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This version of "Autumn Leaves", featuring Ray Nance and Ozzie Bailey, fits this afternoon's mood perfectly.

My reaction as well. I was very disappointed by this release. Very little creative thought or energy seems to have been put into this. It's a strictly "by the numbers" effort.

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Mike Melvoin deserves mention in that "overlooked pianists" thread. Now playing:

Disc 1 of 2.

From 1967, with Chick Corea, Ron Carter & Grady Tate

! It is amazing that it took decades for this material to be released. I think it might be even slightly better than Vol. 1. Now playing: Disc 2 of 2, which contains the broadcasts from Feb 6 & 13, 1954. These are really nice recordings of a bygone era when a local radio station (KCBS in SF in this case) would devote a half hour of Sat. night airtime to a live broadcast from a jazz club. Although the Club Hangover was more of a dixieland room, this Earl Hines led band is more a small group swing band. Fats Pichon is the intermission pianist on these broadcasts. I think this can be found at a budget price and even thought the discs are CD-Rs (as are all of the Acrobat label releases, I think) I would recommend it for any Earl Hines fan.

Disc 2 of 4.

Disc 3 of 3. Happy 73rd birthday to Mr. Booker T. Jones. On the final track of this disc, the band joins Neil Young, who also celebrates a birthday today (#72).

The title might be a tad misleading. While this concert was presented at the request of the White House, it was actually performed over by the Washington Monument. 4 tracks by the DBQ, 6 tracks by Mr. Bennett with the Ralph Sharon Trio and then 4 tracks by Mr. Bennett with the DB Trio.

A band that included both Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz.

An "ultra-lounge" compilation with Capitol Records tracks by the likes of King Curtis, Sam Butera, Plas Johnson, Georgie Auld, Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle, Milt Buckner and more.

This CD was on my shelf, still in its shrinkwrap, with a price sticker on it from Tower Records, so I must have bought it during Tower's going-out-of-business sale (from how many years ago?) and I'm just now getting around to playing it. That's how you know you have just too much music on hand.