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Washington Black - HULU

Third or fourth or wherever I am in line for endorsing the Donald Clarke bio, which iirc was written with some limited access to the Kuehl material. Though it's now been 30 years since that book came out, and I haven't read everything about BH that's been published since. Another title that comes to mind is Robert G. O'Meally's Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, which offers a good overview of her musical career and life and includes photographs on nearly every page. Plus Farah Jasmine Griffin's If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday, although that one's been out for awhile too, now that I look it up.

Episode 44 https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-four ***** Episode 42!!! https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-42

I finally got around to hearing this album and it’s really great! Maybe not the BEST Waldron I’ve heard, but in the top 10

Wow, I didn't know it was his birthday as well!

I heard this on the radio today. Must have heard it "in real time" (in the '70s), but it didn't register then. Today I was stunned by the free jazz-like piano. Looked up Mike Garson on wiki, and of course the solos are well-known 🤣: Garson provided the piano and keyboard backing on the later Ziggy Stardust tour of 1972–73 and his contribution to the song "Aladdin Sane" (1973) gave the song an avant-garde jazz feel with lengthy and sometimes atonal piano solos. 'I had told Bowie about the avant garde thing. When I was recording the "Aladdin Sane" track for Bowie, it was just two chords, an A and a G chord, and the band was playing very simple English rock and roll. And Bowie said: 'play a solo on this.' I had just met him, so I played a blues solo, but then he said: 'No, that's not what I want.' And then I played a Latin solo. Again, Bowie said: 'No no, that's not what I want.' He then continued: 'You told me you play that avant garde music. Play that stuff!' And I said: 'Are you sure? 'Cause you might not be working anymore!'. So I did the solo that everybody knows today, in one take. And to this day, I still receive emails about it. Every day. I always tell people that Bowie is the best producer I ever met, because he lets me do my thing.'

Beethoven, String Quartets Juilliard String Quartet (Sony)

Found this little oddity at the Paris Jazz Corner when I visited a couple of weeks back (I love that little store!). Despite some pretty short timings, there's some nice work from Hal McKusick, Al Cohn, Jimmy Cleveland, and others.

So have I, but I took a very long time before I preordered this one--the very last day of the sale, as it happens. I hope it doesn't end up in the "got it to have it but don't listen to it much" pile!

Cassandra Wilson “Live” Winter & Winter cd Drums – Mark Johnson Electric Bass – Kevin Bruce Harris Piano, Synthesizer – James Weidman Vocals – Cassandra Wilson Recorded April 18 1991 at Amerika Haus, München

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Another disc from the Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary box set “Enjoying the Ride” Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (5/12/91) disc 1 251×200 12 KB

August 4 Bobo Stenson - 1944

Charles Mingus “Carnegie Hall Concert–Deluxe Edition” Rhino 2 cd set, disc 2 This was one of the best reissues of a few years ago, having the full concert is a great thing! Sound is killer.