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👍 Terrific Big Band recording! now:

the Myers/Wadada album and the Myers solo album are magnificient, as are the Kikuchi albums... I also liked the earlier Wadada... the remaining three albums (soon four) couldn't quite convince me to the same degree... still: an amazing run for a young label!

Mozart - String Quintets K.174 & K.406 - Alexander Quartet

Does anyone have any recommendations for Mr. Rodrigues on record? Seems like a formidable discography.

Especially the version with young, hot Wynton Marsalis on trumpet and Charles Fambrough and Billy Pierce.

I literally missed seeing him on his last visit to Boston (May 7, 1989) by a few weeks. I was getting heavily into Jazz by the late 80's and started going to shows in the Boston around then. In mid-1989, I saw someone play at The Regattabar and they had schedules on all of the tables. I saw that Blakey's Jazz Messengers had just played there a few weeks earlier. I figured I'd catch him the next year. Nope. In case anyone is scratching their heads wondering about a certain show, there is this: https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/

Up to go with the current Blakey thread.

Here's a Night Lights show I did a few years back: Late Art: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1980s

Thanks—I will probably purchase it. I've been collecting nearly all of Red Hook's releases so far. I don't usually let myself collect entire labels anymore but they only release about two albums per year, so I can keep up with that, and I love their choices of artists to record. That Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers album was just beautiful, and I was lucky enough to see them perform that piece, Central Parks's Mosaics, live last year.

Nice. I saw him live once. It was excellent!

Seeing him live soon!!

Billy Strayhorn “Lush Life” Red Baron cd A cd with varying ensembles and solo piano that I haven’t pulled out in too long. All Music says: Although not initially released until 1992, 25 years after composer Billy Strayhorn's death, this is his definitive CD. Strayhorn is heard singing "Lush Life" while backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1964 (his voice is not strong but his phrasing is quite sincere), jamming on piano with flügelhornist Clark Terry and Bob Wilbur (on clarinet and soprano) in a quintet, backing singer Ozzie Bailey, and taking a pair of piano solos ("Love Came" and "Baby Clementine"). These are very valuable and intriguing recordings, shedding some new light on a nearly invisible genius.

We had this band in 1979 in our Jazzclub in Koblenz for a private concert. It was "the event" for many years. Have shot some fotos but flashlight was not allowed. Anyway it was a great rememorable concert. Have the 2hrs on a private reel recorded in the club but not issued yet 0901R Blakey,Art PR 1979 9"(2) Koblenz

More Fred Hersch:

Thanks, looking at history that explains a lot indeed.

Joe Henderson “Page One” Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD