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Return to Forever 5/29/08 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre 5/30/08 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre 5/31/08 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Center 6/01/08 - Dallas, TX - Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie

Thelonious Monk--Monk's Blues (Columbia, 2 eyes)

I don't know for sure, but I suspect it might be because the soundtrack was only leased, not owned, by Columbia. I suspect that the lease was a rather limited one, because the US Jazz Track LP is one that I have only rarely seen eitehr for sale or in private collections, leading me to believe that its origianl availability was limited. The later, sextet, portions of the Jazz Track LP first(?) began to resurface in the US 1970s on Basic Miles (& before that on the French CBS Facets). I have to think that the fact that there's not quite a full LP's worth of material from that session made for some..."packaging dilemmas" through the years. Basic Miles itself is a mix of "rarities" and very common material, indicating to me that there was not yet a clear view of how to best package the material. Anybody older and/or wiser than me (and/or with access to an old Schwann showing when Jazz Track was deleted), please feel free to correct as needed. I actually saw the first copy of Jazz Track I've ever come across this week, but alas it was so badly scratched that I passed it by. Basic Miles is hodge-podge, but the album that first enlightened me to Miles.

I have this but haven't played it in forever. How is it? It's an excellent album. Just like Bags and Hawk, and Bags and Trane. This is also the best sounding Orpheum pressing I've found, heavy vinyl, little surface noise, and vivid sound.

Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery--Bags and Wes (Riverside Orpheum)

The main problem I've had with the first three discs of this set is that the quality is so uniformly high that I'm finding that I can hardly omit any songs when I transfer them to my itunes library.

Looking through my LPs, I have a couple of Hannibal led sessions--Hannibal in Antibes on Inner City (1977), and a different recording by the Sunrise Orchestra, on MPS, from around 1975. He's also on the last George Adams leader session, Old Feeling, and on a few tracks on Don Pullen's Atlantic debut, Tomorrow's Promises.

Johnny Lytle--Blue Vibes (Jazzland, orange label mono) Junior Mance at the Village Vanguard (Jazzland, black label stereo)

I thought the second session was much better than the first. The trumpeter sounds off in the first session.

If you have the Mosaic Bix, is there any other essential small group Bix that is not included?

I like the recording. Joe Locke sounds especially good.

It may have been that band (Saft was in it) who played this festival a couple of years back - all a bit heavy-metalish for me. I think I left early, which is rare for me. I know Previte has a huge range of contexts, but that one wasn't up my street. So I skipped this time. I think "New Bump" is a successor to Bump the Renaissance and is one of his acoustic groups. May 2008 European Tour BUMP THE RENAISSANCE: Ellery Eskelin, Bill Ware, Brad Jones, Bobby Previte

The Bobby Previte show would be on the top of my list. He's been a long-time favorite on records, and I got to see him at the 55 Bar a couple of years ago, with Jamie Saft, Skerik and a Russian guitarist whose name escapes me--it was up there with the best live music I've heard in the last few years.

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