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Is that take different from the one on "Mingus" - I have that. I old the Candid Dolphy CD because it duplicated so many tracks, and I didn't need all those alternates. If one of you could add timings, I could compare. No, there is only one take of Stormy Weather.

Double-damn ... that is wicked Any idea if it is commercially available? Yes, that is available. There are at least four Freddie King DVDs available. I believe that this one is included in the Experience Hendrix release--Live in Europe. There are also three Vestapol DVDs-- The Beat 1966; In Concert, Dallas Texas Jan. 20th 1973; and Live at the Sugarbowl Sept. 22, 1972. All are worthy--the best is probably The Beat 1966, featuring Freddie's numerous appearances on a local Dallas teen dance show. Having on one occasion been at a club, sitting directly in front of Freddie King's amplifier, I must say he had the most incredible single note sound on guitar I've ever heard.

Monday May 1--I would pick Mike Stern Trio at the 55 Bar. This is some really intense music. I went with moderate expectations last year and was pretty much blown away. Tuesday--the Mingus Big Band for certain.

From mingusmingusmingus.com: New MBB and Legacy recordings Mon, Feb. 13 2006 The Mingus Big Band made a live recording at the Blue Note in Tokyo, New Year's Eve, Dec. 3lst, 2005-06. This recording, together with the Charles Mingus live album,"Music Written for Monterey, Not Played, Performed at UCLA, l965" --which has never before appeared on CD -- will be issued simultaneously in September 2006 on the SueMingusMusic label, distributed by Sunnyside and Universal Music. Together, these two albums offer an opportunity to hear Charles Mingus performing his own music live in l965, as well as today's musicians carrying his huge legacy of composition into the future.

The track listing of this great set is here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B...ing=UTF8#disc_1

I can't believe everyone doesn't have this already (along with The Great Concert of Charles Mingus). There's supposedly another complete concert recording of this group at Cornell University and Sue Mingus has claimed she is going to release it, though it never seems to happen.

Paul Desmond with the Modern Jazz Quartet, The Only Recorded Performance (Finesse)

The pickles at the Carnegie Deli on Seventh Avenue are the best I've ever had.

You must not have Mingus at Monterey, on which Lou Blackburn plays.

I assume you are aware of the Uptown release, Charlie Parker, Montreal 1953, which has the audio of this appearance.

Fascinating. My order for the Tom Archia has been placed. I also recommend the excellent Marion Abernathy Classics CD, most of which features the Hot Lips Page Band, with Mr. Archia in the band.

"Satisfying" "Video feetage"? I see.

I can't tell much difference--but either the LP or the CD are good enough to be considered listenable, and this is a great concert. My favorite part was always the sequence on side 2 of the LP, where Ellington says, "And now our Portraits," leading into Portrait of Bert Williams, Portrait of Bojangles, Portrait of Florence Mills, then onto a great version of Koko, and then on to two Strayhorn pieces, "Dirge," which is the bleakest piece of music I've ever heard, and another great Johnny Come Lately. Of course, side 5 of the old LP set, with Bakiff, Jack the Bear, Cotton Tail and Day Dream, I like almost as much.

I always keep a variety of music on my player, also knowing that I won't feel the need to listen to all of my Miles or Coltrane albums or all of my Mosaic sets in the same week. So there is no point of carrying all of them with me. You also have to be aware of the technological limitations. AFAIK there are currently no 100GB hard drives in the 1.8" format that Ipods uses, and when they become available they will be quite expensive. Fuji, the market leader for 1.8" drives, hopes to be able to launch a 120GB drive by September 2007. That's the current capacity of the biggest laptop hard drives (2.5"). 60 gb is not enough because I do not wish to be deleting and replacing music from the ipod constantly, I only wish to add music. I wish to carry all of my favorite Coltrane, Bird, Mingus, Ellington, etc. music with me, not only a few selected recordings. The fact that my ipod has all of my favorite Mingus and Bird tracks (i.e., most of their recordings) is a great benefit. The more capacity, the better.

Ornette sounds great on this one--Tears Inside and the title cut are my two favorite tracks, but a really fine recording. And yes, you need to get Something Else as well.

Dallascowboys.com already has Terrell Owens Cowboys jerseys for sale. Hopefully just a coincidence, but the day after TO's arrival we are experiencing severe rain and flooding.

Well said! He's an undersung great, one of my favorites, and fortunately, I've been able to hear him live at least a dozen times over the years.

I'm one, I love his sound.

I've been wanting to see that one also, but have never had the opportunity.

I certainly hope the Cowboys don't sign T.O.--that would be a big disappointment. They do have $23 million of cap space, so expect a few free agent signings.

Those Americas, Blue Bird and Pithycanthropus Erectus, are actually pretty damn great. The title track to the former I used to spin all the time... Those are favorites of mine also. That horn section (Charles McPherson, Bobby Jones, and Eddie Preston) is fine by me anytime.

There's a live version of Sugar on the remastered CD of Stanley Turrentine's "Sugar" that is really good as well. I have a CTI LP, Freddie Hubbard and Stanley Turrentine in Concert, Volume 1, but I recall it as a disappointment.

I really can't imagine, it sounds good to me, and I like the group, which I believe is pretty much the same group as another good one from that period, harder to obtain--Sonny Rollins in Japan.

I haven't heard Easy Living, but of the other three mentioned (Horn Culture, Next Album and The Cutting Edge), my favorite is definitely Horn Culture, an excellent record and the very first Sonny Rollins record I ever bought.