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Prompted by the Vibes / Monk thread.

It's not that I "don't like" it in the stricter sense of the word. If someone else would play it in my presence I'd not run away in horror. It's just not nearly near the top of my list of "active" preferences, style-wise overall. And since there is SO MUCH (other) music to listen to and to explore as well you just naturally make choices in your "go-to" recordings. If this labels me as a "moldy fig in modern jazz", then so be it.

The Sculpture Gardens in Trenton, NJ.

As Big Beat Steve noted just because you don’t like a style or type of music or whatever you’d like to call it doesn’t appeal to you doesn’t mean it’s not great music.

100%. Jackson and Monk are great complements (I often find Jackson can be a little boring when Monk is not around) but I don’t hear any influence.

I will have to agree that premium prices for a VG/VG LP is neither a good investment for listening or for display. Even a high price for a mint first pressing seems obsessive, I want recordings I can hear, not frame and admire.

Randy Weston “Khepera” Verve cd Alex Blake! He really makes this album something else. 225×219 16 KB

Idris Muhammad “House of the Rising Sun” Kudu/CTI/King Japan Blu-Spec CD

never mind.

Okay thanks. Loud and clear. You have saved me a listen. Weird that these don't get reissued.

I was about to jump in to say exactly that. Sorry - I should have been clearer. I am talking about Monk's timing more than the harmonic thing. I think it is easier to see harmonic descendants.

CBS D 88529 - V.S.O.P. The Quintet Live Under The Sky - rec. 1979 at Denen Coloseum, Tokyo

Anne Mette Iversen: Marbles (BJU CD)

Days of rain here, so I decided to listen to albums that work with the sound of raindrops blending into them

Oh, being from STL area, I’ve been to Euclid Records probably close to 1,000x over the years (especially me going back to visit my folks/dad several times every year over the last almost 40 years since I went off to college in 1987 — to say nothing of weekly visits when I was late in my high school years, and summers in college). My dad still lives there (in assisted living the last few years), and we’re visiting him for his 99th birthday next week (on our way to KC to visit my wife’s folks for a week). It’s the vast expanse between STL and DC (now PGH) that I barely know — and that I’m looking forward to exploring on our frequent driving trips to STL (and to KC via STL). I also have a couple cousins in Chicago, and we plan to drive there every couple years now — thru the upper parts of Ohio and Indiana (with cities we’ve never been too as well).

Dylan bootleg series binge continues.

Whoa, wait a minute. You don't like Miles' second quintet? Somehow that surprises me.

Superb. So much musical magic happened at Montreux through the years...

This note reminded me of the Tiberi tapes: From the Bill Myers column “Mile High Jazz” published in The Mile High Underground [an “underground” newspaper from Denver, Colorado], April 1967, Vol. 1, Number 2, p. 14: “Wes Westbrooks sez that John Coltrane had some of the best tenormen in N. Y. walking away muttering to themselves after a recent session at Slug’s in the Village. Wes noticed several tape recorders in operation so maybe someone will release an album of Trane’s wipe-out.”

Yes, absolutely. Clear monkisms in Griffith's playing, IMO. It is interesting because Cecil also sounds quite monkish on this excellent album.

Rabshakeh, it's not one of my favorites. It's OK, but I don't think it's very exciting. And Michael Brecker is one of my favorites.