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They have two sets a night most of the time now.

He sounds like a good player to me, if not as good as his father. I saw him four of five years ago, with Geri Allen, Andrew Cyrille and Richard Davis. The music was enjoyable and he held his own in this fine company.

I have the very same question.

Miles Davis at the Blackhawk, volume 2 (Columbia, six eyes)

Perhaps you need a copy of the Ashley Kahn Impulse book--it has a complete list of all Impulse releases.

The Intimate Ellington (Pablo) The Lionel Hampton Quintet (Clef trumpet label)

Yes, I have that one.

He's someone I was initially kind of lukewarm about, but when I saw him a couple of months ago, it seemed as if he's developed to the point where he's rather good now.

When I was in New York a couple of months ago, Fred Cohen of the Jazz Record Center showed me the proofs of a book he has written that is in the galley stages at the publisher right now (though he was uncertain when it would actually be published)--a definitive guide to collecting Blue Note LPs. Interesting. I never saw that page before, and I'm not prepared to question the accuracy of any of the info, but what struck me as odd was the guy's excessive use of all caps and exclamation points. Not exactly a scholarly approach. The author was posting here for a time.

This is a useful guide here: http://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/twelve-tips-to-collecting-blue-note/#more-1987

Bobby Timmons and Johnny Lytle--Workin' Out (Prestige blue label)

UNT Jazz Lecture Series 2010 and McDavid Studio guest artist series The UNT Jazz Lecture Series, also known as MUJS 3470, has brought distinguished jazz artists to campus since it was begin in 1982 by Neil Slater. Here's a list of all the guest artists. In 2009, through the entrepreneurial efforts of Craig Marshall, we added a concert series at McDavid Studio in Ft. Worth. Here's the press release from Performing Arts Fort Worth that describes each of this year's artists: McDavid Studio hosts second University of North Texas Jazz Artist series FORT WORTH — For the second year in a row, Performing Arts Fort Worth presents the University of North Texas Jazz Artist Series at McDavid Studio. The series kicks off Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at McDavid Studio. Tickets are $20 for each show and are on sale now. A number of $5 student tickets are also available for a limited time. The inaugural University of North Texas Jazz Artist Series at McDavid Studio was held over a three-month period in early 2009. An extension of the university’s long-running spring jazz lectures, which began in 1982, the series spotlights the talents of the lecture participants. After their daytime lectures, they perform an evening show at McDavid. This year’s performers are Ron Stout, Roberta Gambarini, Lyle Mays, Jimmy Cobb, Wessell Anderson, Vic Juris, Michael Formanek and Vincent Gardner. University of North Texas Jazz Faculty members will help back some of the performers, as well as students from UNT’s Jazz Studies program. While the UNT campus offers plenty of places to stage such a series, McDavid Studio was chosen as host because of the strong relationship between the venue and the campus’ music school. The University of North Texas’ acclaimed One O’Clock Lab Band regularly plays McDavid, an intimate venue that seats about 250 patrons. This year’s performers: Ron Stout (Feb. 2) is an accomplished trumpeter who has worked with and backed up a variety of top-tier talent, including the Righteous Brothers, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Wilson, Roberta Flack, Maynard Ferguson, Frank Sinatra Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Jones, Horace Silver and Lou Rawls, among dozens of others. The native Californian and third-generation musician studied under Woody Herman and Frank Tiberi and now teaches jazz theory and improvisation in the Los Angeles area. Roberta Gambarini (Feb. 16) was recently declared, by The Boston Globe, as the “true successor to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae.” A Grammy®-nominated vocalist, she has toured and performed with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Roy Hargrove, to name a few. But the Italian singer’s string of successful solo albums has brought her from the background to the forefront. In 2007, her album, Easy to Love, received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and she also garnered the Female Jazz Singer of the Year award from the Jazz Journalists Association and the Rising Star Female Vocalist of the Year award from Downbeat magazine. Gambarini is currently touring behind her latest album, So in Love, which the All Music Guide calls “outstanding.” Lyle Mays (February 23) will be, in a way, performing a homecoming show: The Grammy-winning pianist once composed for and performed with UNT’s One O’Clock Lab Band. That was before he became an integral part of the Pat Metheny Group. A native of Wisconsin, Mays was born into a musical family: His father played guitar by ear and his mother was a church pianist. After being introduced to jazz as a teen, he attended UNT, where he composed and arranged for the One O’Clock Lab Band; he arranged the group’s Grammy-nominated album Lab ’75. After leaving UNT, Mays toured with Woody Herman. Later, he met Metheny, with whom he founded the Pat Metheny Group. Mays has written for and performed on 15 Pat Metheny Group albums. In addition to the 11 Grammys he has won with the Pat Metheny Group, he has been nominated four times for his solo work. Jimmy Cobb (March 2) played drums on what has been called one of the greatest jazz recordings ever: Miles Davis’ seminal album, Kind of Blue. He is the last surviving member of the group that recorded the historic 1959 album. Cobb, born in Washington, D.C., in the late 1920s, performed on other Davis albums, including Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come and Live at Carnegie Hall. Cobb also performed with Billie Holiday, Charlie Rouse, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, David “Fathead” Newman, Wes Montgomery, J.J. Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Sarah Vaughan, many of whom helped shape modern jazz. Cobb currently leads the “So What Band,” a jazz ensemble put together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kind of Blue, from which the group takes its name. Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson (March 9) is an alto saxophonist best known for his close ties to Wynton Marsalis. By the time the Brooklyn-raised musician was 14, he was already deeply involved in Brooklyn’s jazz scene, performing at clubs such as Turbo Village and taking part in the famed Jazzmobile workshops with the likes of Frank Wess and Wynton and Branford Marsalis. Wynton eventually asked Anderson to tour and record with the Wynton Marsalis Septet – a collaboration that lasted throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s; Anderson subsequently joined Marsalis at the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Anderson has also released a string of successful, varied solo records, including 2009’s Warm it Up, Warmdaddy!, an album that mixes hard bop, Latin and blues. In its four-star review of the record, the All Music Guide called Anderson “one of the most vital players on the scene.” Vic Juris (March 23), a native of Jersey City, has been a member of the David Liebman Group since 1991. The guitarist has recorded several records with the jazz ensemble, and has also, since the late ‘70s, released several records with his own self-named band, such as Blue Horizon and Night Tripper. Over the years, Juris has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Richie Cole, Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson, Ron McClure and Joe Locke, among others. He was also a part of the jazz fusion movement, collaborating with Larry Coryell and Barry Miles. Michael Formanek (March 30) was born in California but is closely linked to New York’s thriving jazz scene. The bassist has recorded and performed with the New York Jazz Collective, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Tim Berne, the Mingus Big Band and, among many others, James Emery. Throughout the ‘90s, he worked within various duos and trios, touring and recording virtually non-stop. He has made a name for himself as a wildly creative – and often improvisational – musician in New York jazz circles with albums such as Wide Open Spaces and Am I Bothering You? Formanek was recently commissioned to compose a piece for the 150th anniversary of the Peabody Conservatory. Vincent Gardner (April 6) is a Chicago-born trombonist who teeters between a solo career and performing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, among many other varied acts. Although primarily a jazz musician, he has toured and performed with several contemporary pop and rock acts, including Lauryn Hill, matchbox 20 and the Saturday Night Live Band. Now based in Brooklyn, Gardner has released four solo albums, his most recent effort being The Good Book: Chapter 1. He also often performs with his brother, Derrick Gardner, and his ensemble, The Jazz Prophets. Last year, Vincent Gardner was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center to compose an original work focusing on the short stories of author Langston Hughes.

