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I believe he only plays himself at two of the five Threadgill shows--the trio with Vijay Iyer and Zooid. Very Very Circus has Yosvany Terry on saxophone, Make a Move features Darius Jones. AIR features Marty Ehrlich. Still I'd like to see all of them. Sunday features: Henry Threadgill with Vijay Iyer; Air; Julian Lage; Harvest Time Tribute; Fatoumata Diawara; Cyro Baptista.

Saturday lineup features, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Shabaka Hutchings, Marc Ribot, Brad Mehldau, Dave Holland Quartet, Myra Melford, Cedric Burnside, David Virelles, Kokoroko, Henry Threadgill Make a Move, and Leyla McCalla.

Happily, my copy arrived yesterday, along with the Ahmad Jamal.

Duke Ellington, Solitude [aka Ellington Indigos] (Philips)

The Charlie Parker Story #2 (Verve) Lafayette Gilchrist, Undaunted

Friday lineup is online: Includes Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran and the Harlem Hellfighters, Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Darcy James Argue, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Helen Gillet, Wayne Horwitz, Brandon Ross, and Anna Weber & Matt Mitchell.

Geri Allen, Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)

Thursday Lineup: Thursday, March 21 ADRIANNE LENKER CHARLES LLOYD UNWOUND FRED FRITH: DRAWING SOUND MARY HALVORSON NIK BÄRTSCH’S RONIN TORD GUSTAVSEN TRIO KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS SECRET CHIEFS 3 ANGELIC BROTHERS (JOHN MEDESKI & KIRK KNUFFKE) ANSSI KARTTUNEN FRANCESCO TURRISI HENRY THREADGILL’S VERY VERY CIRCUS JLIN THIRD COAST PERCUSSION ZSELA

Henry Threadgill Celebration Expands with Air (Repertory Ensemble) Marty Ehrlich Hilliard Green Pheeroan akLaff Air – Henry Threagill’s celebrated trio with bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall – emerged from the fertile collective of Chicago’s AACM in the mid-1970s to become one of the most thrilling ensembles of the following decade, ultimately disbanding in mid-1980s. Shortly after we began making plans to celebrate the legacy of Henry Threadgill, the idea of an Air “repertory” band emerged. Henry himself recommended his multi-instrumentalist colleague Marty Ehrlich to step into his role in the trio, along with drummer Pheeroan akLaff, who filled the late Steve McCall’s shoes in the last edition of Air in the mid-1980s. They turned to bassist Hilliard Greene for the big sound and creative interplay that characterized Hopkins’ work. With Threadgill’s compositions, this dynamic trio will bring the music of Air to life at Big Ears 2024, adding a fifth dimension – with Very Very Circus and Make a Move, plus Threadgill’s own performances with Zooid and his trio with Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto – to Big Ears’ presentation of Henry Threadgill’s magical musical universe. Threadgill’s Magical Musical Universe Ches Smith: Laugh Ash Master drummer, percussionist, and composer Ches Smith has long been a candidate for Big Ears’ Most Valuable Player award and 2024 is no exception: he’s drumming with Ceramic Dog and Secret Chiefs 3, with Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant, and likely in other surprise settings. He’ll also unveil Laugh Ash, an extended composition in multiple parts, laced with musical touchstones from John Zorn to Nels Cline, Mr. Bungle, Xiu Xiu, Steve, Reich, Terry Riley and beyond. Laugh Ash is performed by an all-star ensemble, with vocalist Shara Lunon, flutist Anna Webber, clarinetist Oscar Noriega, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, trumpeter Nate Wooley, violinist Jennifer Choi, violist Kyle Armbrust, cellist Michael Nicolas, and bassist/keyboardist Shahzad Ismaily joining Smith in this wild and riveting musical journey.

Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Mesmerism (Pi)

For those unable to experience all four days of Big Ears, we’ll be offering a limited quantity of single-day passes to each day of the 2024 festival. These passes will be available to purchase beginning Tuesday, December 5 at 9:00 AM Eastern. Ahead of December 5, we’ll be sharing the festival’s daily lineups. Beginning this Thursday, we’ll share Thursday, March 21, then on Friday, we’ll share March 22, and so on.

At one of those traveling Kool Jazz Festivals in the early 1990s, which I went to because Miles Davis was on the bill, George Benson also performed. For me the Benson set was an excruciating experience---one of the worst live sets I've ever heard for a musician I admire.

At my local record store, the LP version was $75, so definitely going for the CD version.

Great sounding LP, very quiet pressing. I actually loved it. I have definitely never heard the Third Streamish version of All the Things You Are before (Mingus calls it simply All in the intro) It is not another version of All the Things You Could Be By Now If... Comparing (without listening) the listed times on the Reincarnation CD issue, the Mosaic LP issue and the New LP: Bugs Incarnations: 8:28 Mosaic: 8:26 R&R Incarnations: 11:51 Reincarnation CD (Take 1): 11:55 Mosaic: 11:48 All: Incarnations: 4:51 Reincarnation of a Lovebird Incarnations (Second version): 7:02 Reincarnation CD (Take 1): 7:02 Mosaic: 6:56 Body and Soul Incarnations: 10:49 Reincarnation (Take 2): 13:56 Mosaic: 13:46

Hailu Mergia, Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Charles Mingus, Incarnations (Candid)

It's me also (I don't like his singing, or really his guitar playing after Bad Benson).

It is a solid West Coast jazz date. I convinced myself to buy it (a $5 investment) because of the familiar sidemen, Marty Paich, Dave Pell, and Bob Enevoldsen

Modern Jazz Piano: Four Views (Mary Lou Williams, Errol Garner, Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano) (RCA Camden)

Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live from he Northwest, 1959

Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge, The Trumpet Kings (Clef) Ronnie Lang, Modern Jazz (Tops)

Craig Handy?

Geri Allen, Some Aspects of Water (Storyville)

A couple of nice additions... Daily line ups, single day passes, and, yes, a few more surprises coming soon after the holiday weekend. The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders Pioneering jazz saxophone icon Pharoah Sanders departed this earthly realm in the fall of 2022, but his luminous and deeply spiritual music lives on. The recent rediscovery of his iconic 1977 recording, 𝓟𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓱 — thanks to Luaka Bop records — has inspired many and led to The Harvest Time Project, a powerful and vibrant tribute to the master led by Josh Abrams of Natural Information Society, along with Tisiji Muñoz, whose ecstatic guitar fuels the original recording. At Big Ears, they will be joined by a variety of very special guests for what is sure to be a singular, unforgettable, loving tribute to the jazz master, Pharoah Sanders. The Official 1977 LP Reissue Playlist Tomas Fujiwara's 7 Poets Trio A familiar face behind the drum kit at Big Ears — notably with Mary Halvorson’s bands — Tomás Fujiwara returns this year with his own group, 7 Poets Trio. Initially debuting at a Stone Residency in 2017, Fujiwara is joined by cellist Tomeka Reid and bassist Patricia Brennan to create music that “moves far beyond the jazz realm” (The Guardian), with a palette that recalls spy movie soundtracks, Latin rhythms, meditative minimalism, and urgent Kraftwerk beats. It’s a rare treat to catch 7 Poets Trio live, but Big Ears will be your chance.

The Incredible Ira Sullivan (Stash) Claire Fischer, First Time Out (Pacific Jazz)