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As much as I like Andrew’s music — if I’m being honest, it’s really probably more that I really love rediscovering Andrew’s recordings — WHICH, nearly every time I listen to them (whether it’s been a couple of months, or a year since I’ve listened to a particular album), it’s almost like hearing most of them for the very first time. Not exactly, and less so for Black Fire (which I’ve probably heard the most often) — but for practically all of the rest Andrew’s catalog, it’s a little almost like don’t know these recordings, no matter how many times I’ve heard them before. They’re (almost) always ‘new’ to me — or hearing them is more like hearing them for the first time, to a degree unlike nearly anything else in the entire Blue Note catalog. I might (almost) love most of Andrew’s BN output — but what I really love is how they’ve kept me guessing with their unpredictability, for 30 years this year. I got the Hill Mosaic big-box in 1995, my second-only Mosaic purchase, which I really only got because of all the sidemen on it — and I’d only ever heard Point of Departure before that, and didn’t really know what to make of it, neither loving nor hating it back then. And it also took me a solid 5 years(!) to even half-digest the Hill big box. All that said, I also don’t see him as some monumental jazz ‘auteur’. Every musician I’ve ever talked to who played with Hill for any length of time has described some experience similar to having questions (lots of questions) for Hill about what to do here, or the meaning of vague charts (to put it charitably) — nearly every time, Hill’s reply was a quiet/tepid “what do you think? He seemed like the LEAST assertive ‘leader’ in all of jazz. And yet, one could perhaps argue Hill’s actual approach wasn’t all that different than Miles — hire great and creative sidemen, and leverage their strengths. (And Hill probably did arguably ‘write’ more in his process, than Miles did in his.) Anyway, I love Hill’s Hill’s BN’s — but largely because of the way they seem to almost force “continual rediscovery” — at least in my case.

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The weekend bottle was: Feudi del Duca, Fiano, Puglia, Italy 2022

Now spinning: Milt Jackson - Second Nature: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy/Arista, 2 LPs, rec. 1956) with Lucky Thompson

In the afternoon: ...and now:

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Sonny Rollins - The Bridge

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Scratching The Seventies / Dreams is an excellent 3 CD set. Caution for those who are "allergic" - it has a fair amount of Aebi.

Hey gang, I'm finishing up a new Night Lights about Art Pepper in the 1960s and came across mention of this in the chronology at the back of The Art Pepper Companion: "Spring-Summer 1967: Gigs in L.A. Leads own group at Gold Nugget in June and September with Dick Whittington, Hamel and Jerry Granelli. Records for this group for Contemporary without eventual release." Just out of curiosity, has this session ever been documented anywhere? Pepper also recorded a Contemporary rehearsal session in 1964 that Laurie Pepper eventually put out as part of The Art History Project: V. 1-3 (it's on CD 2, which is titled Hard Art). I can't find mention of it in the Jazz Discography Project index of Pepper sessions (which also doesn't list the 1964 Hard Art date). And while he can be heard on tenor on non-1960s dates, I haven't been able to track down any recordings featuring him on it in the mid-1960s, when he took it up in place of alto for awhile (a stretch that came to an end when he joined Rich's band in 1968). Pepper's 1960s discography is infamously scant after his arrest following the Smack-Up sessions in October 1960. I haven't tried to delve into any of the stuff he did with Marty Paich after getting out of San Quentin in 1964 and have stuck to the live recordings from 1964 and 1968, including two tunes with Buddy Rich's big band, and a tune from the 1964 rehearsal session. I'm also starting off the program with a couple of cuts from 1960, which was a strong year for Pepper recordings, especially Smack-Up and Intensity. It's been a very interesting show to put together.

That´s a very fine album

Recently got hold of the new Jasmine release of Duke Ellington's Mercer recordings and put this one on the list to get at some point. Then I was down in Ashland to see some plays, stopped by the wonderful Music Coop downtown, and there it was on the shelf. I *think* this pretty well completes my little collection of recordings on the very short-lived Mercer label!

"Morning Joy" is not a "larger group", it's his quartet with Potts. Good stuff. I don't listen to Lacy much any more, but I do tend to return to these ones: https://www.discogs.com/release/6420962-Masahiko-Togashi-Steve-Lacy-Twilight https://www.discogs.com/release/26812064-Masahiko-Togashi-Spiritual-Moments https://www.discogs.com/release/2447887-Steve-Lacy-Daniel-Humair-Anthony-Cox-Work

The Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd. Argo LPS-757 [US 1965] Recorded Live At 'The Bohemian Caverns', Washington DC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Caverns

A man I knew when I lived in NYC about twenty years ago rode a mountain bicycle everywhere in the City. He wore a kind of exercise weights on his wrists, basically some lead bars sewn into wristlets and velcroed; he used them to bust side-mirrors off cars that tried to run him into parked cars onto the curbs.

Very slow with new uploads but here are three new Percy tracks, the first two surprised me (perhaps because I never knew the Andrews Sisters or subsequent performances).

Beautiful and very accurate description of Andrew Hill. What makes it even better imo is that despite its unpredictability it still all makes sense and there’s a solid base of structure and logic in it all.

Great bargain when it first came out.

Eliza Gilkyson: Dark Ages

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.12 and No.27

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