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Heard the last part of a set by Harry Allen, followed by the Stacy Dillard Trio.

Benny Green Trio With David Wong And Kenny Washington Thursday, Jun 20 6:30p Fort Worth LibraryFort Worth, TX

Is this any good? Someone has been trying to sell a copy for while but I knew nothing about it. My least favorite Lateef Impulse! . . . but it's still worth listening to. I would say yes, it is worth getting. The group is good (Mike Nock on piano, Reggie Workman, and James Black on drum). I listened again: Side 1: 1. 1984. The longest piece on the album at 8 minutes or so. This is kind of a free piece, with Yusef making weird sounds on miscellaneous ethnic instruments. I didn't think this one worked; on CD, I would skip this piece after one listen. 2. Try Love. Nice oboe and flute feature. 3. Soul Sister. A solid tenor feature. 4. Love Waltz. This is a Mike Nock feature for the trio. No Yusef. Side 2: 1. One Little Indian. A sort of humorous piece; outside tenor playing on One Little Indian. Amusing a time or two. 2. Listen to the Wind. Tenor feature; intro sort of sounds like the title, then becomes more conventional. Pretty nice. 3. Warm Fire: A nice slow piece, featuring tenor. 4. Gee Sam Gee: Another slow tenor feature (even slower); real nice. 5. The Greatest Story Ever Told: Flute feature. Also a beauty. So I find seven of the nine tracks to be quite worthy, which means a buy for me.

Hopefully they are preparing for the Eternal Myth Part 2. Volume 1 is a very interesting collection of recordings of the influences on Sun Ra, early Sun Ra arrangements/sideman recordings, suspected recordings, through the development of Sun Ra as a leader in the 1950s, interspersed with Sun Ra interviews and commentaries.

Yusef Lateef, 1984 (Impulse, orange and black mono)

First Big Lots, then Houston...

This sounds good; working myself up to willingly go to Houston is a bit of a hard sell though.

Michel Petrucianni.

A sealed copy of Gary Burton's Something's Coming! on RCA (black dog label) for $13.

I joined towards the end of the first set and heard Kenny Werner's entire second set--this was another fine group that I enjoyed hearing. Smalls Live (at $5 a month) is the best jazz deal on the planet.

Billy Taylor Today (Prestige/MPS blue label) Charles Mingus, The Clown (Atlantic)

That was a pair of burning sets.

Tonight's group, a quintet led by drummer Greg Hutchinson, with Stacy Dillard and Melissa Aldana on saxophones, Aaron Goldberg on piano; Joe Sanders on bass.

I've seen him several times, actually, and he's been consistently good--back in the late 1980s at the Caravan with Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, paired with Gary Thomas; with his quartet with Jason Moran at a Blue Note concert in New York around 1998 (by far the best set of the concert), and a couple of times at the Village Vanguard and Jazz Standard with his own bands in the last ten years or so,

I'd be interested, especially if he has his own band.

Wow. With his band or a local group? Don't know. His website has not been updated, and the Dans Silverleaf website gives no information.

Greg Osby, March 19 at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton.

Here's Lucky playing from the balcony at the Granada (click on photo to enlarge).

Last night, the Lucky Peterson Band at the Granada Theater. The house was full. Two bands preceded Lucky; I missed the first (an unbearable teenage blues rocker), the second, local blues guitarist Jim Suhler, was tolerable but didn't do much for me. Lucky's band was larger than usual tonight; Mel Brown protege Shawn Kellerman was on guitar (good but bearing no resemblance to his mentor), flying in from Toronto, plus the usual drummer Raul Valdes, plus bass guitar, tenor sax and trumpet. Unfortunately, the sound at the Granada is not that great; overloud and muddy even in the balcony. Still it was an exciting performance, highlighted with Lucky playing some pretty intense blues guitar while sitting astride the Granada's second floor balcony.

In 1987, the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band came to Fort Worth and played the Caravan of Dreams. I recall the band included Lee Konitz and Enrico Rava.

Sonny Stitt, Now! (Impulse, red and black) Sonny Stitt and Bennie Green, My Main Man (Argo stereo)

Yes, Carnival Sketches was released on CD in Japan.

Very interesting. Thanks.

i caught (via video) the clayton quartet, both sets. wonderful wonderful, mesmerizing music. Yes, those were good stuff; I don't think I've heard any Mark Turner I liked better.