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Charlie Barnett Quartet--Jazz Oasis (Capitol)

Very nice reissue in good sound. Alternatively I suggest finding the 4 Dodds issues on Classics and the Neatwork with the alts. Dodds is one of my favorite artists. More for the Want List.

Today I found a copy of Luiz Bonfa's Brazilian Guitar on Capitol. The cover was in poor shape but the LP appeared okay--I'm sure glad I bought it--an astounding record--fantastic recording quality and utterly great guitar playing. About half solo guitar (though as the notes point out, it is hard to believe that this is a solo guitar player), with various other combinations. This now sits next to Solo in Rio as my favorite Luiz Bonfa records. Has this ever been on CD?

Well, you've revealed that I have severely fucked sleeve notes to my Quadromania Dodds set (surprised?) They list New Orleans blues - 22 Apr Wild man blues & Willie the weeper - 7 May Aligator crawl, Potato head blues & Keyhole blues - 10 May Melancholy blues & Weary blues - 11 May Wild man blues (with George Mitchell) - 4 Jun Whut? MG I'm not familiar with Quadromania, but would recommend the well-done MCA/Decca 1990 reissue. It's out of print but cheap copies are available. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...7281&sr=1-1

Modern Jazz Quartet--No Sun in Venice (Atlantic, mono black label) Luiz Bonfa--Brazilian Guitar (Capitol)

Not one track--four tracks recorded by Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers on April 22, 1927 (Weary Blues, New Orleans Stomp, Wild Man Blues, and Melancholy)--with Louis Armstrong on cornet. How did I miss these until now? From Johnny Dodds, South Side Chicago Jazz. Five other tracks on this CD, recorded the day before (two also with Louis), are mighty fine as well.

Shelly Manne, Swinging Sounds, volume 4 (Contemporary)

I like Dorothy Ashby's harp, so I seriously considered going to see him on a couple of occasions. It sounds like I made a mistake in opting for other choices. I'll make sure not to miss him if there is another opportunity.

That would be a nice Mosaic set, the Complete Recordings of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

The entire line of Trip reissues.

I seem to recall a prior Jim Pepper thread. The one I have that is excellent is Afro Indian Blues, a collaboration with Amina Claudine Meyers.

Sonny Stitt and Booker Ervin--Soul People (Prestige) Sonny Stitt--Night Crawler (Prestige) Don Patterson--The Boss Man (Prestige) With Don Patterson and Billy James, the latter two with only Sonny Stitt.

No, the echo was not a studio effect, I saw him do it live with Sun Ra. He was paired with Ahmed Abdullah on trumpet. But I don't think I have any non-Sun Ra Michael Ray recordings.

The Soul of Jazz Piano (Riverside, black label)

This is the recording that I have, available in an ebay auction. http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Exotic-Sounds-of-B...080627187r15942

I like the Ceu CD alot as well.

Session at Riverside (Capitol, turquiose label)--with Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers, Milt Hinton, Urbie Green, etc.

I have one recording on LP which is excellent--The Exotic Sounds of Bali, on Columbia, copyright 1963. Music performed by the Gamelon Gong Sekar Anjar and Gender Wajong Quartet. I couldn't find it on amazon though.

Andre Previn--West Side Story (Contemporary stereo)--Maybe not my favorite pianist, but thank to Ray DuNann, he's playing in my house.

Onzy Matthews--Blues with a Touch of Elegance (Capitol)

I would go too, if I lived in Paris.

I liked the four Groove Holmes featured alternate and unissued tracks from the Onzy Matthews Blues with A Touch of Elegance sessions in the Mosaic Select.

Yes, a truly great solo. I've had a Verve LP from the 1960s which combines the two greatest (IMHO) Parker studio quartet sessions from the Verve years: "Now's the Time", "Confirmation", "Chi Chi" and "I'll Remember You" with Al Haig, Percy Heath and Max Roach and "Laird Baird", "Kim", "Cosmic Rays" and "The Song Is You" with Hank Jones, Teddy Kotick and Max Roach. And if I recall correctly, both of these sessions were recorded in 1954, when he was supposedly in decline. Some decline!

The '80s were the only period during my lifetime when there was a world-class jazz club in the city where I live (actually, the nearby city of Fort Worth). So that was actually the period when I was able to see the most live jazz. Arthur Blythe played there around 1984 or so, with a traditional instrumentation type of quartet--quite excellent (Faceless Woman, I still recall). I saw so much great music during that period--Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society played four separate three nights each engagements--some of my favorite electric jazz. Ornette and Prime Time played there four or five times (two or three nights each time)--Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition played there three or four times. David Murray brought in his Octet, with Julius Hemphill. Horace Silver, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner many times, David Newman many times, James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey group, several times, Frank Morgan, Tony Williams, Benny Carter, Freddie Hubbard in peak form fronting a quartet on several occasions, Dewey Redman, Sonny Rollins, the Moffett Family Jazz Band, Art Blakey, etc. Those were the days!

Save for the Album Covers showing non-humans smoking cigarettes thread.