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Ian Matthews "Stealin`Home" (Rockburgh Records) 1978 .... superb Cover Photography by Steve Hiett ....

👍 I'm supposed to see them in a couple of weeks in Toronto, and I believe they will be performing this piece.

Lily & Madeleine "Acoustic Sessions" (Asthmatic Kitty Records) 2014 ....

“Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil” Verve Originals cd Intriguing arrangements (and piano) by Clare Fischer.

FIve Times Six (Cat Records) yesterday on the King's annual birthday flea market, I didn't even try, but a year ago, I actually managed to find an album from my extended wish list... so playing it again on the occasion (even though commentators pointed out that the King lost quite a bit of weight over the year, so that there's substantially less King to celebrate this year than a year ago...)

Gene Wisniewski And His Harmony Bells Orchestra – Cuban Polka ... s.d.

Woke up to warmth! Lucinda and I had a wonderful warm evening with my brothers and most of their family last night, feeling really good today. Starting off with Grateful Dead, Veneta OR 1972 “Sunshine Daydream” box set, cd 3 560×561 58.6 KB Followed by Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon “In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album” Jazz Detective cd This is a short but sweet fun album. Joe Moondragon’s electric bass is a highlight.

Angelika Niescier is terrific. Such intensity always worth hearing at length. She has a few fabulous releases in Intakt.

Probably Arthur Blythe's finest hour 😍 ....

Arthur Blythe – Lenox Avenue Breakdown ... 1979

Tito Puente "Tratame Como Soy" (Tico Records) 1979 .... Adalbarto Santiago shines ....

Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève & Mathieu Herzog – Voice Of Hope ... 2023

The Verve „Lucky Men“ (Hut Recordings) 1997 ….

Have these too and that seems all which is released. Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 2 1959 Contemporary 7578 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 3 1959 Contemporary 7579 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 4 1959 Contemporary 7580 CD Manne,Shelly ..and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 5 1959 Contemporary 660-2 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk,Vol 1 1959 Contemporary 7577

Everything Everything „A Fever Dream“ (RCA) 2017 ….

Aztec Camera "High Land, Hard Rain" (Rough Trade) 1983 ....

It was a special prepaid "limited edition" Item for LAJ members announced last year. Some tracks have appeared on a vinyl " The Chet Baker tracks" on Cpontemporary. The rest is as far as I see it 'unissued'

Thereof CD 2 Mahler 5 (Klaus Tennstedt + RCO on December 9th, 1990) …. another triumphant Tennstedt Mahler "live" recording .... must hear ....

Artis Quartett Wien Zemlinsky String Quartets 3 & 4 / Johanna Müller-Hermann String Quartet Op. 6 (Nimbus Records) 1999 .... btw excellent performances too ....

Just came back from a Kronos Quartet concert at which they played "Kiss Yo' Ass Goodbye" credited to Sun Ra, Terry Riley and Sara Miyamoto. According to the program notes it "utilizes Sun Ra's Track 'Nuclear War' as source material." It begins to really kick ass when they sample the drumming and chanting from the original.

Quite a strange record indeed. My copy is titled "Bud Powell 1957" . There are some tunes that Bud rarely played. "That Black Old Magic" returned to his set lists one decade later after he had returned to New York, as well as "Though Swell" and "Someone to watch over me". It´s interesting to compare this slightly stride version with the ballad version he did 10 years later on "The Return of Bud Powell", which is my favourite version. I love Pharoah Sanders and have loved his music as early as the 70´s when he put out all those great records for Impulse I think. When I was in my early teens I got his first record "Live at the East". What personnel is on this one ? I think this one is from the same time like "Soul Station" and is another great record. I think Soul Station and this one are my favourite Mobley records.

"Segundo" (21st Anniversary) by Juana Molina

Andi Steirer "Trance of Noiz" : This is a first class album of Austria´s greatest percussionist Andi Steirer. I am very proud that I got him for my own album "Waltz for Serena". Though he is very very much in demand, I´ll have him also in future on some of our gigs, most possible the larger ones. He is so fantastic and this album is so great. It has also some of Andi´s own compositions like "Hongkong Tavern" "Do Da Doo" as well as stuff with great guitarist Rens Newland , co-compositions between them both, like the title tune "Trance of Noiz". The album also features the wonderful saxophinist Thomas Kugi on soprano and tenor.

Documenting a mighty fine hour of Henry Grimes ....

This is a favorite of mine and always has been. I've had all the previous single releases of this material and have the 3 CD complete set bootleg of this material now. In fact, I ordered the 3 CD set off Amazon and sent it to Zev when he was looking for more Rollins to release that Sonny might approve of and I suggested this stuff so Sonny could, at the very least, be properly compensated for the release of this material. In the end, I was not involved in this release at all but early on, I was told that they found a few of the original sources of some of the recordings in various radio archives but not all of them. If Bernie Grundman was involved in the mastering, I have no doubt this material is now sounding about as good as it can possibly sound. I've done a few projects with Bernie and enjoyed working with him immensely and thought his work to be pretty impeccable.