HutchFan

First order of the new year. From CD Japan. Japanese jazz: - UCCJ-4180 Masabumi Kikuchi / Re-Confirmation - UCCJ-4183 Hozan Yamamoto + Masabumi Kikuchi / Silver World - UCCJ-4179 Sato Masahiko Trio / Palladium - CDSOL-46437 Karl Berger & Masahiko Sato / With Silence - UCCU-40152 Masahiko Togashi / Spiritual Nature Brazilian jazz/samba-jazz: - SICP-4809 Tamba Trio / Tamba [1974] - SICP-4810 Tamba Trio / Tamba Trio [1975] - UCCU-8074 Moacir Santos / Carnival of the Spirits

Primo Chico

Dr. L. Subramaniam featuring Svend Asmussen - Garland (Storyville, rec. 1978) Yes.

More Country music: and Powerful!

Now playing: Egberto Gismonti - Nó Caipira (Carmo; originally EMI Brazil, 1978) with Gismonti's Academia De Danças: - Mauro Senise (ss, as, fl) - Zeca Assumpção (b) - Zé Eduardo Nazário (d, perc) and orchestra IMO, this album is unclassifiable and brilliant, a tour-de-force. I don't think I've ever heard music that integrates such a wide range of disparate elements/styles/genres so organically and so successfully.

I'll join in and wish everyone here on the forum a Happy New Year as well. Maybe someone will finally get around to reissuing Reminiscent Suite in 2023!

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Both the audio quality and the music are outstanding. Superb solo piano. I noticed that too. I prefer the original cover.

Now spinning: Clare Fischer - Alone Together (Discovery; originally released on MPS, 1977)

Disc 1: - Sonata No. 9 - in A Minor, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" - Sonata No. 1 - in D Major, Op. 12, No. 1

Next up: Bill Berry's L.A. Big Band - "Hello Rev" (Concord, 1976) There were quite a few heavyweights in this band: - Trumpet – Bill Berry, Blue Mitchell, Cat Anderson, Gene Goe, Jack Sheldon - Saxophone – Don Menza, Jack Nimitz, Lanny Morgan, Marshal Royal, Richie Kamuca - Trombone – Benny Powell, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Cleveland, Tricky Lofton - Piano – Dave Frishberg - Bass – Monty Budwig - Drums – Frank Capp

Excellent. And a rare Venus release that doesn't feature a woman on the cover, scantily-clad or otherwise.

An amazing voice and an impeccable rhythmic sense. The dude could sing.

Descarga compiles two Fantasy LPs: Agua Dulce (1971) and Live at the Funky Quarters (1972)

It's Brazz-Jazz from the 1980s. Sorta Azymuth-ish. I dig it.

Superb.

Next up: Marcio Montarroyos - Magic Moment (Columbia/Lorimar, 1982)

Recently plucked from a record store dollar bin: Billy Eckstine - Mister B. and the Band: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy/Arista, rec. 1945-47)