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Happy Birthday, David!

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Good start!

Very important in the 90s was the revival of a hard bop style which I think of as neo-bop. Leading exponents like Eric Alexander and Jim Rotondi were young, but they retained links with hard bop from the 60s through working with older musicians such as Harold Mabern and Mel Rhyne.

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I remember jazz critic and Liverpudlian humorist Steve Voce asking "Is Jutta really hip?" P.S. So pleased to see from his Wikipedia entry that Steve is still writing about jazz and is coming up to his 87th birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Voce Great idea! Time to get listenin' again!

Ah, yes! As posted yesterday by me in the Playing Favorites: Reflections on Jazz of the Later 1940s thread. Totally brilliant album, don't you think? And now, moving forward a mere 11 years:

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Continuing my exploration of peak period Powell. 1949-50.

Yes, could be Billy Root, though he's listed as on baritone on this compilation album. I first (and not much since) came across him on this album from those days where he's headlined with much bigger names:

Those 8 tracks from Bud's first trio session (1947) are among the best he ever recorded IMHO.