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Andre Cholmondeley link (his CD Enigma With Attitude is pretty good): http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/andre.html

When was that recorded? How well does Don Preston fit in? I have a CD of a Don Preston acoustic piano trio date, which is not an unqualified triumph, to my ears. I wonder if this Bradford-Carter album is something like that. Recorded in '88. Just received a self produced disc from Bradford - Mo'tet Live at the LA County Museum of Art from 2002. Preston is on it too. Have not listened to them yet. Don Preston is also on the John Carter recordings for Gramavision. I saw him a couple of years ago in a tiny studio club in New York called the Monkey--it probably didn't hold more than 20 people or so (and it wasn't full). A hard to find place. It was set up for 360 degree sound--Preston (on various electric keyboards) had a trio with a guitarist (Andre Cholmondeley), and Sheri (?) on electronic percussion). It was an interesting experience--electronic free improvision for the most part--the closest thing to a traditional song was a Captain Beefheart composition they played for an encore. I especially liked the guitarist, even though he hardly played any sounds that sounded like a guitar. Don Preston was approachable and said that his recordings with John Carter were among his favorites of his own recordings.

Thanks for the tip. Very good ones! The Thielemans is fine, the Viseur was a big surprise - lovely accordion playing in a perfectly straight setting! And of course I fully agree on the Jaspar and Thomas! I didn't have any of these (except possibly the Django from other sources); the box sounds interesting and impossible to pass up for $8.95 plus $2.98 shipping.

Thanks for the tip.

Andre Previn--Gigi (Contemporary, mono)

John Coltrane--Blue Trane (Blue Note, blue and white Liberty label)

I don't know this recording, but it looks like the same band as on the Pablo, Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, which is quite good.

Very good. On a related note, you've talked about some others in this thread that I'm interested in. Specifically "the original Alfonso Trent Band; the Missourians; Charlie Johnson; Jeanette's Syncopaters; the Bennie Moten Band; the 1929-1930 Chicagoans (Benny G, Teschmacher, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan, Krupa)." Moten I'm acquainted with. And Freeman, through his Mosaic single only, I believe. Are some of these likely to be included in the Blues project? You also mentioned your Louis Armstrong CD, which didn't jump out at me during a quick pass through your website. Details? (I still have my eye on Jews in Hell, btw. Waiting for the month to clear.) thanks All eight sides recorded by the Alfonso Trent band are available on an Oracle CD and are very much worth seeking out.

I have a Pete Brown Classics CD (1942-45), but it doesn't include this track. Is this the only Classics Pete Brown issue?

Is it really Tubby? Or Ronnie Scott in disguise?

I take it the CD reissue is out of print and hard to find now? I have the LP and CD and like the album quite a bit.

Eddie Turner at Pearls February 27.

Nope--it's one track! Even though the sleeve lists 15 different compositions. Way to go Verve.

While ordering the new Lonnie Smith, there are other fine CDs on this label (for example, Bobby Previte's Set the Alarm for Monday, or Bobby Watson's Horizon Reassembled). My apologies if this suggestion casts a stone in anyone's pond of "jazz is dead" reveries.

Oh, shit, another case of crazy used sellers on amazon I love Langston Hughes' poetry, so I'd love to hear this some day... The CD is in fact a single 44 minute track. The Mingus group only plays the second half of the CD (Shafi Hadi, Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan, Kenny Dennis), the first half being "arranged and conducted by Leonard Feather" who is the producer of the record. The first group is not too shabby though, including Red Allen, Vic Dickenson and Milt Hinton.

Yet another example of the jazz industry's innate bias against the overweight.

It's $12.99, direct from the label, with free shipping in February. http://www.palmetto-records.net/

There's more "Oh Yeah" on Tonight at Noon. Oh yeah! I should've been more specific and mentioned that I was listening to the Rhino CD of the album (thanks to a fruitful stop at the Arlington Half-Price Books where someone had unloaded all three of Mingus' Atlantic Rhino CDs), the one that has all six tracks from that session. Oh Yeah indeed! There's an amazing incomplete version of Hog Callin' Blues on the Birdland Broadcasts, with Yusef Lateef playing solo tenor, and Kirk playing background riffs--it is fantastic, but then the tape abruptly ends after little more than 3 minutes.

There's more "Oh Yeah" on Tonight at Noon.

I imagine Curtis Fuller is less thrilled with the Spanish reissue of his works.

From the new series, Blueprints of Jazz: Volume 1 (Mike Clark) and Volume 2 (Billy Harper). Also, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kinsman.

Buy whatever you can find in the Classics Blues and Rhythm series.

I believe Lucky Thompson in New York has finally been released, as I received a notice of shipment from Worlds Records on Thursday of this week.

I have an LP recorded in 1971 called Parisian Solos; it's on Musica Records--if this is the same, definitely pull the trigger, it's a good one.

MIles Davis--Relaxin' (Prestige)