BillF

Now listening and , as it says on the tin, it's beautiful! I compared Katzman's triumphant soloing on "I Love You" here to his fluffed opening to "Body and Soul" on the Supersax album.

The politics ban prevents me from replying to this.

That's a good 'un!

We have 28,000 deaths with a population one fifth of yours, so we're in a mess!

Footnote to my comments above: I didn't like Katzman's playing on the Supersax album so sold it on. As I recall, his playing seemed technically flawed, which certainly wasn't the case on the Critics' Choice album. Perhaps his playing deteriorated with age. He was 29 on the earlier album and 52 on the later one. But let's be optimistic! I now have this new Spotify discovery to listen to, with Katzman in his 30s, so I'm hopeful!

Yes a good one. Been on my bookshelf for many years alongside this:

Really like the album they made together:

Somebody gave me a cylinder, but I threw it in the garbage.

King Oliver's Creole Band (1923) was the earliest I ever had.

They're copying my ideas! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists

Dizzy Gillespie on BBC's "Desert Island Discs" in 1980. Discs by Roy, Miles, Clifford, Tatum, Bird, Eckstein, Vaughan, Fitzgerald.

In my brief lifetime (80 years) global human population has increased more than threefold, from 1.9 to 7 billions. Strangely, overpopulation is never mentioned in the global warming debate and the current pandemic is a reminder that human numbers may be more than nature finds tolerable.