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If anyone finds a U.S. source for this CD, please post the address.

Happy birthday!

I found several Slim Gaillard Classics discs last week used, and I must say I enjoyed them alot. Especially the 1945 disc, which features a session with Lucky Thompson and Teddy Edwards, plus a bounty of Dodo Marmarosa. Maybe lighthearted and humorous, as opposed to the usual seriousness of jazz, but still interesting music.

I pre-ordered the Jazz Icons series 4 DVD box set, which is being released this week. • Jimmy Smith • Live in '69 • Coleman Hawkins • Live in '62 & '64 • Art Farmer • Live in '64 • Erroll Garner • Live in '63 & '64 • Woody Herman • Live in '64 • Art Blakey • Live in '65 • Anita O'Day • Live in '63 & '70

Jimmy Smith at the Organ Vol. 1 (BLP 1551) (W. 63rd deep groove) Dizzy Gillespie--Have Trumpet Will Excite (Verve)

Jimmy Smith at the Organ--BLP 1514 (Lexington)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note mono deep groove, W. 63rd St.)

Jimmy Knepper, Invisible Lady (on Charles Mingus, Tonight at Noon)

A Grand Night for Swinging (High Note), Roy Haynes on drums.

Yeah, Clare. That first tune especially, UMMG, is beautifully handled. And it's a walk in the park for Diz. Nice, relaxed tempo, too. There's a live recording of Dizzy featured with the Ellington band at a birthday party for Duke in Washington, D.C., I believe. He gets a spot and there are a few other guests. I'm sure it came out commercially at some point but I wouldn't know what it's called. Jazz Party on Columbia. It's live in the studio.

Me too, it came yesterday.

Gil Evans (John Carisi/Cecil Taylor)--Out of the Hot (Impulse, red and black)

Jimmy Witherspoon with Jay McShann--Goin' to Kansas City Blues (RCA black dog)

Rearward is a legit label? Or a Spanish pirate?

Buddy Guy at House of Blues.

Well, thanks!

I really like the solo piano version on the Walter Davis Jr. recording, In Walked Thelonious--in fact, I really like just about every performance on this CD. http://www.amazon.com/Walked-Thelonious-Wa...9858&sr=1-1 Another fine version is by local tenor hero, Marchel Ivery, on Marchel's Mode.

Don Byrd--Gigi Gryce--Modern Jazz Perspective (Columbia, six eyes)

Duke Ellington--The Pianist (Fantasy)

Jimmy Smith--The Sermon (Blue Note stereo, NY USA, deep groove on first side only)

Richard Twardzik/Russ Freeman--Pacific Jazz After finding this LP this week, I now realize I messed up by not getting the Pacific Jazz Piano Trios Select.

I ordered a couple of new ones being released next week: The new Vijay Iyer Trio CD, Historicity. Jack Bruce and Robin Trower: Seven Moons Live.

I saw his trio with David Finck and Billy Drummond at the Kitano a couple of years ago--he performed a mixture of standards and his originals--I especially liked the originals.

He's been killing my real team as well.

All that wonderful stuff! The October 28 1947 session. Yes, I'm very happy to have the Spotlight box set of the Complete Dial studio recordings. Is this the best reissue on LP of this material? Or were there other earlier issues of this material with better sound? Wouldn't know about that. Just bought the albums when they came out in the 70s. Anyone know how does the sound quality of the 1970s Spotlite LPs compare with their 4CD reissue? I'm tempted to get the CDs.. Spinning - 'Bite Hard - De Wolfe Sessions' (Barely Breaking Even Records) I have a four CD Japanese issue of the Dial recordings, and it sounds like it is a copy of the Spotlite box. I haven't heard the current combined Savoy/Dial CD box.