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I'm not sure exactly, but estimate about 5000 CDs, and perhaps 3000 LPs.

The Atco CD didn't do much for me. In addition to the essential Specialty recordings, there are a few additional worthwhile tracks on the Classics Guitar Slim CD.

California Here I Come. http://www.amazon.com/California-Here-I-Come/dp/B000W08J5G This is the correct link. http://www.amazon.com/California-Here-Come-Reis-Dig/dp/B0002LGWQ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293576571&sr=1-1

Sonny Rollins--What's New? (RCA Living Stereo)

Stan Kenton--A Presentation of Progressive Jazz (Capitol ten inch) Sonny Criss--Crisscraft (Muse) Pat Martino--We'll Be Together Again (Muse) George Lewis--Jazz in the Classic New Orleans Tradtition (Riverside, blue label) Sonny Stitt and Milt Jackson--Loose Walk (Palcoscenico)

The Solo Guitar of Bola Sete (Fantasy) Duke Ellington--Blue Light (Columbia six eyes) Paul Desmond--Take Ten (RCA black dog)

I've heard a copy of the 1959 performance. It's outstanding--a group and material derived from Mingus Ah Um/Mingus Dynasty. That is, Richard Williams, Leo Wright, Booker Ervin, Roland Hanna and Dannie Richmond.

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays Porgy and Bess (Atlantic, blue and green) The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd (Riverside, blue label) Von Freeman--Doin' It Right Now (Atlantic, red and green)

I believe that's the only recording of Mingus with Ernie Henry. That would make for a worthy Mosaic release, The Complete Mingus at Newport.

Bennie Moten--Count Basie in Kansas City (RCA Vintage series)

The Bobby Previte "noir" group is at the Blue Note next month. January 15, 2011 Blue Note Late Night [New York, NY] BOBBY PREVITE AND THE NEW BUMP I was lucky to hear the group there previously and it was rather good.

For something more recent in this style, I'd recommend Bobby Previte's Set the Alarm for Monday (with Bill Ware on vibes, Ellery Eskelin on tenor and Brad Jones on bass). On sale right here: http://www.bobbyprevite.com/shop.html

I'm interested.

That happens every once in a while--a welcome change from the parade of damaged LPs at HPB. I have a copy Brubeck's Jazz Impressions of Japan with a sealed inner sleeve and a sealed Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis Verve that I haven't opened yet--both found at HPB here in Dallas.

The two New York Jazz Collective releases on Naxos--I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry, and Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, are both good ones.

Photolink within the Observer article. http://forestphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2400849#126338190_w8Fmy

Link to Dallas Observer obituary, which refers to an unreleased Texas Tenors recording with Shelly Carroll. http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/10/marchel_ivery_was_scheduled_to.php

Jelly Roll Morton (Jazztone) Comparative Blues (Jazztone) Bernard Peiffer--The Pied Peiffer of Piano (Decca)

He's on a Paul Guerrero LP on Jazz Mark Records (an Arkansas label), Texas Tenors with James Clay. Recorded in 1985.

Now up to 48 black boxes and 18 Selects.

Slide Hampton Octet--Sanctified Soul (Atlantic) Classics in Jazz, Small Combos (Capitol ten inch) Maxine Sullivan and the John Kirby All Stars--Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm (Jazztone) Tony Parenti with Red Allen--Happy Jazz (Jazztone)

The three Leaning House CDs are the ones to get. All are good. The Timeless recording with David Newman mostly (to my ears) doesn't gel. There's not really that much of him on record, alas. I saw him quite a few times over a number of years (starting about 1974), but didn't really take advantage as much as I should have. A few favorite experiences: One of my first jazz concerts, with James Clay at the Recovery Room. Back around 1976 or so, alternating sets with Freddie Hubbard's band. At the Caravan of Dreams, for the second set Cornell Dupree came out and played guitar with Marchel's band. At a Theater in Fair Park, a double bill concert with Marchel's band and David Fathead Newman, concluding with the two tenors playing together. At the Caravan of Dreams, a couple of cameo appearances--sitting in with Art Blakey for the last song of his engagement--and another time, sitting in for a song with McCoy Tyner. On the SMU campus, after a lackluster Wynton Marsalis small group concert, I'll give credit to Wynton for bringing Marchel up to the stage for the last song and injecting some fire into the otherwise dull evening. And at the shortlived Jazz Connection, with Joey DeFrancesco.

A short Mingus concert (from 1973) arrives on Wolfgang's Vault: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/charles-mingus/concerts/apollo-theatre-july-03-1973.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101217

"When new, these sets cost an average of $25-$30 per LP times the number of LPs in the box set [i.e., a 4 LP set was $100-120, etc]" That statement is not true. The early Mosaic sets were priced at something like $10 per LP.

Carl Kress--Guitar Stylings (Capitol ten inch) Count Basie--Hall of Fame (Verve trumpet)