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Pepper Adams Plays the Music of Charles Mingus (Fresh Sounds).

I'm surprised by that comment as the few Inner City LPs I have are all good pressings with a nice full sound. They weren't as bad as Trip, but their pressings were generally pretty mediocre (cheap vinyl, I would guess).

Yes, all three volumes, and in addition they have put out a Sonnyboy Williamson and Memphis Slim disc that is really good.

The Larry Kart review posted here is much better than the Hentoff review. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30144 I've watched the Blakey, Baker and Armstrong so far, and I love this series.

Ornette Coleman--Town Hall 1962, The Great London Concert and Live at the Golden Circle Thomas Chapin--Menagerie Dream, Sky Piece, and Night Bird Song

I just bought a Mistubishi 57 inch DLP (1080P) model, and I must say that I am very happy with it. With a good DVD, the picture is just great--really fabulous. The only viewing issue I have is that if you are standing and looking down at the screen, the picture quality is diminished, but I solve that issue by sitting down. I am glad that I stopped waiting for a better technology to come out--this one is really good.

Do you have Summit Meeting at Birdland (Columbia LP)? The jam session with Chet Baker and Sonny Criss? The JATP date that came out in the last couple of years with Sonny Criss (with the special bonus small group cuts with Coleman Hawkins and Fats Navarro)? The 1947 Carnegie Hall concert (with Dizzy)? The 1949 Carnegie Hall concert (with Red Rodney)?

He played a number of times at the Caravan of Dreams back in the mid-1980s, usually with Larry Willis on piano and Idris Muhammad on drums--a terrific rhythm section, playing with the likes of Freddie Hubbard, David Newman and Roy Hargrove.

This site has links to the websites of most of the clubs. http://www.bigapplejazz.com/ Roy Haynes is at Birdland that weekend, the Cedar Walton Trio at the Village Vanguard, and Mose Allison at Jazz Standard.

I was taking the bus to the Apollo Theater with Henry and Margaret earlier this year and they were telling me about this upcoming show....they were excited as well. m~ I wasn't sure what to expect (have kind of a lukewarm reaction to most of the Dave Douglas CDs I've heard), so it was a real unexpected treat to be blown away by the music (a wonderful venue as well). My apologies to J.D. Allen, the tenor player (not J.T. Brown, who was Elmore James' saxophonist).

Why do these rockers consent to be grilled by chewy, I'm wondering?

The Don Cherry tribute concert at Merkin Hall, with the Dave Douglas Quartet (Henry Grimes, Andrew Cyrille and J.T. Brown) and the Roy Campbell Quartet (Lee Rozie, William Parker, and Hamid Drake), performing separately and as a double quartet, was the best concert I saw this year.

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Sounds interesting. Know any good sources for this label? (The CD is $28 on amazon.com.)

This is now available in the U.S. from dustygroove.com for $30.

You sound normal to me. It's all those other people who would rather go to a bar than to the Village Vanguard who are nuts.

This hasn't been on CD has it? I've had the LP for many years, and really like this recording.

On early live recordings, when it's a good recording, the rhythm section may be too faint, but often I find that the horns sound more natural than current recordings.

Romo has been extremely impressive in his four starts. He has a quick release, has a reasonably strong arm, is pretty accurate, moves well in the pocket, is cool under pressure, and usually makes the play when it is really needed. It appears that the Cowboys have finally found Aikman's replacement.

In September, Monterey Jazz Festival, it was Roy Hargrove on trumpet. It wasn't Roy Hargrove (whom I've seen many times since he was a teenager).

It wasn't Payton or Roney. He looked like a pretty young fellow.

The best recorded Bird session, I think, is the final Verve one, his incomplete Cole Porter session. Love for Sale is the best of the session, and you can really hear his sound on this one. The other small group sessions recorded for circa 1953-54 also sound quite good. I've always found the Savoy studio sessions to be well recorded, and the source material has been well taken care of. I also like the sound of the Quintet recordings on Dial, but the source material here is more haphazard and seems to have been less well preserved. If I could only keep one jazz soloist in my music collection, it would definitely be Bird.

Anyone else see McCoy in Austin last night? I enjoyed the concert alot--I hadn't seen McCoy live since 1993, so it was a bit of a shock to see him look so frail. The trio of Tyner/Moffett/Gravatt sounded great to me--I hope they make a trio record. The solo pieces were really nice. I enjoyed hearing the horns playing some classic pieces--of the group I prefer Donald Harrison. Steve Turre is fine also; Eric Alexander was slightly less boring than usual. I didn't recognize the trumpet player (in the Dizzy vein). I was wishing to see the trio (plus Donald Harrison of the horn players) in a small club.

Last night in Austin: McCoy Tyner Septet--with Charnett Moffett, Eric Gravatt, Donald Harrison, Steve Turre, Eric Alexander, and I didn't catch the trumpeter's name (it was not Wallace Roney as announced in the program).

Ronald Shannon Jackson--Street Priest (Moers)