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Austin club listings: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gbase/Calen...Time=2007-03-09 Matt Wilson, Thursday to Saturday at a club called Jazz.

This is one of the most beautiful piano solo recordings I have ever heard! IMO, Weston's best solo disc, and beautifully captured with minimalistic technical means - a true audiophile recording! The recording reminded me of my one live experience with Randy Weston--I saw him in Vancouver at a solo concert, in a small venue, a year or two after this recording was made--the only opportunity I've ever had to see him perform.

I like the record, along with Martino's other recent recordings for Blue Note.

Last weekend, I just picked up the very nice solo recording, Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening.

"Audiophiles" think mono LPs sound better.

Late to the party, but glad I arrived.

Bunky Green plays great on this new recording (from 2004)--like a man who hasn't recorded in many years and is going to make up for all the lost opportunities. The trio that backs him is tremendous as well (Jason Moran, Lonnie Plaxico, Nashied Waits). It's on Label Bleu, and a little hard to find. Jazzloft.com is where I bought mine.

Is Bobby Hutcherson on this one, like the last one?

There's a nice Percy Mayfield collection on the Classics Blues and Rhythm series, 1947-51.

Junior Mance Trio (with Ron Carter and Mickey Roker)--Happy Time (Jazzland)--Terrific performance and fine engineering, coupled with a beautiful sounding pressing. (Yesterday's happy find.)

I also recommend Kardouba, which has the Max Roach Quartet (Clifford Jordan) with Abbey Lincoln on tour in Europe, in a rather inspired concert performance.

Henderson Homecoming--Rex Stewart Leads the Fletcher Henderson Alumni (United Artists)--Recorded live at the Great South Bay Jazz Festival in 1958-features Rex Stewart (the second side is Georgia Sketches, a Rex Stewart and Dick Cary composiition), Garvin Bushell, Dickie Wells, Buddy Tate, Hilton Jefferson, Joe Thomas, etc.

This site has label pictures. Unfortunately, it is in Japanese. http://www.absolutemusik.com/info/jazz_imp..._labels_tc.html I assume that the original label is the red and black label in the first line.

Once you've heard the Barbara Streisand version, it is indelibly carved in your memory, though I'm hoping that the aging process will have at least one collateral benefit.

Is there now a fourth Frank Hewitt release?

In other Mingus news, there are going to be four more performances of Epitaph. 2007 Mingus Epitaph Performances Wed, Apr. 25 2007 Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York CenterCharge 212-721-6500 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri, Apr. 27 2007 Tri-C Jazz Festival Cleveland, OH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed, May. 16 2007 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles CA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri, May. 18 2007 Symphony Center Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The first is a good record. It's available on CD from Collectibles as Donald Byrd & Booker Little, The Third World.

Great news! Now, if someone would release the recordings Columbia made at Ronnie Scott's...

If you happen to be in Philadelphia on April 20... 4.20 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art Greg Osby/Trudy Pitts Duo

I mailed a small contribution, and I shall do so again in the near future.

Thanks, I'm been wishing I had something like this.

Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet--Prestige mono, deep groove with a gold label and no address on the label, jacket is Bergenfield address): too much surface noise on this copy but the sound of the music is so beautiful.

dustygroove has the best price for these jazz impro releases ($13.99), but they seem to only get a few in at a time. jazzloft has a much better selection, but is more expensive ($18.99).

I think there are more fans of Brazilian and other South American music over at allaboutjazz.com, where you might have better luck.

The Impro Jazz label has released two DVDs which feature performances by Charles Mingus. Perhaps hoping to escape the ire of Sue Mingus (or is Eric Dolphy now more marketable than Mingus?), these DVDs have been released under the name of Eric Dolphy. One has been out awhile--Eric Dolphy in Europe, 1961-64. Half of this disc (about 50 minutes) is the Mingus Sextet performing in Oslo, Norway on April 12, 1964. This performance was available in the U.S. previously on VHS, but I don't think it was out on DVD. The recent release is Eric Dolphy, Stockholm 1964, Antibes 1960. The Stockholm performance is a 30 minute rehearsal session that appears to have been filmed for a TV special. No audience is present. This one starts with the 78 version of So Long Eric--about 2 and a half minutes long (it isn't incomplete, just accelerated). Then a wonderful 17 minute version of Meditations is performed. The show closes with another version of So Long Eric, for about 8 minutes or so. This is a very excellent performance (I don't think I've heard this before), and the video, if not Jazz Icons quality, is at least decent. Next, and even more surprisingly, the DVD features a single song from the great Mingus at Antibes performance--I'll Remember April, the track where Bud Powell sits in. Again, the video is decent--in addition to Powell, this performance features a remarkable sequence of trading fours by Dolphy and Booker Ervin. I've never seen Booker on film before, but he looks so nonchalant as he breathes fire.