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I like the Paul Gonsalves/Tubby Hayes--but more solos from Tubby Hayes would have been nice. The Johnny Scott Orchestra was a real fast forward.

Tonight I was listening for the first time to the new Jane Ira Bloom release on Outline, Wingwalker (with Dawn Clements, Mark Helias, and Bobby Previte), and in addition to quite liking the music, I noticed how beautifully it is recorded, especially her soprano. Very nice.

True the Aaron Parks is a 2008 release, but that's pretty new in these parts.

How's your pressing? Every one I've come across has been noisier than hell... I just found this at HPB, it's a DJ copy--I was very pleasantly surprised by how good the LP sounded, not that much surface noise at all. Wonderfully vivid sound actually (causing me to crank it up pretty loud). I don't think whatever DJ got this copy ever played it.

Jean-Michel Pilc--Essential (Motema)--Nice solo piano recording. Matana Roberts--Coin, Coin and Live in London. I liked both of these. I am really hoping to have to opportunity to see Matana Roberts live. I was able to hear it on NPR's First Listen and it was pretty good. NPR, actually, did a decent job of presenting it, 'cause I also heard a track from it on NPR radio a few weeks back. Really went well with driving now that I think about it. I love finding "driving" albums. Don't know about the driving part as I only drive a motorcycle and don't listen to music while driving, but this is a great new release in my opinion. Very well recorded also. I read a recommendation here and gave this one a shot. Pretty decent. The Aaron Parks CD was one of my yourmusic closing sale purchases, and I was pleasantly surprised by it.

Teddy Wilson in Europe: 1968 (Prestige, blue label) Gil Evans (Ampex)

Sal Nistico, Comin' On Up (Riverside stereo, black label) Americans in Europe Volume 2 (Impulse, red and black)

Barney Kessell--Let's Cook (Contemporary, green and gold label) Little Brother Montgomery--Tasty Blues (Prestige, blue label)

Love on the Sudan, recorded June 27, 29 and 30, 1977 in New York City. With Everett Hollins (trumpet), Mickey Tucker, Gregg Maker (bass), Malcolm Pinson (drums). Produced by Yoshio Ozawa.

John Coltrane--Kule Se Mama (Impulse, red and black) Jimmy Yancey--Blues and Boogie (X RCA ten inch)

I bought Love on the Sudan from Dustygroove about a month ago, and it is silverbacked, if that proves anything.

A really nice copy I picked up at the Jazz Record Center a couple of weeks ago. In general, their prices seemed to have gone up, but this one (1960s pressing, I think) was only $15, and it sounds amazing.

Hampton Hawes--All Night Session Two (Contemporary stereo, green and gold)

A few additional recommendations: Album of the Year (Timeless) Blue Night (Timeless) In My Prime I New Year's Eve At Sweet Basil In This Korner

My favorite Blakey groups from the late 1970s on have Bobby Watson as the musical director. Next best is the period with Terrance Blanchard as the musical director. Without one of those two on the record, I usually skip it. This recent issue has two versions of the Messengers with Watson, and the Blanchard edition. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Blakey-Jazz-Messengers-Sesjun/dp/B004GGO48I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310407995&sr=8-1

Whenever I have looked recently, I noticed that Iridium is having less and less jazz on their schedule.

Bobby Timmons--Little Barefoot Soul (Prestige, blue label) Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Johnny Griffin--The Midnight Show (Prestige, blue label)

Orrin Evans--Freedom (Posi-Tone)--Strong mostly trio recording--dedicated to Trudy Pitts, Charles Fambrough and Sid Simmons. Melissa Aldana--Free Fall (Inner Circle)--Fine debut recording by this young tenor saxophonist from Chile. Larry Coryell--Wide Hive Players--an excellent meeting of Coryell and the Wide Hive Players. William Hooker/Thomas Chapin--Crossing Points (NoBusiness)--Intense duo performance from 1992.

The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse, red and black)

Oliver Nelson with Lem Winchester--Nocturne (Prestige, Moodsville)

Horace Silver --The Jody Grind (Blue Note, Liberty blue and white)

This morning, I listened to his other new CD on Posi Tone, Freedom, which is mostly a trio recording, featuring many of the songs he played last week at Smalls (with a super quintet). Freedom is quite good.

I missed that thread somehow.

Worlds Records also shows this Uptown release: GIGI GRYCE DOIN' THE GIGI Description Alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce's last ensemble was an outstanding sextet called the "Orchtette" that featured trumpeter Richard Williams, vibraphonist Eddie Costa and pianist Richard Wyands. Active during 1960-61, the band has only been documented up to now on five tracks of of an LP for the Mercury label. This new Uptown CD provides further fascinating examples of the "Orch-tette" recorded in performance at Birdland and in two studio sessions from which nothing was ever released. Within a year, he had left the jazz world never to be seen again. These recordings not only provide high quality music in the hard-bop genre but also serve as important and revealing additions to Gryce's legacy.

He wasn't there on Sunday, the drummer was Willie Jones.