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Have never even seen or heard of that recording. Talk about obscure ! If you were a fan of Handy's work with Mingus and his 60s Columbia recordings buying LPs in the 1980s, you would have picked this LP up (as I did) as a return to straight ahead jazz, after his dismal commercial recordings (Hard Work, Carnival...).

Elmore James, the Classic Early Recordings, 1951-56 came in the mail. I also purchased used: Clifford Jordan and Ran Blake, Masters from Different Worlds (Mapleshade). On vinyl: a beautiful copy of Dave Brubeck, Red Hot and Cool (Columbia six eyes), and Lou Donaldson, Midnight Sun (Blue Note rainbow).

These are (or have recently been) available from dustygroove for $5.99. Presumably they are all being deleted. In fact, I wondered if Columbia was busy deleting its entire non-Miles jazz CD catalog.

Really? Which Dallas store has the new RVGs? The one here in Arlington doesn't have any of them. They have some of them anyway (and 3 less than yesterday)--the one at Greenville and Lovers.

The only CDs of interest they had at the Border's I visited last night were the last couple of rounds of Blue Note RVGs. Otherwise, their selection is less than poor. Even more ominously, I hardly ever even see anyone browsing in the CD section there anymore.

The Modern Jazz Quartet (Atlantic 1265, pinwheel label) The Modern Jazz Quartet Live at the Lighthouse (Atlantic, blue and green label) Ahmad Jamal--Happy Moods (Argo, blue label)

I've gone through my entire collection over the last three years and had problems in transferring music to itunes with only a couple of CDs. The problem is presumably in your computer.

Lessons in Living is another excellent one with a horn player (Lou Donaldson) --it's live at Montreux, also with Jack Bruce.

Charles Lloyd, Rabo de Nube, and Matana Roberts, The Chicago Project, both came in the mail today.

Jason Moran sound fabulous backing up Bunky Green on Another Place (Label Bleu).

Return to Forever 5/29/08 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre 5/30/08 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre 5/31/08 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Center 6/01/08 - Dallas, TX - Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie

Thelonious Monk--Monk's Blues (Columbia, 2 eyes)

I don't know for sure, but I suspect it might be because the soundtrack was only leased, not owned, by Columbia. I suspect that the lease was a rather limited one, because the US Jazz Track LP is one that I have only rarely seen eitehr for sale or in private collections, leading me to believe that its origianl availability was limited. The later, sextet, portions of the Jazz Track LP first(?) began to resurface in the US 1970s on Basic Miles (& before that on the French CBS Facets). I have to think that the fact that there's not quite a full LP's worth of material from that session made for some..."packaging dilemmas" through the years. Basic Miles itself is a mix of "rarities" and very common material, indicating to me that there was not yet a clear view of how to best package the material. Anybody older and/or wiser than me (and/or with access to an old Schwann showing when Jazz Track was deleted), please feel free to correct as needed. I actually saw the first copy of Jazz Track I've ever come across this week, but alas it was so badly scratched that I passed it by. Basic Miles is hodge-podge, but the album that first enlightened me to Miles.

I have this but haven't played it in forever. How is it? It's an excellent album. Just like Bags and Hawk, and Bags and Trane. This is also the best sounding Orpheum pressing I've found, heavy vinyl, little surface noise, and vivid sound.

Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery--Bags and Wes (Riverside Orpheum)

The main problem I've had with the first three discs of this set is that the quality is so uniformly high that I'm finding that I can hardly omit any songs when I transfer them to my itunes library.

Looking through my LPs, I have a couple of Hannibal led sessions--Hannibal in Antibes on Inner City (1977), and a different recording by the Sunrise Orchestra, on MPS, from around 1975. He's also on the last George Adams leader session, Old Feeling, and on a few tracks on Don Pullen's Atlantic debut, Tomorrow's Promises.

Johnny Lytle--Blue Vibes (Jazzland, orange label mono) Junior Mance at the Village Vanguard (Jazzland, black label stereo)

I thought the second session was much better than the first. The trumpeter sounds off in the first session.

If you have the Mosaic Bix, is there any other essential small group Bix that is not included?

I like the recording. Joe Locke sounds especially good.

It may have been that band (Saft was in it) who played this festival a couple of years back - all a bit heavy-metalish for me. I think I left early, which is rare for me. I know Previte has a huge range of contexts, but that one wasn't up my street. So I skipped this time. I think "New Bump" is a successor to Bump the Renaissance and is one of his acoustic groups. May 2008 European Tour BUMP THE RENAISSANCE: Ellery Eskelin, Bill Ware, Brad Jones, Bobby Previte

The Bobby Previte show would be on the top of my list. He's been a long-time favorite on records, and I got to see him at the 55 Bar a couple of years ago, with Jamie Saft, Skerik and a Russian guitarist whose name escapes me--it was up there with the best live music I've heard in the last few years.

I just received notice of this upcoming DVD release, Norman Granz Presents Duke Ellington, The Last Jam Session. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013K2Z9...6930_pe_snp_Z9K

And what about his (uncredited) appearance in This is Spinal Tap?