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Duke Ellington – “Duke 56/62” Vol. 1 2 LP CBS France, LP 2 This is great music. Sounding so good this morning.

Not one of my favorite Dexter Gordon albums. Will not be listening to this one again.

Disc 1

Would you like February?

About two inches of snow overnight. Did my little bit of shoveling for now; snow is starting up again. Starting off with Bill Evans Trio “On a Friday Evening” Craft cd Two great things about this release: Plangent Process applied, and mastering by Paul Blackmore. Nicely engineered performances.

Many thanks, 15 years on!!

It was on December 5, 1980, broadcast on March 1, 1981 ...

Yeah, the individual cd situation with Bud Powell on Verve is not as nice as the set. The set has a very nice and quite extensive book, too with very clear sessionograpy and discography listings. Somebody has very helpfully posted photos of the book on musicbrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/release/c5a8b2e5-d004-4b81-92d3-fb22e6d767b2/cover-art . I have trouble reading the tiny print in most cd-sized booklets.

Interesting thread as I'm a newcomer to Teddy's work having picked up a copy of Heart & Soul on Contemporary a couple of weeks ago. I've been playing it a lot so will be keeping an eye out for some of his other dates as leader.

Niño Rivera Y Su Conjband – Niño Rivera Y Su Conjband

👍- same here ...

Wow, it could have been 1983 at the Junges Theater (Young Theatre) in Göttingen, with Dieter Glawischnig (ld, p), Palle Mikkelborg (tp), Benny Bailey was announced but unable to attend, Jiggs Whigham (tb), Herb Geller (as) … The NDR Bigband has often performed here, most recently at the Göttingen Jazz Festival under the direction of the British pianist and conductor Nikki Iles on November 7, 2025.

Bud Powell individual Verve CD's are all over the place. Found this set used for a Jackson out the door. The "binder" was in fine shape, CD's were messy; but I gambled and bought it, all plays fine, and very glad to have it! Still really digging this recent purchase:

Friends came over tonight, and one of my friends just upgraded this CD and offered the copy he had previously to me Nice gesture (pay it forward, although I have the faintest idea what to forward back (dude is obsessed with the Beatles, and I have no Beatles)) I know, I've never owned a copy, even though my mom was a HUGE Beatles fan, but we spun it tonight, and I really do like it, cool to have a copy.

Iberian Waltz

Out Front

Heckyeah. I think Lateef's playing a Berg Larsen mouthpiece. 🤔

Rest in Peace Bob. We will not speak but stand inside the rain.

RIP, Bob.