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Shirley Scott - Soul Song (Atlantic, 1969) I think this is Shirley's last LP with Stanley Turrentine, recorded just after Common Touch. Good one. One of the LPs compiled on the CD, Houston Express, is my favorite Person album. Very nice Horace Ott arrangements.

Freddie Hubbard - Outpost (Enja, 1981) Excellent. And the audio fidelity is outstanding too. IMO, lots of Enja LPs from right around this time sound really, really good. ... Along with Outpost, I'm thinking of records like Chet Baker's Peace and David Friedman's Of the Wind's Eye. A last gasp of all-analog, German-pressed vinyl before the digital revolution?

I've been listening to this over and over again lately, and it keeps growing in my estimation. I used to think that it was clearly an inferior record compared to Red Clay. Now... I'm not so sure.

Now: LOVE it! Earlier this evening: This prompted by the ECM thread elsewhere on the board. What's the story there, jcam?

I'm glad Eicher's done what he's done. He's facilitated the recording of a lot of wonderful music. The same could be said about all of the important producers in jazz! Especially the ones who run their own imprints and have a unique vision. Of course, we wouldn't be anywhere without the musicians. But the producers are like "midwives"; they're important too.

Yes!!!

Superb. I wish Mosaic would do something with Fischer's Revelation recordings. Talk about music that deserves a wider hearing! Mosaic scooped up Fischer's early Pacific Jazz releases, but his stuff on Revelation is on an entirely different level. It's likely not at all financially feasible. Oh well. I'll leave the bean counting to others and continue to hope.

I hope so too. I know that a long time is needed to recover from that injury.

I'm so disappointed that Mike Soroka is out for the year with a torn Achilles. What a freak accident! Ugh!!! The Braves' starting rotation was already shaky. With Soroka gone, the likelihood of us doing anything this year just took a very sharp nosedive. Such a bummer ...

Prompted by Jim's recent Pope-ploration: Odean is a badass.

NP: The master of subtle harmonic shifts that are like a delightful punch in the gut! I bet you a dollar that music is fantastic. I love Mickey Tucker -- even tho' I haven't heard that particular record. But I've got to say that cover image is really, really, really bad. Just awful.

Looking at the cover, you might expect the music to be a "righteous blast of full-on funk" à la Alphonse Mouzon -- but it isn't. Not at all. NP: On my short-list of favorite soul jazz records.

Dig that delicious, slow ostinato organ riff, repeated all the way through. ... Simplicity that sounds very contemporary.

Excellent 2012 trio session with Ben Wolfe and Donald Edwards.

Ten that I treasure: Abercrombie, Holland, DeJohnette - Gateway John Abercrombie Quartet - M Richie Beirach - Elm Gary Burton, Chick Corea - Crystal Silence Chick Corea - Return to Forever Jack DeJohnette - Special Edition Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds Steve Kuhn - Remembering Tomorrow David Liebman - Lookout Farm Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus

Richie Beirach - ZAL (Trio)

Weekly Recap - PLAYING FAVORITES: Reflections on Jazz in the 1970s Jim McNeely Quintet – Rain's Dance (SteepleChase, 1978) Cal Tjader – Guarabe (Fantasy, 1977) Enrico Pieranunzi – The Day After the Silence (Edi-Pan/Alfa Music, 1976) Al Grey – Struttin' and Shoutin' (Columbia, 1983) Charles Sullivan – Re-Entry (Whynot, 1976) Onaje Allan Gumbs – Onaje (SteepleChase, 1977) Joanne Brackeen & Clint Houston – New True Illusion (Timeless, 1976) A passel of killer pianists this week. Along with the leaders Jim McNeely, Enrico Pieranunzi, Onaje Allan Gumbs, and Joanne Brackeen, you've also got: - Clare Fischer on Tjader's Guarabe, - Ray Bryant on Al Grey's Struttin' and Shoutin', and - Kenny Barron on Charles Sullivan's Re-Entry. Also, I don't care which type of jazz is your sweet spot, do not sleep on that Al Grey LP!

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