), Bedford Blues Festival Buddy Guy, Bedford Blues Festival Walter Wolfman Washington, Denton Blues Festival Eric Gales, Plano Blues Festival Indro Roy Chowdhury (sitar), Rubin Museum, Ragas Live Festival Rabindra Narayan Goswami, (sitar) Rubin Museum, Ragas Live Festival Abhek Mukherjee (sitar), Rubin Museum, Ragas Live Festival Orakel (Kane Mathis and Roshni Samiall)(West African/Middle Eastern/Indian fusion), Rubin Musem, Ragas Live Festival The Epichorus (Middle Eastern), Rubin Museum, Ragas Live Festival Sandip Chatterjee (santoor), Allen Public Library

Al Jazzbo Collins, East Coast Jazz Scene, Volume 1 (Coral): A live anthology from 1955 with tracks led by Larry Sonn, Gene Quill, Don Eilliott, Coleman Hawkins and Tony Fruscella Joe Loco Quintet, Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! (Fantasy)

Dizzy Gillespie and Friends, Concert of the Century (Justin Time)

That's 52 people contributing $50 a year. That sounds reasonable to me.

Defending himself from media/internet judges/juries. http://gregosby.blogspot.com/2017/12/straight-talk-from-source.html?spref=tw

Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (Riverside) Gene Harris Trio, Genie in My Soul (Jubilee)

Me too.

Classic James P. Johnson Sessions, disc 3.

My thirty favorite jazz concerts of the year 2017, only two of which occurred in the city where I reside. May 7, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: Chucho Valdes Quintet. With bass (Gaston Joyner) and three percussionists. A thrilling final concert at a great music festival. May 5: NOJHF, Terence Blanchard with the E Collective: Electric jazz in the nature of Electric Byrd, Freddie Hubbard's Gleam/High Energy, but with its own sound. A very intense performance. April 29: NOJHF, Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya with Terence Blanchard,: A rather beautiful suite that I hope gets recorded and released. April 28: NOJFH, Trumpet Mafia plays Maurice Brown A veritable horde (16) of trumpets plus rhythm section performs original compositions of Maurice Brown. May 6, NOJHF: Kenny Barron Trio. May 4, NOJFH: Lee Konitz Quartet. April 28/May 5, NOJHF: Jamil Sharif with Louis Ford/Louis Ford with Jamil Sharif. Traditional New Orleans Jazz in living form. April 29, NOJHF: Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra. This intensely swinging riff based big band was a very pleasant surprise. May 5, NOJHF: Ron Holloway Band. I wasn't expecting to like a jazz/funk band quite this much. May 5, NOJHF: Jason Marsalis 21st Century Trad Band. Jason on vibes is quite fine. May 6, NOJHF: SF Jazz Collective Plays the Music of Miles Davis. May 7, NOJHF: Khari Allen Lee & The New Creative Collective January 8: Smoke, Billy Harper, January 6: Winter Jazzfest: David Murray Quintet with Lafayette Gilchrist January 6: Winter Jazzfest: Melissa Aldana Sextet January 7: Winter Jazzfest: Michael Formanek Quartet January 7: Winter Jazzfest: David Virelles/Ravi Coltrane duet January 7: Winter Jazzfest: Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan duet January 7: Winter Jazzfest: Nik Bartsch Mobile June 6: Granada Theater, Dallas, Jean Luc Ponty September 29: Antone's, Austin: Ike Stubblefield Trio and Lonnie Smith Trio October 19: Village Vanguard: Chico Freeman October 20: Aaron Davis Hall: Somi October 20: Birdland: Ron Carter Golden Stryker Trio October 21: BRIC Jazz Festival: Harriett Tubman October 21: BRIC Jazz Festival: Theo Croker October 22: Rubin Museum: Sameer Gupta's A Circle Has No Beginning October 22: Rubin Museum: Awaz Trio with Rez Abassi October 25: Annette Strauss Square, Dallas, Zakir Hussain and Dave Holland Cross Currents

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds (Analog Africa)

Edmund Hall, Petite Fleur (United Artists) Hal Schaeffer, Ten Shades of Blues (United Artists)

Joe Farrell, On This Rock (CTI)

Count Basie, Basie Land (Verve)

Lionel Hampton, Flying Home (Verve). A curious mistake pressing, as side one is Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge, while side 2 is Lionel Hampton as advertised. Oscar Peterson, Tenderly (Verve) Erroll Garner, Serenede to Laura (Savoy)

CD from The Frog Blues and Jazz Annual No. 3.

Barney Kessel, Live at the Jazz Mill 1954 (Modern Harmonic)

Not even the Penultimate Blue Train.

I believe I have seen that thread. I haven't quite slipped that far into collector-mania--I still only buy Verves where I think I will like the music. But I do have a small stack of Prestige folk and world music Lps. For these, I've found that I generally like them.

Still, not a very common record, so not so bad, even at HPB pricing levels. Lately, I'm a bit obsessed with Norgran/Clef/Verve LPs--there's so much interesting music on the label(s), and the label seems both a lot more common than the independent jazz labels in these parts and rather underappreciated by jazz record buyers and listeners.

Lester Young, The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve) Joe Wilder Quartet, Jazz from Peter Gunn (Columbia). TV theme music but Joe Wilder and Hank Jones both sound fabulous on this quartet album.

Thana Alexa, Ode to Heroes (Jazz Village)

Great--it's like finding a lost puppy or kitten a caring home (Vinyl rescue).

Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington, Side By Side (Verve) Charlie Parker, The Fabulous Bird (Jazztone) Jimmy Smith, I'm Moving On (Blue Note) Sonny Stitt, Saxophone Supremacy (Verve)