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BN for me - I own and enjoy some of the Verves but I'm near complete on BN and spin them more often too. There are at least three different sorts of BN, and a few that aren't much like any of the others.

I can hardly believe that I haven't chimed in here already. I own both the aforementioned Mellow Yellow and the previously not mentioned Plays Otis Redding. Guys like this are the rank & file/line staff of music, dig it.

This list was done for a thread that had slightly different rules, so if you get hung up on that just disregard what doesn't fit the rules here. so here goes - my fav 21st Century albums, even if most of them are in one way or another backwards looking: 1) Enrico Rava - On the Dancefloor (ECM 2012). A live, big band MJ tribute (so not typical ECM), and a most unusual one from an Italian trumpet player who'd paid Michael no mind until he saw a TV special by chance and became obsessed. Treatments of MJ tunes (and Chaplin's "Smile") range from Sousa marches to funk and places Jackson in a broader context than usual. First heard library copy picked up on a whim. 2) Trio Beyond - Saudades (ECM 2006). Another live tribute not in ECM's usual bag, this time to the Tony Williams Lifetime. Scofield, Goldings & DeJohnette aren't quite as abrasive ('in a good way') as Williams, Larry Young & McLaughlin were, but they do bring lots of energy and attitude. On one level much more 'like' its inspiration than #1 above, but still it's own thing. 3) Derek Bailey - Ballades (Tzadik 2002). Zorn convinced Bailey to do an album of standards, solo on acoustic, Bailey did one then said 'no, wait, I'm going to redo it' and gave us this stream of consciousness where nice old tunes peek into an ever morphing flow of concrete abstraction. 1st draught came out later (as Standards), and is fine, but this is otherworldly. Another one I first heard curtesy of the Multnomah County Library where I work. 4) Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (Phrase Text 2006). Not as great as the gig I saw with three bass players, but good enough to keep other players on their toes well into the next century. 5) J.D. Allen - Graphiti (Savant 2015). Young-ish tenor sax player (born 1972) has done lots of albums since his 1999 debut as a leader. This sax/bass/drums trio is the one that grabbed me. Has that Saxophone Colossus/Our Man in Paris swagger. May have first heard this on a library copy too. New original tunes, just played old! 6) Bobby Broom - Stand! (Preminition 2001). Yes, he does the Sly Stone title tune and a bunch of others of that era. Guitar, bass, drums; pretty 'straight ahead'. Quite magical. Why not? The're old tunes now/then when he recorded them. If you play them like the're standards; then they'll be, like, standards. 7) Rodney Jones - Soul Manifesto (Blue Note 2001). Also nominally new music, but kind of a throwback all the same. Features Idris Muhammad, Maceo Parker & Arthur Blythe. Grooving. 8) James Carter - Chasin' the Gypsy (Atlantic 2000). Django tribute on which he plays all different saxes, including bass. Fun record. 9) Regina Carter - Southern Comfort (Masterworks 2014). A fiddlin' tribute to her coal miner forbearers. Also plays on her cousin's record, #8 above. Much of the material is "traditional", which makes it the best recent folk album and unlikely to be recognized as such. 10) Mary Halverson & Bill Frisell - (Tzadik 2018). Two guitars, Debussy, folk music, standards; a tribute to Johnny Smith that makes him sound like he's melting. Walk, Don't Run, to get this mind-melter. 11) Lonnie Smith - All In My Mind (Blue Note 2018). Live with his regular working band. A little bit spacey, quite a bit greasy. Saw a gig very like this album. 12) Andrew Hill - Time Lines (Blue Note 2005). The last word from Alfred Lion's last great discovery. 13) William Bell - This is Where I Belong (Stax 2016). Another return to where he started, label-wise. All new except for a reinterpretation of his cowrite "Born Under a Bad Sign". 14) Shelby Lynn - Just a Little Lovin' (Lost Highway 2008). A Dusty Springfield tribute that dares to be quiet in a world maxed out on loud, basically a girl sitting by her stereo, singing along to get herself to tomorrow. I think this was another library discovery. 15) Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me (Lost Highway 2006). Willie's tribute to Cindy walker, who may not have written anything else as exquisite as the title song, but who wrote (and cowrote) plenty of good ones. Willie no doubt played 'em coming up and does 'em proud here. 16) Willie & the Wheel (Bismeaux 2009). Asleep at the Wheel's presence means it's a Western Swing thing, but here they go for a pre-WWII sound making it a little different. I swear Willie knows his Country AND Western music state by state and year by year, if not month by month and county by county. 17) B.B. King - Let the Good Times Roll (MCA 1999). A Louis Jordan tribute with Dr. John and a Ray Charles band horn section. All kinds of fun. 18) The Rolling Stones (Polydor 2016). The record they'd threatened to make for decades. Maybe not as good as it could've been if they'd made it back then, but I'm still glad they did and it's pretty darn good. 19) Sonny Rollins - Without a song, the 9/11 Concert (Milestone 2001). He was close to ground zero and this is the next concert after...as he said, "Music can help." Yes it can. 20) John Scofield - Country For Old Men (Impulse! 2016). Blues of a different colour. Not as good as the gig I saw from the supporting tour, but still fine.

