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Frank Wess/Kenny Burrell/Freddie Green/Eddie Jones/Kenny Clarke, Opus in Swing (Savoy)

The Modern Jazz Quartet at the Music Inn with Sonny Rollins, volume 2 (Atlantic) Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer, Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve)

I have Sweet as Broken Dates--an anthology where I like just about every track.

Lately, in order to escape domestic politics, I've abandoned the U.S. news channels for the BBC News. Generally, I'm liking it much better; excellent reporting, a broader range of stories, and more interesting than the U.S. news. Tonight I stumbled across Africa Beat, a twenty minute show with brief portraits of three African musicians. A wonderful show, and I loved one of the musicians (Aziza Brahim). This would never happen on a U.S. channel.

He has three new records, all are good.

Don't know. Also saw him with Joe Zawinul, which was also fantastic.

Dizzy Gillespie, Big Band Diz (Verve)

I like that Odean Pope record and saw Gerald Veasley live a couple of times in the 1980s--with John Blake and with McCoy Tyner--he was fantastic. But now (coming to the Bishop Arts District Theater): 2018 Jazz Series – Jazz Fusion All-Stars Jazz Fusion All-Stars featuring Eric Marienthal, Lao Tizer, Gerald Veasley & Chieli Minucci November 10 7:00 pm & 9:45 pm

The Real Lee Konitz (Atlantic/London pressing) Coltrane (Impulse) Jimmy Smith, Respect (Verve)

Theo Croker, Escape Velocity (Okeh)

Some favorites from 2017: Dennis Coffey, Hot Coffey in the D Mokoomba, Rising Tide and Luyando Lee Konitz, Frescalalto Vieux Farka Toure, Samba The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Terence Blanchard and the E Collective, Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Cedric Burnside Project, Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Somi, Petite Afrique and The Lagos Music Salon Heads of State, Four in One Bobby Watson, Made in America Khari Allen Lee, The New Earth Chucho Valdes, Border-Free Charnett Moffett, Music from our Soul Ben Allison, Layers in the City Welcome to Zamrock, volume 2 Ote Maloya Martial Solal and Dave Liebman, Masters in Bordeaux Ahmad Jamal, Marseille Mike Stern, Trip Nikki Hill, Heavy Hearts Hard Fists Chet Baker, Live from the Moonlight Sameer Gupta, Namaskar Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa Christian Scott, Ruler Rebel, Diaspora and The Emancipation Procrastination

It's a genuine Leonard Da Vinci.

Christian Scott, The Emancipation Procrastination (Ropeadope)

Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)

Jazz at the Philharmonic in Europe (Verve) (Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter, Lalo Schrifrin, Art Davis, Jo Jones)

I like the sound on the six-eye Louis Armstrong Story Columbia LPs. They are not that hard to find.

This is a 2017 first release from the Stockpile, a mostly solo piano recording from August 25, 1972--An Intimate Piano Session (Storyville). It is sounding wonderful. https://www.amazon.com/Intimate-Piano-Session-Duke-Ellington/dp/B06X3VLD6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1510584237&sr=1-1&keywords=Duke+ellington+an+intimate+piano+session

Cassandra Wilson/Billie Holiday, You Go to my Head (Legacy ten inch) Chet Baker, She Was Too Good to Me (CTI)

Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, You Talk that Talk (Prestige/Fantasy). With Leon Spencer/George Freeman/Idris Muhammad. Dexter Gordan, Blues a la Suisse (Prestige/Fantasy)

November 30, 2017: John McLaughlin, Paramount Theater, Austin December 1, 2017: Ellis Marsalis and Joey Alexander, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas December 7, 2017: Latin Jazz All Stars (Steve Turre, Elio Villafranca, Nestor Torres), South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas December 8, 2017, Latin Jazz All Stars, Starr Theater, Fayetteville, Arkansas January 5, 2018: Calvin Johnson, Antone's, Austin January 10, 2018: Eric Gales, Rockefeller's , Houston January 11, 2018: Eric Gales, Antone's, Austin January 12, 2018: Eric Gales, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney January 15-18, 2018: Lazy Lester, Antone's, Austin January 28, 2017: Billy Hart Quartet, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio February 1, 2018: Charles Lloyd, One World Theater, Austin February 2, 2018: Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Cullen Theater, Houston February 10, 2018: Donny McCaslin, Starr Theater, Fayetteville, Arkansas March 24, 2018: Mingus Big Band, Cullen Theater, Houston Victor Wooten Trio, Granada Theater, Dallas April 5, 2018: Melissa Aldana, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas April 12, 2018: Brad Mehldau, Paramount Theater, Austin April 13, 2018: Brad Mehldau, Cullen Theater, Houston Antonio Sanchez, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio April 14, 2018: Brad Mehldau, University of Texas at Dallas April 27, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 28, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Conrad Herwig, Starr Theater, Fayetteville, Arkansas April 29, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 3, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 4, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 6, 2018: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 13, 2018: Vid. Sashank, Unity Church of Dallas

Danny Mixon is on a legitimate Mingus release--on Music for Todo Modo, which is one side of the LP, Cumbia and Jazz Fusion.

Bobby Previte and the Visitors, Gone (Fortune)

The scarf seals the deal.

Sandip Chatterjee, Exotic Santoor ((Bihaan Music)

Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve)