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32 Jazz CD reissue Original cover:

Inspired by @mikeweil

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Freeman is awful. Always has been.

There are worse out there, surely.

👍- as original LP from 1972 on my shelf ...

Thank you. All guests enjoyed it. And there will be a second round in three weeks as our apartment is not that big.

Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi

That's my favorite Prez... And congratulations with your wife Mike.

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Great way to spend a relaxed sunday afternoon after the party for my wife's 70th birthday. Lester's version of I Can't Get Started is the kind of music that I want to listen to and die peacefully when the time comes.

Thrilled to have found a copy of Buster Williams’s “Pinnacle” at my local. This is the one Mwandishi-adjacent LP that I could never track down. Agree Phil Freeman sucks big time. Sophomoric grouches singularly enthusiastic about “out” music are my least favorite jazz-guy archetype.

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I thought his Cecil book was really disappointing. Very little insight into the man and it became a simple chronological description of the gigs played. I believe there's another bio on the horizon which will hopefully do Taylor justice. As for RSD itself, well the first Little Feat album is one I'm very happy to be reacquainted with.

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Ts find (from the bin !)

One of my very favorite ECM releases and one of my favorite “fusion” recordings. Chick Corea “Return to Forever” ECM Japan SHM-CD

Ts find

He's a classic jazz entrepreneur/critic. I don't mean that in a positive way. But I don't dislike him like you do. I would follow one of his recommendations over a recommendation from someone like Chinen. I think his special skill is at least finding out when music has a pulse, which is pretty rare for younger professional jazz critics these days.

“The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars And MGM Sessions (1943-1954)” Mosaic Records 7 cd set, disc III I’m continuing on a revisit of this interesting set of Herman music. Exciting live show.