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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?

Village Voice article from 1957. The Village Vanguard, by the way, is at Seventh Avenue and 11th Street, one block from this concert. Clip Job: Charles Mingus in the Village Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives June 5, 1957, Vol. II, No. 32 Major Jazz Event in Village The Village Voice and Jean Shepherd will bring together some of America’s most brilliant interpreters of modern jazz on Saturday midnight, June 15. Loew’s Sheridan, at Seventh Avenue and 12th Street, was chosen to stage the concert in order to bring this major musical event into the Village. It will be the first jazz concert of such magnitude ever to take place below 14th Street. Present plans call for a series of “jazz evenings” which, it is hoped, will make Greenwich Village the number-one jazz center of the country. Jean Shepherd, as master of ceremonies, will introduce the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Charlie Mingus Quintet, and the Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne. Barbara Lea will handle the vocals. The Modern Jazz Quartet is regarded by critics as one of the really great jazz groups playing today. Of its musical director and pianist, John Lewis, Downbeat wrote: “He is unlike any other in contemporary jazz. No one combines his quality and touch…his classical taste, and his ability to swing deeply while appearing so quietly fastidious.” Among the highlights of the evening will be a new composition by bass virtuoso Charlie Mingus called “Tia Juana Table Dance.” An authentic Flamenco dancer will accompany the number, which is based on Spanish Flamenco and jazz rhythms. Critic Barry Ulanov said of Mingus “Here is a man who thinks and feels with unending resources both of musical technique and imagination. In other words, an artist.” All tickets for the jazz event entitled “Music for Night People” are $2, and are on sale—mail order or over-the-counter—at Loew’s Sheridan.

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse, orange and black) Coltrane (Impulse, red and black)

Bangers, mash, and Dick Heckstall-Smith! Have you read the Dick Heckstall-Smith autobiography, Blowing the Blues? It's a pretty good read, plus it includes a CD of unreleased music, the best of which are two long cuts by the group DHS$. I've read a copy of the original imprint at a library - a really good read. Some fascinating reminiscences about Graham Bond, the Colloseum years with Jon Hiseman and about Mike Taylor. Is it now available in re-print with CD? (in which case I'll get me a copy pronto). The version with a CD is paperbound--I've seen lots of copies at Half Price Books in the recent past. It's this edition: http://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Blues-Person...7209&sr=1-1

Nina Simone--the High Priestess of Soul (Philips mono deep groove) Trio Los Panchos--the Music of Ernesto Lecuona (Columbia 2 eyes)

Bangers, mash, and Dick Heckstall-Smith! Have you read the Dick Heckstall-Smith autobiography, Blowing the Blues? It's a pretty good read, plus it includes a CD of unreleased music, the best of which are two long cuts by the group DHS$.

Modern Jazz Quartet (Atlantic): Collaberation with With Laurendio Almeida The Sheriff

April 17--Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Buddy Guy--House of Blues.

Manny Albam--Jazz Goes to the Movies--Impulse, black and orange label

McCoy Tyner--Reaching Fourth (impulse, red and black label)

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)