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Another Houston concert-- Brentano String Quartet with Vijay Iyer, piano Pre-concert conversation with members of the quartet, Vijay Iyer and Sarah Rothenberg at 7pm. Saturday, February 15, 2014; 8:00 PM Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts Debussy String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 Vijay Iyer Piano Quintet (world premiere/Da Camera co-commission) Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Lonnie Smith was top notch, in outstanding form. The concert was a single set of about an hour and forty five minutes. It was the trio from The Healer, substituting Johnathan Blake on drums for Jamire Williams. Basically, it was a thrilling concert, well worth the trip. The Carver Center is a nice facility, though the surrounding environment was not looking so great. There were a couple of friendly policemen stopping traffic and watching over the parking lot. The auditorium holds about 600; it wasn't full, I would guess there were 300-400 people there. The sound was good. There was a nice reception with free food and drinks beforehand, and Lonnie Smith was meeting people and signing his CDs afterwards. It was first class all the way. The woman who booked the concert spoke beforehand and said she goes to New York once a year to look for artists to bring to the Carver Center, and that she had seen Lonnie Smith at his home base there, Jazz Standard. As long as everybody involved is getting their financial expectations met, that sounds like a reasonably sustainable venture...just hope that that % of occupancy covers upfront expenses (especially venue rental, it's like, ok, I can screw the band just enough to get them out of town, but THESE mfs I gotta live in the same town with It's happened!)...how much were tickets? $35 plus Ticketmaster fees. The Carver Center appears to be an arts institution with various sources of funding (government, business, individual), so I don't think it has to be completely financially viable on its own terms.

The Carver brochure indicated he would be with Bandwagon, so I assume Taurus Mateen and Nasheet Waits.

Lonnie Smith was top notch, in outstanding form. The concert was a single set of about an hour and forty five minutes. It was the trio from The Healer, substituting Johnathan Blake on drums for Jamire Williams. Basically, it was a thrilling concert, well worth the trip. The Carver Center is a nice facility, though the surrounding environment was not looking so great. There were a couple of friendly policemen stopping traffic and watching over the parking lot. The auditorium holds about 600; it wasn't full, I would guess there were 300-400 people there. The sound was good. There was a nice reception with free food and drinks beforehand, and Lonnie Smith was meeting people and signing his CDs afterwards. It was first class all the way. The woman who booked the concert spoke beforehand and said she goes to New York once a year to look for artists to bring to the Carver Center, and that she had seen Lonnie Smith at his home base there, Jazz Standard.

I have tickets to Wayne Shorter and Jason Moran. I'm still thinking about Charles Lloyd (the ticket acquisition mechanic is a bit odd), but its a long drive that I just made for Lonnie Smith.

I've never seen Bobby Bradford, but the dates are not good for me for traveling 200 or more miles..

They are the amazon seller I use most frequently. Service for me has been stellar through numerous orders--items invariably arrive quickly.

February 6, 2014: Billy Harper and the Cookers, Winspear in Denton February 7, 2014: The Cookers, Houston, Cullen Theater February 18, 2014: John Raymond and Tim Green at Scat Jazz, Fort Worth, and February 19 at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton. February 19, 2014: Kahil El Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Hamiet Bluiett, Austin February 19, 2014: Shelley Carrol at Scat Jazz, Fort Worth February 21, 2014: Pat Metheny Unity Group at House of Blues, Dallas February 21, 2014: Kahil El Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Hamiet Bluiett, Meca, Houston February 22, 2014: Charles Lloyd and Gerald Clayton duo at Trinity University in San Antonio February 27, 2014: Tutu Jones at Keys Lounge, Fort Worth March 19, 2014: Kalmon Balogh at Poor David's Pub, Dallas March 23, 2014: Bobby Bradford, Austin March 25, 2014: Bobby Bradford, Houston April 4, 2014: Wayne Shorter, Cullen Theater, Houston April 5, 2014: San Francisco Jazz Collective, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio April 16, 2014: Eric Johnson and Mike Stern, Granada Theater, Dallas. May 15, 2014: Nicholas Payton at Fort Worth Public Library, May 17, 2014: Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio June 20, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Jazz in June, Norman, Oklahoma July 11-12, 2014: Lucky Peterson at Clarence Muse Theater, Dallas.

John Raymond-Tim Green Texas tour. Texas Tour - February 15-20 w/Tim Green Texas Tour - Feb 15-20 w/Tim Green I'm incredibly excited to be embarking on a short tour of Texas from February 15-20! What's more, is I'm excited to bringing heralded alto saxophonist Tim Green(www.timgreenmusic.com) along with me. We'll be doing a host of masterclasses and performances together, including shows at Cezanne (Houston), Scat Jazz Lounge (Dallas/Fort Worth) and Dan's SIiverleaf (Denton) and masterclasses at HSPVA (Houston), Carroll South Lake HS(Dallas), Texas Christian University (Fort Worth), Denton HS(Denton) and the University of North Texas. If you live in the area, we'd love to see you! Check out my website for more details... Thanks for your support - hope all is well! Johnn) We'll also be doing several masterclasses at area schools including HSPVA in Houston,Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Carroll South Lake HS in Dallas and theUniversity of North Texas in Denton.

Not sure where you are, but The Cookers concert in Denton is this thursday the 6th. Their concert in Houston is Friday.

