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Quite! This one left me shook:

On to the clues. For 3 and 4, Thom's phrase "familiar adjacent" is definitely in play. Horns from 3 and 4 have appeared on BFTs in this decade. A participant in this BFT has praised the album containing 3 on this forum. A horn from 4 has been described as a favorite by one of the participants in this BFT, but on a different horn. And a participant in this BFT included a track from the same album as 4 in a BFT from an earlier decade. 6 is more of a challenge. Recorded in 2007. The sax has recorded several albums as leader, but a different member of the band may be more familiar to the participants.

I had no idea about this Etta James album on Chess. It's excellent.

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One of the finest Ellington tributes/programs that I've heard.

Jupiter & Okwes, Ekoya

Great band amazing artwork

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👍 - Jacques Coursil (tp), Jack Graham (as), Byard Lancaster (as), Alan Silva (b) and Sunny Murray (perc)

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One of the great Carmen McRae albums, with Ronnel Bright or Ray Bryant at the piano, and Carmen herself at the piano on four selections–something I always love to hear. Carmen’s voice is so tenderly presented. Carmen McRae “After Glow” Decca/Universal Japan cd

Sad news I missed from last week: https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/mike-greenwell-dies I never realized Greenwell finished his career having walked 100 times more than he struck out. That's a good hitter (.300+ lifetime average told you that too). As for the postseason, I can't recall if there has been road teams winning the first two games in both LCS ever before. Brewers and Jays have their work cut out for them.

Interesting that the releasing entity, "Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra", shows only three bandcamp releases.

Members only CD's from the LA Jazz Institute Lighthouse LAJI # 006 & 007 - Shorty Rogers " Live At The Rendevous Ballroom - rec. Sept. 1952 (Volumes 1 & 2) Shorty Rogers / Chet Baker / Art Pepper / Gerry Mulligan / Wardell Gray / Bob Enevoldsen / Hampton Hawes / Joe Mongragon / Lawrence Marable / + guests: June Christy (1 track) and Les Thompson (1 track)

I'd buy a cd. Maybe someday.

Ouch ... You're right . My error may have come from the fact that in German "customs office lingo" the VAT levied on these imports is specifically referred to as "import VAT" or "import sales tax" (literally translated). It's been a while since I imported stuff from outside the EU that I had to go and collect at the local customs office (and pay for ). But all the time the bottom line was and is that the prices of the imported goods do increase by not so small an amount for the buyer. So one tends to lump all this together, particularly since VAT is applied to the total INCLUDING the shipping costs (which the German customs offices do not tire of pointing out in their info leaflets). And the shipping costs cannot be "played down" on the customs form. So this is one major reason why personal importing of smaller quantities of LPs, CD, etc. (particularly in view of the high shipping costs from the U.S., for example) is hardly ever viable anymore. BTW, it still does occur, though, that smaller shipments in lightweight parcels slip through (I had such a case last spring), with no VAT levied at all. But of course you can never count on it.

Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 https://panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-widney-high-december-26th-1971

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