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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.

After the excellent Gerald Clayton Quartet performance, on to the Logan Richardson Quartet.

Tonight, the Gerald Clayton Quartet with Mark Turner.

I was lucky to see him live a few years ago in a trio; it was a very excellent set.

Yes, I heard one of the sets of David Berkman's group (with Tom Harrell); it was excellent. David Berkman was a new name to me. Tom Harrell I became a big fan of after seeing his quintet a couple of times at the Village Vanguard.

This week looks particularly good. Wednesday night at midnight (EST), Logan Richardson. And Friday night, Greg Hutchinson leads a group with both Stacy Dillard and Melissa Aldana on tenors.

Tonight, the David Schnitter Quartet.

Bill Evans and Jim Hall, Undercurrent (United Artists) Buddy Rich, Very Live at Buddy's Place (Groove Merchant)