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This again: I don't have that one -- but I bet it's wonderful too!

Now streaming Michael Blake's new release, Combobulate: Blake on saxes + four brass + drums -- with TWO tuba players: Bob Stewart & Marcus Rojas

I always enjoy hanging out with Ken.

Excellent.

EDIT: Just finished listening to this. Oh man, I'd forgotten how good it is. The album's closing track, "Rain" by Geri Allen, is so delicate and beautiful. Three masters at work. All three are gone now. But Allen had only just turned 60 when she passed. That's too young.

Disc 1

Spot on. 🙂

VERY cool, BBS! Some amazing stuff there. It's so much fun to stumble across treasure troves like that!

Al Haig & Jimmy Raney - Freedom Jazz Dance (Choice) Originally released in 1975 as Strings Attached

I sorta like him too. 😉

Interesting that they kept Roy Kral's voiceover from the previous ad, even though the singer's different. I was around when these ads were aired, but I'm too young to remember them. I do remember the Life cereal ads with Mikey.

That's HILARIOUS! "Groovy, groovy. Feelin' groovy!" I read an interview with Jackie Cain, and she said that the ad work helped get them through some lean times in the late-60s and 70s.

Nope. I knew they did advertisements, but I'm not familiar with any of them.

Now on my turntable: "The Electric" Jackie & Roy - Grass (Capitol, 1968) Along with compositions by Roy Kral and Fran Landesman, Grass features songs by Lennon & McCartney, the BeeGees, Paul Simon, and Donovan. J&R are definitely throwing some sunshine-pop & groovy psychedelia into their musical stew. On the other hand, their voices and harmonies are still unmistakable -- and swinging. Back in the day, the pop repertoire and psychedelic touches (light as they are) must have seemed jarring to long-time fans -- but, with the passing of 55 years, it just sounds (to me) like one more step in their long, evolutionary journey.

Yes. I'm usually not a listener who gravitates towards compilations -- but this one is AMAZING. I like it better than any of Barretto's individual Fania records. I suppose that's because it compiles the most jazz-oriented cuts off his records that are (for the most part) Salsa albums. This Barretto compilation sort of reminds me of Eddie Palmieri's Exploration: Salsa-Jazz-Descarga, another compilation that focuses on the jammy/improvisational side of the Salsa-to-Jazz spectrum. (Although I think Palmieri's Coco stuff is/was a bit more inherently "jazzy" than Barretto's Fania output. Regardless, you get the idea; both compilations focus on the "Latin" and "Jazz" Venn diagram overlap.)

¡Música maravillosa — Cinco estrellas!

No sweat. I gotcha. Now spinning:

Will investigate, for sure.

Just found this on discogs: A Don Rendell Sextet recording, recorded just before Garrick departed in October 1970. https://britishprogressivejazz.com/album/the-odysseus-suite Have you heard this, @sidewinder ? Looks like it just came out last month.

You and me both! I wonder if any of Garrick's recordings are still in the archives, the BBC's or otherwise. (I know a few have been released, but they're mostly from the 60s rather than the 70s and beyond.)

Another piano trio. But this time I'm hopping across the pond and visiting an Englishman. I've said it before but I'll say it again: Garrick's early-70s run on Argo was stupendous. From The Heart is a Lotus (1970) through Troppo (1974), he was on fire. I like his stuff before and after -- but it seems like that five-year period was his peak, a real purple patch recordings-wise.

It's turning out to be a piano trio sort of morning. From one favorite to another:

with Paul Chambers and Art Taylor