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This CD just arrived in the mail: Yamashita Trio - Clay (Enja, 1975) Yosuke Yamashita (p); Akira Sakata (cl, as); Takeo Moriyama (d) Phew!!! This is some potent stuff. Over the past few weeks, I'd been streaming Clay via YouTube. Needless to say, it sounds even more explosive & impactful in high fidelity.

Yes indeed! Outstanding!

Liszt: Sonata in B minor / François-Frédéric Guy

Superb.

That Baden Powell cover (above) always reminds me of this LP, which I've pulled from the shelf and am spinning now: Eddie Palmieri - Superimposition (Tico, 1970) Eddie Palmieri – piano Ismael Quintana – vocals José Rodrigues – trombone Lewis Kahn – trombone Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros – trumpet Andy Gonzalez – bass Israel Feliu – bass Nicky Marrero – timbales Eladio Pérez – conga drums Tommy "Choki" López – bongos Manny Oquendo – timbales, bongos Rudy Calzado – percussion Arturo Campa – coro Justo Betancourt – coro Elliot Romero – coro

Beirach and Hanna are two of my all-time favorite pianists. WHATEVER they're doing, it works!!! Another favorite pianist, whose hands are at the OTHER END of the spectrum size-wise: To quote Fats Waller (yet another terrific pianist), it just goes to show: "T'Aint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do it)"

Now spinning: Great album . . . and great album cover art.

I've read that Richie Beirach has small hands. His fingers certainly appear to be stubby in the photo below. But I guess he's found ways to work around it -- because one would never know from listening to his music. It seems like he can play just about anything.

Dos hermanos - Eddie and Charlie Palmieri

Next up: Machito Orchestra con Lalo Rodriguez - ¡Vamos A Bailar! (Discos Caballo) originally released as Fireworks (Coco, 1977)

Season 1

Los Dos Lados de la Típica '73 / The Two Sides of Típica '73 (Inca/Fania, 1977) with Sonny Bravo, Alfredo De La Fé, Nicky Marrero, John "Dandy" Rodriguez, and others

Next up: with Richard Williams, Charlie Rouse, Sam Jones, and Al Foster

I think that's where the marketplace for CDs is right now. Admittedly, SteepleChase maintains a massive catalog. I think Winther keeps everything in print. No single retailer is going to have all of them. Tommy's Jazz on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/user/tommysjazz Alas, no Greg Tardy leader dates.

Discogs might be your best bet. https://www.discogs.com/artist/272436-Greg-Tardy It is strange that Amazon doesn't consistently stock SteepleChase titles. Or maybe it isn't, given the decline of CD sales.

Those are all terrific recommendations, Bill. But they're the ORIGINALS, not revivalists. If you're gonna go down that path, then you've gotta throw some James P. Johnson in there! Thanks for the recommendations, Larry. I've been meaning to investigate Dallwitz forever, but I've never gotten around to it. Now playing: Earlier: R.I.P.

Sure thing.

Dick Wellstood and Dave McKenna and Don Ewell and Ralph Sutton and

Desert-island music! ❤️❤️❤️

I dig that you guys are digging into this stuff. Not because I think it's all good music. (Not at all; there's plenty of junk.) I just like how you're poking around in all the rooms in the house of jazz -- even the places that are normally ignored. In my experience, the most interesting revivalists are the pianists. Art Hodes, Don Ewell, Dick Wellstood, Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman, Dave McKenna. As for Dixieland: I've never really gone there. I think I have two Dukes of Dixieland records (one of them features Pops) and that's it. ... It was an odd phenomenon, wasn't it? I get the sense that Dixieland took root in colleges in sorta the same way that the Folk Revival did, that being able to play/participate in the music was part of the appeal. ... But there is also a sinister side to it too: the overt cultural appropriation, the rebel flag waving aspects of it that are so ugly and vile. But that's a part of the story too. And, of course, it didn't just happen with Dixieland.