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Great to see that you enjoy your new job and that you can still manage to be immersed into (live) music! Et joyeux anniversaire, Flurin !!

Yesterday evening: Andrzej Kurylewicz Quintet - Go Right Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet - Kujaviak Goes Funky Mieczysław Kosz - Reminiscence Komeda Quintet - Astigmatic This morning:

Soul Eyes: Jazz Live At The Domicile Munich Afro-Bossa John McNeil Quintet- FAUN

Ellington-Strayhorn - [Great times] (Vogue 2017) Chico Hamilton - The Dealer Taylor - Neidlinger - New York City R&B

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution A beauty. Featuring "Crenshaw" and "Mc Lean" according to my Universal/BN covers. edit: realizing these typos were on every issue.

Mal Waldron - the call Randy Weston - The Healers (cora) Gary Bartz - Love Song

The listening pleasure always increases in time. From the records I have listened to in the past 5 years: The Nutcracker Suite ****/2 Piano in the Background **** A Portrait of Duke Ellington ***/2 Peer Gynt ****/2 Unknown Session **** Piano in the Foreground ***** The Great Reunion with Louis Armstrong **** Together Again with Louis Armstrong **** First Time! The Count Meets the Duke ***/2 All American in Jazz **/2 Midnight in Paris **** Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins **** Money Jungle ***** Duke Ellington & John Coltrane ****/2 Afro-Bossa ***** The Great Paris Concert **** The Symphonic Ellington **** Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session ***/2 My People *** Ellington '65 **/2 All Star Road Band Volume 2 **** Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins *** Ellington '66 **/2 Concert in the Virgin Islands **** Ella at Duke's Place ***/2 A Concert of Sacred Music From Grace Cathedral *** The Popular Duke Ellington **/2 Soul Call */2 Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur **/2 The Far East Suite ***** North of the Border in Canada **** ...And His Mother Called Him Bill ***** Francis A. & Edward K. **/2 Second Sacred Concert *** 70th Birthday Concert ****/2 Latin American Suite ****2/ The Pianist ****/2 New Orleans Suite ***** The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse ****/2 The Intimate Ellington ***/2 Live at the Whitney ***** The Ellington Suites ***** This One's for Blanton! ***/2 Up in Duke's Workshop **** Duke's Big 4 ***/ Third Sacred Concert (RCA) ***/2

So maybe, let us no talk about sexual harassment charges so lightly no matter how unpleasant many aspects of the interview might be.

Waldron&Lacy - Let's call this

I have the UK Jazzman record. Great pressing, on par with the music played! This evening: Arnold Dreyblatt - propellers in love Interpretations by the Stan Getz Quintet (Clef Series) Duke Ellington - Bal Masqué

The Mankunku has been reissued recently!

Truly saddening news. So long, Moose!

Ellingaloreton!

Yes, 2017 will be the year I re-discovered Waldron while listening to old favorites (including Reflections) and a bunch of new platters (including Sweet Lover, Bitter). Hope I finally manage to listen to One-Upmanship in 2018! This evening was: Radiohead - In Rainbows (either the record aged very well, or I did not, maybe both!) I have not listened to their 2016 record yet, another record I plan to discover in 2018. Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright (just noticing the 2 l) Clifford Jordan Quartet - Glass Bead Games This album (Side A in particular) always moved me. I love the rendition of Dear Old Stockholm (almost as much as the one from Jutta Hipp) Ervin on Portrait of Vivian!

Steve Reid - Nova Sweet Lover, Bitter O.S.T. Lacy & Waldron - Reflections The Jazz Couriers in concert Zo-Ko-Ma Teddy Wilson - Moonglow Station To Station