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I have been appreciating Smalls more and more my last few visits. In that regard, the Jeremy Pelt group (with J.D. Allen and Danny Grisset) on Feb. 2 and 3 looks good. Then on Feb. 20, also at Smalls, David Schnitter. I see some good stuff on the Fat Cat Schedule: Shimrit Shoshan at 7 on Feb. 5; George Braith on Feb. 7. And on Feb. 19, both Charles Persip and Freddie Redd.

This weekend, Henry Threadgill, discs 5 and 6.

Pee Wee Erwin--New York Dixieland (Jazztone) Miles Davis--Porgy and Bess (Columbia stereo, two eyes)

Art Tatum Encores (Capitol ten inch) Sam Jones--Soul Society (Riverside, Japanese Viktor)

Concentrate on the labels that made quality LPs and during their period of excellence. Buy the rest on CD.

Ordered it for 74 $, should receive it before Christmas. Still waiting for it Meanwhile digging this baby real good:cool: I'm really enjoying this one. Amazing. The question is, where to next--this Soundway compilation perhaps? Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WM8IAU/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A3I8R29Q3FV3P6

Junior Mance, Junior (Verve black label stereo deep groove)

Bill Mays-Marvin Stamm Quartet at UTD

I liked the California Concert expanded reissue also.

At the Embers is a Mosaic single reissue--I like it. http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1017

Paul Winter Sextet--New Jazz On Campus (Columbia mono two eyes) Milt Buckner Trio In Europe 1966 (Prestige, blue label, MPS reissue)

E.T. Mensah? No but I've put him on my list. Thanks.

I've heard that Ornette is not well. I meant Tacuma actually, as not showing any upcoming concerts or club dates on his website. Ornette sounded really good on November 18 of 2010, is all I can say, not weak or anything like that.

The one track from this session that was contemporaneously released by Candid (on an anthology) (Father and Son) is the best track.

I ordered one--I wonder if Ornette is on the whole recording, or just a track or two? He has no upcoming engagements listed on his website--depressing.

Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe and His Nigerian Soundmakers--Sound Time. Prior attempts to appreciate Nigerian music/highlife has failed for me; this fine anthology, recorded from 1970-85, ends that drought. It appears to be out of print though. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005AREW/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0MER1Q3PP0RY07ER7DV8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

Scrolling down, Monk is on the Tonight Show Friday night. An unnamed top jazz organist has trouble with the IRS for not paying over the withholding tax on his singer's pay. Pianist Singer Alice Darr fills out a bikini. Plus dancers with excellent legs.

A long time ago, I guess, but Hugh Masekela played in Fort Worth back in 1989, at the Caravan of Dreams. I remember it as one of the most exciting bands I ever heard there. It was so good I drove to Fort Worth two nights in a row--I don't know the names of any of the bandmembers--all were African, except for one of the two keyboardists was from Philadelphia. His records from around that period of time were a pale shadow compared to the band at the Caravan.

Art Blakey--A Jazz Message (Impulse, red and black) Wardell Gray Memorial Album (Prestige blue label two-fer)

Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk Vol. 1 (Contemporary stereo) Curtis Fuller--Soul Trombone (Impulse red and black)

A couple of new ones heard this week that I like: Carlo de Rosa's Cross Fade/Brain Dance. I especially like Mark Shim's tenor on this one, as well as Vijay Iyer on piano. http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Dance-Carlo-Rosas-Cross-Fade/dp/B004DK49WS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1295620408&sr=1-1 And trombonist Steve Davis' Live at Smalls, with Larry Willis, Mike Dirubbo, Gerald Cannon, and Willie Jones III, is a pretty nice live recording. Larry Willis is of course wonderful, but I quite like Dirubbo on alto, who I hadn't heard before. http://www.amazon.com/Live-Smalls-Steve-Davis-Quintet/dp/B003NKU9LY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295620318&sr=1-1

I am envious.

Plastic Dreams is after 1964, I think.

good to hear that mark shim is still at it. amazing player w/ a terrific sound. i thought i remember hearing that he was having a hard time a while back getting work. again, very nice to hear that he's at it! I thought Mark Shim sounded really good at this concert. This is also true of the excellent recording of this Carlo de Rosa led group on Cunieform. I had seen Mark Shim as a sideman a couple of other times over the last few years, with Onaje Allan Gumbs and Mike Clark, and was impressed both times.

I was in New York again last week and was able to visit Smalls two nights again. It was once again a very nice experience. Excellent music, fine sound, and a friendly atmosphere. I was able to hear Carlo de Rosa's group, with Vijay Iyer and Mark Shim; the next night first Woody Witt/Eric Wollman Project, then the Jean Michel Pilc Trio (Boris Koslov/Billy Hart). And I left with a couple more Smalls Live CDs (Ian Hendrickson Smith and Steve Davis).