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Stumbled onto this recording this morning. Very listenable.

👍👍 (love that record)

Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil” Blue Note Japan UCGQ-9070 SHM-SACD

Ha, a prime example of how tastes and perceptions differ ... I got this not long ago and will keep it of course once it's here (I might warm up to all of it eventually), but the tracks with strings definitely mar my listening pleasure. In most cases strings just kill the jazz content IMO the way they were applied in the 50s. For its jazz content, I like the "Cosmopolite" 10" LP on French Blue Star (GLP 6977) (that I've owned for some 27 years now) much better as it couples the 4 tracks with Oscar Peterson with selected tracks from the August 1952 session that in their original packaging were included in the "Alone Together" album and dispense with the strings.

This thread needs reviving! Always good to see how other listeners organize their music.

I think this would be a do-able Mosaic. Revelation Records. The question is—what would be a good organizing principle for such a set?

Mengelberg & Sabu

Musically, 1933 was a great year for Carter.

Favorite track: the last one!

What I like/appreciate about those comps is that they barely touch Blue Note from the 60's. Showcasing the label of the 70's is something the "connoisseur" rarely, if ever, does.

Contrary to what the announcer says, somehow the vocals and "lyrics" sound more like "Oop-Pop-A-Da" and not so much like "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" to me.

Returning with my trio back to Scullers in Boston on Friday, March 27, 2026. One set at 7:00PM. Tickets and info: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/michael-weiss-trio-scullers-jazz-club-tickets/14022694?pl=scullers https://scullersjazz.com/upcoming-events/ Also playing tonight (Saturday March 14) at Smalls, sets at 6:00 and 7:30PM You can live stream here: https://www.smallslive.com/events/31806-michael-weiss-quintet/ w/Steve WIlson, Walt Weiskopf, Ugonna Okegwo, Aaron Kimmel.

Johnny Griffin, Jazz a Confronto (Horo)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Live in Montreal May 1975 Larry Coryell, Live at the Sugar Club 2016

A wind storm disabled cable and internet for 20 hours. . . my wife and I were withdrawing and finally eased our internet and cable addiction by watching hours of "Ballykissangel" on DVD. Listening right now to a bunch of outtakes from Grateful Dead's "Wake of the Flood" I was sent by a collector years and years ago. Probably my favorite Dead album.

The Storyville parent label has released the Autobiography sessions before, in the '90s on their Jazz Unlimited label. https://www.discogs.com/release/9895558-Louis-Armstrong-The-New-and-Revised-Satchmo-A-Musical-Autobiography-Volume-1

A true rarity here, not sure if it will get many hits or not but worth putting out there ... many years ago in the research that preceded the website, I heard from a female vocalist that Percy sang as well as playing tenor sax. I wondered if any recording would ever show up, and a small handful did between the Gaskin Papers and the Schaap archive. Here though, Percy scats with Dickey Myers, who Allen Lowe recorded with Joe Albany backing him, on Oop Bop Sh'Bam or what Allen called "Who Parked The Car". Be interested to know what people think (I say Dickey gets the best of him but both guys are having fun).

Looks treacherously like record no. 1 and not quite half of record no. 2 of the 4-LP set that has been released and reissued countless times since 1957 under the same "Musical Autobiography" name on Decca, Brunswick and assorted other labels that eventually came under the MCA flag. https://www.discogs.com/master/411024-Louis-Armstrong-Satchmo-A-Musical-Autobiography-Of-Louis-Armstrong Not a particularly rare item on the secondhand market. Makes me wonder why anyone would want to hop on THAT bandwagon now ...

Ts find (from the bin)