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I just spent a few hours looking through my collection, and here's a list of recordings from the 1990s that I would recommend without hesitation. It follows the same rules as my blog: one disc as a leader and one as a co-leader; all music recorded in the 90s. ******************************************************** John Abercrombie - November (ECM) Muhal Richard Abrams - Blu Blu Blu (Black Saint) Kei Akagi - Mirror Puzzle (AudioQuest) Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra - Desert Lady/Fantasy (Columbia) Ben Allison - Seven Arrows (Koch) Harold Ashby - On the Sunny Side of the Street (Timeless) Billy Bang - Big Bang Theory (Justin Time) Joey Baron - Down Home (Intuition) Ray Barretto and New World Spirit - Contact! (Blue Note) Kenny Barron - Lemuria-Seascape (Candid) Gary Bartz - Episode One: Children of Harlem (Challenge) Richie Beirach - Trust (Evidence) Anders Bergcrantz Quartet - C (Dragon) Tim Berne's Caos Totale - Pace Yourself (JMT/Winter & Winter) Peter Bernstein Quartet - Signs of Life (Criss Cross) Michael Blake - Kingdom of Champa (Intuition) Paul Bley, Gary Peacock - Partners (Owl) Jane Ira Bloom - The Red Quartets (Arabesque) Arthur Blythe - Hipmotism (Enja) Joanne Brackeen - Where Legends Dwell (Ken) - with Eddie Gomez & Jack DeJohnette Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 (hat Art) Alan Broadbent Trio - Personal Standards (Concord) Bob Brookmeyer - New Works Celebration (Challenge) Kenny Burrell - Sunup to Sundown (Contemporary) Gary Burton - Like Minds (Concord) - with Corea, Metheny, Haynes & Holland Jaki Byard - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. Seventeen (Concord) Betty Carter - Feed the Fire (Verve) Marc Cary - Listen (Arabesque) Thomas Chapin Trio - Sky Piece (Knitting Factory) Billy Childs, Buster Williams, Carl Allen - Skim Coat ‎(Metropolitan) George Coleman - My Horns of Plenty (Birdology) Scott Colley - Subliminal... (Criss Cross) Anthony Cox - Dark Metals (Antilles) Hank Crawford, Jimmy McGriff - Road Tested (Milestone) Andrew Cyrille - X Man (Soul Note) Lars Danielsson - Far North (Curling Legs) Harold Danko - New Autumn (SteepleChase) Steve Davis Trio - Explorations and Impressions ‎(Double-Time) - with Richie Beirach Santi Debriano Group - Panamaniacs (Free Lance) Dave Douglas - Magic Triangle (Arabesque) Kenny Drew Jr. Trio - Winter Flower (Milestone) Paquito D'Rivera - Tropicana Nights (Chesky) Ray Drummond - Excursion (Arabesque) Marty Ehrlich - Side by Side (Enja) Art Farmer - Silk Road (Arabesque) Tommy Flanagan - Lady Be Good... For Ella (Verve) Ricky Ford Quartet - [balaena] (Jazz Friends) Sonny Fortune - A Better Understanding (Blue Note) Frank Foster - Leo Rising (Arabesque) Bill Frisell - Gone, Just Like a Train ‎(Nonesuch) Gateway - Homecoming (ECM) Stan Getz, Kenny Barron - People Time (Verve/Gitanes) Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow - Fly Away Little Bird (Owl) Larry Goldings Trio - Moonbird (Palmetto) Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band - Crossroads (Milestone) Jim Hall and Friends - Live at Town Hall, Volumes 1 & 2 (MusicMasters) Chico Hamilton Quintet - Reunion (Soul Note) Sir Roland Hanna - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Thirty-Two (Concord) Tom Harrell - Labyrinth (RCA Victor) Billy Harper - Somalia (Evidence) Stefon Harris - BlackActionFigure (Blue Note) Billy Hart - Amethyst (Arabesque) Mark Helias - Loopin' the Cool (Enja) Joe Henderson - Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Verve) John Hicks - Hicks Time: Solo Piano (Passin' Thru) Jay Hoggard - In the Spirit (Muse) Dave Holland Quartet - Dream of the Elders (ECM) Bobby Hutcherson - Skyline (Verve) Sherman Irby - Big Mama's Biscuits (Blue Note) Ahmad Jamal - The Essence Part 1 (Birdology) Keith Jarrett - La Scala (ECM) The Jazz Tribe [Ray Mantilla & Bobby Watson] - The Next Step ‎(Red) Marc Johnson's Right Brain Patrol - Magic Labyrinth (JMT/Verve) Stanley Jordan - Stolen Moments (Blue Note) Rodney Kendrick - Dance World Dance (Verve) Keystone Trio [Hicks, Mraz, Muhammad] - Newklear Music: The Songs of Sonny Rollins (Milestone) Frank Kimbrough - Quickening (OmniTone) Kenny Kirkland - Kenny Kirkland (GRP/Verve) Lee Konitz, Don Friedman & Attila Zoller - Thingin' (hat Art) Joachim Kühn, Daniel Humair, Jean-François Jenny-Clark - Usual Confusion ‎(Label Bleu) Steve Kuhn - The Best Things (Reservoir) Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron - Communiqué (Soul Note) John Lewis - Evolution (Atlantic) Dave Liebman Group - Voyage (Evidence) Abbey Lincoln featuring Stan Getz - You Gotta Pay the Band (Verve) Charles Lloyd - All My Relations (ECM) Joe Lovano - Sounds of Joy (Enja) Johnny Lytle - Possum Grease (Muse) Harold Mabern Trio - Lookin' on the Bright Side (DIW) Michael Marcus & The Jaki Byard Trio - Involution (Justin Time) Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van 't Hof - Innuendo (Lipstick) Rick Margitza - Hands of Time ‎(Challenge) Branford Marsalis - Crazy People Music (Columbia) Pat Martino - Mission Accomplished (32 Jazz) - originally Interchange (Muse) and Nightwings (Muse) Jackie McLean Quintet featuring René McLean - Rites of Passage (Triloka) Marian McPartland - Plays the Music of Mary Lou Williams (Concord) Medeski, Martin & Wood - It's a Jungle in Here (Gramavision) Paul Motian Trio - Sound of Love (Winter & Winter) George Mraz - My Foolish Heart ‎(Milestone) David Murray Octet - Hope Scope (Black Saint) Mike Nock, Marty Ehrlich - The Waiting Game (Naxos Jazz) Walter Norris - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Four (Concord) Chico O'Farrill - Heart of a Legend (Milestone) Oregon - Always, Never and Forever (Intuition) Greg Osby - Banned in New York (Blue Note) Eddie Palmieri - Palmas ‎(Nonesuch) - with Brian Lynch and Donald Harrison Leon Parker - Awakening (Columbia) Ralph Peterson - The Reclamation Project (Evidence) Michel Petrucciani - Au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Dreyfus) Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Paul Motian - Untold Story (IDA/EGEA) Odean Pope - Out for a Walk (Moers) Bobby Previte - Weather Clear, Track Fast ‎(Enja) Tito Puente - The Golden Latin Jazz All Stars: Live at The Village Gate ‎(TropiJazz) Don Pullen and the African-Brazilian Connection - Ode to Life (Blue Note) Quest [Liebman, Beirach, McClure, Hart] - Of One Mind (CMP) Enrico Rava, Enrico Pieranunzi - Nausicaa (EGEA) Dewey Redman - In London (Palmetto) Dianne Reeves - I Remember (Blue Note) Marcus Roberts Trio - In Honor of Duke (Columbia) Sonny Rollins - Global Warming (Milestone) Renee Rosnes - As We Are Now (Blue Note) Gonzalo Rubalcaba - The Blessing (Somethin' Else) Hilton Ruiz - A Moment's Notice (Novus) Bobby Sanabria Big Band - Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & In Clave!!! (Arabesque) John Scofield - Meant to Be (Blue Note) Archie Shepp - Black Ballads (Timeless) Sonny Simmons - Ancient Ritual (Qwest) Martial Solal - Just Friends (Dreyfus) Bobo Stenson Trio - Reflections (ECM) Bill Stewart - Telepathy (Blue Note) John Surman Quartet - Stranger Than Fiction (ECM) Esbjörn Svensson Trio - From Gagarin's Point of View (ACT) Henri Texier - "Mad Nomad(s)" (Label Bleu) Gary Thomas - Exile's Gate (JMT/Winter & Winter) Henry Threadgill & Make a Move - Where's Your Cup? (Columbia) Trio Da Paz - Partido Out (Malandro) Gust William Tsilis Quartet - Possibilities (Ken) Mark Turner - Mark Turner (Warner Brothers) Steve Turre - Rhythm Within (Antilles) Stanley Turrentine - More Than a Mood (MusicMasters) McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson - Manhattan Moods (Blue Note) The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - Plays the Music of Jim McNeely: Lickety Split ‎(New World) Mal Waldron Quintet - Crowd Scene (Soul Note) - with Sonny Fortune & Ricky Ford Bennie Wallace - The Talk of the Town (Enja) Jack Walrath and the Masters of Suspense - Out of the Tradition ‎(Muse) Cedar Walton - Manhattan Afternoon (Criss Cross) David S. Ware - Go See the World (Columbia) Bobby Watson & Horizon - Post Motown Bop (Blue Note) Kenny Werner Trio - Press Enter (Sunnyside) Randy Weston - The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Antilles/Verve) Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone & John Taylor with The Maritime JO - Siren's Song (Justin Time) Jack Wilkins - Trioart (Arabesque) The James Williams Magical Trio - Awesome! (DIW) Tony Williams - The Story of Neptune (Blue Note) Larry Willis - Steal Away (AudioQuest) Matt Wilson - As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto) - with Dewey Redman Norma Winstone, John Taylor - ...Like Song, Like Weather (Koch/Sunnyside) Mike Wofford - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Eighteen (Concord) Phil Woods Quintet - Souvenirs (Evidence) Sam Yahel ‎– In the Blink of an Eye (Naxos Jazz) I hope this is helpful.

