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Piano Sonata - No.30, No.31, No.32,

I have a few of those.

I started re-reading (for may be the second or third time) Raymond Chandler’s “The Lady in the Lake.” I just get into a particular enchanted zone reading Chandler. His writing has enthralled me since I was a young man. Picked up this edition at Half Price Books:

Gil Evans: All the Sad Young Men Gil & Miles: The Meaning of the Blues

ELO - 15038 Overture

Cool. Now. . . . Paul Desmond “Bossa Antigua” RCA/Legacy cd 599×614 152 KB From this excellent box set:

Well, at least a few Christmas tracks on this compilation:

There you go. I have all of those.

Seeing her in person next month with Jenny Scheinman"s quartet.

I may have liked last year better actually... My two favorites, both without much press were Tilburg Noord by Meter Erker Shakkei by Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni di Domenico Of the somewhat more high-profile stuff, I liked the Amina Claudine Myers solo and the new Masabumi Kikuchi solo on Red Hook, Sullivan Fortner Trio (Southern Nights) and the duo record of Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoisier...

Carmen Staaf “Sounding Line” Sunnyside cd 479×500 37.6 KB Carmen Staff - piano Ben Goldberg - clarinets Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet (2 tracks) Darren Johnston - trumpet (two tracks) Dillon Vado - vibraphone, tambourine John Santos - bongo Hamir Atwal - drums

I think that part of the problem is the way that it was presented. Maybe they should have called it: Jazz - The First Half Century." In that case, I might have felt moderately favorable toward it. But to exclude the next half century as if nothing was going on outside of Wynton Marsalis is absurd.

Backordered copy just arrived; I was glad to see several shows represented that give me fond memories.

This again!

These were my favorites of the year: *Sven-Åke Johansson - Stumps (Second Version) (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson/Fritz Hautzinger/Ignaz Schick - Rotations (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson - Two Days At Café Oto (Otoroku) [Ahmed] - سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot (De Platenbakkerij/ICP) Bill Nace & Sakina Abdou - Rinse Cycle (Open Mouth) Bill Stewart - Live At The Village Vanguard (Criss Cross) Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust (Relative Pitch) Chris Byars - The Dark Forest (Steeplechase) Das B - Love (Thanatosis/Corbett vs. Dempsey) Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake - More Than Anything (Random Acoustics) Jean-Luc Guionnet - L'Epaisseur de l'air Live (Potlatch) Joe McPhee/Susanna Gartmayer/John Edwards/Mariá Portugal - Monster (Klanggalerie) Julius Hemphill Stringtet - Plays The Music of Julius Hemphill (Out Of Your Head) Martín Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Teté Leguía - This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) Myra Melford Trio - Splash (Intakt) Pat Thomas - Sufi Women (Scatter Archive) Sophie Agnel - Learning (Otoroku) Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) *Various - The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1996-2005) *Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink - Irene's Hot Four (Intakt, 1981) *Rashied Ali Quintet - Sidewalks In Motion (Survival, 2002) AMM w/ Sachiko M - Testing (Matchless, 2004) Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley - Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance, 1988) Joe Maneri/Tyson Rogers/Jacob Braverman - In The Shadows, First Visit (ezz-thetics, 2002) Khan Jamal - Give The Vibes Some (Souffle Continu, 1974) Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo - Live In Foggia 1985 (Ogun, 1985) Marco Eneidi Quintet - Wheat Fields of Kleylhof (Balance Point Acoustics, 2004) Mujician - In Concerts (Jazz In Britain, 1993-2010) Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Vibrations in the Village: Live at Village Gate (Resonance, 1963) Sun Ra - Uncharted Passages (Modern Harmonic, 1977-79) Webster Young - A Quiet Legend: Live In St. Louis 1961 (Fresh Sound, 1961)

Earth, Wind & Fire - Faces

Punch Miller, Delegates of Pleasure (American Music)