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Stan Getz with the Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band “Change of Scenes” Verve “Elite” cd It’s been too long since I played this. A great soloist in front of an amazing band full of great soloists. Love it!

Wrong? It depends.

I am sitting here comfortably in a way I haven’t since Wednesday or so. . .with a new furnace heating the house, all the house. The expense is going to be crippling in some ways in the year ahead, but the comfort and sense of security against the weather seems worth it right now. The former furnace lasted 27 years. . . I hope I get more than half of those years out of this one. Starting off a listening with disc 2 of this new release, Thelonious Monk “Bremen 1965” – a truly nice 2 cd release from Sunnyside. 185×185 10.4 KB

Damn it, I was going to say Horace! B[

On the shelf with some kind of lung funk. Good time to get to the BFT. 1 - Vibe was very Donovan Mellow Yellow at first, but voice comes in and proves it's much more cool. I don't recognize the vocalist, but, not surprisingly, I like this a lot. Not my main street, but if this came on in a social setting, I'd be a happy clam. A little arpeggio happy, but it works. This vibe reminds me of my first trip into The Church Brew Works when I lived in Pittsburgh. Walking in, I wasn't sure I was NOT in a church (even with the brewing equpiment on the altar!). As we approached the bar, Tom Jones' It's Not Unsual started playing. It was the first time I felt at home in that city. 2 - David Murray from one of the Red Baron releases. As underwhelmed as I was by most of what was released on that label, this album, or more specifically this cut, was an absolute high point. No surprise with John Hicks on piano... on piAAAAAAAno!!!!! ON PIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAno!!!! The great John Hicks on piano. I know Murray is a divisive figure, and I understand why, but this is a prime example of what he can do when he is "on". Of all the praticioners of circular breathing, he's the one guy that I feel actually incorporates it into his musical message -- it's a tool, one in his kit that helps him to deliver his message. This song is aural dessert for me. Love it. The rest of the rhythm section is not exactly lacking, either. Workman with his typical incredible note choices, and Cyrile is just... everything. I wish the whole record rose to this level, alas, that is not the case, but if one needs to own ONE Red Baron release, this has to be a strong contender. If you want two, there's a nice Bob Wilbur release in there, as well. Here's the link for this one . 3 - Stanley! God I love this album. Prayer For Peace from this. There's not enough that can be said about this guy's writing. And a true gentleman. I reached out to him at one point looking for a particular chart, explaining the hobbyist nature of my playing and declaring my love of his work. He provided me a login to his server and said, "Help yourself to whatever music is there. I'm thrilled to have it played." #GreatMoments. 4 - No idea what this is. Doesn't offend, but the bar has been set very high, thus far, and this one is a bit out of its league, thought that bass is awfully nice. Sounds cooler than Avashi Cohen, though I can hear him doing something like this. This seems to BE cool where AC tends to try-to-be cool. At least to my ear. 5 - Feels very Gil Scott Heron meets Santana. No idea who or what. Good groove, but not sure it's a sit and focus on tune. 6 - Dreaded synth... holding my breath, here. I like the playing, I just hate that sound. After three minutes it arrives somewhere, but not sure how I feel about the destination. A rare felser miss for me. But, hey, it took 11-1/2 minutes, so there's that. 7 - Tenor reminds me of Fela's style, but this feels too new to be that. Given the live feel of the band and the Fela influence, I'd guess this to be a South African musician. Hyper-compressed drums grate on me. The feel is there, though, and that counts for a lot. 8 - Man, the beginning of this is so close to Greg Bandy's drumming on Pharoah Sanders' Love Will Find A Way. Okay, it's Little Sunflower. Really liking the hand drums on this. The whole rhythmic feel is a win. Vibes, so far, are incidental, but that's okay. Here we go (3:15), vibes are digging in. It's got that snappy percussive feel of really good James Brown, but with that Latin percussion influence. I mean, come on, if your backside isn't shaking a little to this, you're probably dead. Nice tenor sound. Patient start, hope it continues. Could be Martino, but I don't think so. Certainly has listened in that direction. 9 - I was going to suggest a tie to an earlier track, but this is Hannibal, Soul Brother, with Diedre Murray on cello. This whole album is epic, but Michael Cochrane's tune Revelation is my favorite. Hannibal is just... wow. The version on Cyrille's My Friend Louis is also pretty epic. I consider it a cultural crime that this guy isn't a household name. Here's the link. 10 - I mean, two chords in, you know what this song is. At first, I was thinking Mingus on piano, but then I thought I heard a touch of Gene Harris. Very loose drumming. Reminds me of Rashied Ali's band at Den Haag. I'm stumped. It all feels familiar, yet foreign, which is probably a clue. 11 - I like the piano, I'm not sold on the vocals. A little too look-at-me for my taste. I really want this to hit, but it doesn't. I keep wishing this was Dwight Trible so I could get what I need from it. I can't kick, this whole test was a bundle of fun, with several epic cuts. Which, frankly, is not surprising. "Come on, man! It's been a lousy f****n' day and I hate the f****n' Eagles!" #iykyk Needed something for 261. I hear what you're saying about the time, but for me, it's part of why this music holds up so well. I hear so many albums now where the time, pitch, and blending of voices are absolutely flawless, but the music is missing the "it" factor that makes me give a damn. Just my 2¢

