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Gérard Pérotin & Guy-Joël Cipriani: Creative-Music.Unidisc UD 30 12 73 [France s.d.]

It is streamable! With a similar cover but not quite the same. Really one of my favourite Cuban records of its period (which is saying something). It assume a "Conjband" is meant to be a midway between a conjunto and a big band, because there are some really good horn arrangements and surprising space for solos. It's nice to hear boleros with alto solos. Obviously the jam session is a classic, but this one is more in the vein of the pop music of it's time.

color me confused about all these Hat-derivations.

https://www.discogs.com/release/22669466-John-Coltrane-Quartet-Song-Of-Praise-New-York-1965-Revisited

👍- as CD on my shelf ...

My guess is the piano player was Joe Zawinul.

Teddy Edwards appeared at a Jazz Party I attended toward the end of his life. He was not in the best of shape, but nonetheless still sounded very good to me. Was glad I had the chance to see him in person. Hard to select one favorite album by Teddy, but one of my favorites is "Together Again" with Howard McGhee and Phineas Newborn,Jr.

💥 👏 Really nice. I hadn't heard it!

“The Golden Horn of Billy Franklin” Grand Prix Series mono LP It’s not Billy Franklin. It’s Don Goldie. Very much in the mould of the Teagarden group he was then a part of. Really nice sound as well.

Haydn Op.33/4, Op.33/5, Op.33/6 - Casals Quartet

You do indeed remember correctly!

Can you be a little more specific - having a hard time looking this up 🙂. Thanks

IIRC the director (Dudley Murphy?) also directed Black and Tan Symphony with EKE and St. Louis Blues with Bessie Smith.

I was very happy that Teddy happened to be playing at an LA club during one of my rare business trips there in the late 90s. I got to see him play that one time and he played great. I enjoy all of Teddy's recordings. I have an LP copy of the Pacific Jazz session that birthed this thread - good session. If I were forced to choose one disc as a favorite, it would probably be Teddy in a trio with Christian McBride & Billy Higgins, issued in France in 1995 on the Verve/Gitanes Jazz label titled "Tango In Harlem". It surprises me to see the selling price of this somewhat rare CD, as it costs me quite a lot when I finally found a copy on line. The late bird gets the worm?

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Very sad day Weir as a unique musician. Not a soloist but became by 71-72 a brilliant improvisor playing in between and around two of the greatest improvising musicians who ever lived in Phil Lesh & Jerry Garcia. No one sounded remotely like Bob Weir. over the past 11-12 years I’ve listened to thousands of hours of Grateful Dead music. Manically in some ways. In between and around modern freely improvised music. there were never 3 guitarists together (including Phil’s 4-string electric bass) who played amplified electric improvised music near this level. Without Bob, none of this happened. The long Dark Stars, the open ended 10 to upwards of 30 minute Playing in the Bands, The Other ones, etc.

Together Again with Howard McGhee on Contemporary is a classic. Great rhythm section too. One of my Desert Island Discs!

Haydn: Complete String Quartets Angeles String Quartet From 2000