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Last night, Rhoda Scott, Take a Ladder (RSB), and Cal Tjader, Demasiado Caliente (Fantasy blue vinyl). Today, Billy Taylor Trio, Warming Up (Riverside stereo).

Yes, there is a West Texas Jazz Society. Tonight in Midland, Bria Skonberg... Bria Skonberg will be at the Petroleum Club of Midland on Thursday, November 17, 2016. The Canadian singer, trumpeter, and songwriter Bria Skonberg is described by The Wall Street Journal as one of the “most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation.” Noted as a Millennial “Shaking Up the Jazz World,” according to Vanity Fair, Skonberg is a self-described “small town girl” from Chilliwack, British Columbia. The board of the West Texas Jazz Society has elected to have the 51st Collaboration in May 2017 – more details to follow! Any performances on the horizon?

Updated line-up, with a number of additions including Ben Allison, Melissa Aldana, and Somi. Aaron Goldberg and Leon Parker Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Octet Amina Claudine Myers Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones Andrew Cyrille (Artist-in-residence) Andy Milne & The Seasons of Being Arturo O’Farrill Octet Battle Trance Becca Stevens Trio Ben Allison & Think Free Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy Ben Wendel Seasons Band Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan Duo Black Rock Coalition's Get Down Revue BRM Coltrane Raga Tribute Claudia Acuna's The Chilean Connection Craig Harris’ Breathe Criss Cross - The Music of Monk and Bill Evans w/ Florian Weber, Donny McCaslin, and Dan Weiss Daniel Freedman Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Dave Douglas High Risk with Shigeto David Murray Big Band Daymé Arocena Deva Mahal Donny McCaslin Group Earth Wind and Brown featuring Butcher Brown and Nigel Hall Edmar Castaneda World Ensemble Fleurine and the Boys From Brazil Harold López-Nussa Hazmat Modine & Alash Ensemble Jaimeo Brown Transcendence Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron Jason Moran & The Bandwagon Plays Monk Jim Black’s MALAMUTE John Hébert’s Rambling Confessions Justin Brown NYEUSI Kandace Springs Kendrick Scott Oracle Killiam Shakespeare Kneebody Kris Davis’ Duopoly Madison McFerrin Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians Mary Halvorson Octet Melissa Aldana Michael Leonhart Orchestra Nate Smith +kinfolk Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble Nik Bärtsch's Mobile Nir Felder Trio Omer Avital Peter Bernstein's Monk Trio Pharoah Sanders Quantic Live Ralph Peterson and Aggregate Prime Ravi Coltrane / David Virelles Duo Roy Nathanson & Arturo O’Farrill Russell Gunn's Ethnomusicology Sam Amidon Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite Scott Tixier with special guest Tony Tixier Shabaka & The Ancestors Somi Songs of Freedom w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater, Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja and Music Director Ulysses Owens Jr Spanish Harlem Orchestra Steven Bernstein's Universal Melody Brass Band TALIBAM! HARD VIBE featuring Matt Nelson & Ron Stabinsky Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science The Chico Freeman Plus+tet Tigue Tomasz Stanko NY Quartet (w/ David Virelles, Reuben Rogers, Gerald Cleaver) Tomeka Reid Uri Caine Trio Vinicius Cantuaria Quintet William Parker / Cooper Moore / Hamid Drake / Rob Brown Quartet Zig-Zag Trio with Will Calhoun, Vernon Reid, and Melvin Gibbs

Sure. East Texas is an exotic and largely unexplored landscape filled with danger and intrigue. This trip, I had a warning light for low coolant on the way back. I was living on the edge.

That is too sad. He's been a favorite ever since seeing him perform in a folk club in Austin in 1983. I recollect seeing him another three times during the 1980s in Dallas, Fort Worth, and New Orleans.

A new realm for my cloistered world only!

The church was downtown in Big Sandy--most of the way there on 80, then maybe up to ten miles off the freeway traveling on a very dark road with a 70 mph speed limit to arrive there. The owners of the venue were not present this particular evening. I would go back for sure if they ever again have anyone there I was interested in hearing. The upcoming Stratoblasters concert in this intimate venue would be my idea of hell on earth. http://bigsandymusichall.com/ I think this may be the luxury end of the East Texas music venues. Otherwise, her itinerary opens up a new realm of East Texas dive venues with music.

Last Saturday, an East Texas field trip to the Big Sandy Music Hall in Big Sandy, Texas (population 1370). The destination is an inexplicable music venue--someone's folly--a restored 98 year old church. The venue is quite comfortable, with a capacity of about 180 and great sound. Normally I'm indifferent to prodigies, and I like blues, less so when it is blues/rock. In this case, the artist, a 17 year old girl, creates her own exception with her amazing facility on guitar, pleasing singing ability, and fine original material (one song introduced as written when she was 12). For the admission charge of $5, the Ally Venable Band played for nearly two hours before a tiny audience--it was well worth the trip.

