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November 4 Jeremy Pelt - 1976

I like this one very much. There is so much good bop on it, and Hampton Hawes sounds great on Fender Rhodes. I know many purists don´t like that, but I grew up in that period so I always did love electric as much as acoustic. Why....it´s just music. The version of "Yardbird Suite" is especialy great !

He was great. I think I had heard him many times with Johnny Griffin, but I think also with other musicians, maybe Joe Henderson, anyway I heard him with different groups, but most with Johnny Griffin and everything was about in the late 70´s until early 80´s. He was so big that bass really looked small.

Thank you for sharing it with us. I didn´t know that Billy Strayhorn was so small, he looks like a little child. Billy Holiday is soooo beautiful. Exactly that´s the kind of faces I love. Women who have that look, I look at them and feel familiar. Great pic. I have heard that the only thing RVG was interested in was the sound of recording. He never stated anything about the music itself. Before I knew that I always hoped that some day he will write a book about all those great sessions he did, about the music, the genius musicians who made it etc.......

Great Choice. From the BN albums Bud made, I like most "Time Waits" and the second side of "Bud!" where Curtis Fuller is on it. I don´t like Side A at all. From Vol. I I am fond of the session with Fats and Sonny. I love it. I had purchased it very soon after it was made. I was the "Star" in HighSchool because I had this and the VSOP "Tempest at Colloseum", all the jazz loving class mates came to my place to listen.

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This is a really unusual one that I rediscovered recently - a Kalaparusha record w/Karl and Ingrid Berger, Jumma Santos, and Tom Schmidt (the latter of whom I am not familiar with): It's great to hear DeJohnette in this sort of rambling free jazz context. It lacks the precision of something like Special Edition, but it serves as nice connective tissue to the AACM music made in Paris in the '60s and NY in the '70s.

5 Quatuors pour clavecin, violon, hautbois & violoncelle / Sans Souci Ensemble

Aaron Bridgers, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday.

Though I have not checked every single track on the four CDs, it looks to me as if all the tracks are exclusive to this 4 CD set.

Dick Oatts, the band's lead alto player for fifty years, played his final gig with the Band last night, and retired.

SFJazz Collective “Live 2009: 6th Annual Concert Tour – The Works of McCoy Tyner Plus New Compositions” disc 2 294×300 8.12 KB

Now listening to JoeHen's Power to the People from the same box set. More DeJohnette.

Now I'm beginning to understand what the OP meant by "playing versions".

Jack has a truly AMAZING discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_DeJohnette_discography So, so many favorites -- both as a leader & sideman.

His work is astounding on that Tyner-Henderson archival set that came out on Blue Note last year.

Oh yes that one’s magnificent

I just checked my collection where he plays and just a few examples: Alice Coltranes Universal Consciousness Anouar Brahems Blue Maqams Freddie Hubbards First Light Jackie McLeans Demons Dance Joe Hendersons Power to the People Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Paul Desmond’s Skylark plus many more but his ability to shine one these very different kind of records in such a great way says a lot about his qualities as a drummer

There is some fantastic music on the box but I still prefer it in very small doses. What gets to me is not the fact that it is jams but somewhat the contrary: some of the box is largely the same musicians playing the same blues and standards night after night, not always with enthusiasm and with strong encouragement to bring their solos to crescendos with lots of tooting and honking to get the crowd excited. That can get a bit tiring after a while. But small doses can be quite rewarding as at least one or two of the masters will usually play something special.

Eric Gales, Tribute to LJK/Little Jimmy King