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The Freddie Roach Soul Book (Prestige, blue label mono) Wes Montgomery, So Much Guitar (Riverside, black label stereo)

I have joined and in a couple of weeks should be visiting Smalls in person again. Currently listening to Melissa Aldana, August 8, 2012.

Eric Dolphy, Here and There (Prestige mono, blue label) Donald Byrd, I'm Trying to Get Home (Blue Note stereo, NY USA)

I've seen him with Tom Harrell and with Jack Walrath. I like his playing also.

So this is not a needle drop type of reissue?

Benny Morton and Jimmy Hamilton Swingtets (Mosaic) Raymond Scott, One Night Stand 1940 (Joyce)

Last night, closing night at Tucker's Blues in Deep Ellum, featuring the Lucky Peterson trio and various vocalists, before a packed house. Too bad, a rare venue in Dallas which had good sound, wasn't overloud, and was all about music comes to an end.

Pete Johnson/Earl Hines/Teddi Bunn Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic)

I like his Live at Smalls CD, and I saw one of the sets broadcast on Tuesday.

The impending new Mosaic Mingus set is the most exciting for me. And the continuation of the Black Saint/Soul Note box set series is also of significant interest.

Yes. That's the Terrance Blanchard/musical director edition of the Messengers--two live albums. Representative of the only edition of the Messengers that I heard live.

It's a live trio recording, with Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and Jamire Williams on drums. Three tracks from a 2011 concert in Hungary and three tracks recorded at Jazz Standard in January 2012. It is very good. It's been available on amazon.com since mid-August. The label is Lonnie Smith's own.

I heard Oregon a couple of times at the Caravan of Dreams in the last 1980s; they are an excellent group. Ralph Towner also played a solo concert at the Caravan. He was my favorite in that group, but Paul McCandless and Glenn Moore are pretty nice players as well.

Don Cherry, Complete Communion (Blue Note, New York USA)

The five you list are all great choices, but given your expressed personal tastes, I would recommend the Dizzy set.

Yes, an iPod and a car with a good stereo is rather fun.

Isn't that Mr. Monday Michiru on trumpet?

It seems simple to me; he stepped off the edge and fell down onto the tracks, and some people reached down helped him and dragged him off the tracks and back onto the platform, before the train got there. If the train got there first, there's no room (just look at the picture); he would be crushed.

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.