Two excellent live jazz shows that are either too chaotic to blast through the store or too stellar

to avoid giving customers seeking the "jam nation". Yeah, yeah, I know, dropping Miles Davis or John Coltrane's name today is like saying "Werewolves of London" is your favorite Warren Zevon song or BB King is the illustrator of the blues, but we assure you both these albums are an improv journey into the clairvoyance of instrument and man. Live In Japan marks Coltrane's astral countdown to a more than curious audience, while Live Evil presents Davis during his Sly Stone-influenced fusion era with exceptional grooves brought to you in part by John McLaughlin's guitar and virtuoso Hermento Pascoal. Find both of these relics on Brattleboro's "A Far Off Time In Jazz" shelf.

-carson