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Stopped at an unfamiliar Half Price Books and found: three used CDs for $8 each: Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (OJC) (with Vince Guaraldi, Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria and Al McKibben--the best recording I've ever heard from Tjader) Sonny Stitt--MCA/Chess reissue of his first Argo LP. Ahmad Jamal--Nature (with Othello Molineaux on steel drums) and two new Xanadu's for $5 each Shorty Rogers and Art Pepper--Popo J.R. Monterose--Straight Ahead.

Sums it up... By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 03 September 2005 Why has it taken George Bush five days to get to New Orleans? President Bush was on holiday in Texas when Katrina struck. He then spent Monday on a pre-arranged political fundraising tour of California and Arizona, which he did not cancel or curtail. On Tuesday he surveyed the hurricane damage - but only from the flight deck of Air Force One, prompting criticism that he was too detached from the suffering on the ground. He didn't give a speech until Tuesday afternoon - 36 hours after the storm first hit - and didn't embark on a proper tour of the region until yesterday. Key advisers have come under fire for similar levels of detachment. As the full magnitude of the disaster unfolded, the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was seen buying shoes in New York, and Dick Cheney remained on holiday.

It is shockingly expensive but that 30 inch Apple Monitor is a thing of beauty (I wish I had one).

Much thanks.

Any time it feels like I could make a grilled cheese sandwich just by going outside, it's hot enough.

I like his small group recordings (New Ideas especially) and never paid any attention to his big band--but, I recently picked up Live in 3-2/3 4 Time--and that is, unexpectedly to me, a very compelling record. Ellis plays very well on this one. I don't know about the rest of the big band's recordings, but this one I would definitely recommend.

Thanks very much. Receiving The Hank Mobley and Roy Eldridge Mosaic sets as birthday presents pretty much guarantees that!

David Fathead Newman: October 7 at the Univerity of Texas at Dallas Conference Center in Richardson. 8 p.m. $20 972-883-2787

Nat Adderley isn't in the elite of the trumpet players of his day--I much prefer Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell, etc.--but on the other hand, he always seemed the perfect foil for Cannonball--I don't think the group would have been better with any of those trumpet greats.

I don't care for her either. As for new blues, that fellow Otis Taylor is making interesting music.

I would recommend instead buying the recordings of her deceased father (Johnny Copeland), a very fine Texas blues guitarist--for example, the album Copeland Special, which features George Adams.

I have Eric Kloss' Land of the Giants on a Prestige LP. It says Recording by Dave Jones. Another Prestige LP from this era, Melvin Sparks, Akilah!, recorded by Rudy van Gelder.

I pulled out as many pre-OJC Prestiges as I could quickly find. Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff--Kirk's Work--Prestige 7210--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder (RVG in the wax) Richard Groove Holmes--Spicy--Prestige 7493--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder (Van Gelder in the wax) Booker Ervin--Heavy!!!--Prestige7499--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fantasy but LP is post-Fantasy). Jaki Byard with Strings--Prestige 7543--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fantasy but LP is post-Fantasy)Jaki Byard Experience--Prestige 7615--Recording Richard Alderson (cover is pre-Fanstasy but LP is post-Fantasy) Brother Jack McDuff--I Got a Woman--Prestige 7642--no information Johnny Hammond Smith--Black Feeling--Prestige 7736--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax. Johnny Hammond Smith--Here it 'Tis--Prestige 10002--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax. Houston Person--Person to Person--Prestige 10003--Recording: Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax Houston Person--Prestige 10044--Recording Engineer--Rudy Van Gelder--Van Gelder in the wax (Post-Fantasy release, I believe) Dexter Gordon--Generation--Prestige 10068--Engineer Rudy Van Gelder, Van Gelder Studios--Van Gelder in the wax (post-Fantasy release, I believe)

The Fantasy catalog of jazz labels is the greatest single collection of jazz recordings in existence, I would think. I've scarcely ever heard an OJC or OBC that I didn't like (or love). Keep them in print and keep issuing new gems, and I'll keep buying them.

So you don't want a CDR copy of the extremely rare LP Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman Jam Session in Fort Worth, 1954?

I was napping that day.

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=10706

As for your cassette adapter, buy one of the Monster brand. The two I've had do not make any annoying clicking sounds. In contrast, the Sony cassette adapter was horrible, making loud clicking sounds that got worse the longer it was used. I believe that you can plug your ipod into the new BMWs--of course, that is a rather expensive ipod player.

I don't agree. For the most part, I prefer the unedited tracks on Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty myself. I suspect that Mingus was pressured to edit solos to get as many of his compositions as possible on his Columbia releases. The additions to Booker Ervin's solos are especially welcome. Either way, they are both great albums.

Just don't make a wrong turn (The neighborhood around Fair Park is pretty dire). Dallas' main cultural outlet for the out-of-town visitor are the numerous men's clubs on I-35. If you can find a copy of the Dallas Observer when you're here, it has a fairly complete listing of concert and club appearances. There's always the chance that Marchel Ivery might be playing somewhere, for example.

Unfortunately, no.

Also, his "Debut in Blues." Carnival Sketches was briefly available as a Japanese CD reissue.

The version of Tenderly on this CD is really good. I would never have thought there was any life left in this standard, but I was sure proven wrong. A straight to ipod transfer.

His best work is in the last fifteen years or so--the groups with Cary Denegris on guitar and Eric Person on saxophone--this is a great and underappreciated group. For example, Trio, Arroyo and Euphoria are three favorites with this group. I saw this group at the Knitting Factory five or six years ago before a very sparse crowd and they were superb.

Yes, the Monk Blue Note LP set was the first Mosaic set. I'm not sure why they chose to start with 101 rather than 1.