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It’s equally good and there’s much more. They were magic together.

@Late, I'll make one more Beirach recommendation: Forgotten Fantasies. It's not a trio album though. It's a duo LP with David Liebman. Unforgettable music, imo.

👌👍 Very swinging

I have quite a collection of Ran Blake LPs and CDs but haven't kept up with anything more recent than the duets with Sara Serpa from 2010. So many duets. I'd love to hear his 1994 appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz but haven't found it archived online yet. Something I found out recently was that he wrote liner notes for other musicians' albums several times: Chris Connor – Cocktails and Dusk; Free Spirits reissue Horace Silver – The Trio Sides (Blue Note) Mal Waldron – One and Two I don't own any of these releases, but I very much wanted to read the Waldron liner note, so I used a magnifying glass and read the image on Discogs. He recounts his intense lessons with Waldron, who at first did not want to take him on as a student. Blake said he's never met a more patient person than Waldron. He also recalled working in the kitchen at the Jazz Gallery nightclub and making something called "Ivory Soap mayonnaise." 🤨 He refers to "High on a Windy Hill" as one of the most harmonically sophisticated ballads ever written. I don't know if he essayed it for any of his recordings, but here is a fairly recent YouTube performance: Ran Blake - High on a Windy Hill (Tribute to Chris Connor)

Billie Holiday, “Masters of Jazz Vol. 3” Storyville cd 300×297 9.04 KB Been too long since I listened to some Billie.

Oh yeah. Summer Night is another good one! There are so many.

Thanks! I'm listening to Summer Night, with Mraz and Billy Hart, right now (on YouTube). Their cover of "Solar" is excellent.

Elm is a desert-island disc for me. For more of Beirach's (piano-bass-drums) trio recordings, I'd recommend these: As you can see above, George Mraz was a frequent collaborator with Richie Beirach. I would also recommend these two albums under Mraz's leadership, both of which feature Beirach in a trio setting:

I've slept on Beirach's music far too long. Looking for recommendations of trio work (piano-bass-drums) in particular. I've heard Elm, and it was really good. Elm

Spun this last night and had to stop what I was doing and just listen. I used to think I wasn't a fan of their duo work, but thankfully I was mistaken. This is a really good session. I still haven't heard Volume 2 of this set.

Yep, I was happy to stumble across Bangalore -- and the other two Mariano albums, as well. I've heard them all via streaming services, but I'm looking forward to hearing the music on my stereo in higher fidelity.

Nice find! That Bangalore album has been on my discogs wish list, but I haven't been keeping up. No doubt you got DG's only copy. 😁

Saw this thread referenced elsewhere on the board and thought I'd resurrect it. I have two sets that I got directly from Mosaic years ago that came with booklets, but in plain boxes. So, I am looking for the actual outer boxes that came with the sets. 1. Shorty Rogers 2. Herbie Nichols I check eBay and Discogs every once in a while. I recently snagged a George Lewis outer box on Discogs, which knocked that one off my list. Still looking for the other two.

Yesterday, I ordered three Charlie Mariano CDs from Dusty Groove: Outstanding.

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I'm still surprised that this 2-CD set has never been reissued. It's virtually gone on the market. There's been one for sale on discogs for crazy money for several years and the history shows only one sold. You would think Joey's estate would put this out. I think this year I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy the mp3 downloads from Amazon.

I watched a Bogie film last night too:

What a fascinating line-up. I don't think I've ever seen this album before. What do you think of it, @kh1958?

The hourly schedule has been posted since last week.

Jakob Bro/Lee Konitz/Bill Frisell/Jason Moran/Thomas Morgan/Andrew Cyrile, Taking Turns (ECM)

Enjoying another album by Roxy Coss, “The Future is Female” on Posi-tone cd 600×600 83.3 KB Bass – Rick Rosato Bass Clarinet – Lucas Pino Drums – Jimmy Macbride Guitar – Alex Wintz Piano – Miki Yamanaka Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Roxy Coss