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Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana Revisited (Impulse, black and red)

John Coltrane--Africa /Brass (Impulse, orange and black) Marion Brown--Three for Shepp (Impulse, red and black)

Dustygroove has this one for $4.99.

Charles Mingus--Tiajuana Moods (RCA, mono, black dog label)

In addition, Palmetto, High Note, Savant, Origin, Delmark, Joyous Shout, Motema, Talking House, Inner Circle, Sunnyside, Pi, Smalls, Justin Time, etc.

A couple of purchases from the oldies.com Fantasy sale: Luiz Bonfa--The Bonfa Magic--a mixed bag, but the solo pieces and the accoustic small group tracks are quite nice. Bola Sete--Voodoo Lounge--includes two of his mid-1960s Fantasy albums--one of which I didn't much care for, and the other of which is rather sublime.

I received my second order today--10 out of 15 titles ordered. No word at all on my first order (another 15 titles).

Jazz of Two Decades (EmArcy mono)--The sound of Clifford Brown on the one Brown-Roach track on this anthology (Cherokee) is amazingly vivid. Session at Midnight--Jazz Reunion at Melrose (Capitol)

Wow! Dexter on that one! Dexter sounds good on this one, as does the rest of the group. Found on Friday at Half Price Books. The first side of this album is really great. Side 2 grew on me over time.

Avery Sharpe Trio--Autumn Moonlight With Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano and Winard Harper on drums. Gumbs is playing the piano really well these days, and this is a working group that sounds fine together.

Always thought the title track went like mad on that one and was in a different class from the other tracks. Someone - Higgins, I think - is making a lot of "gone" noises on that one. Notice it had a different recording date from the others. Hmm - not thought of that one before. The title track has significantly more 'ooomph' than the rest of the session, although I like it on the whole. Can't go wrong with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins stokin' the fires. Fathead Newman also fits in very well in a Morgan group IMO. I like all of side 1 of Sonic Boom alot.

Stan Levy--This Time the Drum's On Me (Bethleham)

I received an email a couple of days ago that my July 9 order had shipped. No such email for my July 4 order.

Kenny Burrell--A Generation Ago (Verve, while label promo) Lars Gullin--Baritone Sax (Atlantic, black label) Milt Jackson, Frank Wess...--Opus de Jazz (Savoy, maroon label)

New Rising Sun Machine Gun Little Wing

Or else get high as a mf and listen to the sounds in your head. :g :g Legally of course! What if the sounds in your head while high are an amalgamation of The Carpenters and Guy Lombardo? Then you will be happy in thrift stores. As the albums will sell for $1.00 or less, you can greatly expand the number of your purchases. That would be when I know I need to seek help, when I start assembling the Record Collection from Hell. (I still have my Iron Butterfly record, so I already have a good start.)

Or else get high as a mf and listen to the sounds in your head. :g :g Legally of course! What if the sounds in your head while high are an amalgamation of The Carpenters and Guy Lombardo?

This hasn't happened to me, and I've been listening to jazz since 1973. The best solution to music ennui is to stop living in the past all the time. Find some new artists (or new genres) to be excited about. The best way to find new artists (or to revive your interests in older but still living artists) is to hear live music. Since you live in Dallas/Fort Worth, this is rarely possible. So the solution is to travel to a jazz festival, or go to New York City (a jazz festival is in pregress there 365 days of the year). Prices are as cheap now as they will ever be.

What about Good Records? I know exactly which store you're referring to which you excluded, and I completely, totally, 100% agree with you. It's amazing that guy's still in business. I stopped at Good Records once and wondered, where are the records? Is this a joke? Really? I've never been there and have been curious for the longest time. Not any more. Thanks for saving me the gas! Literally all they had was a very meager selection of new Indie rock records--no jazz whatsoever. It seemed more like a head shop than a record store.

He seems to be the first call guitarist in New York, because just about every time I've seen a mainstream group at a club in New York in the last four or five years and there is a guitarist, it is Peter Bernstein. At first I thought he was competent but kind of bland, but I've found him to be more distinctive the last few times I've seen him and am liking him more and more (though I haven't bought one of his leader CDs yet).

Is that the store with the poor, over-priced selection run by the creepy guy whose leering at you with bad intent? Yes, except there are no prices on anything (if you show any interest in something you have to negotiate with the creepy guy and he tries to cheat you)--and everything smells like it has been dipped in a vat of cigarettes and ashes for the last couple of decades.

What about Good Records? I know exactly which store you're referring to which you excluded, and I completely, totally, 100% agree with you. It's amazing that guy's still in business. I stopped at Good Records once and wondered, where are the records? Is this a joke?

I like Academy in New York, but since I live in Dallas, I mostly frequent the various Half Price Books stores. There isn't a pure vinyl store in the city of Dallas (the closest one is in Arlington) that I would visit (I'm excluding one store which I can't tolerate).

That club doesn't appear to get any publicity at all. Even their website does not list upcoming concerts. I left my email address to receive updates, but none have ever arrived. Plus the location is completely isolated in a warehouse district. A little bit of marketing/business sense would be a good idea.

Austin: UT Performing Arts Center-- Terrance Blanchard--September 23, 2009 Charles Lloyd with Jason Moran--October 16, 2009