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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)

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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

Here's a fine starting place, the Yazoo anthology The Best There Ever Was. http://www.yazoorecords.com/3002.htm There are many other fine recordings available from this label, by the likes of Charlie Patton, Son House, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and others.

I noticed that, independent of the Fantasy sale, the oldies.com site also has 9 of 10 volumes of the Duke Ellington Private Collection set on sale for $8 or so each.

Saxophone Colossus at a colossal price. http://cgi.ebay.com/Sonny-Rollins-SAXOPHON...%3A2%7C294%3A30

Eddie Lockjaw Davis--Jaws in Orbit (Prestige, black and yellow label, NJ)

That one looks good. Great lineup.....Never even heard of that one! It is quite good, but all the material is available on the domestic Jackie McLean release, Jackie's Bag, so there's no need to search for the Japanese release. http://www.amazon.com/Jackies-Bag-Jackie-M...6193&sr=1-1

Horace Silver--The Stylings of Silver (Blue Note, W. 63rd). Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff--Together Again (Pretige, blue label)

Lucky Peterson--Pearls. Unusual double organ group (no rhythm guitar last night), until Lucky picks up his guitar--he was a terror on guitar last night. I'm sure glad he lives in Dallas and has a place to play occasionally.

Larry Young--Of Live and Peace (Blue Note, Liberty cover, NY USA label)

Dizzy's "Let Me Introduce the Band" routine (the band then proceeds to introduce themselves to each other) was funny the first couple of times I saw it.

Miles Davis--Milestones (Columbia, six eyes mono)

Joe Farrell--Outback (CTI)

Roland Kirk -- Left and Right (Atlantic)

That sale is ridiculous. I ordered 15 CDs for $77, with free shipping. $173 off of list price. The best deal I saw--the Sonny Stitt box set, Stitt's Bits, for only $4.99 (I had it already).