kh1958

I too have picked up that very album (literally), thought about it, and put it back. The Patty Bown, I haven't noticed.

Completed the Mosaic It Club Monk set--a finely pressed LP set, with quiet surfaces, just a great sounding collection of excellent music.

Complete Monk at the It Club (Mosaic)--LP 2.

Thelonious Monk, Complete Live at the It Club (Mosaic, LP 1)

Listening to the Harold Mabern Trio, live right now.

There's a fine audio store just three or four miles from my home, Audio Concepts, which I've patronized for the last 20 years or so. They do still exist. http://www.audioconceptsonline.com/index.php

I heard him live at the Caravan of Dreams in 1989. He had a band of African musicians, except for one keyboard player from Philadelphia--saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, two keyboard players, drums--they were electrifying, one of the best bands I've ever heard--I heard four sets and that wasn't enough. It was better than any of his recordings, including Home. A few years later, he played in Dallas, with a completely different group, and it was just a decent concert.

Gil Evans, America's #1 Arranger (Pacific Jazz mono), and Eddie Lockjaw Davis with Johnny Griffin, The Late Show (Prestige mono).

June 3, 2014: Peter Brotzman, William Parker, Hamid Drake, North Door, Austin June 4, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz. Fort Worth June 6, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Twilight Lounge, Deep Ellum June 8, 2014: David Amram, Kerrville Folk Festival June 11, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 12, 2014: Peggy Stern Quartet, Elephant Room, Austin June 13, 2014: Shelly Carrol, Twilight Lounge, Deep Ellum June 16, 2014: Peggy Stern Trio, Brass House, Austin June 17, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Kessler Theater, Dallas June 18, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Vanguard Music Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma June 18, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 20-21, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Jazz in June, Norman, Oklahoma June 25, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 28, 2014: Smt Kala Ramnath (violin), Jones Auditorium, St. Edwards University, Austin July 5, 2014: Tex Allen, Cezanne, Houston July 11-12, 2014: Lucky Peterson, Clarence Muse Theater, Dallas July 19, 2014: Ud. Shahid Parvez Sitar and Gourisankar Karmakar Tabla, Jones Hall, University of St. Thomas, Houston July 21, 2014: Peggy Stern, Brass House, Austin July 24, 2014: Blues Boy Willie, Amarillo Botanical Gardens August 16, 2014: Janiva Magness, Harlingen August 28, 2014: Lila Downs, House of Blues, Houston August 28, 2014: Terry Bozzio, Dosey Doe Music Cafe, Conroe August 29, 2014: Terry Bozzio, McDavid Studio, Fort Worth August 30, 2014: Joe Louis Walker, Bedford Blues Festival August 30, 2014: Lila Downs, House of Blues, Dallas August 31, 2014: Lila Downs, San Antonio August 31, 2014: Robert Cray, Bedford Blues Festival August 31, 2014: Terry Bozzio, One World Theater, Austin September 6, 2014: Pandit Kumar Bose (tabla) and Pandit Ramesh Misra (Sarangi), Jones Auditorium, St. Edwards University, Austin September 12-13, 2014: Eddie Clearwater, Lurie Bell, Eric Gales, Sugar Blue, Sue Foley, T-Bone Walker Blues Festival, Longview September 13, 2014: Ramesh Mishra, Jones Hall, University of St. Thomas, Houston September 18, 2014: Shelley Carrol Quartet, Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Fort Worth Public Library September 19, 2014: Youssou N'Dour, Winspear Opera House, Dallas September 20, 2104: Music Festival of India (Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya Slide Guitar Arshad Ali Khan Vocals Sarwar Hussain Sarangi Subhashish Bhattacharya Tabla Prashant Pandav Tabla), Allen Public Library Auditorium September 20, 2014: Eddie Palmieri, Jazz'SALive, San Antonio October 10, 2014: Chick Corea, solo, Cullen Theater, Houston November 7, 2014: Lonnie Smith Trio, McCollough Theater, Austin December 10, 2014: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio February 7, 2015: Jason Moran, Cullen Theater, Houston February 22, 2015: Branford Marsalis, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio March 7, 2015: Kendrick Scott's Oracle, Cullen Theater, Houston April 11, 2015: Jeff Tain Watts, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 12, 2015: Lila Downs, Long Center, Austin April 18, 2015: Branford Marsalis, Cullen Theater, Houston May 2015, Vijay Iyer, International Music Festival, Tobin Center, San Antonio

Last night, Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party at Jo Long Theater in San Antonio.

Herbie Mann, Sultry Serenade (Riverside mono)

I'm planning on going to the concert in San Antonio (my fingers typed Dallas) tomorrow.

Jason Moran in Houston and San Antonio this weekend: Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party: Jason Moran, piano and keyboards; Lisa E. Harris, vocals; Leron Thomas, trumpet; Tarus Mateen, bass; Charles Haynes, drums Jason Moran pays tribute to Fats Waller, the influential stride pianist, composer and singer best known for his songs Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Honeysuckle Rose. Rather than interpreting Waller’s ebulliently swinging songbook directly, Moran breaks down melodies and riffs and then “the band builds on those fragments, in rhythms coming out of 1960s-and-beyond dance music: Motown, house, hip-hop” (The New York Times). This night will be a raucous party with an open dance floor and copious quantities of fun.

