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Guy Warren Sounds--Themes from African Drums (RCA Living Stereo) Wayne Shorter and Milton Nascimento--Native Dancer (Columbia)

I've seen him play with the Mingus Big Band/Mingus Dynasty a few times over the last two or three years. In fact, he's scheduled to be in the saxophone section of the MBB this coming Monday at Jazz Standard.

Thanks.

The Moffett Family Jazz Band--Magic of Love and Africano, on Venus.

Other worthy recordings by the Adams-Pullen group on Timeless are Earthbeams and Lifeline. There's also Melodic Excursions, an Adams/Pullen duet, and Paradise Space Shuttle (Adams with Rahn Burton on piano). By Art Blakey, In My Prime Vol. 1 (the Bobby Watson edition), and Blue Night (Terrance Blanchard edition). Kirk Lightsey--Freddie Hubbard Quartet--Temptation Dannie Richmond Plays Charles Mingus (the last Mingus group with Ricky Ford and Bob Neloms, sans Mingus of course). Barney Wilen with Mal Waldron Trio--Movie Themes from France.

Agreed. I was actually going back in to add those when I saw your post. Vol. 1 especially with George Coleman on board. Yeah - it's still the best of those fine albums. Issued in the US on Muse (although the rest were Timeless only I think). Actually on Impulse! in the US (as was Blakey's "Album of the Year" and a couple of other titles). I have Eastern Rebellion on a Muse LP.

Those might be rare. Nah! Back in the sixties, I had a colleague who SERIOUSLY maintained that he had the Bolden cylinder, but it was up in his attic and he couldn't be asked to get it down and show it to us MG Ho hum. Now Wynton plays Buddy Bolden, that sounds really special

The various editions of Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, as recorded on Nasty, Street Priest, Barbeque Dog, When Colours Play, Texas, What Spirit Say, Shannon's House, Raven Roc, Decode Yourself, etc. Ned Rothenberg's Double Band, with Thomas Chapin--on Overlays, Parting, and Real and Imagined Time.

At Scat Jazz Lounge in Fort Worth: SUN, FEBRUARY 1 8:00 PM Helen Sung Pianist Helen Sung has been called “one of the brightest emerging stars in jazz today.” Her music is described as “marvelously imaginative,” “astonishing;” and her CD Helenistique (Fresh Sound Records) was praised as “…one of the year’s most exciting listens.” (JazzTimes). With a new CD (Sungbird, after Albéniz) on Sunnyside Records and winning the Kennedy Center’s 2007 Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, good things are happening! This will be a truly magical evening with a great talent making her Scat debut.

David Newman has cancelled, and the "Texas Tenor" is now Red Holloway.

Those might be rare.

A Date with Riverside (Riverside) Jay McShann--Confessin' the Blues (Classic Jazz)--with T Bone Walker on guitar.

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.