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This is one of Hawes' finest recordings, IMO. Five stars!

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PM Sent on The Alban Berg Collection- $30

Almost every time I see this on the shelf I have to pull it out and play it. (Now for example). Just a perfect disc is so many important ways. Players, song choices, engineering. . . wow. Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto “A Causa de Voce” Adventure Music cd

The most recent album from Flora Purim. Reminds me of her album of Nascimento tunes, and also Monday Michiru work. Flora Purim "If You Will" Strut cd

Also saw Ambrose Mukinsire but he didn’t make any impression.

I am surprised that China is #2, and that Mexico is ahead of Italy and Spain.

That's the one!

Are you referring to this album - https://haroldlandjazz.bandcamp.com/album/a-lazy-afternoon-with-strings-by-ray-ellis or a different one? I'm sure I've listened to A Lazy Afternoon at least once, but can't recall if I still have the CD. Most likely not...

There's just something about this set that's irresistible.

Any news on packaging, etc.? I'm assuming it is probably 3 albums on 2 CDs rather than 3 CDs with appropriate slipcases. Am tempted either way. Thanks!

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Mayall sold. Thank you.

Last night, Jonathan Fisher Quartet with Shelley Carrol at the Balcony Club.

I'm reading Philip Clark's biography of Dave Brubeck, so lots of DBQ listening for me.

Judging from my (mostly) German-pressing black-and-white-cover Black Lion LPs (predating the CD-only reissues, of course), DA Music (Deutsche Austrophon) already was on board when Alan Bates produced reissues for Black Lion. Including those from George Wein's Storyville label of the 50s. So later on (in the CD era) DA Music above all had a "corporate identity" of their own (i.e. those black-and-white covers) that additional takeovers apparently had to fit in with. Personally, apart from those ill-fitting 70s/80s photographs combined with music from the 50s (or even before), I don't find these covers that horrible. Yes, they are fairly nondescript but there have been lots worse in the reissue field, including by the majors/corporates. And which smaller reissue label would have kept the original artwork throughout anyway if they had sourced their music from multiple different original labels? Disregarding exceptions to the rule such as Fresh Sound, can you imagine one and the same reissue label (such as Black Lion here) reissuing on the one hand (for example) Storyville material inside the original cover artwork with their classic Burt Goldblatt photographs and on the other those "brain-sectioned" semi-naive artist head drawings on the Fontana covers (such as in the case of the Ted Curson LP above)? And whatever other labels' original artwork in between ... Not likely to happen - understandably so IMO. Years and decades after the original releases they wanted their records to be seen as "Black Lions" in the shops, not a mess of various replica repros of long-defunct original labels. For better or worse for the collectors ...

Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 disc 1 Been some time since I listened to the remix. Great music in any form–I think I have ten different versions of this release, three on LP, two on SACD, five on cd. I rotate them in listening.

Exposure matters, too. Today’s friction-free music distribution means you can binge fifty versions of “Body and Soul” in one afternoon; that repetition wires the progression into muscle memory even if you’ve never cracked a theory book. Add a naturally attentive ear and you get someone like Ms. TTK, who hears the changes first and the melody second. So yes, the ability exists on a spectrum, but it’s more common than you might think among jazz devotees who’ve spent years marinating in the standards canon—trained or not.

Bates kept the masters when his deal with Fontana/Philips & Polydor was finished and subsequently licensed material to Arista in the US, Nippon Phonogram and King Records in Japan, and other imprints. DA Music (Germany) bought much of his holdings in the 90s apparently as part of a debt liquidation situation. I am sure they weren’t as interested in higher budget artwork as they were in moving product, though from my recollection the CDs sounded pretty decent.

Inspired by DG's glowing reviews 😄 (but also this one - https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/a-beautiful-day-revisited), I ordered the expanded edition of Andrew Hill's A Beautiful Day. Curious to see how different it really is. Maybe I will forgive them for not pointing out that Charles Mingus's Folk Forms (on the Penny label) is just a different incarnation of Mingus at Antibes 1960, so I shouldn't have picked that up. ☹️