Jack Dejohnette New Directions, Cosmic Chicken (Prestige)

http://kanaga.systemkrush.com/documentary.php A fifteen minute excerpt from an in progress documentary on the music of Mali--with great performance footage of artists, including Zani Diabate, Lobi Traore, Madou Diabate, Djelimadi Tounkara.

Bernard Purdue, Shaft (Prestige) Shelley Manne and His Men (Contemporary ten inch). With Art Salt on alto sax. Strangely familiar. Terry Gibbs Quartet, Straight Ahead (Verve), Except it is a quintet.

November 26, 2016: Bnois King, Texas Musicians Museum, Irving December 3, 2016: R.L. Boyce and Lightnin' Malcolm, Antone's, Austin December 10, 2016: Tim Warfield's All-Star Jazzy Christmas, Starlight Club, Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas December 24, 2016: Tutu Jones, The Goat, Dallas December 31, 2016: Lucky Peterson, Poor David's Pub, Dallas January 7, 2017: Ran Blake, Live Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston January 7, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Wylie Theater, Dallas January 21, 2017: Eddie Turner, Luckenbach Blues Festival, Fredericksburg February 3, 2017: Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, McCullough Theater, Austin February 17, 2017: Al Di Meola, One World Theater, Austin February 17, 2017: Rotem Sivan Trio, Cezanne, Houston February 18, 2017: Al Di Meola, Majestic Theater, Dallas February 18, 2017: Joey Alexander, McAllister Auditorium, San Antonio College February 23, 2017: MVP Jazz Quartet (Bobby Watson, Donald Brown, Marvin Smitty Smith, Ray Drummond), Starlight Club, Walton Center, Fayetteville Arkansas February 24, 2017: Joshua Redman, Cullen Theater, Houston February 25, 2017: MVP Jazz Quartet (Bobby Watson, Donald Brown, Marvin Smitty Smith, Ray Drummond), South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas February 25, 2017: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University, San Antonio March 11, 2017: Marquis Hill Blacktet, Cullen Theater, Houston March 24, 2017: Cedric Burnside, White Water Tavern, Little Rock, Arkansas April 14, 2017: Stanley Clarke, One World Theater, Austin April 18, 2017: Cyrus Chestnut, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 20, 2017: Terence Blanchard, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas April 21, 2017: Terence Blanchard, University of Texas at Dallas April 22, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Cullen Theater, Houston April 23, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Liberty Hall, Tyler April 28, 2017: Ravi Coltrane, UNT Recital Hall, Denton May 5, 2017: Vijay Iyer, Cullen Theater, Houston May 5, 2017: Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Octet, Carver Center, San Antonio

Last evening, Eric Willis Quintet at St. Paul Methodist Church. A pleasing concert, distracting attention from the night's unfolding election catastrophe.

Christian Scott's band was: Lawrence Fields on piano/keyboards, Chris Farnin on acoustic bass, Steven Gladney on tenor sax, Dominic Minicks on guitar, Joe Dyson on drums, Corey Fandel on drums, Braxton Cook on tenor sax.

There's no listing but the band is verbally introduced on the CD (most were introduced as band members for varying periods)--all unfamiliar names to me--but I'll listen later and get back to you.

Have a Happy Birthday!!!

They are not suspect recordings (though they are CDRs, so downloading might be preferred), they are authorized releases openly sold at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; in fact, there usually is a sign at the performance announcing when they are recording. They do not record all the performances; I would expect it depends on whether the artist wants the recording made or not. I posted this one because it's a performance by Christian Scott that I attended there this year, and I've listened to this recording quite a bit--it is rather good.

https://www.munck-music.com/collections/new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival/products/christian-scott-live-at-2016-new-orleans-jazz-heritage-festival

Last night and this morning, Illinois Jacquet, Go Power (Cadet), Dewey Redman, Coincide (Impulse), Don Pullen, Jazz a Confronto (Horo), Errol Garner, volume 2 (Savoy ten inch), and Red Norvo, Dancing on the Ceiling (Decca ten inch).

Kenny Burrell, Soul Call (Prestige, gold label mono)

Just six songs, I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart, The Hawk Talks, How High the Moon, Do Nothing Til You Hear from Me, VIP's Boogie, and the Mooche. House Party Series, with no discographical iinformation, just a listing of other records for sale. Gjon Mili photo on front cover.

Duke Ellington, Duke's Mixture (Columbia ten inch), and Thelonious Monk, Monk in Action (Riverside).

Possibly, I used to watch that show sometimes.

It was Miles Davis on TV, circa 1973--I don't recall the show, but it was out there electric Miles.

I received the same email but was postponing actually doing anything until the weekend.