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Bob Stewart is on tuba on most of Arthur Blythe's recordings on Columbia--including Lenox Avenue Breakdown, Elaborations, Illusions, and Blythe Spirit.

Cadence has 48 DIW titles for sale on its website--most are $16.

For Barbeque, I recommend Rudy's on I-35 in Denton. I'm not a fan of Sammy's. I worked nearby for about five years and would be perfectly happy to never go there again. For Tex-Mex, a few suggestions would be R.J.'s in the West End, Blue Goose on Lower Greenville, Matt's by the Lakewood Theater, or Rafa's on Lovers Lane and the Tollway.

I assume Charnett Moffett. Morganized's description does not sound like Charnett. According to McCoy's website: McCoy Tyner Trio Curtis Lundy, bass Eric Kamau Gravatt, drums

One might infer that all of these listings from the Jazz Record Center are from Leonard Feather's personal collection, and that he basically only listened to the records once or twice.

Ray Bryant--Groove House (Sue) Willis Jackson--Neopolitan Nights (Prestige)

My favorite cut from the Ornette on Tenor sessions is not on the album--it's on later released The Art of the Improvisors--Harlem's Manhattan.

High Energy is way better than Superblue, if you haven't heard it.

No, I don't believe so. Coltrane's trumpet partners, besides Miles Davis: Wilbur Harden, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, Bill Hardman, Johnny Splawn--mostly on Prestige.

I didn't make it. Who was on bass?

Hot Horn on Everest? Is that a Freddie Hubbard or Junior Cook record? Never heard of it.

I guess that it is a matter of taste. For my taste, Buddy Guy has a tendency to sometimes go a bit too over the top in his guitar playing. I find his work most enjoyable when he is loose, but still somewhat restrained and concentrating on putting across a blues song rather than dazzling an audience with fretboard gymnastics. I think that several of his Chess recordings are genuine masterpieces, and not just for the guitar playing. Sure, I prefer the unrestrained Buddy. It's not too over the top for me.

I have that on LP and like it.

A Man and the Blues is a nice collaboration of Otis Spann and Buddy Guy, but is pretty low key as far as Buddy's guitar is concerned. His Chess recordings are okay, but not really among the finer recordings on Chess, for the most part. They simply did not let him play like he really plays. I find it puzzling when someone prefers his early recordings--but this seems to be pretty common among blues fans. The CDs that he issued as a private bootleg series from Legends two or three years ago contain some of the actual best Buddy Guy recordings.

Ring Dem Bells--This is a collection of 1937-40 small group recordings. Very good material with excellent sound. This RCA Bluebird CD is out of print, but there are very inexpensive copies available from amazon.com seller.

Coincidentally, today I found two Ray Bryant LPs on Sue Records, in very nice condition, which I purchased. I THINK I have all the Sue albums. Only 1 on LP, though. Some of the Columbia material features the likes of Buddy Tate and in spite of titles like "Dancing the big twist" is really nice. MG What I found are: Groove House--Sue LP 1016 (possibly the heaviest vinyl I've ever owned) Cold Turkey--Sue LP 1032--"The Hit Single 'Shake a Lady' Included in this Album" it says on a sticker on the cover--Ray Bryant had a hit single?

Buddy Guy, for starters: Stone Crazy DJ Play My Blues With Junior Wells: Hoodoo Man Blues Pleading the Blues

Coincidentally, today I found two Ray Bryant LPs on Sue Records, in very nice condition, which I purchased.

In addition to the ones mentioned, I like the Art Tatum Group Masterpiece session with Hampton. Reunion at Newport 1967 is quite good as well. He was also responsible for the final Charles Mingus recording (in 1977), which is not great Mingus, but is still pretty enjoyable, with Hampton, Woody Shaw and Gerry Mulligan as the main soloists on various Mingus compositions.

In print Delmarks: http://jazzrecordmart.com/product/delmark.htm

I am envious of your Savoy LP collection!

Red Holloway--Red Soul (Prestige).

The 1948 Elvin is on one of those purple/yellow label Savoys, an anthology called Swing... Not Spring! I thought the date was a typo.

Sidney Bechet/Buck Clayton/Vic Dickenson/George Wein/Arvell Shaw/Kansas Fields--Concert a l'Exposition Universalle de Bruxelles (Vogue)--This is an excellent concert but unfortunately the pressing is defective. If I am reading the French liner notes correctly, I believe this is said to be Sidney Bechet's last recording. He sounds wonderful as usual.

Big John Patton fan since sometime back in the '70s when I found an original Blue Note of Got A Good Thing Goin' in a cutout bin. Hooked from the first track (the Yodel).