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This is probably my favorite work by Neal Hefti: I'm not familiar with either of those. I'll check them out.

Brilliant Lester Bowie. NP: Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert, 1981 (Widow's Taste) with Pepper's terrific, final working band -- George Cables (p), David Williams (b), and Carl Burnett (d)

Next up, one of my all-time favorites: Richard "Groove" Holmes - Onsaya Joy (Flying Dutchman, 1975) Soooooo good -- especially that title cut. If you wanna give it a listen... :

So true. My wife LOVES the Sinatra-Basie album It Might as Well Be Swing -- and she played it frequently when my two sons were growing up. Even though my sons are now in their 20s, both of them still know the words to every song on the album: "Fly Me to the Moon," "I Wish You Love," "I Believe in You," and all the rest.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jaw's Blues (Enja) Sounds like good fun -- but bad news for the wallet!

Now: Sonny Stitt Sits In with The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1959) Good stuff.

Will keep an eye out for it. Thx! Next up: Excellent.

Rab, I'm not familiar with that one. Looks very interesting. Thanks for the heads-up. EDIT: Just looking at this on discogs. Yowza. Expensive!

Congrats, Pim !!! When my wife & I brought our first son home from the hospital, the first music he heard coming from my stereo was Coltrane. My second son got Ellington. I chose relatively sedate tunes in both cases. Didn't want to throw them in the deep end of the pool.

I agree.

Frank Foster & Frank Wess - 2 Franks Please (Savoy) Reissue of music originally heard on Foster's LP No Count and Wess' LP North, South, East.....WESS

Pete LaRoca - Basra (Blue Note, 1965)

Thanks!

I just checked Foster's wikipedia page, and -- if my math's right -- he would have been 21 or 22 in 1950. Young! Mark -- Does the music sound good? And does Foster sound like himself?

Up next: Ramsey Lewis - Maiden Voyage (Cadet)

Now spinning this LP again: Eddie Palmieri and Cal Tjader – Palmieri & T'Jader (Tico); originally released as Bamboleate So much vitality in this music. It's irresistible.

Trio Humair, Louiss, Ponty - Volume 1 (Dreyfus, rec. 1968)

Claudio Fasoli, Kenny Wheeler, J.-F. Jenny Clark, Daniel Humair - Welcome (Soul Note)

Two great artists, IMO. Good "problem" to have in either case. I know that Questlove has said that Prince's very best stuff is way off the beaten path. Wish I could hang out with him for an evening and hear his Prince favorites. Supposedly, Questlove's record collection is ridunkulous.

O.K. Fair enough.

I started listening to jazz in the 1980s also. That's one big difference between the 80s jazzblog and my 70s jazzblog. ALL of the 70s recordings were discovered "after the fact." I was too young to hear them as they were released. On the other hand, some of my selections for the 80s blog I first heard in real-time, as contemporary music. But it's only a handful of records -- relatively speaking, a tiny percentage -- because most of my earliest jazz listening was digging into the past, specifically Miles and Coltrane and (shortly thereafter) Mingus.