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The Moffett Family Jazz Band, Magic of Love, is one great recording.

David Murray Octet - Home (Soul Note).

I was in Chicago for a couple of days last week and was able to get out on Tuesday evening to see Bud Shank at the Jazz Showplace. This was my first visit to the Jazz Showcase and I was most impressed with the club, though the attendance for both sets on opening night was pretty meager (20-30 people). I thought Bud Shank was rather terrific (again, the first time I've seen him live; the new CD he was selling, a dual alto band with Phil Woods is a good one, by the way). I also made it to the Jazz Record Mart (again for the first time), a privilege which cost me big time. Then add a trip to Legend's Wednesday night and an otherwise dull business trip turned out rather well. (Nice photos.)

Freddie Webster. Clarence Shaw.

Bill Lee Buster Smith

As a general rule, Americans who are not movie buffs will not attend movies with subtitles. (Reading is really hard, you know.) Hence, the multiplex theaters which are dominant in the U.S. will rarely, if ever, show foreign films. Most major cities will have one or two "arthouse" theaters, which will show a mixture of U.S. independent films and foreign films. I couldn't say how many foreign films are shown in such theaters over the course of the year, but I would guess the number is likely surprisingly small.

The track from the Monterey anthology is different from the track on the EP, by the way--Don't Let It Happen Here on the former, and They Trespass the Land of the Sacred Sioux on the latter. The personnel of this octet is as follows (in addition to Mingus and Dannie Richmond): Charles McPherson (alto) Julius Watkins (French Horn) Howard Johnson (tuba) Trumpets: Hobart Dotson, Lonnie Hillyer, and Jimmy Owens.

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There is a track from the 1965 Monterey performance on the Monterey Jazz Festival 4 CD anthology, so I would assume this was taped by the festival. I do recall reading somewhere (years ago) that the source tapes subsequently (after the LP reissue) were located and had not been destroyed.

Signed by Sue Mingus? The EP was issued as a bonus along with the LP reissue of the UCLA concert, which as I recall occurred subsequent to Mr. Mingus' death.

The EP is from the Monterey performance. The LP set is a subsequent concert at UCLA.

I don't think they mean that the CD release will be limited, only that prior issues were limited. Hopefully they will also release the complete Monterey performance by the same group (admittedly short in length).

From the Mingus website: Limited edition release coming April 2006 Thu, Oct. 27 2005 The second release from SueMingusMusic/ Universal will be a Charles Mingus album from l965, originally issued as a limited edition on the Charles Mingus Enterprises label, and entitled "Music Written For Monterey, Not Played, Performed At UCLA 1965". It will be issued in April, 2006, for the first time on CD, with Mingus's cartoon ads, new photographs and up-dated liner notes.

This is not the first time two bad singers have recorded a duet.

I have a new, sealed copy of the out-of-print Masters of Jazz CD, Jimmy Lunceford, volume 8, 1940-41. I will sell (postage paid) for $10, or offer a trade.

The edition of Prime Time with Charlie Ellerbee and Bern Nix on twin guitars, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Albert McDowell on twin bass guitars was one of the greatest bands I ever had the good fortune to hear live (on a number of occasions). I did not have the opportunity to see the next edition of Prime Time live, but based on the recording (Tone Dialing), it doesn't sound as good to me. In all Languages is a wonderful record. Opening the Caravan of Dreams is a good one also, but it hasn't been on CD and the sound quality of the recording leaves something to be desired. Ah--but how do you feel about the later Prime Times (e.g., In All Languages, Tone Dialing--nice to see some positives on that, BTW)? ←

(I also remember Metamorphosis.) However, I've never connected with this record, for some reason, other than the track with the Master Musicians of Joujouka. This is even though I count Ronald Shannon Jackson and Jamaaladeen Tacuma as favorite musicians. I didn't hear it until later, after I had heard "Of Human Feelings," which to me is the first great Prime Time record.

Favorite non-Ellington version--Mingus on Mingus at Monterey.

Obviously their first visit to Nature's Paradise (Houston).

Happy birthday and thanks for all your contributions to this board.

I have the On Green Dolphin Street issue, and the sound is inferior, not nearly as good as the Stockholm and Paris concerts.

There's also If Only for One Night, which has Najee on sax, but actually is pretty good. After Slammin and Jammin, I second the recommendation of Organommically Correct (a Muse collection, and a great one).

Slammin' and Jammin' (with Melvin Sparks and Carlos Garnett) is a really good one.

I saw her with Mike Stern at the 55 Bar a month or so ago and was very impressed. Mr. Stern is playing very well these days, and the two of them together are electrifying.

The only thing that could improve this great record would be one less track--the jarring Hoe-Down.