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If you prefer to pay money, Red Holloway is also going to be at the Sammons Center in Dallas: WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 - 7:00 TO 10:00 P.M. “Annual Artistic Director’s Concert” First Set: The Sammons Jazz Ensemble opens this annual blockbuster concert with Artistic Director James Gilyard on bass, Andrew Griffith on drums, Arlington Jones on piano, and Simone Rodgers on vocals. Featured Artist: Red Holloway, a world famous saxophonist joins the Sammons Jazz Ensemble as the evening’s featured artist. James “Red” Holloway earned his chops in Chicago in the fifties playing with such notables as Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Joe Williams and many others. He later joined the famous house band at the Parisian Room in Los Angeles. He is known for his hard-driving mainstream modern style.

I'm interested--please keep posting. I wish you could bring the group to Dallas.

I would have attended, except I had to work past 11 last night. Hopefully they will have you back. Dallas is indeed a poor music city.

Yes, that is a great idea, and hopefully they would issue the entire concert, and I would appreciates reissues of the entire 1964 Town Hall Concert, the entire 1974 Carnegie Hall concert, the 1972 Ronnie Scott recordings, etc.

I saw him leading a group at the Iridium a couple of years ago and thought that, for the most part, he is a Miles imitator, but that he did at least have a tinge of originality. The best parts of the evening, though, were Geri Allen on piano, and James Spaulding. I probably would go to see him again, with the opportunity.

Duke Ellington--The Ellington Era, 1927-40, volume 1 (Columbia two eyes box set)

Swinging with Terry Gibbs (Emarcy)

Jimmy Smith Plays Fats Waller (Blue Note, NY USA) Bola Sete at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Verve)

Did you consider the Hotel Kitano? It's a very intimate club in a nice Japanese owned hotel; very good sound; and they seem to care about music there. I saw Mike Clark there last October, and he had an organist in the band. The fellow who seems to be in charge of the club is there in the evenings when they have music (Wednesday to Saturday) (sorry but I don't know his name).

I haven't been there, but I thought that Smoke was the club that had organ groups on a regular basis.

The new Blue Note release, Without a Song, is to be released June 2, according to amazon.

A dustygroove waffling review fragment for High Energy: "a core quintet that also features excellent reeds from Junior Cook -- possibly one of his strongest (and only) appearances on an electric date like this." Possibly one of the strongest of his only appearance on an electric date? It's scary so far out there on a limb.

Wounded Bird has reissued Freddie's Columbia recordings. Dustygroove now has them for 11.99 each.

Bird's first session on Savoy--Koko/Billie's Bounce/Now's the Time.

I've been on the look-out for Lyrita for awhile, but I've never run across a single LP on this label at the local Dallas HPBs.

Lee Morgan Indeed for $2927. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8#ht_500wt_1182

Happy birthday!

Donal Byrd--A New Perspective (Blue Note, blue and white Liberty label)

Phineas Newborn--The Newborn Touch (Contemporary, while label mono)

Friday, April 24, Denton Arts and Jazz Festival Stanley Clarke (9 p.m.)

Lawrence Brown--Inspired Abandon (impulse, orange and black label) Gene Ammons--Boss Tenor (Prestige, black and silver label)

Rick Perry--should he be tried for treason?

Jazz Musicians and Plastic Surgery

Battle of the Bands: Madonna versus. Britney.

November 3--Salle Playel in Paris (France's Concert CD 113)