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Smalls honoring veteran musicians. We decided to honor several musicians who have had impact on our Smalls eco-system by creating the "SmallsLIVE Living Masters Award". Our criterion is that the musician must be 65 years or older. He or she must have had a significant career in jazz and recognition by their peers and, finally, had to have had a relationship with Smalls (or Mezzrow). This award has two components. One is a cash award to the recipient and the other component is a live performance and recording at the club. Our goal is to benefit and document these lifelong artists. The first award went to a project co-led by Tyler Mitchell and saxophonist Marshall Allen (96 years old). They did an amazing live show that we preserved with audio and video recordings. The second recipient arrives today to New York from France, the great Kirk Lightsey. It's our great honor to bring Kirk back to the city, first time back since the pandemic. He will perform at Smalls on Tuesday night and Mezzrow on Wednesday. Thursday afternoon we will be doing a closed door recording of Kirk's group that features Mark Whitfield, Santi Debreano and Victor Lewis. The third recipient will is the wonderful Sheila Jordan and she will do her project along with Alan Broadbent and Harvie S on October 25th. Other musicians chosen for this award include, Steve Nelson, George Cables, Victor Lewis, Frank Lacy and David Liebman. Please watch for them as we announce their upcoming concert dates.

Charles Mingus, Statements (Lotus) Ray Brown/Milt Jackson, Much in Common (Verve)

More from the same engagement:

Oscar Pettiford Memorial Album (Prestige) Bill Harris All Stars (w/Lennie Tristano), A Knight in the Village, 1947 (Jazz Showcase) Earl Hines and Paul Gonsalves, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing (Black Lion)

My copy is also a promo.

About the same; not as inspired as usual, but it perks up in spots.

Bsrney Kessel, Solo (Concord) Johnny Lytle, Close Enough for Jazz (Solid State)

Smoke Discs Barney Wilen or Tubby Hayes?

Saw Jameel Moondoc and the Jus' Grew Orchestra one time at Fez in the Time Cafe. Bern Nix on guitar. Terrific band and music.

Qwanqwa, volume 2 (FPE)

Kenny Burrell, Sky Street (Fantasy)

Arnett Cobb Lawrence Brown Willie Dennis Pacific Jazz or Contemporary?

Count Basie and Joe Turner, The Bosses (Pablo/OJC)

John Handy's jazz-Indian music fusions are perhaps the most successful-- Karuna Supreme (MPS) and Rainbow (MPS). Dave Holland played a concert in Dallas in 2017 with a group of mixed jazz and Indian classical musicians that was fantastic--I don't think the group has recorded. There is Good Hope, a scaled down trio version, but with only Chris Potter and Zakir Hussain. Aakash Mittal is an alto saxophonist playing in the same vein as Rudresh Mahanthappa that I heard at the Ragas Live Festival a few years ago in a trio with Rez Abassi on guitar. Sameer Gupta, who I heard at the same festival, is a percussionist with Marc Cary, who combines jazz and Indian music in his own recordings. There's also a John Mayer recording of more recent vintage (1996) that is quite good. https://smile.amazon.com/John-Mayers-Indo-Fusions-1997-01-01/dp/B01K8QOISU/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=John+Mayer%27s+Indo+Jazz+Fusions&qid=1630943091&s=music&sr=1-3

Nothing Is was also my first Sun Ra LP, in school in Austin at the time. That first side, and John Gilmore on Dancing Shadows, started me on the Sun Ra path. The guys at the record store had seen Sun Ra at some legendary performance at the Armadillo World Headquarters, as I recall.

Not to mention, John Handy, Dave Holland, Charles Lloyd, Aakash Mittal, and Sameer Gupta. And there's: https://brooklynragamassive.bandcamp.com

Joe Harriott and John Mayer Double Quintet, Indo Jazz Fusion (Atlantic) L. Subramaniam, Spanish Wave (Milestone)

Sun Ra, Hiroshima/Stars that Shine Darkly (El Saturn). Sun Ra, Nothing Is (ESP DISK, Italian pressing)

Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse, disc 6

Gene Ammons, The Blues Up and Down, volume 1 (Prestige) Charlie Byrd, Sugarloaf Suite (Concord) Al Casey, Buck Jumping' (Prestige/Status/Swingville) Cedar Walton, Soul Cycle (Prestige)

Ed Blackwell Sonnyboy Williamson or Sonnyboy Williamson?

Dr. Lonnie Smith. Not even in the same universe. Lonnie Liston Smith is one of the worst famous musicians I've ever seen in person (right up there with Bobbi Humphrey).. Wild Bill Davis. George Lewis, clarinet.

John Abercrombie or Ralph Towner? Ralph Towner Grant Green

On TruSound, I only have King Curtis, Old Gold and Jimmy Neely Trio, Miserlou. The Japanese Prestige discography says the Jesse Powell was recorded on three dates in 1961, with overlapping but not identical personel.

Ornette Coleman, Of Human Feelings. Art Pepper, Landscape