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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.

Gil Evans--OUt Of The Cool (Impulse)

I found one of these yesterday, not a very common occurrence anymore. The title was puzzling, Jazz South Pacific--a jazz version of the soundtrack to South Pacific? No, it's a live recording from a jazz tour of military bases in the South Pacific (and Korea) circa 1951-52. A nice group too--J.J. Johnson, Howard McGhee, Oscar Pettiford, Ketter Betts, Charlie Rich and Rudy Williams (on tenor). I don't recall hearing Rudy Williams before, (only hearing the Mingus composition Eulogy for Rudy Williams), but he sounds like a fine tenor player.

Five Prestige Miles Davis LPs, with yellow and black labels, New Jersey address: Walkin', Dig, Relaxin', Collectors' Items, and Bags Groove. Also, the Riverside anthology, The Soul of Jazz Piano. All seemingly unplayed, from the same collection.

My next Mosaic turned out to be Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano, since I found a used copy for $25 yesterday.

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.