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This is right in the middle between earlier Blue Note organ albums and later funky stylistics, and has some hip Wade Marcus arrangements with vibes, guitar, two basses, drums, and percussion. I liked it instantly and learned a lot from it.

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Porter was one of the busiest and most knowledgeable reissue producers. Just found his name on this one: https://img.discogs.com/oZLmOpR6r8HAZDhyL4c4ex3CmVg=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2185807-1386549241-6740.jpeg.jpg

..... and a Hank Mobley Quintet LP.

And Farmer appeared even less often on Blue Note albums.

Got one of the last copies of this OOP recording for just € 13.00 - originally it was sold for three times as much, so I couldn't resist. Excellent performance of an opera that Handel used for "inspiration" ....

2018 Corbières "Johan du Barrou Reserve", Vignerons de Cascastel

The same Website features a live recording of a Jazz Messengers concert with Freddie Hubbard, Nathan Davis, and Jaki Byard! Use their search function.

The complete TV broadcast of 44 minutes of the group with Ted Curson, Booker Ervin, Pony Poindexter etc. can be viewed here: https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_jazz-pour-tous-ted-curson-pony-poindexter-booker-ervin-nathan-davis-kenny-drew-jimmy-woode-edgar-bateman?id=2667142 A simple registration via facebook or other is required.

I couldn't say it better!

http://encelade.net/index.php/en/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing-2/product/25911-e-richard-teacher-of-the-sun-king-by-fabien-armengaud Fantastic new recording shedding light on a rarely played part of the important Manuscripr Bauyn. The harpsichord by Alain Anselm is modeled after 17th century French instruments, Vincent Thibaut de Tolouse in Particular, and sounds quite different than the more familiar Ruckers harpsichords.

Victor Paz, Soaring Trumpeter Who Took the Lead in Latin Music and Beyond, Dies at 89 https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-04-07/victor-paz-soaring-trumpeter-who-took-the-lead-in-latin-music-and-beyond-dies-at-89?fbclid=IwAR1mfP9hMKS4m4lEjbJnHR_z71V82OcDbz3cRQPCbvfIghShixX3ScGtzmY The second trumpet soloist is Victor Paz:

Excellent music, perfectly played. Two concertos each from his Berlin and Dresden years, all first recordings, the former with a bassoon/fortepiano continuo as was common at Frederick the Great's chamber music.

I will get me this and the other Jason Moran albums on Bandcamp later this year. Moran is one of the few musicians that make me listen and catch my attention from the first notes. I regret I did not go to hear him when he was performing in a neighbouring city a few years ago.

That's the way it should be. I remember giving my copy of Michael Howell's LP "The Looking Glass" to conga player Tom Nicholas who was on the album but didn't have a copy. And when I learned from Tjader biographer S. Duncan Reid that Paul Horn, with whom he was very close, didn't have a copy of his own album for RCA "Jazz Suites For the Mass Texts" I contacted a friend who had a copy. He digitized the album and de-noised it, and we sent cleaned-up CDR copies to California. Paul was delighted.

More of this kind in the afternoon: The irony of things is, these were all major figures in their time! We are so limited in our evaluation of music from centuries ago.

Got it late this afternoon. Great Black Music!

R.I.P. A great loss ......