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Lucky Thompson - I Offer You (Groove Merchant, 1973) with a killer rhythm section: Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes This LP (and the album that preceded it, Goodbye Yesterday) are the subject of today's entry on my 70s Jazz blog. If you'd like to read about it, click here. Some of the best music Thompson ever made, IMO.

Earlier: Now:

Last night and again today:

Beautiful.

Discs 1 & 2

Disc 1

Now: LP 1 - originally released as Bags Meets Wes on Riverside

What a wonderful photo of Ma Rainey on that album cover! Her face could so easily be here now today, as if she didn't exist in the past. It's a face that seems entirely contemporary. NP: Oh, that's interesting! I had no idea that Sir Roland had recorded with Hibbler!

I've been listening to Jack McDuff's Heatin' System tonight: For the first time in a while, I had some energy left at the end of the workday. So I spent some time writing today's entry in my 70s jazz blog. I had some fun with it. It's about The Heatin' System and Soul Jazz in general. If you care to give it a read, click here.

Yes sir! You hit the nail on the head. Bechet's music is full of vitality! It's LEAPS out at you.

I love the Joe Lovano quote on Odean Pope's website: "Odean Pope is bad, bad man!" It really is a shame that Pope isn't more well-recognized. That whole Catalyst band was excellent, top to bottom. But Pope's the one who consistently grabs my ear when I'm listening to their music.

NP: Such beautiful music, like something from a dream. ... One of my desert-island discs. Earlier:

Fantastic. A 5-star LP in my book. Another excellent LP, Pim. ... If you like this one, I think the two that follow it -- Dark of Light and Love from the Sun -- are even better.

Just ordered these from a discogs seller. All "bargain bin" finds. Total outlay for 12 CDs - $26 Duduka Da Fonseca Trio - Plays Dom Salvador (Sunnyside) Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Live at Redlands University (Creative World) Marcus Roberts - As Serenity Approaches (Novus) Marcus Roberts - If I Could Be With You (Novus) Bob Wilber & Kenny Davern - Summit Reunion (Chiaroscuro) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / London PO, Klaus Tennstedt, Ortrun Wenkel, et al (EMI Digital) Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome; Fountains of Rome; Roman Festivals / Philadelphia O, Eugene Ormandy (Sony Classical) Jean Sibelius: Tone Poems / Lahti SO, Osmo Vänskä (BIS) Robert Simpson: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 / Royal PO, Vernon Handley (Hyperion) Sir William Walton: Symphony No. 2, etc. / London PO, Bryden Thomson (Chandos) The O'Jays - Love Train: The Best of The O'Jays (Sony Legacy) Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding (Rhino)

Mahler's Third Symphony from this set:

Disc 1: Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"

Now listening to this wonderful disc: Jaki Byard with Jimmy Owens and Paul Chambers and Billy Higgins? Yes, please!

Ugh. Terrible, terrible news.

Per discogs, it's never been issued on CD in the US or Europe. One Japanese reissue. (Probably for 1 week or so. ) My copy is vinyl too.

I just use an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of titles in my collection. Very basic: Artist name. Title. Label. Format (CD, LP, DL). Notes. That's it. Typically, I'll rip new CDs when I get them. Usually 320 bit-rate MP3s. Formerly, I uploaded all of music files to Amazon, but they stopped offering the service allowing you to upload files that you didn't buy thru them. Fortunately, the vast majority of my collection is already "out there" and remains accessible. So, as long as I'm connect to the internet, I can listen anywhere via their music player app. I've also got all of my digital files -- both downloads (mostly from emusic.com) and music that I've ripped from CDs -- on two separate external HDs. Since I can't upload to Amazon anymore, I recently bought a 400GB micro-SD card for my phone. After I buy a new CD, I rip it and then copy it to the card on the phone. So the new stuff isn't on the internet. But that's O.K. In fact, it's nice because I can listen regardless of whether I'm connected to the internet. Especially nice for times like camping and such. You can put a LOT of titles on a 400GB card, even if you rip at a high bit rate. And it's amazing how inexpensive storage is these days. I paid something like $60 for it. I suppose I veered off-course a bit, and took us down a trail that the OP didn't ask about. Oh well. Hope that's O.K. ;-)

Weekly Recap - PLAYING FAVORITES: Reflections on Jazz in the 1970s 03/24/20 - Duke Ellington & Ray Brown – This One's for Blanton (Pablo, 1975) 03/24/20 - Dave Holland Quartet – Conference of the Birds (ECM, 1973) 03/22/20 - Stanley Cowell Trio – Illusion Suite (ECM, 1973) 03/22/20 - Catalyst – Perception (Muse, 1973) 03/20/20 - Gary Burton & Chick Corea – Crystal Silence (ECM, 1973) 03/19/20 - Gary Bartz Ntu Troop – Juju Street Songs (Prestige, 1972) 03/19/20 - Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins – The Grand Reunion (Chiaroscuro, 1972) Still putting in super-long workdays. So practically no progress on the blog, write-up-wise. Which is a bummer. But I guess the world's got bigger problems right about now. So... Observations? Criticisms? Contemplative musings? Incitements to riot? I mean... what do you think? One note: ECM put in a strong showing this week with three stone-cold classic titles. (And how is it that Cowell's Illusion Suite isn't in print?!?! That is an outrage against all who hold music dear. Clearly, Manfred, you've dropped the ball on that one.) It seems like Black & Blue often recorded artists who were playing the Nice Festival. Wish I could've been there -- but I was only a kid at the time. ... At least we have the recordings.

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I was sorry to read about this last night. R.I.P. Mantilla always sounded good.