Larry Kart

I'm afraid that it might have been Palmer whose live appearance in Chicago a few years ago with Mark Turner made me want to throw things (or throw up). On the other hand, at the time I also felt that the cardboard dreariness of Turner's lines might have infected his frontline partner.

I certainly would have mentioned Jaime Branch, but she's with the angels now, damn it!

Guess I think of those three on my list because I'm 81! I'd also like to add Josh Berman, though he plays cornet. Not a whole lot and what I heard I couldn't stand. I 'd have to listen again to say why specifically. Another guy I couldn't stand was the guy who was Mark Turner's frontline partner a while ago. Maybe he is still.

Scott Wendholt, John Swana, Joe Magnarelli I wonder why no younger African American frumpeters are on my list. My first thought is that among them there is a fairly consistent facile/demonstrative brassiness that to some degree works against the development of individuality. One finds oneself following more or less in the the footsteps of Lee Morgan or Clifford Brown and gets sort of stuck there.

Black Dahlia. Listened to it. It's something else.

got it. will listen.

I tried the Strings album and didn't care for it. It was like trying to put a petticoat around a tank. Don't know if I have the other two.

1) Gary Smulyan/Bob Belden "Biues Suite" (Criss Cross) Finally I'm all aboard the Smulyan train. Accompanied by nine brass and rhythm playing heady Belden originals, Smulyan sounds great here. BTW, what a loss Belden was. In addition to all his other good work and good deeds, he did me a great favor when he asked me to write the liner notes for the reissue of "Filles de Kilimanjaro.' 2) Bob Cooper/Conte Candoli Quintet (VSOP) Cooper just kept getting better and better until the end, which came only 41 days after this 1993 live date. He's strong like bull on the mostly boppish program ("Confirmation, "Tin Tin Deo," "Hackensack" "Ow," "Con Alma," and "Airegin") and is heartfelt on the two ballads, "We'll Be Together Again" and "Come Sunday." Also this may be the best Conte Candoli I've ever heard.

Sad news. An excellent label.

Allll those titles are very good, though "Big Duke and Fats" is tops IMO. Gorgeous playing by Joe Wilder.

Check out Talbert's "Bix Duke and Fats"

Glad to pass the word on.

"Bud´s worst friend" -- How so?

It is Jackpot, a fun record.

I went big on the sale too. Of the ones you bought, I can highly endorse "Troubles."

Amico and JR Monterose play "Half Nelson":

Apparently I find myself on a Magnarelli kick. Again an excellent rhythm section -- Versace sparkling on piano rather than organ, Gill a stalwart walker, and the sadly departed Reedus so cool. Joe's rather Dorham-like lyricism I find irresistible, (check out his version of "Old Folks"). I mention Dorham, but Joe's initial inspiration was a lovely trumpeter from his native Syracuse., N.Y., the late Sal Amico, who can be heard to good advantage IIRC on Sal Nistico's initial Riverside album.

Sure do like that rhythm section: Brown as they say is a different drummer -- a gas. The 10 minutes plus version here of "My Ideal" is almost as hypnotic as Grant Green's "Idle Moments." '

Fascinating "progressive" jazz of the 1920s. Check out "Humpty Dumpty" and "Feelin' No Pain" on You Tube.

no? A long and varied life,

Great stuff, both volumes

Mike Melito "The Thing Is To Swing, " with Joe Magnareili, Grant Stewart, et al. Nice choice of tunes -- two from Tommy Turrentine, a medium-up "Lush Life" (surprislngy effective that way) "Straight Street" etc.

Andy Fusco, Gene Quill