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Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver (Prestige, blue label), and Duke Ellington, Far East Suite (RCA black dog)

I wish Mosaic would release a set of the unreleased Columbia Ronnie Scotts Mingus recordings next. I wonder how many sets they recorded?

Watching live the Steve Cardenas trio, with Ben Allison on bass.

You're right. Though it seems almost like Barney Kessell is the only guitar player who appears on Contemporary.

It's Barney Kessell, not Jim Hall.

Barbara Dennerlein's CDs are available in the U.S. from cdbaby.com. I've picked up a couple recently. In a Silent Mood. Very nice solo album. And Spiritual Movement No. 2. This one is amazing, jazz on a giant pipe organ.

Gene Ammons, Live in Chicago (Prestige, blue label), and Jean-Luc Ponty, Critic's Choice (Prestige/MPS, purple label)

Sonny Philips, Black Magic (Prestige, blue label)

No shipping notice for me yet.

Happy birthday!

Charles Mingus Sextet in Berlin 1970 (Beppo) Dexter Gordon, The Panther (Prestige, purple label)

Hal Singer and Charlie Shavers, Blue Stompin' (Prestige Swingville, red label mono, Status sticker on cover)

Luiz Bonfa, Amor (Atlantic)

I had an email from Smalls that they did not sustain any damage but the power was out.

Happy birthday!

Donald Byrd, Free Form (Blue Note, NY USA) Alice Coltrane, Huntington Ashram Monastery (Impulse, red and black)

Max Roach, It's Time (Impulse, orange and black, mono)

Watching/listening to the Jimmy Greene Quartet.

John Coltrane, Ballads (Impulse, red and black)

This was the other "new" New Bird release (the version obtainable from amazon is a CDR). http://www.amazon.com/New-Bird-Rare-Recordings-Interviews/dp/B00003Q04S/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1351015933&sr=1-4&keywords=Charlie+Parker+New+Bird

The stray track with Milt Buckner is a nice one. Recently, I've stumbled across a couple of Bird CDs containing broadcast material of good quality that I haven't heard. Here's one of them. http://www.amazon.com/Live-Sessions-Charlie-Parker/dp/B005QD0ULK/ref=sr_1_56?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1351008476&sr=1-56&keywords=Charlie+Parker+Live

The Massey Hall concert was on May 15, and there are a couple of excellent quartet studio dates in the temporal vicinity for Norman Granz: the date which produced Chi Chi, Now's the Time and Confirmation was on July 28, and there was a December 30, 1952 date which produced Kim and Cosmic Rays.

Mick Taylor was scheduled to play here in Dallas a couple of years ago; the concert was cancelled for unspecified health reasons.

The small group tracks added on the CD reissue have some incredible Bird.

This morning, Yusef Lateef, Other Sounds (New Jazz mono). And, Gene Ammons, Jug (Prestige, yellow and black label, mono).