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John Coltrane--Crescent (Impulse red and black) McCoy Tyner Live at Newport (Impulse, red and black)

I saw him at the Village Vanguard, 1992, in a quartet with Ed Blackwell and Carlos Ward.

I received my pre-ordered copy of the Eternal Myth box set in the mail yesterday. It looks like alot to absorb.

That's a nice on KH. One that's easy to overlook. Not on cd to my knowledge. I just found a more or less near mint copy of this--Hawkins, Knepper, Red Rodney, Pee Wee Russell, Al Cohn, Oscar Pettiford, Roy Haynes, etc., from around 1957-58, I think--eminently likable!

At the Kessler Theater: Marc Ribot--December 1 Bill Frisell--January 14

Tony Scott--52nd Street Scene (Coral)

Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt and Jack McDuff--Soul Summit (Prestige, blue label)

I have the double LP blue label set as well, similarly out of order. Excellent music.

Okay. Sonny Rollins, Newk's Time. Jimmy Smith, House Party A Message From Blakey, Holiday for Skins, vol. 1 and vol. 2 Donald Byrd, Off to the Races Bud Powell, the Scene Changes Bennie Green, Walkin' and Talkin' Lou Donaldson, With the Three Sounds Donald Byrd--Byrd in Hand The Three Sounds--Good Deal Jackie McLean, Swing, Swang, Swingin' Lou Donaldson--The Time is Right Hank Mobley--Soul Station Lee Morgan--Leeway Lou Donaldson--Sonny Side Up Jackie McLean--Capuchin Swing Donald Byrd--Byrd in Flight Jackie McLean--Jackie's Bag Lou Donaldson--Light Foot Freddie Hubbard--Goin' Up Kenny Dorham--Whistle Stop Grant Green--Grant's First Stand Grant Green--Green Street Andrew Hill--Andrew Lee Morgan--The Gigolo Wayne Shorter--Adam's Apple DelightfulLeeMorgan Bobby Hutcherson--Stick Up Jack Wilson--Somethin' Personal. Whew.

I counted 29 titles in the 4000 series first issued in Stereo as Liberties. Also 23 first released in stereo in Japan. Link to book for sale: http://jazzrecordcenter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_9&products_id=2277&zenid=7b17055e252d044fd3e5dfd9f1b39f87

Fred Cohen's Blue Note Pressings guide says that the first stereo issue of Leeway was a Liberty pressing. There's brief chapter with Rudy Van Gelder's comments regarding mono-stereo recording. All recordings in mono up to May 8, 1957. From May 9, 1957 to October 30, 1958, he recorded in both mono and two track tape at the same time. Mono taping was dropped after October 30, 1958. He notes that the studio in Hackensack had only a single monitor.

He certainly was. He brought four different editions of the Decoding Society into the Caravan of Dreams in the mid-1980s, and I was fortunate to hear 15 or 16 sets of these groups. And in all those sets, he only played one drum solo!

Last night, Lucky Peterson at Tuckers. He did not bring his organ, playing mostly piano, with occasional guitar. Too much singing from his wife tonight, but his trio is good, and Lucky's playing was incredible as usual.

The Genius of Art Tatum No. 4 and No. 5 (Verve Trumpet)

The Jazz Soul of Cleopatra :(New Jazz) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, NY USA and W. 63rd labels)

What nonsense; I have a large collection of Prestige LPs, and the blue label ones invariably sound wonderful.

I have no opinion, as I've never listened to him. Kevin Hayes was selling this CD at the Kitano, but I opted for a trio recording. did you get his Live At Smalls recording? if so, i'd say money very well spent. totally awesome recording... I already had Live at Smalls (it's the reason I went to this concert). I picked up one called What Survives.

I have no opinion, as I've never listened to him. Kevin Hayes was selling this CD at the Kitano, but I opted for a trio recording.

I think I would skip that one.

He's good; I saw him (Kevin Hays) in a trio at the Kitano last Friday. That sure is a nice little club. A recording was being made.

Last Thursday night, Rob Garcia 4 (Noah Preminger, John Hebert and Dan Tepfer) at the Cornela Street Cafe. Friday night, first the Kevin Hays Trio at the Kitano for two sets, then the Steve Kuhn Trio (Buster Williams and Billy Drummond) at the Jazz Standard for their final set of the night. Saturday, the terrible weather disrupted my plans, so I opted for the relatively close by Jazz Standard again for another set of Steve Kuhn. Finally, later I went to the Zinc Bar to hear a Brazilian vocalist named Mirianni. She was just okay, but her band was terrific. And the highlight proved to be a guest artist for the second set, a young woman who was fantastic on violin--Frederika Krier.

Tuesday night: I was going to see Kenny Barron at the Vanguard, but the first set was sold out, so Plan B was to see Leni Stern at the 55 Bar. I've never listened to her before, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Her band was fabulous, with an incredible bass guitarist from Senegal, and five African percussionists (well, one of them was from New Jersey). I enjoyed her guitar playing very much, the blending of jazz and African music, and her occasional vocals were fine as well. Both sets were stellar. Wednesday night: I traveled to the 92Y Tribeca for a double bill (broadcast on a New Jersey public radio station). Aaron Parks was up first, in a quartet featuring a synthesizer player, bass and drums. This was their first public performance as a grouup, and the band seemed to get stronger as the set progressed. I did have some reservations about the blend of the sound of piano and synthesizer (it was kind of brittle and hard on my ears), but by the last two songs, I was liking the band pretty well, more like what I was expecting based on Aaron Park's Invisible Cinema CD. Next up was the the Derrick Hodge group, a quartet featuring Jamire Williams on drums, Dante Winslow on trumpet, and Chris (?) (introduced as a Thelonious Monk award winner) on keyboards. I didn't have any reservations about this group, they were terrific the entire set. The trumpeter was fiery and impressive, the drummer (recently with Lonnie Smith and as a leader of his own groupn Erimaje) very strong, and the leader an outstanding bass guitarist. I really enjoyed this set.

I continued my lucky Blue Note streak by finding a copy of Ornettte Coleman At the Golden Circle Volume 2 (NY USA).

A couple of recent favorites from Soundway: Black Goddess--a very enjoyable film soundtrack from the 1970s, not rock or funk oriented, but rather African jazz. Terrific saxophone playing on this one. "Soundway Records are proud to present the original soundtrack to Ola Balogun's legendary movie ‘Black Goddess’ from 1978. The film was written and directed by Balogun (recognized as one of Nigeria's most renowned directors) but shot and cast in Brazil. The soundtrack, Soundway’s deepest venture into experimental afro-jazz, was composed and produced by one of Nigeria's most successful and original musicians Remi Kabaka (who has played with Steve Winwood, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Ginger Baker amongst others). The record was originally issued in both Nigeria and Brazil, but recorded in Lagos, using four of the Nigerian music scene's most innovative players: Remi Kabaka himself, alongside Biddy Wright, saxophonist Dele Okonkwo and Mono Mono frontman Joni Haastrup. The resulting soundtrack created by these prestigious musicians is a truly unique and experimental afro-jazz recording that has been out of print for many years, until now." Of the three recent MonoMono related releases--Give the Beggar a Chance is an excellent afro-rock recording. This is the one to get of the three reissues. Their second album, The Dawn of Awareness, is also pretty good. I would recommend skipping, Joni Haastrup's Wake Up Your Mind.

Hazel Scott's Late Show (Capitol ten inch) Ornette Coleman at the Golden Circle, volume 2 (Blue Note, NY USA)