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When I have a night off (here in Europe its "Round About Midnight) and I´m scheduled only for tomorrow night to play.... well then I love to cook. Right now a really hot vegan dish with all them vegetables in it, a lot of hot chili too, garlic, and sure sure sure only vegan, and I love to cook and taste, AND while doing so, I have a portable CD Player in the kitchen, and am in the mood for "On the Corner". I really have to have it LOUD, I LOOOOOVVVE that record ! And that kind of style of Music in general.....it makes me dance, it makes me feel happy and just posted it to my youngest boy who lives in Spain and loves our music.... we often exchange what we listen to Anyway, he will come here next week, I gonna throw a big big party for my Birthday and of course we do partying at a jazz club and play a whole concert, my great band my best friends, makin some happy noizzzzz 😆

Thank you both. Well it was a crazy year. I get much love from people around and made some good music I think or lets say it this way, people tell me that, okay I got a helluva band its them they really cook so you play and things look better.

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra “The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings” disc 12 of 24

Agreed, back to Charles Tyler.

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Which eventually (inevitably?) morphed into a 38 CD set in 2019. If you want to hear that, get your wallet out as it was very limited and goes for big bucks today.

+1 on all points!

I think it's too late to delete, and the question how to deal with the fact that so much great music and documentation came to us via Cadence remains important... we just need to return to Tyler and his music soon because, yes, it's his thread...

Nah, but I am not a mod!

The original Woodstock release was a 3LP set. There was a Woodstock 2 (additional performances), that was 2 LPs.

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed these.

Yes, their bizarre attitude has always mystified me. If Mosaic were to do a separate set, it sure would be nice to have all the Columbia small group studio material in nice sound and all together with it, but I guess that would make for kind of an odd melange?

Correct!

Taken together, these performances show that Jeremy Pelt never intended simply to play Christmas music – he endeavored to rethink it, with each track unfolding like a conversation between respected tradition and present-tense imagination. The venerable Christmas standard “We Three Kings” is transformed into a sleek, modern jazz waltz with a distinctly hip vibe that recalls Freddie Hubbard's “Blue Spirits.” The colors and phrasing the ensemble brings to “Christmas Time Is Here” are impressively unique and beautifully call to mind the song's hopeful last line: “Oh, that we could always see such spirit through the year.” “The Little Drummer Boy” receives a strikingly modern treatment with a distinctive, thought-provoking interpretation of a tune you thought you knew. In the capable hands of this all-star quartet, “Winter Wonderland” bounces along with straight-ahead joy, while “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” glows with whispered intimacy. It's all vintage Pelt — inventive, soulful, and deeply musical. Sure, it's a Christmas album, but at its core, it's a sparkling celebration of jazz itself, played with warmth, wit, and real sophistication. - Excerpted from the liner notes by Ray Osnato

Good point. Shall I delete my comment?

SONORAMA recordings in my stock: CD Brandt,Helmut "Berlin Calling" - The Helmut Brandt Combo 1956-58 Sonorama Records # 75 CD Brandt,Helmut Spree Coast Jazz - H. Brandt Orchestra 1963 Sonorama # 101 CD Koller,Hans Big Sound Koller 1981 Sonorama # 97 CD Van Royen,Jerry Explosion! The Festival Bigband 1971 Sonorama #43 A German based and worldwide distributed independent label run by Ekkehart Fleischhammer, focusing on impossible to find or previously unreleased recordings from the sought after vaults of jazz, funk, soul or latin music history. Label Code: LC 13415 Kantstrasse 125 10625 Berlin Germany

#6 is this cut. I have a studio version of this on the Straight Ahead album. As Jim noted, it's a Wes tune.

Melodia C60 22851 000 (UdSSR) - Alexei Kuznetsov Quintet "Concert In The Olympic Village" - rec. 1984

Best wishes, Gheorghe!

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IIRC, Ethan's list is a bit more broad and includes Cecil's ensemble recording for Impulse! and some others. He kind of ignores Masabumi Kikuchi's pre-2000s recordings by saying they aren't "mature" or whatever, which is a gross oversight given that his 70s work is of incredibly high quality.

there's a thread elsewhere about this, I believe, if you do a search. Probably not worth denigrating Mr. Tyler with it.

Thank you Peter and Hutch an for those nice lists!