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Chico Hamilton--Passin' Through (Impulse, red and black)

There's also Lee Morgan's The Procrastinator, which has Wayne, Herbie and Ron Carter, but substitutes Billy Higgins on drums.

cdbaby looks the same as ever to me.

I was familiar with Eric Person and Cary Dinegris because, prior to playing with Chico Hamilton for many years, they were both members of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, and I had seen them at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth. Both are on Shannon Jackson's When Colours Play and Texas. The former live recording was one of the best engagements I heard there, but the club's engineers only performed adequately and didn't quite capture it.

Yes, it was definitely one of their jazz festivals, What is Jazz? perhaps.

I saw him once, at the Knitting Factory in 1999. He was playing drums just as well as ever, and the group featured Eric Person on alto and Cary DeNegris on guitar-- I heard two excellent sets. As I recall, there was a very small crowd present, and it was in the Old Office, a small venue in the Knitting Factory. During the break, I wandered over the main space, which featured Cyrus Chestnut and was packed. Talk about world gone mad.

Here is the DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Montreal-Sonny-Quintet-Rollins/dp/B001QEJR44

So I found a DVD for a few bucks recently, Sonny Rollins Quintet, Live in Montreal 1982. The group has two guitarists, Bobby Broom and Masuo, with Bob Cranshaw on bass guitar and jack DeJohnette on drums. It's rather good, with Sonny in fine fettle, and I like the group as well. It says June of 1982. Appears to be an E.U. bootleg type of DVD.

Teddy Wilson--Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin (Columbia mono, six eyes)

Russian Jazz Quartet--Happiness (Impulse, Canadian Sparton) Lonnie Johnson--Idle Hours (Prestige Bluesville, blue label)

San Antonio, September 16, Instituto Cultural de México Magos Herrera y su Trío en concierto Alex Kautz, Joseph Sanders, Aaron Goldberg

The third link in Post No. 17 is a link to the indictment.

At the Village Vanguard is not a good one, it's post-stroke. Mayan Temples is the one to get first from that era--well performed and recorded, and including just about every aspect of his playing.

I completely agree--his appearances at the Caravan of Dreams in 1985 and 1986 were spectacular. They had a pretty nice piano there and it was very audible in the mix--that was amazing to hear his extensive piano features in the eight sets that I saw. And that was John Gilmore on tenor. On the last night they were there, I think it was, Gilmore must have been having teeth (?) problems or something, because most of the evening he was just playing his drum, not playing tenor--finally he picked up the tenor to solo--I was floored, he erupted with a solo on par with Dancing Shadows/Thoughts Under a Blue Light--that was the strongest tenor solo I've ever heard in person. After the last weekend, the band member who sold me their records said they were going to perform in San Antonio on Monday--I surely wanted to follow the band there but stupidly went to work instead, missing my last chance to hear Sun Ra.

His most recent release, Twelve Tones of Love, is excellent.

Sorry, I heard it on the Phil Schaap radio show.

Before you heard Bird and switched to tenor.

Lower left, kneeling?

Is the someone who's watching over you taking on any new clients? I'd like them to watch over me. Yes, but I'm willing to share my LP/CD guardian angel, after she finds me the Lennie Tristano and Chico Hamilton sets.

Count Basie--Basie Jazz (Clef)

The Friday Times still has a fairly complete listing of jazz club appearances/concerts in the week ahead.

Within a couple of weeks, I found two used out of print Mosaic boxes (in excellent condition) at good prices: George Shearing, Complete Capitol Live (5 CDs) ($45), and Buck Clayton, Complete CBS Jam Sessions (6 CDs) ($80).

Previous Regina Carter bashing/anti-bashing thread.

Coleman Hawkins--Accent on the Tenor Sax (Urania) Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Verve)

Yes, the Body Meta booklet describes Chappaqua Suite as "unauthorized; unused soundtrack."