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Yes. Also, it's my home state, although I live too far north for cotton. In the southern part of Georgia -- down on the Coastal Plain, you can see cotton growing everywhere.

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At the end of the day, that's all that matters.

Prompted by Rab's salsa thread: and

Yes! That trio with Yamashita, Sakata, and Moriyama is INSANE. Koyama is no slouch, but Moriyama's drumming takes the music to an entirely different level. I'd also recommend Clay (Enja, rec. '74) and Chiasma (MPS, rec. '75), two live Yamashita Trio recordings with Moriyama. Such a lovely record.

Thanks! I'm not an expert, but it seems like there was a slight-but-definite evolution in La Sonora Ponceña when Lucca took over as producer, beginning with Musical Conquest in 1976. Even though I like the stuff from the first half of the decade, there does seem to be an increase in the "jazz quotient" in the latter half of the 1970s. For example, Lucca's piano interludes are often featured a la Eddie or Charlie Palmieri. That's the stuff that really captures my ear & gets me stoked: When the Venn diagram of jazz and salsa (or perhaps we could use the more general term Latin music) aren't only adjacent, there's overlap. And when the overlap is "significant enough" (however one might define that!), you have Latin jazz. Of course, this is all a continuum thing. The lines between these genres are very fuzzy and porous. And that's one of the many things that makes this topic so interesting.

I don't know the answer to your question; I was just a kid at the time. But I've read similar things about Watrous making waves back then. It always surprised me that Manhattan Wildlife Refuge was released on Columbia. Given the year (1974), the music seems like something that would more typically be issued on a small/indie label. Then again, Maynard Ferguson was recording for Columbia at that time. They released MF's Live at Jimmy's in '74. Maybe Watrous appealed to the same college kid "lab band" and/or big band crowd as Ferguson -- or, as you say, the bop revivalists. Or both.

Two albums featuring bassist Gene Perla & drummer Don Alias: Stone Alliance - Stone Alliance (PM, 1976) and Jeremy Steig - Energy (Capitol, 1971)

Dusty Groove will be stocking it: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/157799/Various:J-Jazz-Free-and-Modern-Jazz-From-Japan-1954-to-1988

I love Ismael Quintana's vocals -- but I'd only heard him sing with Eddie Palmieri. I've never explored his solo work. So this music is completely new to me, and it is OUTSTANDING!

Speaking of Papo Lucca. . . Which album is your favorite album by La Sonora Ponceña? I'd probably go with Explorando or La Orquesta de Mi Tierra. What say you? EDIT @soulpope, I just now noticed the cut you featured from Musical Conquest earlier in the thread. I suppose that answers my question.

Next up: Masahiko Togashi - Spiritual Nature (East Wind, 1975); issued on Inner City in the U.S. Transcendent.

Some more Indo jazz: John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan - Karuna Supreme (MPS, 1976)

Me too. You can listen to Garland here: https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/garland

Terrific Indo-jazz fusion, recorded in 1978.

felser, I saw the same thing happen to the Tower Records in Buckhead (an Atlanta neighborhood, near Lenox Square Mall). For the longest time, it was fantastic -- with an unbelievable selection. But, as it wound down toward the end, the only thing that drew me in was their cheapie used vinyl section. Even at the end, you could stumble across excellent LPs in those bins. Back in the day, I worked nearby. On Fridays, I usually would take a long lunch and dash to look at records. Good memories.

with Wild Bill Davison (cor), Bob Wilber (cl, ss), Eddie Hubble (tb), Ralph Sutton (p), Isla Eckinger (b), and Cliff Leeman (d)

Now listening to Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Disc 1 from this set:

Now playing: Baden Powell - Poema on Guitar (SABA/MPS, 1967) Guitar – Baden Powell Bass – Eberhard Weber Drums – Charly Antolini Flute (on 4 of 8 cuts) – Sidney Smith

Me three!

I'm now giving this a listen via YouTube. Very interesting.

Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New (Philips, 1963) Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie Tenor Saxophone – James Moody Piano – Kenny Barron Bass – Chris White Drums – Rudy Collins Playlist created from:

An even more simplistic way to prevent a PC from going to sleep: Open Windows Media Player. Select and play a short video. Mute the sound (using the setting in the player) and turn on the Repeat function. I do this whenever I'm presenting at an in-person meeting. It prevents the screen-saver/lock function from automatically coming on if I don't happen to touch the PC for five minutes. My company locks down those sorts of settings on our PCs for security purposes. But it's very disruptive and annoying to have to re-login in the middle of a meeting. This workaround solves that problem. I think it might work for your purposes too, @John L.

Next up: Don Menza - First Flight (Catalyst, 1977) I have the Fresh Sound reissue First Flight: Complete Recordings -- but the reissue producers re-arranged the track sequencing and screwed up the musical flow of the original album. The good news is that in this digital world it's no big deal. I just made a playlist that matches the original LP's sequence of cuts. Ahhh . . . That's so much better.