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Dan, I use an image hosting site -- https://postimages.org/ -- to upload "family/personal" pics that I want to share on this forum. (Formerly, I used PhotoBucket, but they started charging for the service, so I moved on.) I don't use social media and otherwise don't post photos online, so an image hosting site comes in handy. Plus, you don't need to worry about image size limits. Just another option.

and Not the same photo, but clearly from the same "orange knit cap" photo session:

I've got a feeling this may be a wall-to-wall Count Basie day:

Getting Monday morning off to a swingin' start with Count Basie:

Charlie Palmieri and His Orchestra - Adelante, Gigante (Alegre, 1975)

with Stanley Turrentine

Musical telepathy.

I'm hoping that's good. Like many (!) SF fans, I love those books -- although it's been decades since I read them. Would love to hear your impressions, jazzbo (and others' too).

More Frank Foster & the Loud Minority: Manhattan Fever + 2 (Denon, 1978) Includes two long bonus tracks originally released as a 45RPM Denon LP titled Bursting Out!

Frank Foster - The Loud Minority (Mainstream, 1972) I'd forgotten how much this record is STACKED with heavyweights: – Frank Foster (ts, as, ss, al cl) – Kenny Rodgers (as, bs, b cl) – Hannibal Marvin Peterson (tr) – Cecil Bridgewater, Charles McGee (tr, flhn) – Dick Griffin (tb) – Earl Dunbar (g) – Harold Mabern, Jan Hammer (p, el p) – Gene Perla, Stanley Clarke (b) – Omar Clay, Richard Pratt (d) – Elvin Jones (d, perc) – Airto Moreira (perc) – Dee Dee Bridgewater (vo) I've never heard that record -- but that's a killer line-up of saxophonists.

I think James Moody might fit in there somewhere. The more I listen to Moody's music, the more I hear connections between him and Ray Charles' bands. I know people say Ray Charles "invented" Soul music (and if you're going to put him one category that's probably where he belongs), but one of the wonderful things about Charles' band was that it went all over the place style-wise. And (some) Moody bands too. Sounds good. I'm gonna check it out.

Jim, I didn't know about the record that you're describing -- I'm going to look into it -- but it's actually Carter's second album of Django tunes. His first was called Chasin' the Gypsy, released on Atlantic back in 2000. Have you heard that one? I don't have much by Carter, but I like that album very much. OTOH, I don't think the music on that record is in the spirit of this thread: Not an organ trio. Not R&B-ish or populist. ... But good.

I dig that one! NP: Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Cannonball in Japan (Capitol, rec. 1966) Yeaaaaaahhhhhh !!! Cannonball !!! A bunch of other folks have already ed this post -- but I'm gonna jump in too. Because it's one helluva record. Cohn at his very best, IMO.

Will keep an eye out for it, Ken!

A while ago -- maybe a decade ago? -- I saw Joe Lovano in concert at Spivey Hall, south of Atlanta. Lovano was leading a nonet, and they performed music from The Birth of the Cool. Most of the record, IIRC. Maybe even all of it. It was an interesting performance... but I admit that I wasn't blown away by it. I found myself wishing that he'd perform his own music instead. I don't know whether Lovano ever recorded any of it. Perhaps something to look into if you'd like another take on the music.

Noice!

Hoppy, Have you heard Ozawa's recording of Mahler's 8th with the Boston SO? I'm not usually an Ozawa fan, but his particular recording of the 8th is special. Ozawa's interpretation integrates the 8th with Mahler's body of work better than any other version I've heard. IMO, the 8th usually sticks out like a sore thumb, like it has no relationship to Mahler's compositions that come before and after. But not so with Ozawa. It's the only recording of the 8th I've heard that sounds it was written by the the same guy who also composed Das Lied von der Erde. Worth a listen if you come across it. What a cool experience. I've never even heard the M8 live, much less participated in it!

And now rock is old folks' music. Instead of resurrecting Ellington and Fats, Broadway shows count on Boomer nostalgia. Carol King and such. It's a demographics game.

Yup. Verve's "Originals" series dropped all bonus tracks. I understand the concept; the idea was to make a CD duplicate of the original LP. Regardless, it still seems like a backward step when earlier CD reissues included bonus cuts.

Oh yeah, I'm the same. Among my favorites -- composers like Ives, Mahler, Beethoven, Berlioz, Sibelius, Brahms -- I usually have several different recordings of their key works. Ideally, each conductor and performer brings something unique to the work, so the most compelling recordings of the same composition often sound very different. Furtwängler's way with Beethoven is a world apart from Jochum's, just like Boulez's interpretive approach to Mahler is different than Kubelik's (or Klemperer's or Walter's). So perhaps these different performances of a single work aren't "multiple" in the sense that the OP was talking about -- re-buying the exact same music several times in different formats, for sound improvement reasons, bonus tracks, etc. That said, I do have some EXACT duplicates of classical recordings, just like my jazz stuff. For example, I kept several of Kubelik's Mahler recordings on vinyl, even though I later bought the CD box set containing the exact same performances. In that case, the LPs are special to me -- and I dig the cover art.

I can attest: It's a big room, and there are LOTS of recordings in it!

Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, et al - Live at Roccella Jonica (Splasc(H), rec. 1984) Excellent. Sorta "Azimuth Plus." So good.

Well, I got that Al Grey-Jimmy Forrest LP based on your recommendation. I think I'll also pull that off the shelf tonight. Good stuff, for sure!