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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?

Another big Weston fan here, I've only gotten to see him once in a wonderful solo concert. In a similar vein, I quite enjoy Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening.

A couple of small orders: From the Palmetto website: Ben Allison's Think Free and Little Things Run the World; From the Pi website: Henry Threadgill, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 and Rudresh Mahanthappa, Apti. In person at Borders, James Carter, Heaven on Earth.

Barney Kessell--Carmen (Contemporary) Charlie Parker on Dial, volume 4 (Spotlite)

Art Blakey--The African Beat (Blue Note, NY USA mono). An abused copy, but crank it up to 11 and it still sounds pretty darn great. Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing, But Not for Me (Argo)--It seems miraculous to find a 50 year old record that looks virtually new and appears to have never been played, but I found this copy today.

Jimmy Smith--Rockin' The Boat (Blue Note mono, NY USA) The Dynamic Sound Patterns of the Rod Levitt Orchestra (Riverside, blue label)

Bought it when it came out, shitcanned it not long after. A trumpet playing buddy of mine (and big Freddie fan) keeps touting this one to me, but I think I can live without it. The best part of this album is excerpted as Threnody for Sharon Tate on The Art of Freddie Hubbard.

All That Funk and More Funk are live recordings in the same style as their Timeless, Horo, Blue Note and Soul Note recordings.

Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival on Pablo is indeed quite good. There's also a pretty good MPS studio date from the same band, Rollin'. There is jawdropping live Hubbard on Above and Beyond (Softly as In a Morning Sunrise). Also worthy live material on the Keystone Bop CDs. I prefer the studio MPS date (The Hub of Hubbard) over the live date, Without a Song, recently released on Blue Note. Two more excellent trumpet only dates are Temptation (Timeless) and Outpost (Enja). A couple of good late sideman dates are Joe Farrell's Sonic Text and there's a Benny Golson-led date on LRC, The Jazz Masters.

I agree, the studio tracks on '58 Miles are fabulous, and I like them every bit as much as KOB.

Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Jaki Byard, Don Pullen, Hampton Hawes, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, McCoy Tyner.

I'm at work and my disc is at home, but to the best of my recollection, my copy has the same half English/half Japanese booklet as the Hawkins set. It definitely has English notes; the part I can't remember is the Japanese, but I think it has those also. Yes, it has four pages of English notes, and four pages of notes in Japanese.

Sonny Rollins' Next Album (Milestone) Sonny Rollins--Horn Culture (Milestone)--I sure do like the overdubbed Sonnys on tenor on the opener, Pictures in the Reflection of a Golden Horn.

My favorite Groove Holmes CDs are available in the oldies.com sale--the LP Living Soul, recorded at Count Basie's (one of two LPs reissued on the CD Spicy) and a CD of unissued material from the Living Soul date--On Basie's Bandstand--it's an inspired live date with a working group.

Blowin' the Blues (World Pacific anthology)

The Beatles were issued on 78s in India. http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/kirkland...tls/in/in78.htm

They seem to have become an underappreciated group--their catalog is pretty large--I enjoy them and pick up their LPs when I can find them in acceptable condition. One that I recently purchased and really like is their Apple release, Under the Jasmine Tree.

That is terrible news and a big loss. I didn't see Blakey there but I've seen many fine artists at Sweet Basil/Rhythm--McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans Orchestra (posthumous), Art Farmer, Mal Waldron, Bobby Watson, Andrew Hill, Benny Golson, Benny Waters, Sam Rivers, Vijay Iyer, Malachi Thomspon, Jane Ira Bloom.

Shelly Manne--Swingin' Sounds in Stereo (Contemporary)--This week's happy find, in nearly perfect condition, for only $8. Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt--Boss Tenors in Orbit (Verve) Jelly Roll Morton--I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (RCA Vintage)

Gene Shaw--Debut in Blues (Argo) Yusef Lateef--The Golden Flute (Impulse, orange and black)

He played a solo concert in Dallas a few years back at one of the local community colleges--He played piano and sang acapella--I enjoyed the concert quite a bit.

There were also a couple of clubs in Oak Cliff that came and went pretty quick-- But I saw McCoy Tyner at one of them (The Judge's Chambers) in the fall of 1983 for the first time, and the other was an old movie theater, the New Forest Theater, where I saw Freddie Hubbard for the last time and also Herbie Mann (I think this was around 1991 or so).

Is this a weekly engagement? I had to work late last night and couldn't attend a concert.

Here is a description of Concord's acquisition of Fantasy: Concord Records, Inc. and Fantasy, Inc. today announced that Concord has completed its acquisition of Fantasy and has merged the two companies to form a new entity called the Concord Music Group, Inc. Concord Records is a prominent 31-year-old, active record label focused on jazz, traditional pop and adult contemporary formats that is currently enjoying considerable success in 2004 with the multi-platinum release of Ray Charles' final recording, "Genius Loves Company" (in association with Starbucks Hear Music). Fantasy owns on. e of the world's largest and most prestigious catalogs of jazz, blues, R&B and rock music, including certain music publishingThe contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. Fantasy also owns and operates the world-class Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley, Calif. Following the merger, the Concord Music Group will be one of the foremost adult-focused recorded music companies in the world. As part of the transaction, Tailwind Capital Partners, a leading private equity investment firm focused on media and other growth sectors of the economy, provided new equity capital to the Concord Music Group. The existing owners of Concord Records, Norman Lear and Hal Gaba, remain substantial shareholders in the combined entity. Concord's management will also have a share of the new company. There is a private equity firm involved--I would guess they purchased preferred stock and there might well be an obligation to pay substantial dividends on that preferred stock. The PE firm's investment might be leveraged (partly debt financed), so there might be added pressure for Concord to distribute cash. Cutting out CDs is a way to raise some quick cash for operations, debt service, and dividends. PE firms have a myopic view of business, they are in it for the short-run--sell their investment at a profit as soon as possible.

That's another one that was a real bear for me to find to find in the 70s. Charisma, too. Seems like those three came and went w/o much residue... I believe I found copies of Charisma and Caramba at one of the old Melody Shops here in Dallas. I must have gotten there first. Delightfullee I never saw until the DMM reissue in the 1980s.