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Clifford Brown Memorial Album (Blue Note, Lexington)--Battered Blue Note LPs have been falling my way lately--lots of surface noise but essentially still wonderful sounding.

I rather like the Trio of Doom.

Jimmy Smith--A New Sound, A New Star, volume 1 (Blue Note NY USA)--price of $4.98 written in pencil, 5/62.

I would buy the Terje Rypdal and Manu Katche and probably will.

I've made this recommendation before, but the two Venus Moffett Family Jazz Band recordings are dynamite (especially The Magic of Love). Led by Charles Moffett, with his four sons on bass (Charnett), second drums (Cody), trumpet (Mondre) and tenor (Charles Jr.), and an honorary Moffett on piano, they were a very tight and electric group that I was lucky enough to see several times at the Caravan of Dreams in the late 1980s. It's a shame that the two horn playing sons don't seem to have pursued a career in music, as they both had distinctive and compelling styles.

I have moved on from Eric Alexander; I've seen him live several times and didn't care for his playing; once as a leader at the Village Vanguard--I left after one set, the only worthwhile aspect of the concert being Harold Mabern on piano; another time at a Coleman Hawkins Tribute concert at the Blue Note, where there were four saxophonists on stage at various times--here's my order of preference: 1. Dewey Redman; 2. Lew Tabackin; 3. Joe Lovano; 4. Eric Alexander--Dewey and Lew v. Eric, now there was a wide gulf. Finally, a few months ago with Pat Martino--a trio would have been really nice. If I see his name on a concert or recording, I'm heading the opposite direction from now on.

Are there actually people who care what the number is on their Mosaic set?

Miles Davis in Europe (Columbia stereo, two eyes) Jo Stafford, Jo + Jazz (Columbia mono, six eyes)

Eddie "Devil Boy" Turner Trio, at Pearl on Commerce. A fantastic performance.

Guitar Shorty--Pearl on Commerce.

The Chico Hamilton Special (Columbia stereo, six eyes) Chico Hamilton--Irma la Douce/Bye-bye Birdie (Columbia stereo, six eyes)

I recall finding only three original Blues Notes in those random cutout collections that used to be sold at the likes of Woolco--Big John Patton's Got a Good Thing Goin' (NY USA), Duke Pearson's Wahoo (NY USA), and Hank Mobley's The Flip (Liberty). Then there was a place in Austin where I found quite a few of those rainbow series Lps as cut-outs.

Blue Notes are hard to find in these parts--recently I did find a pretty nice copy of Lou Donaldson's Gravy Train and a somewhat trashed but still okay copy of Horace Silver's The Toyko Blues, both NY USA's and reasonably priced. But it could be months before I run across another one locally. Prestiges turn up a bit more often, but not really that often.

Most of Mingus' records are my favorites, but I think I've listened to these three the most: 1. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid)--the quartet record recordings with Eric Dolphy and Ted Curson. 2. The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (America)--my favorite release from the incredible 1964 European tour. 3. Changes One/Two (Atlantic)--the last great Mingus band with George Adams and Don Pullen.

Willis Jackson, Legends of Acid Jazz--$3.49 Red Holloway, Legends of Acid Jazz--$1.99

I have 14 of the Prestige LPs and didn't realize I was missing so many.

Potts? I thought his first recorded appearances were with Alan Silva and Francois Tusques in Paris c. 1970. ← I would refer you to Hamilton's 1968 LP, Solid State SS 18043 - The Gamut, which features "Stephen Potts" on alto, along with Jan Arnett (of Booker Ervin "fame") on bass. Not in anyway reflective of Potts' work of years to come, but there he is! Steve Potts is on another Chico Hamilton LP on Solid State, The Head Hunter, with Ray Nance (!) and Eric Gales on guitar (I think, it's Eric Gayle on the recording), a fine record indeed.

Terry Gibbs--Mallets-A-Plenty (emarcy) Archie Shepp--Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime (Impulse, red and black)

Eddie Davis Trio Plus Joe Newman (Roulette mono)

Palmetto news: In the next few months, we will release a new recording by Dr. Lonnie Smith entitled SPIRAL. Recorded at Maggie's Farm with the Doctor's touring trio of Jonathan Kreisberg (g) and Jaimre Williams (d) and produced by Matt Balitsaris, this one continues the voyage into Doc's world.....this one due in May...

Art Farmer and Benny Golson--Meet the Jazztet (Argo stereo). With an Argo catalog list insert.

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A few used CDs at HPBs today-- Henry Red Allen--World on a String (RCA) Gil Melle--Mindscape (Blue Note) Paulinho Da Costa--Agora (OJC) Roy Eldridge--Live at the Three Deuces Club (Archives of Jazz) And yesterday in the mail, McCoy Tyner, Today and Tomorrow (Impulse) Phineas Newborn, A World of Piano (OJC).

Chico Hamilton--The Dealer (Impulse mono)

That is a good one.