More James Moody. Feelin' It Together (32 Jazz; originally Muse) and Moody and the Brass Figures (Milestone/OJC)

James Moody - Never Again (Muse, 1972) Badass Moody! and Jessica [Jennifer] Williams - Orgonomic Music (Clean Cuts, 1981) with some fine contributions from Eddie Henderson -- but it's the ensemble playing and Williams' compositions that stand out.

James Moody! My favorite mostly-flute Moody record: Heritage Hum (Perception, 1972) So soulful.

James Newton! - Hidden Voices (India Navigation, 1979) - with Anthony Davis - I've Known Rivers (Gramavision, 1982) - with Anthony Davis and Abdul Wadud - James Newton (Gramavision, 1983) - Luella (Gramavision, 1984) - The African Flower (Blue Note, 1985) - Water Mystery (Gramavision, 1986) - Romance and Revolution (Blue Note, 1987) - Trio² (Gramavision, 1989) - with Anthony Davis and Abdul Wadud Yes. I think Sam Most is an excellent flautist, and those Xanadu LPs are uniformly strong. I like Flute Flight best. Ken mentioned Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever with Denny Zeitlin. I'd also recommend these: - Wayfaring Stranger (Blue Note, 1970) - Energy (Capitol, 1970) - Leaving (Trio/Storyville, 1976) - with Richie Beirach - Outlaws (Enja, 1976) - with Eddie Gómez - Rain Forest (CMP, 1980) - with Eddie Gómez

More Duke: "The Jaywalker": Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, 1966 -1967 (Storyville)

NP: Duke Ellington - The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion and Okeh Small Group Sessions (Mosaic) Disc 5 - Sessions ostensibly led by Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges

Samuel Blais, David Liebman - Cycling ‎(Effendi Records, 2014)

Good one!

Disc 1 and Disc 4 While listening to the albums above, I've been (re)reading Alyn Shipton's biography of Gillespie, Groovin' High. In the book, Shipton quotes a passage written by Whitney Balliett describing Dizzy's trumpet playing. Balliett's ability to describe music in "layman's language" is well-known for good reason. Here's how Balliett describes Diz: "Few trumpeters have ever been blessed with so much technique. Gillespie never merely started a solo, he erupted into it. A good many bebop solos begin with four- or eight-bar breaks, and Gillespie, taking full advantage of this approach ... would hurl himself into the break, after a split second pause, with a couple of hundred notes that corkscrewed through several octaves, sometimes in triple time, and were carried, usually in one breath, past the end of the break and well into the solo itself. ... Gillespie's style at the time [the mid-40s] gave the impression--with its sharp, slightly acid tone, its cleavered phrase endings, its efflorescence of notes, and its brandings about in the upper registers--of being constantly on the verge of flying apart. However, his playing was held together by his extraordinary rhythmic sense."

The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2 (Prestige/OJC) Oooooohhhh yeah.

Synchronicity! Such wonderful recordings!

NP: Beck, Mathewson, Humair - Jazz Trio (Dire) from discogs: Originally recorded at Fontana Studios in Milan, Italy in January 1972 and subsequently released on the Italian Dire label on LP the same year. Recorded during a tour of Italy with Phil Woods, the European Rhythm Machine, consisting of Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson and Daniel Humair, recorded this entire album in the course of one morning. The album features two long compositions, "Suite No. 5," composed by Gordon Beck and performed in three movements followed by the track, "All In the Morning," composed by Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson and Daniel Humair and performed in two movements. R.I.P. Ron Mathewson

LOL !!! All this minutiae is where the FUN is, Jim! And we haven't even touched on so many other record collectors' foibles. Speaking for myself... Old stickers on the cover? If they're removable, they gotta come off! Broken or cracked CD jewel cases? Gotta be replaced! CD cases with sticker residue? Time to get out the Goo Gone! My kids giggle when the see me doing all this stuff. I suppose there's no rational reason! It's just fun.

Big Beat Steve, I use loose-fitting LP poly sleeves with the opening UPWARD. That way, when I push or pull the record from the shelf, the LP can't slip out of the outer sleeve. And it doesn't matter what size the LP jacket is -- double-gatefold thick & large or relatively small & Euro-thin -- I use the same size outer sleeves. They're 12.75" squares. I even have some 10" LPs in these large sleeves. Works fine for me. The only downside of loose-fitting sleeves? It makes reading the spines sorta difficult when the LPs are on the shelf.

Steve Turre - Delicious and Delightful (HighNote, 2018) with two primo sidemen: Billy Harper and Larry Willis Excellent.

Yes indeed!

Sorry to hear this sad news. R.I.P. To honor Mathewson, I'm going to give this disc a spin today:

No tape for me. I use outer poly LP covers to keep everything together and dust-free.

Disc 1 - originally released as Con-Soul & Sax (RCA, 1965)