Same here; I enjoy Vijay Iyer alot. When I saw him live by chance (never having heard of him before), I was very much taken by his playing (and Rudresh Mahanthappa) immediately. But then again, I never use the word "faux" in a sentence. not to derail the thread, but if i'm gonna read some of these threads it's not possible for me to see something like this and not comment. that seems like a very flatly racist comment. what the fuck? all indian people act and feel arrogantly superior to everyone else? it's part of their culture? wow... i haven't heard his music yet so i can't comment there... I thought the reference was to New Yorkers.

My first visit to New York City was in 1984, and on my first visit to the VV, George Coleman performed. I really enjoy the sonic experience of the Vanguard; it's reputation for great sound and instrumental balance is well-deserved. Since then (and mostly on visits from 1992- the present), I've heard there on one or more occasions: Don Cherry Mal Waldron Bobby Hutcherson Tom Harrell Jason Moran Greg Osby Roy Hargrove Terrance Blanchard Pharoah Sanders Michel Petruciani Paul Motian Craig Handy James Carter Tommy Flanagan David Sanchez Cyrus Chestnut Clark Terry Robert Glaspar Eric Reed Nino Josele

I must say that I really have enjoyed this CD--it is excellent--count on me to be onboard for any future projects of this ilk.

Wilbur Ware--The Chicago Sound (Riverside, Japanese Viktor pressing)

There are plenty of LP bargains on ebay--you just have to concentrate on on high quality labels that are not so trendy/collector oriented--impulse and Prestige (later pressings, anyway), for example.

Jean Michel Pilc's appearance on January 15 would be one I would try to attend, based on hearing him at Small's and the 55 Bar . Featuring: Jean-Michel Pilc - Piano, Francois Moutin - Bass, Billy Drummond - Drums & J.D. Allen - Sax.

Don Patterson -- Four Dimensions (Prestige, blue label) Hampton Hawes and Martial Solal-- Key for Two (Byg)

I've heard Alexander live a few times--I didn't like his playing at all, a personalityless regurgitation of the past--in the future, his presence at a concert or on a recording likely will send me in the opposite direction.

An ipod nano or ipod shuffle would work.

It was a slow year for me, but I saw: Lucky Peterson at Pearl on Commerce, on March 7 and July 11. Guitar Shorty at Poor David's Pub on June 27 and at Pearl on September 11. Eddie Turner at Pearl on Commerce on August 11. Buddy Guy at House of Blues on October 15. Tom Harrell Quintet at the Village Vanguard on October 30 and November 1. Go Home (Ben Goldstein, Charlie Hunter, Curtis Fowlkes, and Dannie Amendola at Jazz Standard on October 31. Pat Martino at Birdland on October 31. Ron Carter Trio with Mulgrew Miller and Russell Malone at the Blue Note on November 1. Francisco Mela Trio at the Blue Note on November 1. Dave Burrell (solo piano) at Sandaga Market on December 12.

Pee Wee Russell--Ask Me Now (Impulse, red and black)

The early material is on five Classics CDs covering 1948-54. Three of these can be downloaded inexpensively on amazon.com, and the other two are available at a reasonable or at least semi-reasonable price.

Jaki Byard and Earl Hines--Duet (MPS)