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Flutistry is wonderful, in my opinion.

Lee Morgan, Cornbread (Blue Note mono, NY USA/Liberty cover) Metronome All Stars (Columbia House Party ten inch)

There's also the new TCB/Swiss Radio Days release of an April 8, 1960 Zurich concert by this group.

I was in college when all this started and was the music director of the school radio station so I was invited to all the opening events. I went to Skies of America concert with the Fort Worth Symphony and went to the opening night of the club with Ornette playing. It was funny to see the worlds colliding a bit. There were a few older guys with cowboys hats who would whoop it up and bang on the table every time Ornette honked a note. Ornette was very influential in the booking of the club for the first year or so. The big talent would come down there and play Thursday-Sunday and for the most part they would use local bands on Monday-Wednesday. I had a band that was in the regular rotation there from the time it opened until I graduated and left for New York in 1986. Since I spent a lot of time there, I got to know a lot about the goings on there. I saw almost all the bands mentioned above..... Jack Dejohnette's Special Edition, the Mingus Dynasty (with Johnny Coles and maybe Rickey Ford), Phil Woods (with Tom Harrell), the Art Ensemble of Chicago (they supposedly ran up a $10,000 food and drink bill, lots of champaign, that made the club reassess their food and drink policy in regards to the talent), McCoy Tyner, and James Blood Ulmer. Quest, Arthur Blythe (the tuba band), Cedar Walton, Paquito D'Rivera, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, Toshiko Akiyoshi (in a trio with Bob Moses), Dewey Redman (with Charnett Moffet), Woody Shaw (with Benny Green and Ronnie Burrage), Horace Silver (with Brian Lynch and Ralph Moore) and Vienna Art Orchestra (a special one night engagement if I recall correctly). I met of lot of these guys for the first time seeing them here. Yes, that was Ricky Ford with the Mingus Dynasty, plus Richard Davis on bass and Horace Parlan on piano, and Dannie Richmond. That place was great; I could just walk in and sit in the front row pretty often. I probably went there a couple of hundred times during its life. I should have gone more often.

Thelonious Monk, It's Monk's Time (Columbia mono two eyes)

Alice Coltrane, Universal Consciousness (Impuse, red and black)

I'll partcipate if I have a hard copy.

Ben Wolfe Quartet, with Orin Evans, Donald Edwards and Stacy Dillard.

I'll send a donation within the next few days.

Calgary 75

I would start with these trio recordings: Sky Piece, Night Bird Song, and Menagerie Dreams

John Coltrane, Om (Impulse, red and black)

Thanks. I'll be ordering that release.

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)