Kendrick Scott's recent leader release is on Concord.

KH, any other suggestions on the Fedora label output? I have to admit I wasn't aware of it, though I certainly know the sister labels. That Iceman Robinson sounds like a winner on the Amazon soundclips, I expect to nab that soon. I found a cut out of the Iceman Robinson in a used CD store and was shocked at how good it was. The best other blues CD on the label that I've heard is Jimmy Dawkins, West Side Guitar Hero. I've tried a few more on the label, but they have generally just been okay.

I appreciate a lot of what is on the three sister labels (Fedora is the blues label). Favorites would include the nine late life releases by David Newman, their four Melvin Sparks releases, their six Tom Harrell releases, and their five Frank Morgan releases. A recent blues discovery on Fedora is Iceman Robinson's only recording. http://www.bluesmusicnow.com/ice.html

Kenny Dorham, This is the Moment (Riverside mono), and Herbie Mann, Great Ideas of Western Man (Riverside mono).

If you want the set on LP, the Mosaic set is the way to go.

Theo Hill, I saw him last fall with Charles Tolliver, I liked him also.

Quincy Jones, Quintessence (Impulse, red and black label)

May 13, 2014: Nick Moss, Live Oak, Fort Worth May 14, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz. Fort Worth May 15, 2014: Nicholas Payton, Fort Worth Public Library May 16, 2014: Jason Moran, Discovery Green, Houston May 17, 2014: Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio May 17, 2014: Rebirth Brass Band, Kessler Theater, Oak Cliff May 19, 2014: Peggy Stern Trio, Brass House, Austin May 21, 2014: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz. Fort Worth May 22, 2014: Bill Frisell's Guitar in the Space Age, Dan's Silverleaf, Denton May 23-24, 2014: Bill Frisell, Continental Club, Austin May 26, 2014: Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Avant Garden, Houston May 27, 2014: Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin May 28, 2014: Shelly Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth June 3, 2014: Peter Brotzman, William Parker, Hamid Drake, North Door, Austin June 16, 2014: Peggy Stern Trio, Brass House, Austin June 17, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Kessler Theater, Dallas June 18, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Vanguard Music Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma June 20-21, 2014: Charlie Hunter, Jazz in June, Norman, Oklahoma June 28, 2014: Smt Kala Ramnath (violin), Jones Auditorium, St. Edwards University, Austin July 5, 2014: Tex Allen, Cezanne, Houston July 11-12, 2014: Lucky Peterson, Clarence Muse Theater, Dallas July 19, 2014: Ud. Shahid Parvez Sitar and Gourisankar Karmakar Tabla, Jones Hall, University of St. Thomas, Houston August 28, 2014: Lila Downs, House of Blues, Houston August 30, 2014: Joe Louis Walker, Bedford Blues Festival August 30, 2014: Lila Downs, House of Blues, Dallas August 31, 2014: Lila Downs, San Antonio August 31, 2014: Robert Cray, Bedford Blues Festival September 6, 2014: Pandit Kumar Bose (tabla) and Pandit Ramesh Misra (Sarangi), Jones Auditorium, St. Edwards University September 12-13, 2014: Eddie Clearwater, Lurie Bell, Eric Gales, Sugar Blue, T-Bone Walker Blues Festival, Longview September 18, 2014: Shelley Carrol Quartet, Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Fort Worth Public Library September 20, 2104: Music Festival of India, Allen Public Library Auditorium September 20, 2014: Eddie Palmieri, Jazz'SALive, San Antonio October 4, 2014: Ramesh Mishrah, TBA, Houston October 10, 2014: Chick Corea, solo, Cullen Theater, Houston November 7, 2014: Lonnie Smith Trio, McCollough Theater, Austin December 10, 2014: Wynton Marsalis, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio February 7, 2015: Jason Moran, Cullen Theater, Houston February 22, 2015: Branford Marsalis, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio March 7, 2015: Kendrick Scott's Oracle, Cullen Theater, Houston April 11, 2015: Jeff Tain Watts, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 18, 2015: Branford Marsalis, Cullen Theater, Houtson

Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five, Album #4 (Clef), and Jimmy Heath, The Quota (Riverside, black label stereo).

They probably didn't have them anyway. That was my experience with their closing sale.

Cannonball Adderley, African Waltz (Riverside mono), and Michael White, Spirit Dance (Impulse).

So pleased to hear Pharoah is still playing. During last year's European trip he was reported to be in poor health by Gheorghe in Vienna and I never got to see him in Manchester as he cut short the tour because of illness and returned to the U.S. Hope to get to see Pharoah again some day. I saw him several times in the early 1990s with that quartet with William Henderson. The Toronto appearance in 1990 at Bermuda Onion was incendiary ! Some good recent Sanders concerts available for viewing on YouTube. First song was Living Space, which was a thrill to hear live. I hadn't seen him since 1999 (Iridium); before that, the Village Vanguard (1992), and the Caravan of Dreams (1989).