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Billy Butler--Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Prestige, purple label) Art Blakey--The Witch Doctor (Blue Note, Liberty blue and white)

The Kid Ory Sunshine Orchestra instrumentals, the two tracks by Willie Hightower, and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra tracks are the ones that leapt out and grabbed me on first listen and said, listen again.

Ordered on Wednesday and already received today.

It doesn't look like it from her website schedule: SEPTEMBER 3 Hot Springs, AR Blues Festival 4 Dallas, TX Pearl at Commerce 5 Medicine Park, OK Mayor's Blues Ball

It's on the Pearl at Commerce schedule on their website. It just showed up.

I expect I will be there, given the paucity of touring jazz concerts in these parts. Here's a new listing: Janiva Magness--September 4 at Pearl on Commerce.

If they were playing their own music, I would attend--the Music of Stevie Wonder, I'm on the fence.

Robert Cray and Buddy Guy at Winstar Casino, Oklahoma. It was a very pleasant surprise that the sound was excellent--clear and well-balanced and not excessively loud. Robert Cray opened and played a 45 minute set--I hadn't seen him live before--I enjoyed his set quite a bit. Buddy Guy played second and was feeling pretty good this night--I would have liked to hear more than two songs from his new album, but still, it was the best concert I've seen from him in a number of years, certainly the best sound by far (compared to the atrocious House of Blues where he has recently played in Dallas).

November 13, 2010: Buika and Lila Downs--AT&T Performing Arts Center. March 26, 2011: San Francisco Jazz Collective Plays the Music of Stevie Wonder--AT&T Performing Arts Center. Also, SF Jazz Collecitive on March 24 at Bass Hall in Austin. Avishai Cohen, trumpet Matt Penman, bass Robin Eubanks, trombone Edward Simon, piano Eric Harland, drums Mark Turner, tenor saxophone Stefon Harris, vibraphone Miguel Zenón, alto saxophone

Bobby Timmons--The Soul Man (Prestige, blue label)

Are you confusing the mediocre pianist Lonnie Liston Smith with the great organ player and still in his prime, Dr. Lonnie Smith?

It's a good one.

The Bremen concert has now showed up at jazzloft, and I'm really wondering about the sound. The blurb claims "digial remastering." I would be skeptcal but most of the Miles Davis German Concerts on the same label (Jazz Lips) sounds good.

I only have Grantstand (blue and white Liberty), Idle Moments (blue Liberty), and Live at the Lighthouse (blue and white Liberty), the last of which I found recently in pristine condition.

I have a warped Rainbow version. Close enough?

Louis Bellson--Skin Deep (Norgran, yellow trumpet label)--with the unexpected bonus of solo work by Wardell Gray. Cliff Jackson/Dick Wellstood--Uptown and Lowdown (Prestige Swingville)

I couldn't figure out how to pre-order the set on the Archeophone site, but it is available for pre-order on amazon.com.

Kenny Burrell--A Night in the Vanguard (Argo). The "you are there" sound on this LP is incredible. The Touch of Tony Scott (RCA black dog)

Thanks for explaining that, I too have the cd "Mingus in Europe" and always wondered why it wasn't called Volume 2, it has this cover right? Yes, that's the cover--the same as the LP (volume 2, that is).

Bobby Previte's website has a number of interesting looking downloads: http://bobbyprevite.bandcamp.com/

I only recall seeing Jackpot once, and I snapped it up.

Both Enja volumes (the Wuppertal Townhall concert) are currently available, though for some reason only volume 2 is reasonably priced through amazon.com The reissue is a bit confusing because the CD I have was reissued in 1988 as Mingus in Europe, but it is actually Volume 2 of the LP set. Now it appears that both volumes are available with the same volume numbers as the original LP release.

Chico Hamilton Trio (Pacific Jazz)

The Salle Wagram concert was previously available from France's Concert, and was reissued by Sue Mingus on Revenge. The sound is acceptable mono, perhaps not quite as good as on the Theatre des Champs Elysses concert. Bremen appears to have been issued on in part on Ingo and Unique Jazz LPs. Haven't heard this one. Amsterdam was issued on LP and CD by Ulysse (not a bootleg as I recall but authorized by Sue Mingus). The sound as I recall again is a decently balanced mono recording; but not quite as good as the Theatre des Champs Elysses concert.

David Murray Octet--Home (Black Saint)