Justin V

It is actually my go-to Sonny album. It has lived in my car for so long that it had eluded being uploaded to my Google library until yesterday. Now playing: Alon Nechushtan - Ritual Fire

"Sanborn takes jazz music into the modern era[...]" I love rhe smell of hyperbole in the morning, but ugh.

Joe Pass and J.J. Johnson - We'll Be Together Again: This is an album that I had to seek out when I learned of its existence.

I love that cover. I remember plowing through a ton of Hammett before moving down the line to Chandler and Macdonald.

Just finished: Now playing:

This is from the RCA box. I guess the forecast for today is sunny with a chance of Sonny. I still need to organize the tracks from this box into a more coherent order.

Hey, the first cut ain't bad. I imagine that it may have been the intended single with it being a fun, funky opener. George Cables, Bob Cranshaw and Jack DeJohnette lay it down. 'Skylark', with its unaccompanied intro and long cadenza, is worth the price of admission alone. (I edited my original post because the name of the Sonny album is Easy Living, not The Good Life.) Now playing:

Thanks for hipping me to that album. Are The Next Album and Easy Living it for Sonny on soprano? Any clarinet on record? Now playing: Motohiko Hino - Sailing Stone: After getting to In Japan on the Joe Henderson Milestone box, I decided that this would be next.

Michael Garrick - Cold Mountain: I am looking forward to watching the Garrick DVD I also ordered from Dutton/Vocalion.

I enjoy his playing on his collection of Irving Berlin songs, Easter Parade, as well as the Jack Sheldon session for Atlas. Thank you for the music, Mr. Leviev, and rest in peace.

A Nessa web series where Chuck talked a bit about a session and followed that with a clip would be great.

Sonny on soprano!?! I've wondered what he'd sound like on soprano but didn't realize that he ever played it. I'll be checking that one out! Now playing: This could have been reissued as The Joe Gordon Memorial Album. The band on the Joe Gordon half, with Charlie Rouse, Junior Mance and Jimmy Schenk could have easily been a Messenger lineup. Mance, in particular, shines. This is just an outstanding disc; Gordon's untimely death was tragic.

Disc 2: With it being Konitz's 92nd birthday, it's the perfect time to spin this gem. It is pretty shocking that the complete version isn't available as a download.

It is a great day for jazz birthdays, with Lee Konitz turning 92 and Terry Gibbs turning 95. I haven't seen him since catching two sets at the Kennedy Center the day after his 90th birthday. Although my daughter was still in the womb, she got to hear Konitz in person that day. I hope that he is enjoying his birthday.

Terry Gibbs is 95 today! I hope that he is enjoying his birthday and his well-deserved retirement. I am listening to his excellent Feelin' Good: Live in Studio and I'll be spinning some more of his music later.

Junior Mance turned 91 on the 10th. His wife posted a picture of him eating cake for breakfast, so I hope that the rest of his birthday went as well. I am listening to his appearance on Joe Gordon's Emarcy LP (from the great Verve Elite Blakey reissue), so I am celebrating Junior Mance's birthday and Blakey's centenary at the same time.

Breakstone is also coming here to do his Blakey tribute this month. I'm only familiar with him by name, but I am looking forward to hearing him. He'll have Aidan Plank (an excellent local bassist) and Jim Rupp (of Hank Marr fame!) joining him. I bet the Hayden/Dobbins pair would really work with the Blakey material, too.

From the Columbia/RCA box.

It'd be pretty difficult to overstate Blakey's impact, both on the music and me as a listener. I just saw Ralph Peterson's Blakey tribute, with Bill Pierce, Brian Lynch, Robin Eubanks, Zaccai Curtis and Essiet Okon Essiet, last night in Blakey's hometown of Pittsburgh. One could build quite a collection just by focusing on Blakey and his sidemen. I'll spin some Blakey later and think of him.

Terry Gibbs & Buddy DeFranco - Play Steve Allen: I didn't know until today that Gibbs and DeFranco did more albums together. I'll have to seek them out.

Dippin' is probably my favorite Mobley album.

You can get 5 albums on Amazon for $15.61. 2 (No Room for Squares and Reach Out) are included on the Mosaic, although the Mosaic has one previously unreleased No Room for Squares track. I'd start there before deciding to drop the dough on a big Mosaic.

Just finished: John Carter/Bobby Bradford, Disc 3: I bought this single disc from Mosaic after the set went OOP. These duos are challenging. Now playing: Charles Tolliver Big Band, Disc 2: Another single-disc purchase. What a band!

There is no option to report copyright infringement as a non-owner. You can't even do something like put a checkmark on multiple videos and fill out one form. I had to click on an infringing video (thus hearing a second of Nonaah before stopping play) just to pull up an option to report. I know that YouTube (allegedly) wants to dissuade people from making false reports, but they also host a ton of unauthorized content and benefit from making the process more difficult. Maybe you could authorize your kids/grandkids to act as your agents to do a quick search and report infringement whenever they are on YouTube?

Heck, that is a fortune for me now.