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I have a copy of Transa; nice record.

Coleman Hawkins Mosaic set, disc 2.

Earl Hines Live at the New School volume 2 (Chiaroscuro)

Red Norvo in Hi-Fi (Liberty)

Benny Goodman, Small Group Combos, Quintets, Sextets, Septets (Columbia, black label). Penciled in price is $4.85.

Ahmad Jamal, The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (Argo)

People actually buy non-bootleg CDs & DVDs in Mexico City? I confess to buying a bunch of "clon" DVDs on streets, in parks and in markets. I haven't been there in a couple of years, but yes, I think so; at least, I did.

I shared a table at the Caravan of Dreams with Prime Time (Ornette was around at the club but not sitting with us), watching Paquito D'Rivera. Denardo said they might sit in with Paquito, but it didn't happen.

Happy Birthday. What's MixUp in D.F.? MixUp is a CD store chain in Mexico, similar to Tower (which also still exists in Mexico). Not so unbearably hot, but they are spraying us with pesticides from the sky.

Thanks very much!

Awieama Little John, Nyamenle A Amanle Mea (Ambassador Records, Ghana, 1980). Lonnie Smith, Drives (Blue Note, blue and white Liberty)

Happy birthday!

That is shocking and tragic. I saw her at Smalls once; I stuck around after seeing another band because she had Logan Richardson on alto; her set turned out to be terrific.

If it's on Obey, it's an eighties pressing. SOme LPs on Obey appear to have been original issues, but most bear the catalogue number of the original Decca release, but the Obey trademark. Which have you got? Here's a link to Obey's enormous discography. http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAObey.html MG It's this album: 1974 Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band Iwalka Ko Pe (Decca WAPS 218) [A] Iwa Ika Ko Pe / Gbogbo Bi A Ti Nse / Maa Se Niso / Ninu Odun T'awa Yi Edumare Jeki A Lowo Lowo / Ori Mi Ma Jeki Nte Motun Gboro Agba De / Imole De / Ilu Mi Ko Kere / Egba National Anthem / Lai Ku Ekiti / Jinadu Isale Eko / Eyo O It is on Obey and has the designation WAPS 218, so it must be the reissue. The vinyl is in near mint (or close to it) condition. The address below the trademark photo is 7A, Shipeolu Street, Onipanu Palmgrove, Lagos, Nigeria.

Once ran into Marchel Ivery loading groceries into his car in a Kroger parking lot. Pete Fountain pumping gas into his very nice little sports car (don't remember the model) at a convenience store uptown in New Orleans around 1990. I was walking a few blocks to the Jazz Standard to see an Alvin Queen group featuring Melvin Sparks and wondered if the fellow walking in front of me with a guitar case was Melvin Sparks, and he was.

Roy Ayers--Virgo Vibes (Atlantic stereo, blue/green label) Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and His Inter-Reformers Band (Obey/Decca (West Africa). For some reason, 1970s West African pressings rarely turn up at Half Price Books in Dallas, but this one did.

Steve Kuhn/Gary McFarland--October Suite (Impulse mono, orange and black). Modern Jazz Quartet--Concorde (Prestige, W. 50th)

I have the Ornette/Prime Time CD in that series; also, there's a fine Adams/Pullen concert, post-Dannie Richmond's death.

In the realm of George Adams obscurities, the Mingus Dynasty album, Live at the Village Vanguard, has a little more than 2 minute version of Good Bye Pork Pie Hat that is really beautiful. For Adams and Ulmer, my favorite is Jazzbuhne Berlin, perhaps hard to find these days, a wonderful live concert.

In addition to Mingus, Pullen, Gil Evans, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson, he also made interesting recordings with James Blood Ulmer, and I've long enjoyed his two recordings on Soul Note with Dannie Richmond and Jimmy Knepper.

Stan Getz and Albert Dailey, Poetry (Elektra Musician)

Johnny Hammond Smith, Love Potion #9 (Prestige, blue label mono) Gems of Jazz, volume 1 (Mildred Bailey, Jess Stacy, Meade Lux Lewis, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman) (Decca ten inch)

The band he led at Smalls where I heard him last year was quite good (Mark Gross on alto and Marvin Sewell on guitar).

Copies are $27 to $83 on amazon.com.

There was probably a meeting of the DFW powers that be: Agenda item 1: A DFW powerbroker businessman has gone off the rails by supporting the non-approved arts (something other than the symphony, opera or museums)--it must be stopped! Agenda item 2: Let's build a really expensive and stupid bridge and a toll road in a flood zone.