All Activity

Art Pepper “The Hollywood All-Star Sessions,” disc 3

Adieu, Brownie. I will miss your posts. RIP

Starting off with Joshua Redman “Words Fall Short” Blue Note cd I like this one a lot.

A Five Star album in my book. Top level playing by all members of this quintet.

Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition 7 CD/Blu-ray Played once: Mint $90 shipped Media Mail UPS is about $30 so if you would prefer I will ship via UPS for$110.

RCA - 6296 (Japan 1975) - Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band " Long Yellow Road" - rec. 1974 & 1975 - Engineer: James Mooney

... another 'bin-find' from the thriftstore. Sick !

Art Pepper / George Cables: Tête-À-Tête. Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-843-2 / Galaxy GXY-5147 [US 1995]

November 14 George Cables - 1944

I was just rereading that passage from the thesis about Patton, how he was offended by Blue Note putting white women on his album covers, apparently becoming increasingly bitter about this in later years... Apparently, he was still ok with this at the time of Got a good thing goin' (which is also the much better cover) but That certain feeling came out after his conversion to islam and he felt having a white woman on the cover was at odds with that... So when the time comes for a Tonepoet of That Certain Feeling, they might redo that cover as well, since they're redoing so many covers anyway... That said: that certain feeling is my favorite Patton album... NP: Jakob Bro - Montclair Sessions (with Wadada Leo Smith among others)

Meaning to make my way back to Mingus. Meanwhile, Inspired that this title is appearing in the 2026 Tone Poets series, I am spinning this:

It's been 30 years when I read the Nisenson book from the public library but I distinctly remember thinking back then that this was a particularly weak biography... My only comparison regarding Miles biographies is the Szwed which I think is very good, similar to his Ra book in this regard...

Since various Miles biographies are mentioned here, a question to those in the know: How would you rate the "Round About Midnight" bio by Eric Nisenson rate by compasrison? I had seen its German edition at Zweitausendeins back in the day but did not feel compelled to go for it. But it now was part of that haul of jazz books I made about 6 weeks ago (and freebies are not to be sneered at anyway ). Thanks in advance for any enlightened opinions you mave.

Tonight and tomorrow.

That Chester Thompson record is killer (weakish trombone notwithstanding), should anybody wonder and/or should it be available anywhere. Pretty damn short though.

Not to be a shill*, but Dusty Groove has a bunch of Black Jazz titles (far more than on the Real Gone site) @ $6.99. Extra two bucks but more options. Check "CD Deals" on their site. *I am a frequent customer of DG but have no relationship to them.

Ha, I had no idea!