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Thank you for sharing that story, Gheorghe. Sounds like a terrific time!

I think Evans' music is consistently interesting. I'm a fan. Flip the Script is my favorite of his albums, but I've enjoyed all that I've heard.

Al Grey-Jimmy Forrest Quintet – Night Train - Revisited (Storyville, rec. 1978) Trombone - Al Grey Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Forrest Piano – Shirley Scott Bass – John Duke Drums – Bobby Durham Music originally released on the Aviva label in 1979 as Live at Rick's.

I'll check it out. Thanks. That Earl Hines / Budd Johnson record is sooooo good. . . and that Brotherhood of Breath LP is too.

Both TERRIFIC. I love hearing Muhal with the AEC on Fanfare.

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I have (and kept) all of the LPs -- except for Inner Glow. (Never got that one. Too pricey.) For some things, it's nice to have a back-ups.

The Braves kept rolling today, beating the Cubs 8-0. Best part about it: pitcher Max Fried -- runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award last season -- returned from the injured list, pitched six innings, and give up just three hits (all singles). VERY good news.

rec. 1962

Sure thing. Happy to spread the good deals 'round. And no you can't unsee it!

Yes. That place can be dangerous -- from both a time and money point of view.

Nice! I almost grabbed that Helen Merrill set. Already regret that I didn't.

Great deal & great music. Those two Carmen McRae discs are primo sides from early in her career. I see you grabbed those Sue Raney albums too.

Right on, Eric. That set made it possible for me to hear the Japan-only release Inner Glow for the first time. I'm sure it's shocking to everyone that I agree with your agreement. Of the five albums in the Mosaic Select set, I'd put Cirrus right up there with the finest albums of Hutcherson's career.

I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. My big order from Discogs > philadelphiamusic just arrived! Fresh outta the box! I'll be hiding out in my basement all weekend.

Azar Lawrence - Summer Solstice (Prestige, 1975) Craft "Jazz Dispensary" reissue Baden Powell - Images on Guitar (MPS, 1972) I love the whole Brazilian & jazz cross-pollination thing that was happening during the 1970s. Of course, it happened both before and after the 1970s -- but it seems like the Brazilian influence reached a sort of crescendo, in terms of its influence on jazz, during the 70s. . . . Or maybe it just seems that way to me because I focus on 1970s jazz so much. I dunno! . . . In any case, both of these albums are terrific (and very different) examples of Braz-Jazz intermixing, a sort of fusion that really rings my bell.

Precisely. Ever diminishing returns. But there must be a market for it. Otherwise, they wouldn't make it. For "well heeled" audiophiles and jazz lovers, I guess.

This album reminds me of a story. All through high school and college, I worked construction jobs -- both after school and full-time during the summers. One summer, I was working on framing crew building houses. Someone would always bring a "boom box" to the jobs, and we'd usually listen to the radio while working throughout the day. Occasionally, someone would bring a cassette tape and we'd listen to that. One day, someone popped in a country music cassette. Nothing unusual there. But I quickly noticed something that was unusual: The words coming from the boom box were incredibly raunchy. I don't mean double-entendre type raunchy, like the album pictured above. I mean full-on pornographic raunchy. No details spared. . . . I didn't know that such a thing even existed! Turns out that it was an album by David Allan Coe. Along with his "regular" country music, I guess he had a side-hustle as "porno-country" musician. Odder than odd. Yikes!!! One of the many things that I learned as a teenager/young adult working on construction sites. My apologies if I've already told this story here. I'm getting old(er), so I guess it's inevitable that I often repeat myself.

We're ALL loonies! But we're the best kind of loonies to be: Loonies for MUSIC!