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Michio Miyagi's Koto Music (Victor, Japan) Charles Mingus, Portraits (United Artists, Japan)

It appears there is a new jazz club located in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth--Scat Jazz Lounge. Friday, June 27, Marvin Stamm and Bill Mays will appear. June 25 and July 30, Shelly Carroll. July 18 and 19, Freddie Hubbard. http://scatjazzlounge.com/

Lester Young will be my next set.

I ordered John Patton, Soul Connection, from dustygroove.

Can we buy these directly from Mr. Nessa?

The subway gives you almost door to door service. Take the N/R trane... It might give YOU door to door service, but not me (or kh1958 I suspect!) I will have to fly there first, of course. But thanks for the tip. Nothing smells quite like the New York Subway system in the summer.

Are there any recommended Thurman Barker recordings? I saw him a couple of years ago at an AACM concert in New York and he was at least near-wonderful, but I don't have any of his recordings.

Is this previously unreleased material?

The price of real estate in NYC has been out of control for a while. Yeah, I think the new owners made it pretty clear what their plans for the stores were. They never intended to be on the retail record business. Plus, didn't it say sales at this location were up 12%? So it wasn't about making it work. At least J&R, which is better than Virgin anyway, is still open. It's a long haul downtown though.

Miles Davis--Walkin' (Prestige, yellow and black, NJ).

About 12,000 songs on my 80gb. Itunes library now has about 13,000 songs, so I'm going to have to upgrade in the near future.

The stores in Dallas were (does the one in Grapevine still exist?) very modest in size compared to the one in Times Square.

I will miss the store. Most of the employees may have been surly (except for the friendly African fellow in the World music section), the store may have been overly noisy and obnoxious, but they had a reasonably deep catalogue, even if often too pricey. There usually seemed to be lots of stuff on sale, though. Plus, there's no substitute for browsing, which is becoming extinct, especially on a multi-genre basis. Now there's nothing left in the city but the specialty stores. And if a megastore located in the area with perhaps the heaviest foot traffic in the United States can't survive, can the specialty stores like the Jazz Record Center, Academy and Downtown Music Gallery continue to exist?

I haven't been to the Isle of Mann, but I did see Herbie Mann once.

Actually, I estimate that I have 52 of the recordings in this list. An excellent list!

That's an excellent album. I quite like Copeland--I happily once got to see him perform in a small auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. None of those guys were present, but his guitar sounded mighty nice in person.

Guitar Shorty. The best blues I've heard in years--A two and a half hour set by the 68 year old guitar great.. Shorty must be close to the best around today in blues. He blew the cobwebs out of my head and elevated me.

Howard Rumsey's All Stars--In the Solo Spotlight (Contemporary)

Sidney Bechet/Omar Simeon--Jazz a la Creole (Jazztone)

Miles Davis--Collector's Items (Prestige, yellow black label, NJ)

Miles Davis--Bag's Groove (Prestige, black and yellow label, NJ)

My copy is like the first one.

Buy any of the Prestiges with Don Patterson and Billy James, with or without other musicians.

There's the second track on side 1 of Mingus' Black Saint, where he solos to great effect on baritone and on soprano. I did see him once at Sweet Basil, in the early 1990s, playing with Art Farmer. I believe he played tenor the whole evening.

That's the one! I pre-ordered as well.