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Now this: Sides 3 & 4 - originally released as Autumn Song (1959)

I wish I could have seen the early-70s Tyner group live. It might've influenced my perception of them too.

Now spinning: Abdullah Ibrahim / Dollar Brand - African Marketplace (Elektra, 1980) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Sure thing. While albums like Sahara and Enlightenment have their adherents, there are others (like me) who -- while admiring them -- also find them to be tiring in their relentlessness, especially when taken as a whole. The two McCoy Milestone albums that are tops in my book are Sama Layuca and Horizon. (On the latter album, I think violinist John Blake plays a "leavening" role that similar to Hutcherson's on Sama Layuca.) Just my 2 cents, of course.

However one labels it, I think it's one of McCoy's finest hours. Hutcherson's vibes & marimba add some breathing room to McCoy's sometimes breathless music.

More Baden Powell: Compilation of cuts culled from the French Barclay and Festival labels.

Baden Powell - The Legendary MPS Albums (MPS) Disc 2 - originally Canto on Guitar and Images on Guitar Music beyond category.

Next up: Ken McIntyre - Home (SteepleChase, 1975) My LP is the U.S. release on Inner City

Well, that other 2-fer sounds mighty tempting. This fish is hooked. 😜 Another item for the list!

Nope. Guess I should track it down, eh?

Now spinning: Maynard Ferguson & His Orchestra - A Message from Newport / Newport Suite (Roulette, 2 LPs) The vinyl is wafer-thin, but the music still sounds good.

More Eddie Harris: A terrific album. That opening cut is relentlessly funky. I like this album even better than Swiss Movement.

"Slow Horses" - Season 3

Listening to this again:

Many thanks, Jim. I will!

I'll keep an eye out for them. (I do have Here Comes the Judge on Columbia.)

Thx!

Prompted by an Eddie Harris post by @Kevin Bresnahan on another thread: I don't have any of EH's original Vee-Jay albums, only this 2-LP compilation.

Chuck - I'm curious. Is the Hotsy Totsy Gang drawn from the ranks of Duke's and Cab Calloway's bands?

Ha!!!

Clara Haskil - Philips Recordings 1951-1960 Disc 2 - Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen; Waldszenen - Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 "Tempest"; Sonata No. 18 Haskil's playing reminds me of Géza Anda's (with whom she sometimes performed). Their styles are extremely transparent -- like looking through pure water.

Now listening to the music originally released on the Revelation Records LP Secrets, as heard on this set: Carter is a superb instrumentalist -- but the thing that sets his music apart (for me, at least) are his skills as a composer. And I mean "composer" in both the traditional sense as well as the Wayne Shorter-articulated idea of improvisation-as-spontaneous-composition. . . . For all his ties with & comparisons to Ornette Coleman, John Carter has an artistic voice that strikes me as entirely his own. In other words: Phew! This is good stuff!