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It hurts. I had the opportunity to see him three times within a year (Glasgow, Marciac, New-York). Merci pour tout Mr. Weston !!

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!