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Pops is going to be 124 years old tomorrow so I’m getting ready with Side 1 of this 2 LP set, three great tracks of Louis. “Newport Jazz Festival: Live (Unreleased Highlights From 1956, 1958, 1963)” Columbia 2 LP set. Followed by a track by Rex Stewart and one by Ben Webster.

Disc 1

Finally finished the Beethoven box. The early & middle sets flew right by, but for the first time in my experience, the Late Quartets proved to be draining. Not in a bad way, just...intense. I pulled up both the Emerson & Busch Quartets' versions on Spotify and in the end, they left some energy in the mind. It was only 3 CDs, but Juilliard left me with nothing in the tank after each one. I do not know what they did, or if the "should" have done it, but they did, and it did not sound "wrong". It was just a matter of not leaving anything on the table, I guess. It's difficult music to be sure, and maybe disguising that difficulty did not seem honest. Summer With The Juilliard Quartet continues with something more "difficult" but a lot more "fun" set: YEE-HA!!!!

The Lost Recordings - TLR-2104083 - Stan Getz Quartet & Astrud Gilberto -Berlin 1966

not jazz Disc One

💗 Love it - Have the MPS version

👍 - as CD Alma Records ACD 14382 on my shelf: 👍 - as LP from 1982 on my shelf!

Charles Mingus “East Coasting” Bethlehem/Solid UHQCD Japan Absolutely one of my favorite jazz albums.

The Senators site is long gone, right?

Included a track from this on the recent Night Lights show “Record Store, Record Label.” Happy birthday to Mr. Mitchell!

Darren Johnston’s Gone to Chicago “THe Big Lift” Porto Franco cd

LP 2 of 2 - originally released as More Smiles

Way to go Gheorge. Your music is just like your posts: lots of energy, enthusiasm and love for the music itself. Keep up the good work!