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Pat Metheny has done as good a job balancing core releases with side projects as anyone ever. And making it easy to tell the difference.

The 2000s & 2010s lists are up now, they are otherworldly and I don't mean that in a good way. Back to the '70s, Bobby Hutcherson was a saving grace on BN in that era, which starts for me with the things in the '60s that sound like the '70s, like Duke P's The Phantom where Bobby H gets featured billing.

John Fahey, one of the many I own.

https://www.brewerygems.com/acme.htm it was brewed by this now defunct company.

https://jazztimes.com/blog/live-from-rudy-van-gelders-studio-premieres-nov-14/

As for the JTs lists, the '80s is a little weird but the '70s and '90s are about what I'd expect. I'm glad to see Metheny records like 80/81 and Q&A along with the PMG efforts and I'll take Sandborn and Grover over Michael Brecker all day every day, at least they have personal voices. Not my lists, but then they aren't my lists are they? I'm kind of surprised there wasn't more CTI on the '70s list.

Do you remember the ad where they went 'Rai -neer-beer' like a motorcycle going through the gears?

Thanks for this.

Duke Pearson, The Phantom, Tone Poet edition. Very nice.

Oh Canada. I'm a US citizen and have lived in the States for decades, but I lived in Canada from grade 7 til halfway thru college. Also all the songs I associate with the CND centennial in '67, shortly after I got there.

Thank you for this, and so much more.

As good as this and everything else from this album is, the one he made the next day with just the rhythm section is even better, IMHO. It would be interesting to see them combined into a dbl album, maybe even mixing up cuts from the two days. An all blues by Lester compilation could be a revealing thing too.

Now that's funny, which reminds me of guys in the Studebaker club much younger than me who are far too young to even remember when they were still being built.

As a member in good standing of my local chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, I am well-acquainted with appeal of looking at the past with rose colored glasses on and imagining that it was a better world and trying to grab a piece of it. But as well with the limits to approaching life that way. If I know anything at all about the past, it's that it was never just one thing and it never stood still either. IMHO the only legit reason to go back musically, other than self-indulgence, is to find a path not taken at the time and see where that might lead going forward. Listening Bill's Bernstein tribute now, Some Where, some time, some how, somewhat. It's pleasant enuff to leave on, but there's plenty of room there for someone to do a deeper dig into Leonard's oeuvre. Whether his harmonic, rhythmic, and other choices here are truly 1955 or not, I'll leave to others to determine. It certainly seems old-fashioned enough to me.

I don't remember him being quite that bad! It occurred to me that maybe making records accompanying his mother might have something to do with what you're hearing, but it's hard to even speculate there without being quite insulting to Bill and his mom. I'll have to listen again to the little I have. And there is 'cocktail music' that's quite sparkling...

There was this, it said 'vol.1' but I don't think there was ever a vol.2 I think the tapes came from Clifford's widow. As much as I love this band, my favorite private taping of Clifford is the drum shop in Philly with a bunch of locals that came out on Beginning and the End, the joy in his playing there is palatable. Sonny and Max were an effective team but I'm guessing that working together may have reminded them too much of Clifford after he was gone. I had all the airshots, etc. I could find of them together at one point and cut back.

No wonder I have trouble with the name's of Bird's tunes! (other than Confirmation, that one I know)

#4 Herb Ellis from Texas Swings, according to which it's Scrapple from the Apple, featuring Willie, Johnny Gimble on one of the fiddles, didn't I use something from this on my blindfold test many moons ago? #5 Definitely Hank Garland with Gary Burton.

Please ID your videos so when they become unavailable we can figure out what you were talkin' 'bout.

Ira was hardly the only one who wrote unnecessarily whiny liner notes and reviews in the '60s and '70s complaining about the fact that free and fusion even existed. Especially annoying when it had no bearing on the record at hand at all. But overall I enjoy his writing, even the bad puns.

Thanks for the list, rough count 30. I used to be a huge fan, not as much anymore but I still like a good one.

Did I miss a link to the full (so far) list, I'm not going through the posts one by one to count but I'd be happy to from a single list. And the Brnad/Shepp duet album is fine, it survived the purge of piano/sax duets that happened here awhile back but it's not my top favorite of that format either (the Shepp/Parlan are).

Such a wizard, such a shame he lost his struggle with the darkness.

Thank you, I'll check that out. Dorky is pretty much what you'd expect in this context, no?