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Eliane Elias “Illusions” Denon cd, her first for the label. I keep wanting to type “Elaine” instead of “Eliane” as my sister is “Elaine” and I’ve been typing that all my life. This is a nice one, with either Stanley Clarke or Eddie Gomez on bass, and either Al Foster or Lenny White or Steve Gadd on drums. And Toots Thielemans on harmonica on two tracks. From 1987.

UK pianist Pat Thomas (he/him) and American vocalist Pat Thomas (she/her). Also UK bass player John Edwards and UK big band trombonist Johnny Edwards. The bass player in Status Quo is called John Edwards but has yet to explore a jazz direction.

jazz drummer Tatsuya Nakamura and rock drummer Tatsuya Nakamura

Well, jazzbo doesn't drink "adult beverages," and I did do plenty of listening after snow shoveling as we decided not to go anywhere, and had stocked up earlier, knowing this was coming. Like Steve I chipped away at the recent arrivals. Still just a tracking number today, no shipping notice.

There's about a 10% chance of snow flurries in Tampa (on the coast) on Saturday night.

Winter has been upon us over here more than "usual" these past weeks too. But with your post and the weather reports (including from the US) this quip about "digging" just was unavoidable, wasn't it? Of course you are right about sitting down and enjoying. That's what I did every now and then after my early morning snow-shoveling workouts - working off my stack of unlistened-to recent arrivals in my record room.

Hank Jones - Hanky Panky (East Wind/Inner City, rec. 1975) with Ron Carter & Grady Tate

Xenakis, Kraanerg, from the Erato 5 LP box.

Ravi Coltrane and Terence Blanchard are touring with a tribute concert. I was scheduled to see it last night in Santa Barbara but they were snowed in somewhere in the east. (In the '70s here.)

RIP.

Can't find the source right now, but I remember reading in a Jones interview somewhere that Keiko had studied piano in Japan. I really dig her tunes, as well, especially "Mr. Jones."

RIP. He left behind some great trio work plus some fine albums with Liebman and in Abercrombie's quartet.

Any rumblings about Century Celebrations for Davis or Coltrane? Reissues, newly discovered recordings?

with Oliver Nelson

3 steps to the door. We got over two feet but it drifted, so it's hard to get an exact number. Luckily, it was light and fluffy, so my Honda snowblower ate it up. Honda makes (made?) the best snowblowers. They throw the snow a long way. That's the biggest issue with most snowblowers is they don't throw it far enough.

Indeed. Those three albums are stellar, IMO. ECM reissued them in one of their plain-white-box sets. I only got to see him play one time also, just before COVID hit. It was a show at Mezzrow, a duo performance with Dave Liebman. Saw both sets. Most memorable was a LONG, way way out version of "Green Dolphin Street." I had a chance to chat briefly with Richie between sets. I said, "I've NEVER heard 'Green Dolphin Street' like THAT." Richie smiled and said, "I haven't either!" It's interesting that both Beirach and Liebman -- for different reasons -- had a falling out with Manfred Eicher.

I had heard he was very ill but I was hoping he could pull through. I only got to see him play once but it was a very long time ago and I don't remember much about it... I think it was with Dave Liebman. His duet album with George Coleman, "Convergence", is really good. One of the better duet albums out there.

Let's not forget his contributions to the John Abercrombie Quartet (basically late 70s). R.I.P.