HutchFan

Yep! Me too.

LP 2 - originally The Other Side of Benny Golson and Andy LaVerne Trio - Another World (SteepleChase, 1978)

Just finished this LP and enjoyed it so much that I'm giving it a second spin: Barney Kessel - Summertime in Montreux (Black Lion, 1973)

LOL Who knew?!? Not me. You!

Yeah, he's going to continue as their Designated Hitter.

NP: Toninho Horta e Orquestra Fantasma - Terra Dos Pássaros (EMI/Universal, rec. 1976-79) featuring a Who's Who of Brazilian jazz: - Guitar, Electric Bass, Lead Vocals – Toninho Horta - Lead Vocals – Milton Nascimento - Flute – Lena Horta, Mauro Senise - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Nivaldo Ornelas - Trombone – Raul De Souza - Piano, Organ – Wagner Tiso - Synthesizer – Hugo Fattoruso - Acoustic Bass – Luiz Alves - Electric Bass – Jamil Joanes, Novelli - Bass – Ringo Thielmann - Drums – Airto Moreira, Robertinho Silva, Rubinho - Percussion – Laudir de Oliveira, Zé Eduardo Nazario - Caxixi – Georgiana De Moraes - Vocals – Gloria Bertalot, Lena Horta

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

This again: So beautiful.

The fact one ballplayer has done all that in one season (before the end of August, even) is INSANE. An incomparable achievement. SUCH a bummer that he's injured.

Interesting to hear Walton & Higgins with RC, instead of Sam Jones or David Williams.

Now playing: Thanks, jazzcorner!

Now spinning: Dakota Staton - Confessin' (Groove Merchant, 2 LPs, 1974) LP 2 - originally released as Madame Foo-Foo -- with "Groove" Holmes, Cornell Dupree, "Pretty" Purdie, and others As SOULFUL as all get-out.

More 20th c. stuff from France: My MHS release has a typically nondescript cover, so I'm posting the Erato version.

Excellent.

Interesting mix of players on that one. Festival Big Band (Jerry van Rooyen) - Explosive! (Philips, 1971)

Thanks for the heads-up on this, Mike. I've never heard it, and I'm going to check it out.

Brahms: Symphony No. 2, as heard in this set:

I have an extra copy of Tito Puente's Mambo Diablo (Concord, 1985). Totally free to anyone in the U.S. Peeps overseas will need to pay shipping. It's an excellent record too!

A 2021 CD from the artist (formerly?) known as Bayeté, who worked with Bobby Hutcherson, Stanley Clarke, Julian Priester, and others back in the day. He also made a couple records for Prestige in the early-70s.

I bought the Barnaby reissue (used) of that LP at Mole Jazz in London about 30 years ago. NP: I really dig this music, but my Schema-Rearward CD reissue sounds very hard and congested. Everything feels overdriven, recording-wise. I realize that this is blaring, LOUD music -- but the recording seems to accentuate that aspect of it. It's distracting (to me, at least). Of course, it might just be my ears. Or I could be bumping up against limitations in my (old-but-trusty) stereo system. So I'm curious: Does anyone have this album on LP? Or, for that matter, the Schema-Rearward CD? If so, does it sound that way to you too?

Still going bananas for Baden: Volume 1: L'Âme de Baden Powell (Festival FR, 1973) and Volume 2: L'Art de Baden Powell (Festival FR, 1973) On both of these albums, Powell is supported by: - Guy Pedersen (b) - Joaquim Paes Henriques (d) - Luis Aguido (perc) - Janine De Waleyne (vo, selected cuts only) Powell performing with Guy Pedersen

I just now stumbled across a website and forum dedicated to A&M Records: https://www.amcorner.com/ It reminded me of this thread, so I thought I'd share it here.