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HOME CONCERTS & EVENTS CALENDAR Regina Carter | Jazz Series October 21, 2021 Thursday October 21, 2021 7:30pm BUY TICKETS REGINA CARTER violin Regina Carter is coming to the Meyerson as part of our 2nd annual Jazz Series! HOME CONCERTS & EVENTS CALENDAR Kevin Eubanks | Jazz Series June 20, 2022 Monday June 20, 2022 7:30pm BUY TICKETS KEVIN EUBANKS guitar Kevin Eubanks is coming to the Meyerson as part of our 2nd annual Jazz Series!

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Erroll Garner, Symphony Hall Concert (Mack Avenue)

Keith Jarrett, Köln Concert (ECM) Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Tone Poet)

I've never found anything in his music that appeals to me. I don't like his songs, his voice, his guitar playing (even though I've heard over and over again that Prince is a great guitar player, I've never heard a solo I liked). I pretty much detached from American popular music in the early 1970s. Basically nothing that comes after that appeals to me, and that includes Prince.

Love Miles and hate Prince.

I really like the Moran/Shepp duets--the CD was recently available from dustygoove. I think they still have it on LP.

Joe Albany, Portrait of an Artist (Musician/Wounded Bird) John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell (Riverside/OBC)

American Folk Blues Festival '65 (L&R)

15 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920 Plus 9 Post War Rarities, Volume 19 (Blues Images)

Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin (Columbia)

Kokoroko, Carry Me Home/Baba Ayoola (Brownswood) Dizzy Gillespie, It's My Way (Solid State) Willis Jackson, In the Alley (Muse)

I saw Kenny Drew, Jr. playing with the Mingus Big Band a number of times at the Fez/Time Cafe in the '90s.

Diablos Del Ritmo, The Columbia Melting Pot, 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)

I can answer those questions. Kanaga System Krush was a U.S. based West Coast label which formerly issued CDs and LPs. It seems to have failed as a business in that regard, and the several Bandcamp downloads are the only partial remnant of the label. It is not a "produced" label. They traveled to Mali and recorded the musicians in their home environment. Most of the CDs I have on this label are quite good, with my favorite releases being by Lobi Traore, Zani Diabate and Madou Diabate (kora). The Zani Diabate is an acoustic guitar duo recording with Moudy Sissoko, and vocals from Oumou Diabate. It was recorded in February of 2005, in Abdoul Doumbia's family compound in Bamako. (Not his last recording, I was mistaken on that point.) Very good one. Moving on to Lobi Traore, Bwati Kono (Raw Electic Blues from Bamako) is a live recording recorded in 2007 and 2008 at two music venues in Bamako. Indoors at Espace Academie and outdoors at "Hotel.' This is with his working band (bass guitar, drums, rhythm guitar, djembe, and balaphon on a few tracks. This is a great album, perhaps not quite as intense as Bamako Nights. This was on CD and then an LP was released with part of the material; I was hoping for a volume 2 with extra tracks but the label failed soon thereafter. Barra Coura is another acoustic guitar duo recording from February 2006, recorded in the same location as the Zani Diabate. Also very good. Lamine Soumano is the second guitarist. One track adds Adama Couloubaly on Bolon. Bamako Nights is on Glitterbeat, recorded live in 1995 by Yves Werner. The band is Alou Dembele, bass, Binke Traore, bass, Yaya Dembele, djembe, and Samba Sissoko, drums. A great record. All of these are in finely recorded sound.

Zani Diabate is superb. I have two CDs and 2 LPs of music from him. He seems lightly recorded, or the music is just hard to access. What may be the final Zani Diabate recording is available for download here: https://kskrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kaboko-zani

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One of my favorites--it seems I was fortunate enough to see him live eight times, but never in the city where I live. May 29, 2007: Jazz Standard, New York January 31, 2014: Carver Center, San Antonio May 1, 2014: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 25, 2015: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival July 30, 2016: Lensic, Santa Fe September 29, 2017: Antone's, Austin January 11, 2018: Jazz Standard, New York April 25, 2019: Snug Harbor, New Orleans

The small group Pablo releases featuring Basie, which I ignored at the time, have proven to be a bountiful treasure. Thanks once again, Norman Granz, for capturing it on record.

Archie Shepp and Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Jazz Village)

The Cookers, Look Out (Gearbox)

October 10, 2021: iLe, House of Blues, Dallas October 11, 2021: iLe, House of Blues, Houston October 15, 2021: Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth October 21, 2021: Regina Carter, Meyerson Symphony Hall, Dallas October 29-30, 2021: Jackie Venson, Windmills, The Colony October 30, 2021:Rebirth Brass Band, Dallas Heritage Village Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth November 5, 2021: Jason Moran: James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters, McCullough Theater, Austin November 6, 2021: Jason Moran: James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters, Cullen Theater, Houston November 20, 2021: Jackie Venson, Rockefeller's, Houston December 21, 2021: Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart, Meyerson Symphony Hall, Dallas January 26, 2022: Brubeck Brothers, One World Theater, Austin February 22, 2022: Jackie Venson, Dosey Doe, The Woodlands February 23-24, 2022: Pat Metheny, One World Theater. Austin February 25, 2022: Pat Metheny Side Eye, Cullen Theater, Houston February 26, 2022: Pat Metheny Side-Eye, Majestic Theater, Dallas March 22, 2022: Buddy Guy, House of Blues, Dallas March 24-27, 2022::John Zorn; Bill Frisell; Sons of Kemet; Jason Moran; Preservation hall Jazz Band; Marc Ribot; Andrew Cyrille; Ron Miles Quartet; Nubya Garcia; Shabaka Hutchings; Joshua Abrams; Ambrose Akinmusire; Jamie Branch; Kris Davis; Harriet Tubman; Theon Cross, Pedrito Martinez; Myra Melford; Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses; Jeff Parker; Christian Scott; Ches Smith; Craig Taborn; Mdou Moctar (Niger); Lakou Mizak (Haiti); Leyla McCalla, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee. April 23, 2022: Joel Ross, Cullen Theater, Houston April 29-May 1, 2022: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5-8, 2022: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 13, 2022: Artemis, Cullen Theater, Houston June 20, 2022: Kevin Eubanks, Meyerson Symphony Hall, Dallas

Johnny Lytle, The Sound of Velvet Soul (Solid State) Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes, Trio Music (ECM_ Solo/Quartet on Contemporary and all of the Landmark releases are better choices.

Sonny Greenwich, Sun Song Freddie Keppard, New Orleans Cornet (Smithsonian)

Bitori, The Legend of Funana (Analog Africa) Roderick Paulin, Slow But Steady