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Now spinning: The Art of Hank Crawford: The Atlantic Years (2 LPs, 1973)

McCoy Tyner - La Leyenda de la Hora (Columbia/Koch, 1981)

Airto Moreira - Identity (Arista, 1975) with a raft of US & Brazilian heavies: Herbie, Wayne, Egberto Gismonti, Robertinho Da Silva, Raul De Souza, and (of course) Flora

NP: Disc 4 - This disc opens with tracks originally released as An Electrifying Evening with the DG Quintet. Oh yeah.

Prompted by hardbopjazz's Lou Rawls thread: Some sizzling "Groove" Holmes accompaniment on this one. Only four cuts. But still...

sgcim, It's interesting -- and surprising -- that they were such jazz traditionalists. No Coltrane after he left Miles?!?! Modal music is "boring"?!?! Yowza. Speaking of Aja ... I was 9 years old when it came out 1977. I grew up on that album because my father LOVED it, played the hell out of it. I still have his LP. I rarely play it, but when I do, it's like a time machine -- it takes me back to being a kid. But, aside from Aja (and the radio hits that everyone knows), Steely Dan has never really grabbed me. I "imprinted" on just that one LP. It was the only Steely Dan record that my dad had, and I've never really dug any further. Maybe I will one day...

Jesús Alemañy's ¡Cubanismo! - featuring Alfredo Rodríguez (Hannibal, 1996)

More Basie:

Next up:

and Ouch. That bad, eh? I guess it's like this guy said: "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t."

More Poncho:

Appears that the year of the concert is 1991, not 1971. You may want to update the title of the thread, cliff. In any case, has anyone here heard this music before? These sorts of all-star extravaganzas can be hit or miss. But that is a line-up of extraordinary musicians. No doubt about that.

Sad but true.

Now spinning: Clare Fischer Orchestra featuring Jerry Coker - Extension (Discovery/Pacific Jazz) Masterful composing & arranging.

Speaking of Cal Tjader:

My vinyl is the PAUSA version.

Prompted by the Jaki Byard discussion above: More Byard brilliance. A superb set!

Now spinning: Flora Purim & Airto - Humble People (Concord/George Wein Collection, 1985) Earlier: Milton Nascimento - A Barca Dos Amantes (Verve, 1986) Wayne is on three of the album's nine cuts. I wish he was on all them. Cool!

No doubt. Speaking of artists with mob connections: Frank Sinatra apparently wanted to make a record with Tito. Conzo writes that Sinatra was chasing Tito, trying to make it happen -- but Tito played hard to get and it never happened. Hard to imagine those two worlds colliding.

I think you'd enjoy it. But do note: Levy's mob connections -- and even Tito's mob connections (which some have whispered about, due to his tightness with Levy) -- are one thing that Conzo is tight-lipped about. Apparently, Tito never talked about his dealings with Levy with others. When his inner circle would ask questions about Levy, Tito would glare and say nothing. The implication: Don't ASK! So there's not as much there about Levy as I'd hoped there might be. I guess mobsters have long memories, and Conzo wasn't as willing as Tommy James to talk about Levy's nasty/criminal side. Plus, Tito's relationship with Levy was actually very good. So Conzo was either unwilling to dish or unable to dish because Tito never told him anything. Fair enough.