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

I like the record also--it's not Katanga, but it's still pretty good.

There was a bootleg release that pre-dated the official issuance of the concert by Atlantic in 1976 or 1977. The bootleg may be from an inferior sound source.

This sounds like a record I would like, but it seems to be out of print.

That is a really good one.

Phew! Billy Harper smokes - but he doesn't smoke never has, he told me. I got put in a seat at the bar and, after a minute, someone addressed the guy sitting next to me as Mr Harper. So I said "Are you Billy Harper?" "Yes." @Sorry I didn't recognise you; I don't get out much." He thought that was funny. Eddie Henderson seemed to be having trouble with his lip and also to be fighting a cold. Nevertheless, he made effective music - not flashy, but effective. Azar Lawrence impressed me, too. I've never heard him play before. Looks like I made a mistake not listening before. Billy Hart drove the band like mad. He was heroic and Cecil McBee only slightly less so. My only regret is that the band is slightly too big for everyone to get solos. But it does enable rather interesting voicings to be written - George Cables seems to be responsible mainly. And I've made a HUGE mistake in not keeping up with Mr Harper after his recordings with Lee Morgan and Charles Earland. He was fire and had me jumping up and down on the stool, nearly falling off at one point. Oh, what an exciting player! Damn good gig. MG Azar Lawrence (who played with McCoy Tyner in the '70s) has recently re-emerged and released a couple of excellent albums--Prayer for My Ancestors (a really good one) and Speak the Word. A third release is imminent. Billy Harper's most recent (fine) recording is Blueprints of Jazz.

The Natural Seven (Al Cohn, Joe Newman, Frank Rehak, Nat Pierce, Freddie Green, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson) (RCA black label)

Charlie Parker Jam Session No. 2 (Mercury Trumpet) After Hours with Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Mal Waldron... (Prestige, W. 50th)

Jam Session No. 1 (Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, etc.)--Mercury (light blue trumpet label)--Very vivid sound from this 1953 record, a happy find this week.

You got me--I forgot what day it is. I've seen film of Roland Kirk jamming with Buddy Guy and I'm sure I read somewhere that he did jam with Hendrix and other rock bands. It seemed credible to the dense.

What label is HMBG? Where do you buy the CDs? (I couldn't find this on amazon.com).

I listened to Out Front and its companion recording on Bethleham very many times. Two great records.

I meant the 10 disc set. Perhaps I'm too free with someone else's money, but it's in the air.

The track with the Master Musicians of Jojouka on Dancing in Your Head (and three unreleased LPs). A recording with Clarence Samuels in 1949 in Natchez, Mississippi--not released or unknown. John Lewis--Jazz Abstractions on Atlantic.

Paul Bley--the early live recordings at the Hillcrest club. Howard Shore's Naked Lunch Soundtrack. Charlie Haden's duet album on Horizon. James Blood Ulmer's Tales of Captain Black on Artists House.

Instead of piecemeal purchases, the Verve Bird box set is what you should get.

Gilbert Gil at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie--A wonderful acoustic concert, with Gil on guitar and vocals, his son on second guitar, plus a cellist. A couple of solo songs, a few duets with cello, mostly trio in a two hour concert. Very relaxed and beautiful. Just me and every Brazilian in Dallas-Fort Worth.

oh god......someone at prestige made a bad decision i just took a chance today on a very nice clean liberty issue Monk Genesis of Modern music vol. 2 thats "electronically rechanneled for stereo" as per the cover, however the blue note label on the lp just says: stereo. so im hoping for the best........ I have a nice clean volume 1 electronically reprocessed Liberty version if you want to complete the set. (I listen to the Mosaic set or to the CD.)

My memory is not exact, but I believe that group was in the range of two to four years earlier than 1989. By 1989, I believe he had Sam Rivers and Ed Cherry in his band.

Recent additions: John Abercrombie--Wait Til You See Her Jan Garbarek--Dresden

Shirley Scott--Soul Searchin' (Prestige, yellow and black) (previously owned by Ed Bradley of Detroit Michigan--?) The Stuff Smith Memorial Album (Prestige blue label) (sold to me on ebay by the preceding poster) Donald Byrd--Mustang (Blue Note, NY USA label, Liberty cover) Gary Burton--The Time Machine (RCA, black label)

Charles Mingus--Southern Methodist University, McFarlin Auditorium, November 19, 1974 First blues concert, a few months later--Freddie King, at Mother Blues in Dallas. Second jazz concert, Dizzy Gillespie at Mother Blues, 1975. (Also, James Clay and Marchel Ivery at the Recovery Room in this time frame).

That's a very nice recording in my opinion as well. Found a promo copy back in the '70s.

That's odd--Greg Osby talked quite a bit the last time I saw his band, about the time when Nine Levels was released.

Gene Ammons--Boss Soul (Prestige mono, blue label).