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There are still a couple of copies of Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival available from amazon sellers. After that, I'm partial to the combination of Bola Sete and Vince Guaraldi on Vince and Bola. Tour de Force is also good. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-8...p;x=20&y=17

I pulled the trigger and ordered the Hodges set.

Two new CDs from Palmetto came in the mail--Bobby Watson's From the Heart, and Frank Kimbrough's Air.

Is it released yet? Dustygroove says it will be out "around" Feb. 25, but they don't have it.

Perhaps some of the original accoustic blues greats--Son House, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, Charlie Patton, to name a few. (Yazoo collections are usually the best option here.) And of course there is the fabulous Lonnie Johnson.

At the time I had pretty well switched to the new fangled CDs so didn't see the point - I was hoping they did CDs. What a moron ! One of my friends who has worked at music stores in Kansas City for decades tells an even more unfortunate story. Whenever the Arkestra came to Kansas City to play in the 1970s and early 1980s, they would crash in the house of someone who worked at his music store. At night the Arkestra members would sit around in the living room of the store employee and add rudimentary labels and artwork (usually swirls of magic marker art) to large stacks of white label jackets for their albums. There were a great many albums of this sort stacked around the living room. The employees of the record store could have received a complete set of the Saturn label records in exchange for putting the Arkestra up for the night, but they never took any. Who knew? When Sun Ra played the Caravan of Dreams (twice, in 1987 and 1988, I believe), I bought every LP they had to sell, which was just two or three each time. I asked the bandmember selling the LPs how I could get more, and he gave me the Morton Street address, but I never did mail a check for unspecified LPs to the Arkestra. But I did get to see eight sets by Sun Ra, and they certainly belong in this thread.

Americans in Europe, volume 1 (Impulse, black and white label)

Perhaps hard to find but he's on Horace Silver's Silveto LP Spiritualizing the Senses, sharing tenor duties with Eddie Harris, which is a straight ahead instrumental session, and a good one.

There were two Henry Butler albums on the revived Impulse, the first was Fivin' Around, with Freddie Hubbard on some tracks--a pretty good recording.

Chico Hamilton--The Further Adventures of El Chico (Impulse, black and red label) George Wein Newport All Stars (Impulse, black and red label)

I also really enjoyed the Midnight at V-Discs. In addition, Jumpin' Jubilee Jam Sessions 1945-46 is quite good as well, featuring the Willie Smith/Benny Carter/Charlie Parker medley (I did have this already on Bird's Eyes), and a Coleman Hawkins/Lester Young/Buck Clayton session from 1946. The Bobby Hackett/Willie Smith track on this one is nice as well. Also, the Dizzy Chester Pennsylvania concert from 1957 is very nicely recorded and performed.

A rather far flung tour. Tickets just went on sale for a March 28th Ornette Coleman show at Town Hall in NYC ($101.50, 86.50 & $76.50). More tour dates below.... Ornette Coleman - 2008 Tour Dates February 15 - Portland, Oregon February 17 - Vancouver, Canada February 22 - Wellington, New Zealand February 24 - Sydney, Australia February 28 and 29 - Hong Kong March 3 - Adelaide, Australia March 28 - Town Hall, NY, NY

My copy of volume 4 inexplicably came with volume 3 inside. Now after many years of procrastination, I find that volume 4 is hard to find. Is the person who has volume 3, with volume 4 inside out there somewhere? Not hard. Try here. (How's volume three?) Thanks, I bit the bullet and paid $12 for a used copy. My extra Volume 3 is now on your doormat in a plain brown envelope.

Shirley Scott and Clark Terry, Soul Duo (Impulse, black and red label) Shirley Scott, Great Scott (Impulse, black and orange label) Fletcher Henderson--A Study in Frustration (Columbia Six Eyes)

My copy of volume 4 inexplicably came with volume 3 inside. Now after many years of procrastination, I find that volume 4 is hard to find. Is the person who has volume 3, with volume 4 inside out there somewhere?

The Dizzy is not only a good performance, but it is very well recorded.

Has anyone ever come across a well recorded/performed version of the Sun Ra composition, Face the Music? I heard this live by the posthumous Sun Ra Arkestra at the Knitting Factory a number of years ago and the melody would not (and still has not) leave my head. But I've only ever found one recorded version of the song, and not a very satisfactory version.

There's a pretty nice DVD available as well. http://www.jazzloft.com/p-45052-in-performance.aspx

I don't usually buy Proper sets, but this looks like a soon-to-be exception.

I'm hoping to be in New York myself for the Memorial Day weekend. I don't know Kendra Shank's music, but I do like Frank Kimbrough on piano--however, while the 55 Bar is a really nice small venue, they do not have a piano--the only pianist I've seen there (Jean Michel-Pilc) brought an electric piano with him.

B and E would be the top choices for me--then possibly F.

It ended at $1,585. It's a Classic Records re-issue, with the faux deep-groove and addresses. Except, of course the obvious 'Classic Records under licence etc.' line at the bottom of the back cover. http://cgi.ebay.com/VG-RARE-Lee-Morgan-Ind...1QQcmdZViewItem check out the feedback from buyer. really nuts. i wonder if seller is going to get away with it. I think yes. The auction ended Feb. 8, and the positive feedback was posted Feb. 10, for a seller who doesn't accept paypal, only checks and money orders. This seems rather suspicious. Does the buyer live next door to the seller?

Ahmad Jamal Trio--Epic deep groove.

They've since moved the jazz section from the bottom to the middle floor.

The Virgin Megastore in Times Square still has a decent selection of jazz. I enjoyed going there on my last visit to New York. I would be sorry to see it close. That store does seem strangely hostile to its customers though--the employees usually range from unhelpful and unresponsive to a bit surly. I was shocked last time to find a smiling and helpful employee, but perhaps that was explained by the fact that he was an African immigrant. More typical was the time I dared to ask an employee if a particular CD was covered by an ambiguously described sale, and the fellow says he can't help me, and when I persist he starts waving his finger at me and raising his voice at my impertinence.