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Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (Verve) Victor Goines, Love Dance (Criss Cross)

That 1953 concert recording is one of my favorite Dizzy recordings. His trumpet playing is unreal on that one.

Chief Adjuah, Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning

UNT Jazz Community Event - Billy Harper Live at Steve's! Date: Sat, Jun 15, 2024 Time 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM In partnership with UNT Jazz Community Events, Steve's Wine Bar Presents The Billy Harper Quintet In 1964, Harper was the first Black student accepted into the prestigious One O’Clock Lab Band. Billy Harper’s experience during integration paved a pathway for Black students at UNT, which is now a Minority-Serving Institution. Billy has performed with the likes of Gil Evans, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and many others solidifying him as the Jazz great he is today. “Billy is a griot, a storyteller,” said T.K. Blue, the saxophonist and flutist who performed with Harper for 30 years in bands led by the pianist Randy Weston. “I can hear the history of where he comes from in that music. It’s regal. I hear Africa. I hear Texas. I hear the blues.”, “...At 82, he is still a force in the community and turns heads with his sound and compositions.” The New York Times

Clifford Jordan, Remembering Me-Me (Muse) Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, Blues in Time (Verve)

Last night, at the Memorial High School Auditorium in Frisco, a Jugalbandi featuring Hindustani Flute By Praveen Godkindi and Carnatic Violin By Ambi Subramanian - son of L Subramanian, with three percussionists -Yashwant Vaishnav on Tabla, Sowmi Narayanan on Ghatam, and Akshay Anthapadmanabhan on Mridamgam. An excellent concert of Indian classical music, the violinist was exceptional.

Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Chicago Hustle '82 (Cleopatra Blues)

Pat Metheny, New Chautauqua (ECM)

Louis Ford, It's All Relative

Jasmine Myra, Rising

Per Billy Harper's facebook page, in addition to Houston and Austin, the Billy Harper Quintet will be at Steve's Wine Bar in Denton on June 15.

Tray Wellington's Black Banjo includes versions of Naima and Roy Hargrove's Strasbourg/St. Denis.

Me too, except it's since 1974.

Kaia Kater, Strange Medicine

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy, Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1968 (Cleopatra Blues) If you are a fan of the Delmark classic Hoodoo Man Blues, this is insanely good (well recorded and licensed from the Junior Wells estate), with Fred Below, Jack Myers and A.C. Reed.

Friday: Rex Gregory Quartet with Amina Figarova at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Stephen Walker's Swingin' in New Orleans at the Royal Frenchman Hotel. Jason Marsalis Trio Excursions with Ricardo Pascal (saxophones) at Snug Harbor. Saturday: Herlin Riley Quartet at Snug Harbor (2 sets). Absolutely amazing. Sunday: Leroy Jones and the Preservation All Stars, Preservation Hall.

Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux, Live in France 1969 (Elemental)

Vinicius Cantuaria, Silva

A few tracks are not for me, but I do like the majority of them.

Last night, Tutu Jones and His Twisted Soul Band at The Goat. An amazing and unique guitarist.

Ghana Special 2, Electronic Sounds and Highlife in the Diaspora 1980-93 (Soundway)

The Trumpet of Pete Condoli, Blues, When Your Lover Has Gone (Somerset) Duke Ellington, Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo)

Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Columbia) Roland Hanna, Impressions Billy Ver Planck Orchestra, Jazz for PlayGirls (Savoy)

I saw him only once, two years ago at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. It was basically a straight ahead jazz set, with an alto/trombone frontline and Geoff Keezer on keyboards. Favorite solo by David Sanborn for me is on Billy Harper's Priestess, on the Gil Evans album of the same name.