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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)

Disc 1

I'm a fan. For anyone wishing to explore Ford's output as a leader, I'd recommend: Ricky's Choice (32 Jazz) - selections from Ford's Muse recordings, 1980-1984 IMO, this compilation is more convincing than any of the individual Muse releases. American-African Blues (Candid) - the most compelling of the Candid sessions with Jaki Byard (!), Milt Hinton & Ben Riley; recorded in NYC, 1991. [balaena] (Jazz Friends) - a live 1999 set, recorded in Paris with George Cables, Cecil McBee & Ed Thigpen.

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