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Speaking of Cedar Walton, I don't think his 1976 Muse LP Firm Roots has ever been reissued: One note: Three of the six cuts from this LP appeared on the 32 Jazz CD reissue of Sam Jones' Something in Common. But the other three cuts are in analog-only limbo.

Mike, your post prompted me to pull that LP from the shelf. I'm listening to it now. If you're a fan of Cedar Walton's music, it would definitely be worth your effort to track down the LP. It's lovely, Sunday-afternoon jazz. I'd give it a rock-solid four stars outta five.

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One of the LPs in Stitt's series of quartet recordings for Muse in the 1970s featuring Barry Harris and Sam Jones. By an odd coincidence, every record in the series featured a different drummer. Billy Higgins is on this one. Wonderful. 👍

I figured Albert Mangelsdorff would be a trombonist who'd do that sort of thing. I immediately thought of Zo-Ko-Ma, a trio record he made with Attila Zoller and Lee Konitz. ... Almost there but one too many musicians. After some poking around on discogs, I found this: It's a 7" Metronome EP that anticipates Mangelsdorff & Koller's collaboration with Lee Konitz by 11 years. 🙂

Aleksander Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5, 6, 8, 10 / Igor Zhukov (Angel/Melodiya LP) It's a shame that Zhukov's Scriabin recordings aren't more widely available and well-known -- because they are extraordinary.

Disc 4 - Liszt: Années de pèlerinage / Troisième année Magical.

John Lee & Gerry Brown - Bamboo Madness (Limetree) with Chris Hinze, Gary Bartz, and Jasper van 't Hof

Sorry to hear this news. I'd heard that he'd been very ill for a while. R.I.P.

Yep. Not exactly Reid Miles-level design. Then again, you know what they say about judging a book by its cover. NP:

Playing it LOUD, just as I was instructed to do.

Tucker was the co-leader of the New Heritage Keyboard Quartet (with Sir Roland Hanna). They released one LP for Blue Note in 1973. I bet that's why there's a BN credit for Tucker on Kloss' LP. ********** I think Bodies' Warmth is O.K. But Kloss made another record with Barry Miles, Together (Muse, 1976), that's much better, IMO. It's more stripped down, unvarnished. A duo LP.

These are two of my favorite duo recordings. Very different, of course. But both outstanding. NP:

Thanks for sharing the poem, David! And how good it must make you feel to know that you're part of it. The pebble that you threw in the pool caused a ripple and that ripple spoke to someone.

Yes! Let's hear it for Mickey Tucker! And Frank Foster too! I have this same Foster recording -- with the trashed, half-submerged car on the cover -- on a Challenge CD: Or at least I think it's the same music.

Well "dandily" might be a real word that shows up in Merriam-Webster. But that doesn't mean that we should actually USE IT. BTW, I see the word "fop" in the definition above... This immediately comes to mind: BTW: I have no problem whatsoever with the words foppish or even foppishly. I guess I am a FOP man.

It's a fantastic record. Was happy to see Elemental reissue it a couple years back. As my father would say, "You caught a plum!"

No offense taken! I was just explaining. Sorry if I came across too strong.