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Yes, it is. What does "audition copy" mean? MG I've assumed this is the same as DJ copy--a copy given free to radio stations.

You're right! I'm talking about Saturday the 29th. Is Schneider Sunday or Saturday? They are there both nights. Also on Saturday, Jean Michel Pilc at the Jazz Gallery. Here's a complete list: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200811.pdf

Lonnie Smith Trio at the Iridium Maria Schneider Orchestra at Jazz Standard. (11/30 is a Sunday though, not a Sunday)

Thanks. Ordered.

The Folkways CD--The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-45, is available and really good. Another I like is Snowy Mountain Blues. And of course James P. Johnson's Blue Note Jazzmen.

Yes, I do.

All Music has almost everything I've done. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...3cfqxql5ldfe~T4 That's quite an impressive list. I see you recorded the final album by George Adams, Old Feelin'. What was it like to work with him? There were a few albums with George at that time: Nightingale, America, along with Old Feelin' Old Feelin' had an interesting, young rhythm section: Lewis on drums, Santi on bass, and Ray on piano along with the 'old guys': George, etc. and it might have been the first time that he had played with them. It pushed him in some different directions that he might not normally go. You know that was 16 years ago and the fact that I'm having trouble thinking of any stories of George, means the sessions went smoothly. Not that you only remember the 'bad' ones or the 'hard' ones, but the more 'difficult' sessions do have a way of etching themselves in the memory. I can clearly see the session at Clinton Studio B and remembering working on a different approach to the drum sound for the album. It was a little more 'pop,' than jazz for the time and that approach was the right one for the album. It may have been direct to two track, as well. My partner, Kazunori Sugiyama, would remember, I'm sure. I'll ask him if he has any tales from the sessions. My friend, Kazunori Sugiyama, producer of the three George Adams sessions for Somethin' Else, writes: Multi-track recording. George sang on a few, tunes. He needed some takes, certainly. It was mixed at Effanel Music. (Only Nightingale is Live to Two. America is also multi-track.) This is the band that went to play Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival that year. It could be that the band/booking was set first, and that made this recording as a release for their appearance. George and Hannibal go back a long time and Jean-Paul knows George from Pullen/Adams days --- JP might have toured with them in Europe (probably he was with McCoy’s or Elvin’s then), or something. Ray Gallon was a pianist for George’s Quartet for previous year’s Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival. See, my memory is not infallible. Kaz said he'd check his notes for any other insights. Thanks. George Adams is an underappreciated giant of the tenor, in my opinion.

An excellent group which I had the good fortune to see in person about a year ago.

Clarke-Boland Big Band--Jazz is Universal (Atlantic, blue green label)

Wayne Shorter--Native Dancer (Columbia) Duke Ellington--Ellington Indigos (Columbia six eyes)

Jonah Jones at the Embers. I guess only the title is fake, since there is no fake applause.

That's my reaction to China Boy on the HRS Mosaic.

All Music has almost everything I've done. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...3cfqxql5ldfe~T4 That's quite an impressive list. I see you recorded the final album by George Adams, Old Feelin'. What was it like to work with him?

Here's a fine Bechet CD on the Jazz in Paris series, for only $4.99. http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=gwr...5%26amp%3By%3D9

As an ex-employee of HPB, I can explain the low price. There are two kinds of merchandise they get, the used stuff people bring in and overstock stuff that corporate buys from who knows where. During the time I worked there, Disconforme stuff started appearing (along with Proper boxes) and the prices were usually about $8 for a single disc. This has got to be more of that stuff. The thing I always felt was weird was how all this stuff was ending up in the US as it's gray market as best. I know that they buy out remainders from distributors, so I can only guess they bought this stuff from an overseas distro and since it's just old jazz, no one is getting that upset over it. It seems as if the majority of jazz CDs at HPB are not used or legitimate cut-out CDs, but rather are Spanish grey market CDs. Personally, I never buy them and find having to wade through so many of them rather irritating.

Those are in the HPBs down here too. I'm going to skip them.

I like the quartet recording with Martial Solal alot also.

Also, in addition to the VV, from there you can walk to other jazz clubs--just keep going south on Seventh Avenue, and you pass Smalls, Fat Cat, and finally Sweet Rhythm (used to be Sweet Basil). On the other side of Seventh Avenue, there's the 55 Bar. Or walk across town down Bleeker and you'll pass Cornelia Street Cafe and when you get to Sixth Avenue, go north a few blocks and there is the Blue Note.

Good luck! I have Bebo de Cuba in my pile of as yet unheard CDs--as I now see, it is mixed by Jim Anderson.

Here's a copy, no bids so far, starting at $4.99 (but ending today). http://cgi.ebay.com/LP-CHARLES-MINGUS-MY-F...318#ht_1375wt_0

The last time I was in the VV (about a year ago), the pillar on the right was still there.

I also like the second album from the same date: "Charles Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach". There are a slug of unreleased tracks from this live recording session on the Debut box.

Shirley Scott--On a Clear Day (impulse, black and orange, strereo) Yusef Lateef--Live at Pep's (impulse, black and orange, mono)

I suppose it fits this thread--the new Oliver Lake Organ Trio recording, Makin' It, is quite enjoyable, with Jared Gold on organ, Johnathan Blake on drums.

I would have wanted to be at the Village Gate every night in July and August.