IN THE GROOVE

• Bob DeVos—Body And Soul—2007—Playing For Keeps—Savant
• Andy Bey—Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?—1997—Ain’t Necessarily So—12th Street Records
• Quartet San Francisco—The Mooche—2007—Whirled Chamber Music—ViolinJazz

• Bob Burnett and Paul Cantos—Down South Unplugged—2007—Bob Burnett: When You Hear Music—www.bobburnettmusic.com (CD Release Concert Kuumbwa Jazz Center this Thurs., Dec. 13th)
• Roy Haynes/Phineas Newborn/Paul Chambers—After Hours—1958—We Three—New Jazz
• Art Hodes with Truck Parham—The Real Thing—Friar’s Inn Revisited—Delmark

• Oscar Alemán—Scartunias—1944—Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957—Acoustic Disc
• Oscar Alemán—Blue Skies—1947—Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957—Acoustic Disc
• Oscar Alemán—Como Te Llamas—1945—Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957—Acoustic Disc

• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster—It Never Entered My Mind—1957—Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster—Verve
• Jon Mayer—Rip Van Winkle—2007—So Many Stars—Reservoir
• Russell Gunn—African Queen—2003—VA: Funky Pieces Of Silver – The Horace Silver Songbook—High Note

Last Sunday was the 75th Birthday of the hard bop trumpter Donald Byrd (b. Dec. 9, 1932):
• Donald Byrd—Shangri-la—1961—Royal Flush—Blue Note LP
• Donald Byrd—Mustang—1966—Mustang—Blue Note LP
• Donald Byrd—Free Form (take 24)—1961—Free Form—Blue Note LP

• Donald Byrd—6 M’s—1961—Royal Flush—Blue Note LP
• Loren Stillman—Blind Date—2006—Blind Date—Piroquet
• Nigel Kennedy—I Almost Lost My Mind—2005—Blue Note Sessions—Blue Note
• John Scofield/Steve Swallow/Bill Stewart—Behind Closed Doors—2006/7—This Meets That—EmArcy

• Alan Pasqua—Message To Beloved Souls Departed—2007—The Anti-Social Club--Cryptogramophone