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Scratching The Seventies / Dreams is an excellent 3 CD set. Caution for those who are "allergic" - it has a fair amount of Aebi.

Hey gang, I'm finishing up a new Night Lights about Art Pepper in the 1960s and came across mention of this in the chronology at the back of The Art Pepper Companion: "Spring-Summer 1967: Gigs in L.A. Leads own group at Gold Nugget in June and September with Dick Whittington, Hamel and Jerry Granelli. Records for this group for Contemporary without eventual release." Just out of curiosity, has this session ever been documented anywhere? Pepper also recorded a Contemporary rehearsal session in 1964 that Laurie Pepper eventually put out as part of The Art History Project: V. 1-3 (it's on CD 2, which is titled Hard Art). I can't find mention of it in the Jazz Discography Project index of Pepper sessions (which also doesn't list the 1964 Hard Art date). And while he can be heard on tenor on non-1960s dates, I haven't been able to track down any recordings featuring him on it in the mid-1960s, when he took it up in place of alto for awhile (a stretch that came to an end when he joined Rich's band in 1968). Pepper's 1960s discography is infamously scant after his arrest following the Smack-Up sessions in October 1960. I haven't tried to delve into any of the stuff he did with Marty Paich after getting out of San Quentin in 1964 and have stuck to the live recordings from 1964 and 1968, including two tunes with Buddy Rich's big band, and a tune from the 1964 rehearsal session. I'm also starting off the program with a couple of cuts from 1960, which was a strong year for Pepper recordings, especially Smack-Up and Intensity. It's been a very interesting show to put together.

That´s a very fine album

Recently got hold of the new Jasmine release of Duke Ellington's Mercer recordings and put this one on the list to get at some point. Then I was down in Ashland to see some plays, stopped by the wonderful Music Coop downtown, and there it was on the shelf. I *think* this pretty well completes my little collection of recordings on the very short-lived Mercer label!

"Morning Joy" is not a "larger group", it's his quartet with Potts. Good stuff. I don't listen to Lacy much any more, but I do tend to return to these ones: https://www.discogs.com/release/6420962-Masahiko-Togashi-Steve-Lacy-Twilight https://www.discogs.com/release/26812064-Masahiko-Togashi-Spiritual-Moments https://www.discogs.com/release/2447887-Steve-Lacy-Daniel-Humair-Anthony-Cox-Work

The Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd. Argo LPS-757 [US 1965] Recorded Live At 'The Bohemian Caverns', Washington DC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Caverns

A man I knew when I lived in NYC about twenty years ago rode a mountain bicycle everywhere in the City. He wore a kind of exercise weights on his wrists, basically some lead bars sewn into wristlets and velcroed; he used them to bust side-mirrors off cars that tried to run him into parked cars onto the curbs.

Very slow with new uploads but here are three new Percy tracks, the first two surprised me (perhaps because I never knew the Andrews Sisters or subsequent performances).

Beautiful and very accurate description of Andrew Hill. What makes it even better imo is that despite its unpredictability it still all makes sense and there’s a solid base of structure and logic in it all.

Great bargain when it first came out.

Eliza Gilkyson: Dark Ages

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.12 and No.27

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Guitarists Chalmiers and Mash:

All Them Witches - Live on the Internet

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Now playing Disc 5 from this Joe Henderson set:

Just happened to listen to Dance With Death on my hour-long walk to work this morning. My “Billy Harper” Pandora station randomly served up the last DWD track to me, so then I streamed the entire thing. The best thing about Hill — especially his entire first run on Blue Note — is how even after 30 years of listening to Hill, even now I can’t anticipate where individual solos are going from moment to moment (unless I can remember where they’re going). Nothing obvious, and his music (and the solos of his collabators) are almost entirely bereft of clichés. Hill is almost always like a breath of fresh air.

Now spinning: Mongo Santamaria - Sofrito (Vaya, 1976)

Regarding the Cy Touff: This is what I have: Great PCJ CD Classic reissue.

But I am ahead of myself, now: