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Kenny Dorham--Matador, with Jackie McLean, Bobby Timmons, Teddy Smith, J.C. Moses

I found an apparently unplayed two eyes pressing recently, the sound is wonderful. It is marked with an S.

The Celebration by Charnett Moffett (CD, Treasure on Motema)

J.J. Johnson--Proof Positive (Impulse, orange and black)

Gene Ammons--The Big Sound (Prestige, yellow and black NJ)

Michael Burks at Pearl. A modest crowd at the best music venue in town--I quite enjoyed the previously unfamiliar to me blues guitarist leading a tight quartet (organ, bass and drums). Also featuring the usual show of women in scanty outfits and superhigh heels tottering by to go to the dance club down the block.

Andew Hill--Compulsion (Blue Note NY USA, no ear) Kenny Dorham--Una Mas (Blue Note, black and blue Liberty) Phineas Newborn--Here is Phineas (Atlantic, fanwheel).

It is exciting news--a Thursday night, 200 miles away, but I'm not missing it.

I would have liked to have heard the concert, but of course there was no publicity in Dallas.

Pearl at Commerce pretty much only has National Touring acts on Friday and Saturday nights--I think it's closed on Sunday. Tonight--Michael Burks.

November 18--Ornette Colemen, Bass Hall in Austin There are only two U.S. concerts currently listed on Ornette's website for 2010.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/music/stories/DN-sharriff_18ent.ART0.State.Edition2.297b21a.html Pianist helps Marshall, Texas, validate claim as boogie's birthplace 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, June 18, 2010 By LEE HANCOCK / The Dallas Morning News lhancock@dallasnews.com MARSHALL, Texas – Omar Sharriff thought boogie-woogie piano was his one-way ticket out of town. When he left Marshall in 1955, he never looked back, even as his life narrowed from big shows to a dingy Sacramento, Calif., apartment, meals-on-wheels and gigs that barely covered cab fare. Then came a phone call from a Texas music historian, who said he'd prove that Sharriff's hometown gave birth to boogie-woogie piano. The historian knew that Sharriff's father played boogie in East Texas and might have learned it from the genre's originators. That made 72-year-old Sharriff Marshall's last, best living link. Sharriff thought someone was playing a joke, even after the part-time historian, a San Antonio psychiatrist named John Tennison, asked to visit him in California. Sharriff had hated Marshall ever since he saw another black teenager get beaten up by rednecks on the courthouse lawn while white cops stood by. Sharriff left as soon as he could, certain that staying meant prison or an early grave....

www.jazzwax.com has an interesting new piece on Joe Maini, written by his daughter. She says his death was a tragic gun accident, not suicide or Russian roulette.

Stanley Turrentine--Up at Minton's, volume 2 (Blue Note, NY USA, no ear)

Joe Henderson--Our Thing (Blue Note, NY USA but no ear)

I resolved this afternoon to buy no more CDs for a while--but... Beyond the Purple Star Zone/Oblique Parallax has now been reissued by Art Yard.

Also, if you look at your profile, you will see that your "active posts" total exceeds the total shown with your post.

Charnett Moffett--Treasure Mary Lou Williams--Black Christ of the Andes

Charlie Parker--The Fabulous Bird (Jazztone) (Dial recordings). Mary Lou Williams--A Keyboard History (Jazztone)

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves--Salt and Pepper (Impulse, red and black)

Three new releases (June 22) pre-ordered: Jason Moran--Ten Terje Rypdal--Crime Scene Manu Katche--Third Round

Benny Carter--Further Definitions (Impulse, red and black stereo).

Milt Jackson Quartet (Prestige, W. 50th) The Compositions of Miles Davis (Riverside mono)

18 Classics R&B titles for $5 each! That's a great score.

I saw him play once with Dizzy's band as a stand-in for Dizzy--he proceeded to tell exactly the same jokes as Dizzy (who told the same jokes over and over again--"In the audience, the former heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Frazier, stand up Joe--Oh, sorry lady"--"Let me introduce the band," whereupon the band introduces themselves to one another, etc.).