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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.

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).