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Coleman Hawkins--Body and Soul (RCA Vintage Series)

John Coltrane--Meditations (Impulse, red and black)

It would have to be the slowest night ever for music in Manhattan before Woody Allen would be my selection.

I bought a CD player in 1984, I believe, not too long after they first appeared, and have steadily acquired CDs ever since. The first CD I purchased was Max Roach, In the Light, on Soul Note.

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If you follow the "thousand dollar bin" on jazzcollector.com, you will see that there are LPs being sold on ebay for $1000 and up with some degree of frequency. Usually it's Blue Notes with that price tag.

Well, I won a Freddie McCoy Prestige LP over the weekend for ninety-nine cents, which seemed pretty crazy.

Duke Ellington--Piano in the Background (Columbia, six eyes mono) Benny Goodman--The Small Groups (RCA Vintage Series)

Jazztone Society Sampler Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland--Fire, Soul, Heat and Guts (Prestige, blue label)

James Weidman--Three Worlds (Inner Circle) Andre Matos--Quare (Inner Circle)

Chico Hamilton--Man From Two Worlds (Impulse, red and black) Miles Davis and John Coltrane Play Richard Rodgers (Prestige, blue label)

I saw him perform with his trio at a local university a couple of years ago. It was an enjoyable concert, but on record I mostly just have him with Milt Jackson.

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.