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I also like Ben Allison's Think Free (and the Palmetto label in general).

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.