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Here are my blog entries for this week: - George Cables - Phantom of the City (Contemporary, 1985) - Pepper Adams - The Adams Effect (Uptown, 1988, rec. 1985) - Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra - Even the Moon Is Dancing (SteepleChase, 1985) This week, I've written brief commentaries for each album. As always, I welcome your input.

Now streaming: Prompted by a recommendation from @soulpope on Rab's MPS/SABA thread.

Just a heads-up: This "new" 2-CD set is an expanded re-packaging of music that was previously issued as Some Other Time: A Tribute To Chet Baker (Triloka, 1990). The Triloka release was a single disc, so there's more music on the new Jazzline (re)issue. But still... just sayin'. Should indeed be lower case "b." Marketing mumbo jumbo. Or marketing mistake.

Now streaming via YT:

After kicking around in a few shops today, I brought home these titles -- all used, all vinyl: 2 LP set The STEREOPHONIC version, oh yes with Harold Vick and Freddie Waits Konitz sans drummer

It's true that Cedar Walton was remarkably consistent. So many to choose from is a good "problem" to have, no?

Oh yes, this one's terrific -- Hawes at his very best. Another corker that I should've included on my list.

TtK -- Even if I don't always have affinity with your musical choices, I LOVE how differently you mine the MPS catalog. Recontextualization, different ways of "making sense" of things. Right on!

Very true. Also, it probably only could have happened in the 1970s, when jazz was in a state of upheaval. Everything was in flux.

Coincidence or Synchronicity? Likewise!

Some of my favorites: Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet – Never Let It End (MPS, 1970) A superb group with Heinz Sauer (ts, as), Günter Lenz (b), and Ralf Hübner (d) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin – Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (MPS, 1970) with the CBBB rhythm section: Boland, Jimmy Woode, and Klook Eddy Louiss – Our Kind of Sabi (MPS, 1970) with fellow Euro-all-stars John Surman and Daniel Humair Attila Zoller/Masahiko Sato – A Path Through Haze (MPS, 1972) A gorgeous record, not one false note Joachim Kühn – This Way Out (MPS, 1973) Kühn's group was perhaps inconsistent, but also pleasingly different, self-consciously European Hannibal & the Sunrise Orchestra – Hannibal (MPS, 1975) An under-recognized classic of 1970s jazz John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan – Karuna Supreme (MPS, 1976) A West-Meets-East pairing that actually works well Martial Solal – Suite for Trio (MPS, 1978) with NHØP & Daniel Humair; all of Solal's MPS recordings are terrific, but this is my desert-island pick Joe Henderson – Mirror, Mirror (MPS, 1980) with a dream rhythm section: Corea, RC, and Billy Higgins Lee Konitz & Martial Solal – Duo: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days 1980 (MPS, 1982) Pure improvisation -- and the finest of their many recorded collaborations, IMO

My entries for last week: - John Carter - Castles of Ghana (Gramavision, 1986) - Cedar Walton - The Trio 1 (Red, 1986) - Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble - Mambo Diablo (Concord Picante, 1985) For me, John Carter's Castles of Ghana is the highlight of his five-part "Roots and Folklore" series. It's a masterpiece.

Disc 16 Top-shelf Mal. 👍

R.I.P. Sad news. ... But I'm grateful for the music he helped bring to light.

Now: Silver Cycles again. I love how Harris ignores boundaries. It' s everything-all-at-once music, a funky spaceship.

Now streaming: Love that old photo of Chi-Town.

Disc 2 - originally released as The Tender Storm and Silver Cycles

A couple folks were spinning this the other day, so . . . Sonny and Max. Nuff said.