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Here's John S. Wilson's review of 2205 in High Fidelity John S. Wilson - High Fidelity - May 1956 Powell is a recently arrived tenor saxophonist with a hard tone and a strong attack, both of which bring a good measure of vitality back to an instrument that has been leaning more and more toward the namby-pamby. On first hearing, his tone may seem unpleasantly harsh; but it is so perfectly suited to his style, and that style has so much vigor and grace, that this sense of harshness soon disappears. He moves easily and creatively at fast tempos, while his ballads have a cool elegance, never descending to sentimentality or turning overripe. His playing throughout the disk is well disciplined and he gets sound support from his rhythm section and trombonist Bob Alexander.

You need to see someone about that allergy, it's a beautiful instrument.

Kora Jazz Trio – Kora Jazz Trio First listen to this. I'm pretty kora-allergic so had low expectations but this is really good.

Philip Catherine - Plays Cole Porter (Challenge)

Yes, reissue copies of Roost 2205 ("Seldon Powell Plays") should not be hard to find. I found mine (Fresh Sound reissue LP) along with Roost 2220 in the year 2000 at a local shop where they had tons of secondhand Fresh Sound vinyls.  For those who are interested, here are the Down Beat reviews of both albums (2205 by Nat Hentoff, 2220 by Ralph J. Gleason):     At one point I also picked up an EP excerpt from the 2220 LP on (Danish) Sonet (SXP 2218): These EPs were a common practice as LPs at that time in Europe were really expensive. At that time an LP cost about the equivalent of one day's pay of a skilled worker. Whereas EPs were priced at about a third. And they served a purpose as "tasters" or "best of the LP" compilations.  Unfortunately my copy is plagued by numerous bubbles in the vinyl (not all that rare a problem of vinyl degradation with Sonets and sometimes Metronomes from that era). I am not even sure if this problem already existed when I picked it up and just didn't check (it was priced at 1 EUR plus mass discount at a clearout sale) or if this happened in the intervening years in storage here.  Will try to see if the heat treatment I've used fairly successfully for warped LPs will better things. At any rate, the cover is a nice complement to the LP.