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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.).

Into the Faddisphere is a good recording.

EMI only avoided being taken over by its lenders last month because its private equity owner contributed enough cash to avoid default. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/14/business/main6484271.shtml The new funding comes after talks with rival music companies Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group all failed in the last several months. EMI was seeking a partner to distribute its music in North America, which it hoped would raise enough cash to keep Citigroup at bay. When those talks failed, Terra Firma had no choice but to inject more money into EMI. The funds artificially boost the company's profit to keep it above the required percentage of debt. The money also can be used by the company in its operations. Through September of last year, Terra Firma had already put 105 million pounds into EMI to meet the loan ratio. It bought the company for 2.4 billion pounds in 2007. While Hands and other investors can keep pouring in money, Terra Firma will have to fully repay the loan - now about 3.1 billion pounds - by 2015 or potentially lose the company to the bank.

Teddy Wilson and brother Gus Wilson (trombone, played with Alphonso Trent)

Charles Moffett Sr. and sons (Charnett, Charles Jr., Mondre, and Cody)

And as we learned from a Chris Albertson post, Bob Weinstock drilled the hole himself.

Yes that was worth buying, the weakest link being Archie Shepp.

A couple more worthy early jazz anthologies are on Yazoo, Jazz the World Forgot, volumes 1 and 2.

Oscar Peterson Plays Jerome Kern (Clef trumpet) Shirley Scott--Girl Talk (Impulse, red and black) Pharoah Sanders--Tauhid (Impulse, red and black)

Perhaps you should dip your toe in the water with the wonderful Cross-Country Tour set. http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Country-Tour-Ahmad-Jamal/dp/B000006EJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1275845235&sr=1-1