Billy Harper interview in Houston Chronicle. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Billy-Harper-boasts-a-big-Texas-sound-5194066.php#/0

Yeah, I got into it and figured I'd have more fun ordering by phone. I was right, and now I have. What I didn't figure on was getting $15 tickets for $10 because I was a "senior" (a.k.a over 55). For a split second after she asked "are you a senior", my response was instinctively gonna be "hell no, I graduated in 1979", but then I realized she was referring to age,. OOPS! But once the door of discount gets opened...I asked if being an alumni could get that $10 down to $5, and of course, no. But that was good for a mutual laugh, as was when she told me that the MPAC would be easy to spot from the interstate, that it looked like an armadillo, and then I asked her shouldn't it be in the middle of the road then? So yeah, if anybody's still looking to get tickets, call the box office instead. (but only between 1-5 PM!). Good, possibly even delightful, people will go about getting you all hooked up. Too late, I have already been overcharged $5 by the cold, cruel website (which cared not a whit of my age).

Friday night, the Lonnie Smith Trio at the Carver Center in San Antonio. That was an awesome concert.

Presumably lifted from this DVD (of dubious origins): http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Dolphy-Charles-Mingus-6tet/dp/B0029XEZEI/ref=sr_1_14?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1391298380&sr=1-14&keywords=Charles+Mingus

1945 Town Hall Concert with Dizzy Gillespie (Uptown) 1947 Carnegie Hall Concert with Dizzy Gillespie (Bebop's Heartbeat) Christmas 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert Inglewood Jam (with Chet Baker and Sonny Criss) Complete Rockland Palace Bird's Eyes Volume 17 (Metronome All Stars) Young Miles, volume 1 (Masters of Jazz) Washington D.C. 1948 (Uptown) Birth of the Bebop (Stash) Live Sessions (Black)

Bigger than 160 GB?! Most computer hard drives weren't that big not so many years ago. How much storage are you looking for? In higher quality encoding, say 320kbps, that will hold in the neighborhood of 1,000 albums. My 160 gb iPod is full, and my iTunes library is significantly larger than 160 gB. Consequently, the new stuff I add does not get added to my iPod any more, forcing me to carry around more CDs. I just listen to the iPod in my car (living in Dallas, one drives alot). I really don't hear much (if any) difference between the sound of a CD and the iPod listening in a car. . Why not just switch albums out every now and then? Surely you don't need to carry around 1,000 with you daily, right? Sure, I do that. I like having a very large portable database of music--the other week I listened to 197 consecutive Charlie Parker recordings, it was great.

Bigger than 160 GB?! Most computer hard drives weren't that big not so many years ago. How much storage are you looking for? In higher quality encoding, say 320kbps, that will hold in the neighborhood of 1,000 albums. My 160 gb iPod is full, and my iTunes library is significantly larger than 160 gB. Consequently, the new stuff I add does not get added to my iPod any more, forcing me to carry around more CDs. I just listen to the iPod in my car (living in Dallas, one drives alot). I really don't hear much (if any) difference between the sound of a CD and the iPod listening in a car. .

They need to build one with a larger storage capacity, and I would buy another in a heartbeat. I've given up hope that they will, however.

I missed that, but Ari Hoenig's first set Monday night sure was nice.

Were, please? And...does anybody know how long this San Antonino thing has been going on? Or are those three events being promoted separately of each other? The DFW area's inability to get something going to give the groups that play Houston and/or Austin (and now, possibly, San Antonio) an area venue (which would no doubt increase booking opportunities for all...many people are more willing to make two or three gigs in an area for a little less per gig guarantee in return for a little larger gross for the overall trip) is very discouraging....but not surprising, not really. I'm not sure. I went to a meeting in San Antonio a few months back and reset an iPhone app called Bandsintown to my geographic location of San Antonio and was quite surprised to find such a list (Lonnie Smith, Jason Moran, Lionel Loueke, San Francisco Jazz Collective). The events at the Jo Long Theater appear to be part of a series. The Charles Lloyd concert is separate, I just found out about it from Charles Lloyd's twitter. Lonnie Smith is playing at the Walton Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas the next day after his San Antonio concert.

Tickets to the Billy Harper/The Cookers concert in Denton can now be purchased online.

The Nameless Sound website still says "venue to be determined."

February 6, 2014: Billy Harper and the Cookers, Winspear in Denton February 7, 2014: The Cookers, Houston, Cullen Theater February 18, 2014: John Raymond and Tim Green at Scat Jazz, Fort Worth, and February 19 at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton. February 19, 2014: Kahil El Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Hamiet Bluiett, Austin February 21, 2014: Pat Metheny Unity Group at House of Blues, Dallas February 22, 2014: Charles Lloyd and Gerald Clayton duo at Trinity University in San Antonio February 27, 2014: Tutu Jones at Keys Lounge, Fort Worth March 19, 2014: Kalmon Balogh at Poor David's Pub, Dallas March 23, 2014: Bobby Bradford, Austin March 25, 2014: Bobby Bradford, Houston April 4, 2014: Wayne Shorter, Cullen Theater, Houston April 5, 2014: San Francisco Jazz Collective, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio April 16, 2014: Eric Johnson and Mike Stern, Granada Theater, Dallas. May 15, 2014: Nicholas Payton at Fort Worth Public Library, May 17, 2014: Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio July 11-12, 2014: Lucky Peterson at Clarence Muse Theater, Dallas.

Another concert in San Antonio: Charles Lloyd & Gerald Clayton Jazz Expressions Laurie Auditorium - Trinity University February 22 - 7:30 p.m.

February 18: John Raymond and Tim Green at Scat Jazz.