I should give them a try again. I have them but at some certain point they started to bore me because I started to get bored by the hard bop style and kept only stuff like "Soul Station" on my current playlist. But for some small hours listening when I lay down and close my eyes to relax a bit before falling asleep it might be nice again. A very good bebop record. So many don´t know Miles before the "First Quintet" but he was strong between 1949-1951 doing almost as quick and fast like Diz or Fats, but all his own. Very fine. And he had the best players, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey.....I also like the 1951 Birdland recordings very much. I love it. I love music that is like a prayer, like this one or ascension or Pharoah Sanders "The Creator..." or Alice Coltrane, it really inspires me, though I am a devout polytheist, but very religious in that manner......

But everyone prefers a professionally made CD to a homemade CDr, right? Yes, you can put your download onto a portable hard drive, and then burn it whenever necessary; but I am not referring to people who would do that sort of thing. I am thinking of the typical adult who bought LPs before 1990 and CDs after. He has stopped buying CDs. And apparently (I'm guessing) he stopped buying CDs about the time that the BMG Record Club went out of business.

Good for you Peter. Great set.

R.I.P.

Yes, I suppose you are right in that there are different sorts of streams. Some are like a radio show and probably can't be downloaded or are coming from analog sources. Most things available on Spotify are also available somewhere to download.

TIFF in Toronto. They claim it was a 70 mm print. And then next week Vertigo in 70 mm.

In 1957 Hank Mobley recorded 5 albums as a leader for Blue Note. I dig all of them.That period is very appealing to me for a few reasons. One is no modal tunes, second is no boog-a-lou or otherwise commercially oriented tunes. This album is a beauty. The tune "Bag's Groove" has been recorded numerous times. The version here is one of my favorites. Bill Hardman's trumpet solo is, to my ears PERFECT. Then Sonny Clark and Mobley play ideally within this idiom.

I'm gettin it just for the Basie. I expect I already have at least some of those that but I presume this will be with better sound.

Where'd you see it in 70mm? (IIRC-- and I often don't-- it was shot in VistaVision.)

Not sure that all streams are available for download. However there are programs which will record anything playing on your computer. (I use Audio Hijack-- when I can remember how to make it work.)

Friday 12/12 - Ricky Ford Quartet at the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, CT. With John Kordalewski (piano), Tony Marino (bass) and Thurman Barker (drums). Solid two sets of music.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No.6, No.12, No.15 - Idei Biret

Finally (in 2019), an excellent book on Brubeck's music. I'm learning a lot from it. I'd love to buy more of the books from the Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz series, but the academic pricing puts nearly all of them out of my reach even for paperbacks. Other recordings featured in the series include the Hot Fives and Sevens, Goodman 1938 C arnegie Hall, Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Monk Quartet with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Mulligan's 1950s Quartets, Miles's Second Quintet, Jarret's Köln Concert...There hasn't been one since the Mulligan in 2023, so who knows if the series has been discontinued.

Digging into this treasure chest: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Disc 15

Not sure I follow your logic here. Yes, the fact that an album is available for streaming today does not ensure it will be available tomorrow. But if it is streaming, it's almost certainly also available for download too. Which makes it exactly the same as a cd: get it while you can because it may go out of print at any time.

Wow!

External CD drives are inexpensive. I had to get one when I had to buy a new computer five years ago. I had an external CD/DVD burner long before that. CD prices vary: If you are searching for rare items the price tags are astronomical. Add to that the high shipping fees and customs fees and some items I would like to have are out of my budget. I recently found a Venzuelean CD from my wish list that is only 20 bucks, but the shipping costs would be four times as high, not including import taxes. Crazy. A friend of mine with an expensive high end system including high resolution streaming simply does not want to plaster his walls with shelves. Looking at my living room walls I can see his point. And I was surprised at the enormous catalogue of his streaming service. Many rare jazz items that never saw a CD reissue. We did our evening on Cal Tjader completely by streaming. And the sound quality was better than any of my LPs or CDs. All high resolution. Only disadvantage is that often the liner notes etc. are missing.