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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).

Willis Jackson--Keep on A Blowin' (Prestige)

Happy birthday!

Does he just load every track from a CD into his library? I like to be discriminating and only load the tracks that I like, whether it's one track or the entire CD. My 10,000 plus itunes library nonetheless now seems puny.

Yes, but for this one I might have to compromise my principles, as I only have one of the two releases of this material.

Please tell us more. I'm afraid I don' know any more--this was on the dustygroove upcoming releases list.

Ornette Coleman -- Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club . . . CD Early May, 2007

What is Mould release agent? I have a Nitty Gritty cleaner, and it makes a big difference on dusty vinyl.

Yes - I forgot about that one. And also his "Cold day in hell". They've issued a new live one of Rush last year, which I haven't got around to yet. Bet tht's a good 'un, too. MG Others seemed to like the newly issued Otis Rush more than I did--the recording has that cassette recording sound.

Delmark has also issued many outstanding blues recordings (see Jimmy Dawkins recordings above), and also: Junior Wells--Hoodoo Man Blues Magic Sam--West Side Soul Otis Rush--So Many Roads Robert Ward--New Role Soul

They are attending to your soul and are wholly unconcerned with such crass worldly concerns.

Roy Campbell--New Kingdom and La Tierra del Fuego Malachi Thompson--Blue Jazz