HutchFan

Compiles three Moody Argo LPs (less a couple tracks)

Max Roach Quartet - Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note, 1979) with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater, and Calvin Hill

More Max! Specifically, two records by the Max Roach Double Quartet. Easy Winners (Soul Note LP, 1985) and Bright Moments (Soul Note CD, 1987)

Two TITANS! ... "Giants" isn't a big enough word.

Now: LP 1 - aka Screamin' the Blues

Yes! Exactly that!!!

NP: Oh man. Music doesn't get better than this. One little collector-y thing y'all might enjoy: My version of this record is an American Barnaby reissue from 1978. It has an interesting label that I just noticed today as I put the disc on the 'table: Never seen one like that before. It looks like something you'd see on a prog-rock LP, not a record by Pee Wee & Hawk!

mjzee, re: Steve Kuhn -- The Best Things is excellent. ... I'm not familiar with the others. Also, Pete Malinverni's Invisible Cities is very good -- with Rich Perry & Tim Hagans.

T.D., My favorite Mike Westbrook recordings -- along with the two that you mention above -- are both from the early 70s: Metropolis and Citadel/Room 315. Metropolis is readily available on CD in the U.S. BGO has reissued it. Citadel isn't so easy to find, but I would definitely recommend searching for it. It's worth it! Just to whet your appetite, here it is on YT:

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Charlie Palmieri - Impulsos (Coco, 1975) with Andy Gonzalez, Jerry Gonzalez, Manny Oquendo, a.o.

Billy Harper - Capra Black (Strata-East, 1973) Still so powerfully expressive -- and an important statement, then and now.

Richard Beirach - Jeremy Steig ‎– Leaving (Storyville, rec. 1976) Originally released on Trio Records in Japan.

Giving this Don Patterson LP another spin:

I know some listeners have described Paul Jacobs' playing as "not French enough for Debussy." Not me. I think his Debussy recordings are marvelous.

NP: I listened to Baby Face Willette's Stop and Listen a couple days ago. Now, it's the "companion record," recorded a few months earlier with the same trio.

That is indeed incredible. Justin, your comment made me think of this famous photo of Roy with Bird, Monk & Mingus: The others have been gone for DECADES ... but not Roy, God bless him.

No such thing as too much "Groove."

Now: Earlier:

Great news!!!!