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McCoy Tyner, Inception (Impulse, red and black stereo) Shirley Scott, Everybody Loves a Lover (Impulse, orange and black stereo)

A slow year for concerts, but I managed to hear a few good ones... Rez Abassi Trio--Cornelia Street Cafe Edmar Castaneda--Jazz Standard Chico Hamilton--Drom Magos Herrera--Terraza 7 Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society--Kessler Theater Lucky Peterson--Tuckers Blues (closed September 15) Mike Stern--55 Bar

In general, I've never been too thrilled with vintage Atlantic pressings. Unlike contemporaneous records by Contemporary, Blue Note, Prestige, RCA, and Columbia, which usually sound wonderful, Altantics just don't sound that great to me; and the quality of the pressing doesn't otherwise seem that high. I can't say that I have heard early Coltrane LPs, but I wouldn't pay such a price for an Atlantic LP.

Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Mosaic) Mal Waldron, Love Sweet Bitter (Impulse, orange and black mono)

More Sun Ra from Art Yard: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=vx84tq7m8t&ref=index.php Cosmo Earth Fantasy – Sub Underground Series Vols 1 & 2

Gildo Mahones, TheSoulful Piano (Prestige blue label)

Charlie Byrd Trio, Travelin' Light, Live at the Showplace (Columbia, 2 eyes)

Lobi Traore, In the Club, volume 1, Raw Electric Blues from Bamako (Kanaga System Krush)

I never understood why anyone would buy from them; their prices were high, and they didn't really have hard to find items.

Every time I get a new (Windows) computer at work, I have to figure out how to reverse the mouse buttons again.

Me also.

My favorite Ed Blackwell recordings are This is Our Music and Ornette!

Is it the Bobby Jones, Charles McPherson, Eddie Preston, Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond band? What label? What songs do they perform?

I think Mingus would have punched Erik Alexander in the face.

The next member of the Allen Lowe group? "Letizia is an ... old soul..." Lenny White. http://www.letiziagambi.com

I heard him live only once, at the Village Vanguard, with Don Cherry (plus Carlos Ward and a tuba player). From my seat, I could not really see him, as my view was obstructed by the pillar, but he sure sounded great.

John Coltrane Live in Seattle (Impulse, red and black) American Jazz Ensemble in Rome, with Bill Smith and Johnny Eaton (RCA Living Stereo) Eddie Canu, Deep in a Drum (RCA Living Stereo)

That's odd, I've found Import CDs to be excellent--often at or near the best price on amazon, and fast and reliable.

Jazz Melissa Aldana--Second Cycle (Inner Circle) Romain Collin--The Calling (Palmetto) Orrin Evans--Flip the Script (Positone) Ari Hoenig Punkbop--Live at Smalls (SmallsLive) Mark Gross--Backside (Jazz Legacy) Tom Harrell--Number 5 (High Note) Vijay Iyer--Accelerando (ACT) Manu Katche (ECM) Ludmila Stefanikova--Be Beautiful (Inner Circle) Lonnie Smith--The Healer Mike Stern--All Over the Place (Heads Up) Henry Threadgill--Tomorrow Sunny, the Revelry Spp (Pi) Mads Tolling Quartet--Live at Yoshi's (Madsman) Archival: Grant Green--The Holy Barbarian (Uptown) Freddie Hubbard--Gleam (Wounded Bird) Charles Mingus--Jazz Workshop Concerts (Mosaic) Wes Montgomery--Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance) Blues Michael Iron Man Burks--Show of Strength (Alligator) Lucky Peterson--Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin Archival: Magic Sam--Raw Blues Live 1969 Brazil Joyce--Rio (Far Out) Adriana Calcanhotto--Microbio Live African Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze--Amanke Dionti (Motema) Bai Janha and Karantamba--Ndigal (Teranga Beat) The Funkees--Dancing Time (Soundway) Guelewar--Acid Trip from Banjl to Dakar (Kindred Spirits) KonKoma (Soundway) Tunji Oyelana--A Nigerian Retrospective (Soundway) Edzayawa--Projection One (Soundway) Zani Diabate--Tientalaw (Sterns)

Benny Carter, Additions to Further Definitions (Impulse, red and black) Hugh Masekela, Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (Chisa)

Happy birthday to the Birthday Boy!

Shimrit Shoshan

Last night, I caught the very last song performed by Billy Drummond's Quartet, with Jaleel Shaw playing stronger than I've ever heard him play. Tonight, part of a set by the David Schnitter Quartet.

Grand Reunion, which is live at the Village Vanguard, plus with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge.

Lester Young--The President (Norgran). A very well loved copy that I hesitated to buy, but the wonderful sound mostly overshadows the surface noise. Ornette Coleman--The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, NY USA label, Liberty cover)