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MJT+3 - Branching Out (Trip, 2 LPs) I dig this.

Earlier this evening: and Excellent!

Disc 6: Orchestral music from Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung - with the LSO

What does that mean, Dan? Are they some sort of apparition or specter?!?! JK Pim - Do you have Ibrahim's Ode to Duke Ellington? If not, you should seek it out immediately! It's one of his best, IMO.

I ordered another Mal Waldron disc, a collaboration with Steve Lacy recorded at Sweet Basil: Found a good deal on this CD. I couldn't resist. Plus this LP: I've been streaming and enjoying this. Figured it was time to get the real deal.

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Rösel's Brahms is wunderbar!

OJC reissue

Oooh yeah.

I'm listening to the cuts from The Tender Gender on this CD. ... So much subtlety and soul! Outstanding! I need to pull that one off the shelf. Haven't played it in a long while.

Somebody really needs to reissue those solo piano recordings -- especially The State of His Art and Jazz Song. They're extraordinary records.

Rowles made his finest records in the late-70s & early-80s, IMO. That series with Zoot on Pablo. The albums he co-led with Al Cohn (Xanadu), Ray Brown (Concord), and Red Mitchell (Contemporary). His own stuff. ... LOTS of good things happening during that run.

Yeah!

Yessir! While I was in college in Athens, there really wasn't any "jazz scene." Occasionally, the university would bring in jazz groups. And Athens had a jazz festival for a few years. (I remember seeing Freddie Hubbard one year.) ... The closest thing we had to jazz that you could see regularly was the jam-band groups. I must've seen Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit twenty times and Medeski, Martin & Wood nearly as many. To me, Colonel Bruce & MMW are similar to groups like The ABB or Santana or Traffic. They might not be making "Jazz" -- but jazz is definitely in the stew!

The Max Roach LP in this set (again): Really digging this lately. Kenny Dorham especially. And Max, of course.

My father was only 21 when I was born in 1968. Back then, he loved all sorts of music: rock, pop, jazz, soul, blues, you name it. He had a sizable record collection too. I still have a few of his LPs. My dad enjoys music to this day, but he's not the avid fan that he was back when I was a kid. I've dug much deeper into jazz than he ever did, but I'm sure that my early exposure to bands like Santana and the Allman Brothers Band -- two of his favorites -- had a big impact on the way I hear music. I also remember hearing jazz too. Contemporary stuff like The Crusaders and Gato Barbieri. No Ellington or Coltrane or the like. But still. Not a bad start!

and Mal Waldron and John Hicks. Two musical heroes.

More from Mal: Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron - Live at Jazz In'It: I Remember Thelonious (Nel Jazz, 1996)

Just arrived in the mail: Mal Waldron - A Touch of the Blues (Enja/Solid Japan) Trio recording from 1972 with Jimmy Woode and Allen Blairman