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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."

I really like the Birdland broadcast that opens this disc.

Me too, both are worth acquiring.

I've heard Mike DiRubbo and Logan Richardson live and liked both of them. The alto player I heard about a month ago that I really liked was Mark Gross.

Last night, Lenny McBrowne and the 4 Bold Souls (Pacific Jazz, black label)

After a five week absence, the Lucky and Tamara Peterson blues band returns to Tuckers Blues in Deep Ellum for one night--and eager anticipation is my expectation, not to be disappointed as usual. The bassist and drummer are two of the regulars, but there is a keyboard player this time--Lucky does not bring his own organ/piano setup, and spends most of the evening strictly on guitar. An outstanding first set follows--a little jazz at the beginning with Lucky playing a hollow bodied guitar on Mr. Magic. Lots of blues tonight. Lucky uses no pedals/effects--and a small Marshall amp, The second set has many guests, three different vocalists and two guitarists--Arthur Jr. Boy Jones and Chris Peterson--both are pretty good. The latter was Lucky's visiting brother. The final set, while brief, is the terrific, an instrumental followed by a fantastic vocal featuring Tamara with incredible guitar playing. Happily, there was a pretty good sized crowd tonight.

Gerry Mulligan/Paul Demond (Fantasy red vinyl)

Tonight, Lucky Peterson at Tuckers Blues. Scat Jazz Lounge, Fort Worth: August 4: Evan Weiss August 5: Shelly Carroll At the University of Texas at Dallas: Butch Miles: November 18. Wycliffe Gordon: April 27, 2012.

Sonny Stitt at the DJ Lounge (Argo, white label promo)

Sheet of Sound.