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Last night at The Stone Trio M Mark Dresser, Myra Melford & Matt Wilson an hour of playful & often moving compositions. Saw them years ago. Last night exceeded my expectations. Myra peaking madly. Very unique uber melodic sense. Plus to this day, I don’t think people realize how great Mark Dresser is.

Unknown to me until reading this thread - I listened to some of the albums mentioned above, and placed an order.

Miles Davis “Paris Jazz Festval - Salle Pleyel - 10/1/1964” Cardboard Sleeve Sony Japan 2 SACD disc 2

I highly recommended the two vokumes on Ocium with early, mostly Okeh trecordings o f Wild Bill Davis. Much fun to listen to.

I guess I'll have to search high and low among my LPs by Sir Charles Thompson to see if he is on organ there somewhere so as to find out what you mean by that "roller rink" sound. Sorry if this sounds blunt, but that's a connotation that does not mean much over here in "Yurp". Fairground organ sounds, maybe?

Finally stopped raining, but it may return later this morning. Rained almost the entire day yesterday! Starting off with a Bill Evans session I haven’t played in a long time, with a steller cast of musicians. Bill Evans “Loose Blues” Milestone/OJC cd

Sea Breeze Jazz SBJ-3080 Frank Rosolino " The Last Recording" - rec. Aug. 1978

Peter, My fault. I did not express specifically what I meant by hoaky "roller-rink" organists. On Quebec's 45 sessions, it does have that hoaky "roller-rink" organ sound, but by no means, did I mean to include, group, catergorize or generalize other organists within the organ genre, such as Larry Young, Lonnie Smith, or John Patton, who don't sound like hoaky roller-rink organists whatsoever! Just Edwin Swanston, Sir Charles Thompson, and Earl Van Dyke do sound like hoaky roller-rink organists. My opinion, of course. Hope that clarifies my postion. HG

Reid Miles' crazy genius imagination. How did he stretch "The Rumproller" sleeve like that back in 1965 with no modern technology?

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Yes! Track five, Bossa De Luxe. 👍 Wow. Just added to my buy list. Agree! 👍

That's great, Ken! I'm looking forward to reading the entire issue.

My picks... Player - Mitchell Defense - Betts Canadian - Rourke OL - Hardrick ST - Vaval Rookie - Vaval Coach - Mace I'm not as confident as usual this year. I can see Rourke as MOP, Howsare on Defense, Revenberg as OL and Hajrullahu as ST. All would be deserving.

Very sorry to hear this. 😟 I also had several positive interchanges with him.

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Rufus Jones in drums. Bassist was either Victor Gaskin or Joe Benjamin.

That was really good. I don't know who the drum and bass players are but damn. Listening to this set now via the BN Connoisseur CDs, specifically the tracks with Edwin Swanston right now. Looks like he recorded a whole lot more on the piano. His organ playing is good and heavily blues based, at least on these tracks. His write up on discogs makes it sound like he was a good dude.

RIP Guy (Brownie) - loved your input here over the years & especially your Ayler pics

Just found a copy for less than € 10 from a German discogs seller and jumped at it.

An updated list. All of these are sealed and a steal at $25, shipping included to the US, per release. PM if interested, PayPal only. Dexter Gordon -- Landslide Chico Hamilton -- Featuring Buddy Collette Bobby Hutcherson -- Montara The Jazz Crusaders -- Freedom Sound Duke Jordan -- Flight to Jordan Sheila Jordan -- Portrait of Sheila Hank Mobley -- A Slice of the Top Hank Mobley -- Third Season Grachan Moncur III -- Some Other Stuff Leo Parker -- Rollin' with Leo Horace Silver -- Tokyo Blues Stanley Turrentine -- In Memory Of

R.I.P.