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Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve) Dizzy Gillespie, The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve)

Max Roach Quartet, Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note)

Keith Jarrett, Death and the Flower (Impulse)

Jean Luc Ponty, Imaginary Voyage (Atlantic)

Ornette at 12 and Crisis to be reissued by Real Gone Music. http://www.realgonemusic.com/news/2017/7/11/ornette-coleman-ornette-at-12crisis-cd.html

Fear the Walking Jazz.

The Roulette Years Tour.

Jean Luc Ponty, Aurora (Atlantic)

Per the Concord Tour Dates page, neither Sonny Stitt nor Maynard Ferguson have any upcoming concerts, though I can be notified if they are coming to my area. Please, I do want to know that well in advance.

This past weekend: George Benson, In Concert: Carnegie Hall (CTI). Three songs with prime Benson guitar, one turkey of a track journeying into crooner-land. Urbie Green, The Fox (CTI). Good first side. Sonny Criss, Joy of Sax (Impulse). Overproduced commercial effort, but Sonny Criss still sounds great. Keith Jarrett, Mysteries (Impulse). I wish Dewey Redman were still alive. Charlie Byrd, Mr. Guitar (Riverside).

Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)

Last night, E.J. Matthews at Texas Musicians Museum in Irving.

August 12, 2017: Henry Threadgill, Scottish Rite Theater, Austin Bnois King, Texas Musicians Museum, Irving August 25, 2017: Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin E.J. Matthews, Texas Musicians Museum, Irving August 26, 2017: Bobby Rush, Uptown Theater, Grand Prairie August 29, 2017: Buddy Guy, Brady Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma August 31, 2017: Buddy Guy, Moody Theater, Austin September 1, 2017: Buddy Guy, House of Blues, Houston September 2, 2017: Buddy Guy, Aztec Theater, San Antonio September 2, 2017: Bnois King, Larry Lampkin, Ronnie Earl, Ally Venable, Bedford Blues Festival September 3, 2017: Buddy Guy, Bedford Blues Festival September 7, 2017: Theo Croker, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas September 8, 2017: Carl Weathersby, Antone's, Austin September 9, 2017: Rajhesh Vaidhya (veena) & Ronu Majumdar (Flute), Unity Church of Dallas September 15, 2017: Oz Noy, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney September 16-17, 2017: Denton Blues Festival September 29, 2017: Lonnie Smith Trio, Ike Stubblefield Trio, Antone's, Austin October 1, 2017: William Bell, Charlie Musselwhite, Bobby Rush, Annette Strauss Square, Dallas October 2, 2017: Vieux Farka Toure, Empire Control Room, Austin October 6, 2017: Lila Downs, Annette Strauss Square, Dallas October 8, 2017: Lila Downs, Tobin Center, San Antonio October 12, 2017: Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge, Kessler Theater, Dallas October 13, 2017: Herbie Hancock, Annette Strauss Square, Dallas October 14, 2017: Robert Cray, Guitar Lightning Lee, Louis Gearshifter Youngblood, King Edward, Grady Champion, Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 15, 2017: Bobby Rush, Little Freddie King, Walter Wolfman Washington, Robert Finley, Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 19, 2017: Robert Cray, Paramount Theater, Austin October 20, 2017: Robert Cray, Majestic Theater, Dallas October 25, 2017: Crosscurrents: Dave Holland and Zakir Hussain, Annette Strauss Square, Dallas October 28, 2017: Anupama Bhagwat (sitar), Durgabari Auditorium, Houston November 4, 2017: Sandip Chatterjee (santoor), Subhajyoti Guha (tabla), Allen Library November 9, 2017: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin November 10, 2017: Javier Limon, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio November 11, 2017: Hariprasad Chaurasia, Austin November 18, 2017: Eddie Palmieri, Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio November 19, 2017: Eddie Palmieri, One World Theater, Austin November 30, 2017: John McLaughlin, Paramount Theater, Austin December 7, 2017: Latin Jazz All Stars (Steve Turre, Elio Villafranca, Nestor Torres), South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas January 28, 2017: Billy Hart Quartet, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio February 2, 2018: Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Cullen Theater, Houston March 24, 2018: Mingus Big Band, Cullen Theater, Houston April 5, 2018: Melissa Aldana, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas April 13, 2018: Brad Mehldau, Cullen Theater, Houston Antonio Sanchez, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio

Continuing the Cal Tjader trend with Along Came Cal (Verve). Definitely prefer Side 2. And Odell Brown Plays Otis Redding (Cadet). Sunk by the horn arrangements.

It is new music to me; I rather like it; an excellent collection from Strut Records.

Ote Maloya, The Birth of Electric Maloya on Reunion Island 1975-1986 (Strut)

Cal Tjader Quartet, Saturday Night/Sunday Night at the Blackhawk (Verve) Brother Jack McDuff, Getting Our Thing Together (Cadet)

Last night, David Gerald in Denison.

Pop Makossa, The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 (Analog Africa)

James P. Johnson Mosaic set, disc 1.

Terry Gibbs, That Swing Thing!, Live at Shelley's Mannehole (Verve)

Welcom to Zamrock, volume 2 (Now Again)

Johnny Griffin, The Big-Soul Band (Riverside)

Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms, From the Region (Delmark)

Pharoah Sanders, Karma (Impulse), and Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Big City Sounds (Argo).