IN THE GROOVE

• Freddie Hubbard And The New Jazz Composers Octet—On The Real Side—2007–Four Quarters
• Bridge Quartet—Angel Street—2007—Day—Origin Records

• Hank Jones—SKJ—2004—For My Father—Justin Time
• Hank Jones—Lady Luck—2004—Upon Reflection—Verve

• Dr. Michael White—Katrina—2008—Blue Crescent—Basin Street Records (the drummer on this selection, Jason Marsalis, will join John Ellis and Double-Wide at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center tomorrow evening, July 31st.
• Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra—Sweet Lorraine—1928—Apex Blues—Decca Jazz
• Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra—Apex Blues—1928— Apex Blues—Decca Jazz
• Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra—Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me—1928— Apex Blues—Decca Jazz

Tomorrow Pianist Hank Jones (b. July 31, 1918) will be turning 90:
• Hank Jones—Squeeze Me—1978—Ain’t Misbehavin’—Galaxy Records LP
• Hank Jones—Oh, Look At Me—1991—Live At Maybeck Recital Hall—Concord
• Abbey Lincoln & Hank Jones—You Came A Long Way From St. Louis—1992—When There Is Love—Verve
• Emily Remler, incl. Hank Jones—Movin’ Along—1981—Firefly—Concord LP
• Hank Jones & Frank Wess—Autumn Serenade—2003—Hank & Frank—Lineage Records

• Johnny Coles—My Sweet Passion—1963—Little Johnny C—Blue Note
• Johnny Coles—Hobo Joe—1963—Little Johnny C—Blue Note

Tenor Saxophonist Johnny Griffin (April 24, 1929 - July 25, 2008), “The Little Giant,” passed away this last Friday at age 80:
• Johnny Griffin—63th Street Theme—1959—The Little Giant—Riverside LP
• Johnny Griffin with the Thelonious Monk Quartet—In Walked Bud/Epistrophy—Thelonious In Action—Riverside

• Walter Davis, Jr.—Green Chimneys—1987—In Walked Thelonious—Mapleshade
• Walter Davis, Jr.—Trinkle Twinkle—1987—In Walked Thelonious—Mapleshade

• Jeremy Pelt—Avatar—2007—November—MaxJazz
• Eric Hofbauer And The Infrared Band—Hidden Haiku—Myth Understanding—Creative Nation
• Roy Hargrove Quintet—Bring It On Home To Me—2007—Earfood—EmArcy