A rather IDEALIZED VIEW OF RURAL Saskatchewan.

Anchor Steam, the Morgan of microbrews, in special commemorative label: https://www.anchorbrewing.com/blog/anchor_steam_artist_label/

https://www.amazon.com/Parachuting-into-Poland-1944-Retinger/dp/0786474602/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=parachuting+into+poland%2C+1944&qid=1566093577&s=books&sr=1-1 This memoir about my Friend Jan's father's 2nd mission to occupied Poland in WWII was translated by Jan, who is now working on the earlier story. Fascinating.

bought the White album uber deluxe, will probably get this too, would absolutely get a Revolver deluxe.

Joe Lovano does/has, as do others who play every wind instrument they can get their mitts on. Some keyboard players who dbl do too. I play only C-melodies, FWIW.

" Way back when, I was actually asked by Michael to listen to the unreleased Lee Morgan session to see if there was anything worthy there to include as bonus tracks for The Sixth Sense. I really thought the 3 tracks selected were the only ones close to being worthy of release. I found the others to be really problematic. I'm surprised to see some here found them burning. To me, they really weren't." I've now heard the rest of this date, sounds fine to me, FWIW.

9/10 FWIW

Stanley lso did nice version of Look of Love.

Yes I get what you're saying, and I can hear it, but it has little to do with why I like what I like & I don't presume to speak for others. "There's no dividing line to art" - Charlie Parker. IMHO truer words were never spoken, YMMV.

FWIW, 'style' has little to do with why I enjoy any particular piece of music, personality worked out over different styles a little more, & all sorts of other things peculiar to that particular piece/performance way more.

The hype in sk is treating it is treating it as a near victory - & with the 2nd string quarterback that's almost realistic.

Sorry I forgot about this, thanks for reminding me. I have a fair bit of this already and don't use what I do have, so I think I'll pass. Good deal for someone else tho'.

I need to check which I've got & get bck to you.

I seem to have somehow failed to put my two cents in here! Fathead most assuredly is a jazz musician (and R&B and just his own bad self), as are/were Don Wilkerson and King Curtis too. I like JD Allen, FWIW, and the one I dig the most is Graphitti - it has that swagger that Saxophone Colossus and Our Man in Paris have, IMHO, YMMV.

Lloyd & Joe Ely rock 'n roll.

Totally intrigued and more than a little jealous, I look forward with bated breath to see/hear what you're going to do with this.

Has anyone here heard the Charlie Rouse Blue Note Session of 1/22/65 in its entirety? Not looking for a copy, just wonder if it has any boogaloos or similar groove tunes on it (given the personal and time, seems like it might).

I hear it as kinda like a trombone in a trad jazz 3 horn front line, as 'the glue' whether it's improvised or not.

good graphic but no C-melody

I seen him in S'toon 'bout this time.

Yes S. is the person who wrote the plys & 'the play's the thing'.