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Tonight ... How was the show, BF? Douglas is in the band now, right? They're going to be in San Antonio on Friday, and I'm thinking about making the drive up there. Good show, Ag. Worth checking out, for sure. Also, this will be the last chance to catch the Collective with Bobby Hutcherson and Josh Redman. They will be leaving before the summer European tour and are being replaced with Stephon Harris and Joe Lovano who will continue on into the next season. The show itself was very entertaining. They did quite a few Monk tunes (this year's theme) and a handful of originals. Standout artists would be the surprising Miguel Zenón - a young barnburner from Puerto Rico, Renee (pronounced ree-nee) Rosnes - VERY solid and creative, Bobby Hutcherson - of course, and drummer Eric Harland who was a monster......yet amazingly subtle at the same time. Here are a couple of articles from the SF Chronicle: Dave Douglas works his magic on Monk with the SFJAZZ Collective Flights of fancy, with a cue from Monk

No! THIS one is on Freedom, too.

Tonight ...

Just listening to "Corridors & Parallels" and "Freedom Suite" tonight. Whew! The suite is brilliant.....especially "Movement 2". The entire group is really locked in. Shipp crashes and burns through it (in a GOOD way).

Happy b-day Connnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! (whenever it is)

Yes........"Blues Up and Down" is the one to get. (I'm listening to it NOW!) FWIW, eMusic has just about all of these.

I've got that one, too. But it is a compilation.

I have vinyl of The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio "Recorded in Hollywood at Thee Experience" on World Pacific Jazz. The "trio" being Heard and Berk.

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Have a good one!

Going to see the SF Jazz Collective on Sunday night. Can't wait.

Oh, MAN.........I LOVE "Planet Love".

With an Organissimo Tote Bag at the $25.00 level. ... and an Organissimo DVD at the $100 level!

I actually have this album, as well as everything he did for MPS/BASF. These were good albums and a creative time for George as he was also in FZ's band during this time.

No problem. You know.......you could always run a "pledge week"!

Have not been a huge fan for long, but I have a couple of albums. And also going to see him w/Billy Harper in a week and a half at Yoshi's. Looking forward to it. Also these as downloads from eMusic:

SF Jazz Festival Spring Season B-3 Summit X - Joey DeFrancesco & George Coleman - Trudy Pitts Trio Saturday, May 5 • 8pm & 10:30pm BE there!

WHOA!!

I have an LP of one of those Chappell Recorded Music albums - "Brass and Rhythms". It's definitely a keeper. Great stuff. (nice cover, too)

I ordered Artie Shaw's "Self Portrait", which I just realized is OOP. I did several searches and found it for sale (and ON sale) at www.sonymusicstore.com. We'll wait and see if they really have it in stock. I remember hearing great things about this when it was released, but never got around to picking it up.

Another EXCELLENT Pablo recording is "How Long Has This Been Going On" with Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Louie Bellson & Ray Brown.

David 'Fathead' Newman - "Blue Head" on Candid. Recorded live in the late 80's with Clifford Jordan sitting in with "guitarist Ted Dunbar, pianist Buddy Montgomery, bassist Todd Coolman and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith." I was at that show. It was part of a series of afternoon NY shows on West 79th Street & Riverside Drive. I also saw Kenny Barron/John Hicks (also recorded on Candid as "Rhythm-A-Ning")

Nojjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj!!!!! Happy b-day.

I've been thinking about that myself. I was a big fan of those at the time.

As far as the Pacific Jazz "Artist Selects" album, keep in mind that everything on that disk will be in the Mosaic box. Great cover, though. If you want to try something contemporary, I HIGHLY recommend "In My Time". Besides the incredible "Sax Chase" he has re-recorded "So What" and "Jeri" on this album.

I've had "Summit Conference" for a while. I haven't listened to it as much as I should, but it's a solid session, that's for sure. Can't go wrong with Reggie Workman, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Julian Priester and Pheeroan Aklaff.