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David Murray Octet - New Life (Black Saint, 1987) Yeah!

No. Not the first recording. Chick recorded the album (and Song) Return to Forever for ECM on February 2 & 3, 1972. Airto recorded Free in March and April of 1972. So Airto's version was a month or two after the original Chick/RTF band recording. However, Chick's ECM LP wasn't released in the U.S. until 1975. So Airto's version is most likely the first version that people heard -- especially if they lived in the U.S.

Nice!

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Blakey's Beat (Concord) Disc 2: originally released as Straight Ahead (1981) with Billy Pierce (ts), Bobby Watson (as), Wynton Marsalis (tr), James Williams (p), and Charles Fambrough (b) Both recordings in this 2-CD set were made at the Keystone Korner -- and both of them are excellent, IMO.

Ira Sullivan... Does It All! (Muse) By George: George Cables Plays the Music of George Gershwin (Contemporary)

Yeah, this one is on my list too !!! duaniac, Totally agree on the Getz -- but you missed another top-shelf disc from this time: Recorded in '82 but not released until '95.

R.I.P. Chick Corea

Kenny Werner - Introducing the Trio (Sunnyside) with Ratzo Harris and Tom Rainey

Yeah, probably. I have a friend who wants to collaborate with me on an 80s jazz project. But I'm not anywhere near ready to begin yet. At this point, we're just kicking around ideas. But I think something will happen eventually. So what would be on YOUR 80s jazz list, Rab?

Oh, this is terrible news! Ugh. R.I.P.

If you were to make a list of your "desert-island discs" from the 1980s, what would they be? The only rules: - The music must have been recorded between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1989. - Release dates don't matter; archival recordings are fine, as long as they were made in the 1980s. List however many records you wish. One or ten or fifty. To get the ball rolling, here are five that would go on my list: - Andrew Hill - Shades (Soul Note) - Bobby Hutcherson - Farewell Keystone (Theresa/Evidence) - James Newton - Luella (Gramavision) - Quest - Quest II (Storyville) - Jack Walrath - Wholly Trinity (Muse)

Yessir. Stitt's like Roy Eldridge that way. NP: Illinois Jacquet - S/T (Jazz Reactivation) This LP is a UK reissue of Desert Winds (Argo, 1964) with Kenny Burrell. Found it recently on Discogs for a couple bucks -- not quid, like the sticker says.

Well there you go! Thanks Ken!

I think Pepper may have made a record with Levy for the Japanese Atlas label, one of those records that couldn't be released in Pepper's name because he was signed exclusively to Galaxy. ... Don't recall for sure though. (And if they did, I don't have the record.) It does seem like Pepper and Levy would've made a very natural pairing.

Fully agree with you, Larry. I think Ormandy was a very convincing conductor of Sibelius' music. Another example: Ormandy's recording of Sibelius' VC with Oistrakh is one of my favorite recordings of this work.

NP: Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest - O.D. (Out 'Dere) (Greyforrest, 1980) with Don Patterson on organ The Magnificent Goldberg hipped me to this LP. It was on one of his lists of Soul Jazz favorites.