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Three Hours - Nick Drake

Sure, I've heard it countless times, but it always feels like a new experience. One of those tracks that I have to play a few times in a row. This comes as close to perfection as I think music can possibly come.

Starting it over for the 3rd time...

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Frank Foster, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones playing Shiny Stockings (from Heavy Sounds). I played it for some students this week and was reminded how MF great it is.

Frank's beautiful solo, Richard Davis' tasty playing (especially the chorus where all three are blowing) and maybe the best part, Elvin's brush work. He plays a fill on the outchorus that is so incredibly hip I just crack up every time I hear it.

That tune is the highlight of the whole side IMHO.

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Frank Foster, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones playing Shiny Stockings (from Heavy Sounds). I played it for some students this week and was reminded how MF great it is.

Frank's beautiful solo, Richard Davis' tasty playing (especially the chorus where all three are blowing) and maybe the best part, Elvin's brush work. He plays a fill on the outchorus that is so incredibly hip I just crack up every time I hear it.

That tune is the highlight of the whole side IMHO.

Wow. Haven't listened to Heavy Sounds in a long, long time. Will give Shiny Stockings a spin.

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"Da monzon" from the album "Orchestre Regionale de Segou" by the Orchestre Regionale de Segou, which I downloaded the other day.

The sleeve notes say, "Recognise again the purely Ellingtonian flights in pieces like Da monzon". Well, I don't get the Ellingtonian flights - someone with better ears than me could, maybe - but this is a revelatory piece for me. I never knew that Bambara musicians used "namo sayers", in the same way as Mandinke and Soninke musicians. Use of "namo sayers" is about the only bit of African music technique that got transferred to America more or less intact.

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Louis Armstrong And His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra

August 19, 1930, Los Angeles, CA

I'm Confessin' (that I Love You) (Neiburg; Daugherty; Reynolds) [master W.404405-A] -- OKeh 41448

Armstrong, Louis (Trumpet, Vocal)

Elkins, Leon (Conductor, Trumpet)

Brown, Lawrence (Trombone)

Herriford, Leon (Alto Saxophone)

Stark, Willie (Alto Saxophone)

Franz, William (Tenor Saxophone)

Brooks, Harvey (Piano)

Burke, Ceele (Banjo, Steel Guitar)

Jones, Reggie (Tuba)

Hampton, Lionel (Drums, Vibrophone)

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Just a Little Loving by Shelby Lynne, the whole damn album! In an age when everyone feels compelled to oversing everything, a little subtlety goes along way and this is over/under the top with nuance and all good stuff like that. "Inspired by Dusty" - sound like someone singing along softly to themselves and bringing out evrything it meens to them. This is my new litmus test, if you don't get it don't even bother saying what you do like...

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