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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.

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.

That Preston Sturges box set is really great.

Where are you buying these?

Nat Pierce Orchestra with Buck Clayton--Big Band at the Savoy Ballroom (RCA Living Stereo) George Russell--The Jazz Workshop (RCA, 1962 reissue)

Jack McDuff and David Newman--Double Barrelled Soul (Atlantic, blue green label)

A 120 GB ipod. About 20 hours after plugging it into my computer, it has transferred 8642 out of 13,605 songs from my itunes library.

Thanks again... and oh, are you lucky, being so close to Mexico. I'm on the East Coast. Yes, it's only a two hour flight to Mexico City, whereas it's over three hours to New York. Flight time's one thing; cost is the other. (I bet that's true for you as well.) it's funny how Amtrak and the airlines seem to jack up prices in an arbitrary way. When I lived in D.C., a round-trip train ticket to NYC cost several hundred dollars. Now I live up in PA< and a round-trip ticket to NYC costs less than 100.00 bucks. (Though I'd have to change in Philly to get the Metroliner or Acela.) Basically, Amtrak ticket costs are far higher if you're *only* traveling on the NE corridor lines. Book a ticket from a bit further west, and it's so much cheaper, even though you're actually on a NE corridor train. Go figure! American Airlines has quite a few flights out of DFW to both places, so with a little planning relatively inexpensive fares are often available to both New York and Mexico City. It can be very arbitrary though--earlier this year I made two short notice business trips to New York, and the fare each time was $2000 for coach. Yet at about the same time I also booked a seminar trip in advance, and the fare was only $200.

Thanks again... and oh, are you lucky, being so close to Mexico. I'm on the East Coast. Yes, it's only a two hour flight to Mexico City, whereas it's over three hours to New York.

Those are really good collections--I especially like Antonio Bribiesca, he makes the guitar weep--he's just as expressive as a great blues guitarist. I like trova--in Tower Records in Mexico City, there is a Trova section!

Here are a couple of two CD collections featuring some great guitarists from Mexico (Antonio Bribiesca, Ramon Dona-Do, Gilberto Puente, and Claudio Estrada): http://www.amazon.com/Los-Grandes-Guitarri...4124&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Los-Grandes-Guitarri...4124&sr=1-3

Latin-American music to me means music from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, etc.. Guitars are everywhere. You must be listening to what they call Latin-American music in New York, which seems to mostly derive from Puerto Rico. In fact, the center of Latin American music is Mexico City, not Puerto Rico, New York or Miami.

Ahmad Jamal--Tranquility (impulse, black label) Vince Guaraldi--Alma-Ville (Warner) (The first side is sublime.)

Two Mosaic Selects -- Dexter Gordon and Bud Shank/Bob Cooper.