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Thanks for steering my attention to this pianist. Didn´t know him. Stylistically highly original, excellent music!

Maybe my favorite Jackie Mac record. Full blown. Now I am begging BN to release Jackie's 1968 date where Norman Conners drummin' was shitty; I don't care, issue the tapes!

Just when things were getting interesting!!! Change the sleeve art, this record could be a ESP Disk release.

A cold, clear morning. So quiet. . . the few around us are not going off to work this morning. Decided to play one of the Goodman discs that I pulled out last week to listen to, Benny Goodman “The Complete 1937 Madhattan Room Boraodcasts, Volume 1” on Viper’s Nest cd This was quite a band!

Maybe the real coming out party is this record Haven't listened to Action+3 in 6 years, and now I'm wondering why I haven't. Great stuff!!! PS Stunning sleeve art, Reid Miles!

Love that exchange Monk has with Johnny Griffin on the tour bus when he was looking at Johnny's threads, like Monk said, "man, those are some bad ass motherfuckers"

This conversation wouldn't even exist, if it wasn't for the fact that BN thought it was a good idea to record them in the first place. So, yep. I have both sets and keeping both sets. Nothing's perfect, but glad to have them than nothing at all.

Please remind me, was this the session that Shorter thought was ruined by Duke Pearson (as producer)?

Michel Portal: ! Dejarme Solo ! Dreyfus Jazz FDM 36506- 2 [France 1991]

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December 07 Matthew Shipp - 1960

Pre order? Are they getting reissued?

Im a big fan of Joe both as leader as a sideman. All of the Blue Notes are great but my favorites would be: - Inner Urge - In n Out on Milestone: - Multiple - Tetragon - Power to the People Later Joe: - Mirror Mirror - So Near So Far - Double Rainbow

Yes, Witch Doctor is very 'hot'. Great record though.

RIP Steve 🥀

This evening, Shelley Carrol Quartet at the Kitchen Cafe. A program of songs associated with Stan Getz. Quite excellent.

TIFF is having a Mikio Naruse retrospective. I've managed to book tickets for 4 of the films and am trying to see 3 more (which are currently sold out, but tickets generally are released a few days ahead of each screening). So far I saw When a Woman Ascends the Stairs and then today, Floating Clouds, which was far too melodramatic for my taste.