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Art Blakey--Drum Suite (Columbia six eyes) Coleman Hawkins--The Hawk Swings (Crown) Stan Kenton--Roadshow (Capitol)

Sun Ra reissues on the horizon (per Dustygroove) Sun Ra -- Beyond The Purple Star Zone (expanded 2CD edition) . . . CD Around December 15, 2008 Tremendous lost work from Sun Ra -- recorded live in Detroit at the start of the 80s, and only ever issued briefly on a limited Saturn Records pressing! Given the show's setting in the Detroit underground, the material has an especially hip sound to it -- a return to some of the more righteous mode ... Sun Ra -- Live In Rome 1980 . . . CD Around June 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Lost Reel Collection Vol 5 -- The Universe Sent Me . . . CD Early May, 2008 Sun Ra -- On Jupiter . . . CD Around August 15, 2008 Righteous Ra from the end of the 70s -- one of the most soulful albums ever by the Sun Ra Arkestra, and a lost treasure that's got some nice funky moments! The vibe here is very much in the Lanquidity/Disco 3000 mode -- an extrapolation of styles best known from the Space Is The Place era, tightene ... Sun Ra -- Sleeping Beauty . . . CD Around June 25, 2008 One of the most soulful Sun Ra albums ever -- very much on the Lanquidity tip, and done with a great mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation! The vibe here is really mellow, spiritual, and warm -- and the album actually feels a lot more like a session recorded for the Strata East label than it ... Sun Ra -- Stars That Shine Darkly (expanded 2CD edition) . . . CD Around October 15, 2008 Sun Ra All Stars -- Sun Ra All Stars -- Milan, Zurich, West Berlin, Paris 1983 (5CD box set) . . . CD Around May 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Sun Ra Live at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 12/11/74/1968 Pacifica Radio Interview (2CD set) . . . CD Around July 15, 2008 Sun Ra -- Sun Ra Live At The Newport Jazz Festival 1969/Sun Ra Live At The Electric Circus 1968 . . . CD Around June 15, 2008

The Sound of Paul Horn (Columbia, six eyes).

Al! Say it ain't so! I suggest a few trips to New York City and/or Chicago, where you can actually hear live jazz. That should bring you back to your senses.

The one I found is a clean copy, a promo, perhaps unplayed--$10.

He's at Birdland in New York just before Memorial Day, leading a sextet.

Dave Brubeck--Jazz Goes to College (Columbia, six eyes, promo).

Duke Ellington--Hi Fi Ellington Uptown

Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Billy Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, Charles Bell, Willie the Lion Smith--The Jazz Piano--(RCA)--It says copyright 1966, and no one in 42 years cared to even open the record--but I sure enjoyed listening to it for the first time.

Duke Ellington--Ellington Uptown (Columbia six eyes) For Jazz Lovers (Emarcy anthology) The Jazz Piano (Ellington, Hines, Willie the Lion Smith, Mary Lou Williams, etc., recently reissued as a Mosaic single) (RCA--still sealed).

There's another solo Pullen recording on Horo, Five To Go.

That is a really good disc, my favorite post-70s comeback Rollins. Now this presents the dilemma of whether to pay $32 for one CD of additional material.

Actually, I go to about 5 or 6 of those HPBs. I try to make the circuit with some regularity. It keeps me out of trouble. Where is this magical record shop you're visiting, man? If it's the big HPB, I need to make a trip there SOON!

Jazz Omnibus (Columbia, six eyes) Paul Winter--Meets the Bossa Nova (Columbia six eyes)

The OBCs are worth getting. Lightnin' was the first blues performer I ever saw. He was quite drunk and was playing with a backup band of amateurs, who I assume agreed to play for free. It took a number of years to want to hear him again on record, but I got over it and like him now.

Jonah Jones Quartet--Jumpin' With a Shuffle (Capitol) Metronome All Stars 1956 (Verve trumpet label). A virtually perfect copy, found this week for $8.

it seems just like the day before yesterday that they were celebrating the 50th anniversary with a great concert here in l.a.!!! It does seem like a wisp of time ago that I saw a Blue Note 60th anniversary concert in New York--Greg Osby Quartet with Jason Moran, Gonzalo Rubalcaba (solo)); and Charlie Hunter/[forgetting the name of the percussionist who put out three recordings and seemingly disappeared] duo. Leon Parker. Yes, thanks.

it seems just like the day before yesterday that they were celebrating the 50th anniversary with a great concert here in l.a.!!! It does seem like a wisp of time ago that I saw a Blue Note 60th anniversary concert in New York--Greg Osby Quartet with Jason Moran, Gonzalo Rubalcaba (solo)); and Charlie Hunter/[forgetting the name of the percussionist who put out three recordings and seemingly disappeared] duo.

I have Just The Way It Had to Be, on LP, it's an excellent live date from Shelley's Manne Hole in 1969, with Teddy Edwards, Ray Brown and Monty Alexander.

I really enjoyed Mr. Kimbrough's trio performance last October at the Jazz Improv festival, even though he had to play on a less than stellar piano. And he had some pretty heavy competition at that festival (I also saw Don Friedman, Geri Allen, McCoy Tyner and Onaje Allan Gumbs play that weekend). If I were there (New York), I would be there (St. Peters) for this.

Johnny Hammond Smith--Black Feeling (Prestige, blue label)

Nothing today, but yesterday I bought Chico Freeman, Focus; and Lionel Loueke, Karibu.

I have three versions of the song on my ipod, which are on the following CDs: Ahmad Jamal Trio--Cross Country Tour Red Garland Trio--At the Prelude John Coltrane--Lush Life

Dannie Richmond--Jazz a Confronto (Horo) Dannie Richmond--Dionysis (Red)

Sonny Stitt, Pow! (Prestige, blue label) Don Patterson, Movin' Up (Muse) Ray Anthony, Jam Session at the Tower (Capitol)