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Dizzy Gillespie - Salle Pleyel, Nov 1960

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Americans Swinging in Paris

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite

Jazz Lab & the Cecil Taylor Quartet - At Newport

Jackie Mclean - Capuchin Swing

Donald Byrd - Parisian Thoroughfare

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All over the map in the last couple of weeks:

Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring

Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land

Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra - Refractions

Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Diamonds

Archie Shepp - Four For Trane

Vic Dickenson - The Essential (2 LP's)

John Taylor/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron - Rosslyn

Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert

Cecil Taylor - For Olim - (yes really, and I actually dug parts of it)

Jim Snidero - Storm Rising

Jazz MN Big Band

Bob Florence - Whatever Bubbles Up

Kenny Wheeler (with Winstone, Taylor & the Maritime Jazz Orch) - Siren's Song

Carmell Jones - Mosaic Select

Bill Charlap - Distant Star

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Grover Mitchell's All Star Big Band - Hip Shakin'

The Maritime Jazz Orch. (w. Wheeler, Winstone & Taylor) - Now and Now Again

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Not so much jazz yesterday:

Various artists, NUGGETS II (great 60's international garage rock... Them's "I Can Only Give You Everything," the Poets' "That's the Way It's Got to Be"... I love that slightly sinister 60's grunge sound)

Beck, SEA CHANGE

Yo La Tengo, SUMMER SUN

10,000 Maniacs, THE WISHING CHAIR

Stan Getz, PLAYS (early-50's Verve)

Rachmaninoff, PLAYS RACHMANINOFF

Willie the Lion Smith, Chronological Classics comp. (hope the Mosaic still comes out some day)

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Pixies - Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to the Sky

Neil Young - Time Fades Away

Brotzmann - Die Like a Dog

Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency!

Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core - The Neon Truth

Some light listening, eh John?

;)

I got up at four in the morning in order to drive three hours, followed by eleven hours at work that day. I figured a few of those discs would be "bracing" enough to keep me focused on the drive. (along with some good, strong coffee.)

Over the weekend:

Coltrane - Bahia

Billy Bang - Vietnam: the Aftermath

Jimmy Smith - The Sermon

Stanton Moore - Flyin' the Coop

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do

Ozric Tentacles - Waterfall Cities

Ozric Tentacles - Spice Doubt

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Ran Blake - Horace is Blue: A Silver Noir

John Coltrane - Crescent

Miles Davis - Directions

Dave Douglas - Freak In

Dave Holland - The Razor's Edge

Medeski Martin & Wood - Combustication

Thelonious Monk - Alone: Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings

Marc Ribot - Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Ralph Towner - Anthem

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Miles Davis - Filles De Kilimanjaro

Dexter Gordon - The Classic Blue Note Recordings

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

Joe Pass - For Django

Jaco Pastorius - Live in Italy & Honestly

Big John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin'

The Cars - Just What I Needed

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Some new stuff I picked up last night:

John Klemmer - Involvement

Al Grey - Snap Your Fingers

Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine - Live at Montreux

Buddy Rich and Sweets Edison - Buddy and Sweets

Love the Verve LPR series! Great sound and a good way to learn about different musicians. All of the above CD's are the first I've heard of any of these musicians. :tup

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Ornette Coleman - At the Golden Circle, Vol. II

John Coltrane - Transition

Dave Douglas - Constellations

Jimmy Giuffre - The Easy Way

Fareed Haque - Sacred Addiction

Lee Konitz - Motion

Steve Lacy - Sands

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings w/Chet Baker

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Neil Young - Decade

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8 Bold Souls- "8 Bold Souls" (Sessoms/Open Minds), "Last Option" (Thrill Jockey)

Griot Galaxy- "Opus Krampus" (Sound Aspects)

Faruq Z. Bey and the Northwoods Improvisers- "Ashirai Pattern" (entropy stereo)

The Northwoods Improvisers- "Branches" (entropy stereo)

Roscoe Mitchell- "Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancing Shoes" (Nessa)

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King Curtis, SOUL MEETING

Various, DAWN OF DOO-WOP (disc 1)

The Cool Crooners (Zimbabwe doo-wop group)

Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee, TOGETHER AGAIN

Frank Newton, STORY OF A FORGOTTEN TRUMPETER

Tom Paxton, CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHERE I'M BOUND (got to meet & hear him the other night when I emceed at the Lotus Festival... very cool, friendly, down-to-earth gentleman)

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Bennie Green 'Soul Stirrin' (BN Conn)

Bennie Green and Art Farmer (OJC)

John Lewis Evolution II (Atlantic)

Cats Meet Chicks (MGM LP) a nice Leonard Feather date with Clark Terry's group (Lucky Thompson., Horace Silver, Oscar Pettiford, etc.) playing opposite an all-girl group led by Terry Pollard,

Sidney Bechet Volume 3 (Masters of Jazz)

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