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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.

It seems like a rather good record to me as well. Especially the first and the last tracks.

Reluctance in this case is a folly. It's a great set.

The first Savoy session as a leader--KoKo, Now's the Time, Billie's Bounce, Thrivin' on a Riff, Warmin' Up a Riff and Meandering.

The Complete Columbia Wynton Marsalis Recordings.

Joseph Jarman at one point during an Art Ensemble of Chicago set that I witnessed got inside what appeared to be a green cloth bag onstage.

Nice list. I only have 14 or so from the list.

There's another excellent version of this song under a different title (Anthem for Andrea) on Previte's Coalition of the Willing.