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I highly recommend checking out the collection of Byrd's early work on New World. https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nyc-1960-1963

found this on the Lost Recordings website

Continuing a revisit of Yes material. Yes “Keys to Ascension Complete” cd 3

Zev Feldman has been trying to locate a tape of the Monterey Jazz Festival gig featuring John Coltrane with both Eric Dolphy and Wes Montgomery, but he has been unsuccessful. It is possible that the tape never existed at all, or it was misfiled, lost or stolen. There was also a gig within the time period at a club in Oakland, though no tape is known.

Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band “More Never Recorded Arrangements For Benny Goodman, Volume Two” Arbors cd

an old favorite, they wanted to create a perfect record. The transition from side A to Side b is otherworldy.

Completely my opinion: CDs versus vinyl: I posted I played an Oscar Peterson, Time After Time CD I "inhereted" in "what are you listening to NOW" thread and this CD is an absolute mess, like someone drove over it, or tied it on the back of their back bumper along with any other empty soup cans and used shoes after getting married (like what other annoying noise can we add to attach to the back bumper to already add to the rattling on the back bumper, to tell everybody we're hitched? You have any so-so Oscar Peterson Pablo CDs honey? In fact, I do!!! Time After Time! I'll tie it to the back bumper right now, along with the empty soup cans and nasty shoes!) Whatever the case, I washed it and played it, and it played perfectly fine; I couldn't believe it! Now tell me this would be the same case listening to a scratched up/looking like a shitty piece of vinyl after driving over it with your car. First, that record ain't worth shit; secondly, even if the sleeve is salvageable, maybe worth a ham at most. Moral of the story: it all depends on how you take of your stuff. CDs seem to have more give. You can drive over CDs with your car, yet they still play; one scratch on a slab of vinyl, it's ruined. Botton line: In my opinion, I think this vinyl-revival is a quick, market to dum dums, make a quick buck, stupid-ass fad, which young dum dums are titillated by, until their scatter brains run their ADD course very quickly, and on to whatever else. I'm in no rush converting any format to anything else.

COLD morning again.. I slept well but woke up at 5 and that was IT. Finally opened this new Lateef release and it sure sounds great! Yusef Lateef “Golden Flower, Live in Sweden” Elemental Music 2 cd set, disc 1 800×800 113 KB For some reason it made me think of my first exposure to Lateef. Early on in my discovery of jazz I bought a Charlie Parker record on Charlie Parker Records that when I spun it was NOT Charlie Parker though that was what all the labeling said. It took me a while to discover it was a mis-labeled Yusef Lateef record!

I've owned Xanadu 104 ("The East-West Controversy" that features this Vantage session) for a long, long time and like it a lot.

I've heard rumors about a live recording of the Coltrane group featuring Wes Montgomery (at the Newport Jazz Festival?), but it might just be a rumor. But since there was even a live recording of Giant Steps (awful sound though), it might surface eventually. Wes had pieces like “Impressions” in his repertoire, so I imagine he would have fit right in.

"Blues For Bud" was the first Hampton Hawes album I fell in love with. I still particularly love the opening track, “Blues Enough,” and I think it influenced my own piano playing. "Hamp's Piano" on MPS is also good. The duo with Charlie Haden is also moving. Young Hawes was incredible, too. The Contemporary trio recordings are sound, but you SHOULD listen to his early Vantage recordings! It's really The Amazing Hampton Hawes. Hampton Hawes was stationed in Japan after the WW2 (later he was arrested for drugs and deported). Almost all of Japan's pioneering modern jazz pianists, including Toshiko Akiyoshi, were influenced by him (even Yosuke Yamashita could play almost exactly like Hawes). I'm not sure if it's his sense of rhythm or his phrasing, but I think his style was particularly accessible to Japanese listeners. Given how much technique Hawes had, I was disappointed he had not recorded a solo piano album, but it turns out he did! Apparently, he recorded it when he was pardoned and returned to Japan. I hope it gets released on CD or streaming.

This album is sick! By some remote happenstance, this was at a remote used CD shop in the most remote location, and I couldn't believe it, sitting there, for what look like years. This is DEEP GROOVE

Right? More stories please! 👍Grew up listening to this record, one of my mom's favorites. +2. Was just playing: Oh yeah. For such a rush to end his Prestige contract, resulted in some of my favorite Miles records.

Brad Mehldau - After Bach II (Nonesuch)

Yep. I just have to hop to it and buy it. NP

Symphony No. 3

Lots of Coltrane seen here in recent times. ----> these all here and more:

This one is in the pile (crate, rather ) of my "yet-to-be-listened-to" recently purchased vinyls. I'd been hipped to Hampton Hawes in the 90s after I read Ted Gioia's "West Coast Jazz" book where Hampton Hawes is given glowing reviews. The Vols. 1 to 3 and the three All Night Sessions were my first purchases and I have by now accumulated about a dozen LPs covering his 50s output as well as "Here and Now" from the 60s - and the "Bird Song" CD of previously unreleased 1956/58 recordings for Contemporary. Hampton Hawes is one of those artists where I so far have always felt I can never go wrong with my purchases.

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December 21 Cameron Brown - 1945 - 80 today