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pretty interesting day for jazz birthdays... 6-Apr †Charlie Rouse 1924-88 6-Apr †Randy Weston 1926-2018 6-Apr †Gerry Mulligan 1927-96 6-Apr †Andre Previn 1929-2019 6-Apr †Art Taylor 1929-95 6-Apr †Bill Hardman 1933-90 6-Apr †Horace Tapscott 1934-99 6-Apr Manfred Schoof b. 1936 6-Apr Gene Bertoncini b.1937 6-Apr †George Otsuka 1937-2020 6-Apr †Noah Howard 1943-2010 6-Apr John Pizzarelli b.1960

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Excellent choice.

Schlippenbach/Parker/Lovens - Detto Fra Di Noi - Live in Pisa 1981

Manfred Schoof Quintet - Resonance (ECM) Today I´d say: Flowers all over!

Arnie Krakowsky - Where The Tenor Meets The Bone (Seaside Recordings). Arnie is a local tenor player who still gigs at a lot of the smaller clubs in my area. I bought this CD and the other featuring this band, "Is It Minor Yours?" from him at a couple of these gigs. This CD is very nice, with Arnie on tenor, George Masso on Trombone, Jon Wheatley on guitar. Paul Schmeling on piano, Marshall Wood on bass and Artie Cabral on drums, "local" musicians who I managed to see perform many times over the years. Sadly, Masso & Cabral have both passed away.

SML (Small, Medium, Large) (International Anthem)

Shabaka, Of the Earth

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Simply a brilliant track !

I liked her early records on JMT. They were very forward-thinking at the time.

April 6 Manfred Schoof - 1936 - 90 today!

season finale of Dark Winds

That would be terrific! I did get to see Benny Carter perform once some time in the late 1980s or early 1990s, he seemed ageless. Too bad I wasn't yet on the Scarecrow Press publicity list when the two Benny Carter volumes were first published. They put out a lot of great jazz books.

These university presses and some specialty publishers I guess are the only ones willing to produce this sort of thing and the audience is not vast so the books are always really pricey. I found volume 2 for about 9 bucks and I've been reading the first volume on internet archive and decided I want a hard copy of volume 1. I came across what appears to be the second edition of both volumes on ebay for about $35 and plunked for it. So I may end up with an extra 2nd volume which I could pass along to you.