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I was just listening to Shirley Scott, Hip Twist (on Prestige) with "Stan Turrentine." A nice record.

T-Bone Blues is a killer record. On of favorite blues lps in my collection. I'd love to be able to pick up the Bluesways. Are they available anywhere? Have the ever been reissued? They are available on amazon.com (I just ordered both).

Thanks, I have T Bone Blues, not not the others mentioned.

I have the Mosaic set, which covers 1940-1954. I am wondering what are the best post-1954 recordings of T Bone Walker. I'm asking because yesterday I found an old Prestige Jimmy Witherspoon LP, Evenin' Blues, which to my surprise features T Bone Walker on guitar (also Clifford Scott on saxophone). This is an excellent LP, and T Bone sounds great. I was wondering if anyone knows of any other outstanding later T Bone Walker recordings.

I loved George Adams. His solo on "Duke Eliington Sounds of Love" is one of the best tenor solos ever! I was so excited to be in New York and able to go see the Mingus Big Band in the early days of its playing at the Time Cafe--I'd read that George Adams played with the band--he wasn't there that night so I asked the woman who collected the money (Mr. Mingus' step-daughter) if he still played with the group--"They carried him out on a stretcher last week"--I believe he died not too longer thereafter.

He's on the excellent Enrico Rava-Giovanni Tommaso CD, La Dolce Vita--very nice performances of mostly songs from famous Italian films, on the CamJazz label.

The label that accounts for virtually the entire discography of Terje Rypdal is okay with me.

Last night, the First University of Texas at Dallas Jazz Festival. First, Dan Morgenstern gave a 45 minute or so talk about early jazz in Dallas and Texas, playing musical examples. He played some music by Sammy Price, Hot Lips Page (awesome), Alphonso Trent (?), Bob Wills, and Boots and His Buddies. I really enjoyed the lecture. Trent is the one whose music I was unfamiliar with--he played an 18 month engagement in Dallas at the Adolphus Hotel starting in 1925--the two recorded examples played were really tremendous (one featuring Stuff Smith). Then, Leroy Hog Cooper (Ray Charles' baritone saxophonist for 20 years) led a pickup group for a nice two set concert. He still sounds good on baritone and soprano sax, though he tended to play fairly short solos, and to sit out some songs. The concert was billed as a tribute to Ray Charles. However, Cooper seemed alot more interested in talking about his association with Buster Smith. So the concert was a mixture of Buster Smith compositions (cool version of Rose Room which Cooper played with Buster Smith at the Rose Room in Dallas), standards, and Ray Charles associated songs. He told the story of Buster Smith selling One O'Clock Jump to Count Basie for a half a cigar and a bottle of whiskey. The lecture was sparsely attended, but there might have been a couple of hundred people there for the concert.

Sun Ra's Horo recordings.

http://www.ah.utdallas.edu/season0607/terryjazzfest.htm

Tonight (Friday, Jan 26), at UTD, at 7 p.m.--Dan Morgenstern lecture, followed by concert featuring Leroy Hog Cooper.

He has some great sessions on the Commodore Mosaic sets. I'm not sure if they have been separately released. Presumably they have been on Classics.

Uh... did you have the volume up? Have to disagree with "limp, uninspired, and utterly boring", but different strokes. I think this is a great performance, and it gets better every time I play it. I think even people who don't care much for Scofield would be impressed with his playing on this. Actually, I normally like Scofield quite a bit--I've seen him live many times over the years. I love Jack DeJohnette (when he's not playing with Keith Jarrett, anyway). Oh well.

I actually found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be very disappointing. Of course, I bought it when I was heavily into the live Antibes album. And I don't think anything could have stacked up favorably to that one. The only Mingus album that disappointed me was Three or Four Shades of Blues, which was because Changes One and Two were so good, and there was such a long wait for this lesser record to come out. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus ... are both great recordings, in my opinion. I also found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be disappointing. It is certainly good, but I had read that Mingus thought that his music was finally recorded properly on that album for the first time, and I expected so much. Three or Four Shades of Blues....I bought it the day it came out. The man at the counter at Discount Records in Madison, Wisconsin, most likely a Chuck Nessa-trained guy, tried so hard to talk me out of buying it. He told me that it was so terrible, that when I finally heard it, I thought it was great by comparison to the expectations he had created. Now, I like the title track and think that the rest is O.K. I also like Three or Four Shades of Blues, but merely liking a Mingus recording is below my expectations.

Uh... did you have the volume up? "Turn It Up or Turn It Off." I don't know, it must be me. I'll try it again in a few years or something.

I actually found Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus to be very disappointing. Of course, I bought it when I was heavily into the live Antibes album. And I don't think anything could have stacked up favorably to that one. The only Mingus album that disappointed me was Three or Four Shades of Blues, which was because Changes One and Two were so good, and there was such a long wait for this lesser record to come out. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus ... are both great recordings, in my opinion.

I was disappointed with this one when released. I don't like the recording quality for one thing. But I did re-listen fairly recently and found that I liked it better, at least some of the tracks.

After reading all the accolades for Trio Beyond/Saudade, I couldn't have been more disappointed at this limp, uninspired and utterly boring recording. Not a single track did I want to hear twice.

I'd like to amend my list of favorites to include his posthumous release, Ballads and Bossas: The Lost Sessions. This has become my favorite of his last years. There's also a nice Getz DVD out, The Last Recording.

I think you would be better off with The Village Vanguard set and Live at Birdland, if you don't have them already, as opposed to the Live Trane box set. The VV and Birdland sets are more accessible, and much better recorded.

I don't want to come down too heavily on a new member. So welcome Acoustic. Let me just say that Tyner's "Enlightement" absolutely floored me when I first heard it in 1974 and it was one of the 6 albums that turned me on to "real jazz". I still remember the extraordianry experience of hearing that album for the first time on the radio one night. I bought the album the next day and it started to take my jazz listening down a much different road than the big band and fusion that I had been mostly listening to up to then. Tyner ordinary? Not in my book. Never. I'm with you (JT that is).

I watched the Basie Jazz Icons DVD last night--it's another essential one. Well filmed, with good sound, and a star-studded band (the likes of Thad Jones and Quinton Jackson included), filmed for Swedish television in 1962.

Last night and this morning, I listened to Sonny Stitt's Soul Electricity! This is one inspired recording--with Don Patterson, Billy Butler and Billy James (working group plus Billy Butler on guitar)--and the sound of this recording is very wonderful. All standards on this LP, but Stitt is on fire on every one. Since I can't stop myself, I bought four more Prestiges--Willis Jackson, Star Bag (with Trudy Pitts and Wild Bill Jennings), Wild Bill Jennings with Brother Jack McDuff, Enough Said, Willis Jackson and Brother Jack McDuff, Together Again, Again, and Johnny Hammond Smith with Willis Jackson, Good 'Nuff.

There are two Richard M. Jones CDs on the Classics label, 1923-1927, and 1927-1944. He recorded two piano solos for Gennett in 1923, and led a group which recorded sporadically as Richard M. Jones and His Jazz Wizards. In 1926, he organized a concert for Okeh, featuring King Oliver and the only known public appearance of the Louis Armstrong Hot Five. He died in 1945. The famous blues song he authored, if I recall correctly, is Troube in Mind.

I bought a few more from the same source: Brother Jack McDuff--Hallelujah Time!, the Midnight Sun, Prelude, and Soul Circle. Gene Ammons--the Boss is Back Richard Groove Holmes--That Healin' Feelin' James Moody--Don't Look Away Now! The Ammons, Groove Holmes, and McDuff's Soul Circle, all have Chris Albertson liner notes.