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I am going to see Gary in November in Rotterdam!

What in the world has a Dürer self portrait to do with Bach?

Found the lp for 1 euro at thriftstore

That’s excellent news. I only have a rip from an older CD reissue.

Chilto next imo.

Stan Getz Quintet Intepretations #3

Ts-find

Maybe they are saving it all up for next year's centenary!

John Coltrane "Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album – Deluxe Edition Impulse Japan 2 UHQCD disc 1 300×266 7.48 KB A great session re-discovered from tapes RVG gave to John to take home.

Next November on British Jazz Explosion Series this great european jazz album: https://eustore.everythingjazz.com/products/zbigniew-namyslowski-modern-jazz-quartet-lola-106642

Ts-find from yesterday NP Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 Scriabin - Le Poeme De L'extase

A warmer morning. Hard to type with a large dog on your lap! Starting off with the second disc of this well-recorded live release. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis “Live in Cuba”

I wholeheartedly agree ...

IIRC (and I often don't) The Song of the Hawk can almost be used as a discography as he discusses every major recording session.

Three votes already for "Wishing on the Moon" by Donald Clarke - that seals it for now: I've started on this Billie Holiday biography (her genealogy described in the first chapter is confusing, to say the least!). Anyway ... opinions on the other books shown in my starting post remain welcome. In particular, another question to those who know: How does the Stan Kention "Artistry In Rhythm" bio by William F. Lee compare to other biographies written on "Stan The Man"? This is a subject I find quite tempting and I was glad to get that book, but leafing through the pages in the chapters of his final years left me a bit puzzled. At times they read like a scrapbook collection of newspaper articles on him which seem somewhat repetitive at first glance - as if geared towards the diehard fan completist. Strange ...

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