BillF

Wonderful selection of tunes, too. Lovely! Surely Oscarphobes can accept this one!

The cover I first knew it in.

Thanks! I was rather ashamed to have seen only four (Ellington, Basie, Gillespie, Evans) from my giants list. Now I can add another five (Shaw, Tolliver, Harper, Tyner, Cowell), making a far more respectable "seen" list.

Which jazz giants emerged in the seventies?( I mean people comparable in individual achievement and influence on subsequent musicians as Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Hawkins, Lester, Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Monk, Miles, Rollins, Evans, Coltrane and Ornette - all of whom emerged before the seventies.)

Andrea Pozza plays quite often here - at private sessions at my friend Malcolm Frazer's house. Good pianist and nice guy.

Spotify have just emailed me t tell me about my year's listening. My favorite artist is Count Basie, they say. Well, that's not rocket science! And my favorite song is "Beaver Junction". I like the sound of that!

Time he got grown-up shoes!

That's a nice one. Recall that the tracks were labelled in the wrong order on my copy.

Track 7: Rollins composition, "Airegin" Track 9: An extended Jazz Messengers performance, perhaps? Certainly a composition recorded by them on Blue Note.

The Watts Towers were a godsend to jazz album cover designers.