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Coltrane Live a† the Village Vanguard (impulse, orange and black label)

Stanley Turrentine--Ain't No Way (Blue Note, rainbow series)

I prefer a large harddrive filled with my complete itunes library--I have the 120 gb Ipod Classic.

Don Patterson with Booker Ervin--Hip Cake Walk (Prestige, blue label, mono)--This sure is a good sounding record, Don Patterson in particular leaps out of the speakers into the room.

Ten new recordings released in 2008 that I liked: Bobby Previte--Set the Alarm for Monday (Palmetto) Greg Osby and Nine Levels (Inner Circle) Chico Hamilton Trio--It's About Time (Joyous Shout) Oliver Lake Organ Trio--Makin' It (Passin' Through) James Carter--Present Tense (emarcy) Stanley Jordan--State of Nature (Mack Avenue) Vijay Iyer--Tragicomic (Sunnyside) Organiissimo--Groovadelphia (Big O) Roy Hargrove--Earfood (Emarcy) Charles Lloyd--Rabo de Nube (ECM) Three Latin CDs: Bebo Valdes and Javier Collins, Live at the Village Vanguard (Norte) Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (World Circuit) Lila Downs--Shake Away (Blue Note) Three blues CDs-- Otis Taylor--Recapturing the Bango (Telarc) Buddy Guy--Skin Deep (Silvertone) Little Jimmy King Live at B.B. Kings (King James)

Other nice versions of this song: Booker Ervin, on Groovin' High Chet Baker, on Chet Baker in Tokyo and on This Time the Dream's on Me Dizzy Gillespie, on Jazz in Paris, The Giant Donald Byrd and Doug Watkins, The Transition Sessions Don Patterson/Sonny Stitt, on Legends of Acid Jazz, volume 2. Gene Ammons, on Funky Illinois Jacquet, on Illinois Jacquet Joe Henderson, on The State of the Tenor Lou Blackburn, on the Complete Imperial Sessions Others by Miles Davis, on 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival, and Live at the Plugged Nickel Stan Kenton, Complete Capitol Recordings.

I agree--the best version I've heard features the Kind of Blue edition of the Miles Davis group, it's on the CD '58 Sessions.

Killer -- that would have been not long after their opening / back when CoD actually booked live music. Makes me wonder how "local" Spencer was at that time. Surely this was not a pick-up band? I believe it was a band assembled for the occasion. The first few years the Caravan was open David Newman would always play there in December--the first two times he brought in Ellis Marsalis, this was the third appearance, I think, and he featured Leon Spencer for a rather different sounding group-I think the drummer was Walter Wynn (he used to play with Marchel Ivery). I don't recall the guitarist's name (I don't think I had heard of him before). They were so good I drove to Fort Worth two nights in a row to hear four sets.

I saw him live on two consecutive nights, I think in 1985--he played at the Caravan of Dreams backing up David Fathead Newman. As I recall, it was a rather terrific group.

Jimmy McGriff--Something To Listen To (Blue Note) Freddie Hubbard--Ready For Freddie (Blue Note)

Parisian Solos, on Musica Records, by Jaky Byard.

Thelonious Monk, Criss Cross (Columbia, two eyes)

Physical CDs are now available from the Inner Circle website for all the first set of releases.

That's a great tip. Thanks.

We are on the same page.

Coleman Hawkins--Soul (Prestige Moodsville) Red Garland--Red Alone (Prestige Moodsville) Harold Baker and Doc Cheatum--Shorty and Doc (Prestige Swingville) Freddie Hubbard--Outpost (Enja) The Griffith Park Collection II (Electra Musician)

Hank Mobley, Dippin' (Blue Note NY USA, stereo)

Sonny Red--Images (Jazzland stereo, black label)

Agreed - I'd forgotten about that record until the Randy Brecker piece reminded me. Played it last night and Freddie is scary! That version of Softly as in a Morning Sunrise is unreal.

Actually, this is a pretty good album....its just the damned overused reverb that makes it difficult to listen to....the playing is excellent though.... bigtiny It's a good album (no need for qualifiers), as is Bolivia.

Here is a site with a pretty complete Freddie Hubbard discography. http://home.ica.net/~blooms/hubbardhome.html I was surprised to find that there is a Japanese release (Gleam) that features what appears to be the band he had when I saw him for the first time in 1975. I believe I saw him a total of eight times over the years, the last in 1992, just before his chops problems emerged. The majority of these concerts were at the Caravan of Dreams, where all of his appearances were Freddie as the sole horn player, with a fine back-up group (the likes of Larry Willis, Idris Mohammed, Walter Booker...) On many of those occasions, he played the trumpet better than anyone I've ever heard in person.

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I don't get the interest, when there are so many talented singers in Portuguese and Spanish. She's unlistenable.

Where are you buying these? I'm buying them at a local store called Bull Moose Music for $18.88 each. They are listed all over the web at the usual places for around $20-22. Your local shop should carry them. Kevin There is no local shop anymore. Acoustic Sounds has them for $22. New Blue Note LPs or Dusty Groove has them for $18.99. Thanks.

Friday night, some dynamic blues with Lucky Peterson, and guest Zac Harmon.