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Art Farmer Quartet, Perception (Argo) Don Patterson, Four Dimensions (Prestige)

Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Last Friday, Ally Venable Band in Denison, Texas, blues/rock downtown in the birthplace of Booker Ervin. Monday night, Giovanni Rodriguez Band at Rudy's Jazz Room in Nashville. Good band (four Cubans, one Venezuelan and an American) in a pleasing new jazz club. Tonight, Jean Luc Ponty at the Granada Theater in Dallas. Never paid much attention to Ponty except for some of his early work, but it seems my tastes have changed over the years and the fusion that I disdained in the 70s and 80s I now enjoy. Highlights were a trio piece (Violin/acoustic guitar/keyboards) and a duo piece (solo violin joined by the keyboards), but I also liked much of the full band's higher volume repertoire, mostly derived from his Atlantic recordings in the 1970s and 1980s. The theater (one of the best live music venues in Dallas) was sold out and the crowd was very enthusiastic for an all instrumental band.

Ben Allison, Layers of the City

Out of the blue, interesting concerts in Annette Strauss Square in October: PRESENTED BY AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AND AEG PRESENTS HERBIE HANCOCK 8:00PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 STRAUSS SQUARE 2389 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201 CENTER PRESENTS LILA DOWNS 7:30PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 STRAUSS SQUARE 2389 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201 CENTER PRESENTS CROSSCURRENTS: ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND DAVE HOLLAND 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 STRAUSS SQUARE 2389 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201 CROSSCURRENTS IS: Zakir Hussain, tabla Dave Holland, bass Chris Potter, saxophone Ganesh Rajagopalan, violin/vocals Louiz Banks, keyboards Sanjay Divecha, guitar Gino Banks, drums

The Three Sounds, It Just Got to Be (Blue Note) James Moody's Moods (Prestige), and Jam Session No. 5 (Clef).

Onzy Matthews, Blues with a Touch of Elegance (Capitol mono), Bill Evans and Jim Hall, Intermodulation (Verve mono), and Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve mono)

David Gerald, Hell and Back

Chucho Valdes, Tribute to Irakere (Live in Marciac) (Jazz Village)

Teddy Charles, Word from Bird (Atlantic/Oldies)

Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta, Duets (Adventure Music)

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Atlantic/Oldies)

Larry Coryell at the Village Gate (vanguard/Real Gone)

Antonio Carlos Jobim Plays (Verve) Ray Bryant, Sound Ray (Cadet)

Hindustani Santoor Recital - Celestial Strings Saturday, November 04, 2017 4:00:00 PM Venue: Allen Library Civic Auditorium, 300 N. Allen Drive, Allen TX 75013 Admission: ICMC Members: Free General: $30 Student: $20 Sandip Chatterjee Santoor Subhajyoti Guha Tabla Sandip Chatterjee, a disciple of Pt Tarun Bhattacharya and vocal maestro Pt Ajoy Chakraborty, is a rich and accomplished Santoor player of our time. He has been heralded as the torch bearer of two Gharanas at the same time – MAIHAR and PATIALA. Sandip has been extensively performing in many music festivals and concerts all around the globe. And, he has also collaborated with many overseas musicians across genres such as Jazz, Rock, Contemporary and Fusion. His collaborations in ‘Calcutta Express’ with famous Jazz Guitarist Guy Strazz; ‘Shanti’ with famous Saxophonist Claudio Gigilio and afro-Cuban percussionist Fulvio Farkas; ‘Emotion’ with Swedish Jazz saxophonist Elin Larsson; ‘Feelings’ with guitar player Giuliano Modarelli have been very much acclaimed in Jazz & contemporary world music genre. His collaboration ‘Calcutta Express’ has been nominated as finalist in the Indo Acoustic Project’s “Best CD’s of 2006” award in the World Music category. He has 21 CD's to his credit. His ethnic aesthetics had also won him many awards and laurels such as “President of India Award”, “Jadubhatta Award”, “Sangeeth Ratna Award”“ Abhinaba Kala Sanman” etc. His expertise has also been utilized by renowned music directors like A.R. Rehman, Jatin Lalit, Gulshan Kumar, Ravindra Jain, Pt. V.Balsara and others. Subhajyoti Guha was introduced to tabla at an young age by his father Dr S R Guha and later since1983 he has been training under tabla maestro Pt Sankha Chatterjee. Subhajyoti received the President's award in 1989 and presently is a grade A artiste of AIR and TV and performs regularly in major concerts worldwide. Over the last 15 years he has accompanied many musical stalwarts such as Ud Shahid Parvez, Pt Vishwamohan Bhatt, Pt Ronu Majumder , Pt Nayan Ghosh, Vidushi Purnima Chaudhuri and Vidushi Kala Ramnath. Subhajyoti has also extended his horizons into the experimental music scenario and performs with other genres and with his band AMEYA based out of Toronto. Academically he holds a masters degree in applied mathematics but is living his dream of teaching and performing worldwide as a tabla player.

Jimmy Smith, Bluesmith (Verve), and Kenny Burrell, Out of this World (Prestige) (aka Bluesy Burrell).

Is Venus still actively recording and releasing new CDs/vinyl?

According to his Facebook page, Bern Nix has died.

Prior discussion.

I would buy all three on CD. As a download, not yet.

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, Recorded Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz Festival (Munck Music)

Terence Blanchard Featuring the E-Collective, Recorded Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck Music)

A morning of fabulous trumpet. Kenny Dorham, Jazz Contemporary (Time). Dizzy' Gillespie, Have Trumpet, Will Excite (Verve).

Cedric Burnside Project, Recorded Live at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck Music)

Awa Poulo, Poulo Warali (Awesome Tapes from Africa)