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A good problem to have! ... You're right on a certain level tho'. There's NOTHING comprehensive about these lists. There's a lot a randomness as to what bubbles up. ... Even so, it's still interesting to see what gets thrown out there. I'm aleady making a list of recordings that I want to investigate, all from recommendations on this thread.

Very nice! I have the Concord vinyl reissue. I think I'll listen to it too. 🙂

LOL NP: Helluva record. That cover is damn weird though. I understand that it's supposed to be a playing card design. But it's still weird.

I just realized that I missed another disc. This should've been on my favorites list:

I remember seeing a photo of Miles Davis from some time back in the Seventies. He was wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with a logo like this one: Miles knew a fellow titan when he heard one!

NOT a problem!!! I should have included this one on my list. An oversight! Oh man, Willie Nelson! Yes! Actually, I went on a Willie-bender this year, focusing on the years before his big breakthrough in the mid-70s. He was a complete original right from the start. . . . As far as I'm concerned, Willie is one of the TITANS of American music, up there with Dylan and Duke and Ray and such.

Gents, I'm having similar experiences. But it's my father-in-law, not my father. He's in hospice care at an elder care facility near us. About a year ago, we had to move him closer to us. He'd lived his ENTIRE LIFE on the same street in Rossville, GA, a suburb of Chattanooga. It was tough for him to leave. And it's been very hard watching his health decline. Be mindful of time, friends. It's not going to last forever.

Joachim Kühn, Daniel Humair, Jean-François Jenny-Clark ‎–Usual Confusion (Label Bleu, 1993)

Keep 'em coming, TtK. I'm interested in hearing whatever it is that you're interested in sharing. Both on my list too.👍 I'm a Gary Bartz guy, but I had no idea that this existed. Looks fascinating. Exactly why I love these sorts of discussions! Thanks for the heads-up!

Regardless of jazz's relevance to the culture at large, I know that it remains VERY relevant to me! That said, keep sharing whatever you feel led to post. 😉

Thanks for the recs, sidewinder. More to explore.

Oh yeah. Indeed. "Home Is Africa"!!!

In a few months, we’ll be 20 years into the new century. Twenty years!!! In honor of this occasion (and as an excuse to ruminate on music even more than I already do), I’ve been poring over my music collection for the last week or so, making a list of my favorite jazz recordings of the 21st century. These were my self-imposed ground rules for this little exercise: The music must have been recorded in this century, after December 31, 1999. The record must be in my collection. I want to focus on what I’ve already got. Each musician can only appear on the list once as a leader. (Sideman appearances don't count.) A couple other points: These recordings are NOT on my list because they’re the “best” or “most important” recordings of the century. These are my favorites. I use that word deliberately. The recordings on this list have given me much pleasure and enjoyment; I would recommend them to my friends. Initially, I was going to keep the number of recordings on the list low. Maybe 20 recordings for 20 years. But … that was … impossible. So I just kept adding stuff that I’d recommend without hesitation, and I came up with the following list. (It turned out to be 102 records.) The recordings are listed alphabetically (by the artist's last name). My list: Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note) J.D. Allen – Radio Flyer (Savant) Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel – Riding the Nuclear Tiger (Palmetto) Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake – From the River to the Ocean (Thrill Jockey) Billy Bang – Vietnam: Reflections (Justin Time) Richie Beirach – Impressions of Tokyo: Ancient City of the Future (Out Note) Jerry Bergonzi – Tenorist (Savant) Tim Berne – The sublime and. Sciencefrictionlive (Thirsty Ear) Terence Blanchard – Bounce (Blue Note) Jane Ira Bloom – Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollack: Chasing Paint (Arabesque) Arthur Blythe – Focus (Savant) Ruby Braff – Watch What Happens (Arbors) The Brazilian Trio – Constelação (Motéma) Bob Brookmeyer, New Art Orchestra – Get Well Soon (Challenge) Joey Calderrazo – Amanacer (Marsalis Music) Baikida Carroll ‎– Marionettes on a High Wire (OmniTone) Bill Carrothers – Castaways (Pirouet) Marc Cary – Focus (Motéma) Ryan Cohan – The River (Motéma) Marc Copland – New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 1: Modinha (Pirouet) Laurent Coq Quartet ‎– Like a Tree in a City (Sunnyside) Chick Corea, Gary Burton – Hot House (Concord) Adam Cruz – Milestone (Sunnyside) Alexis Cuadrado – A Lorca Soundscape (Sunnyside) Dave Douglas – The Infinite (RCA) Marty Ehrlich – Line on Love (Palmetto) Orrin Evans – Flip the Script (Posi-Tone) Larry Goldings ‎– Quartet (Palmetto) Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra – Not In Our Name (Verve) Jim Hall – Grand Slam: Live at the Regatta Bar (Telarc) Tom Harrell – Trip (HighNote) Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham – Heroes (Nagel-Heyer) Billy Hart – Quartet (HighNote) Albert “Tootie” Heath, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street – Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE) Pablo Held – Elders (Pirouet) Mark Helias' Open Loose – Verbs of Will (Radio Legs) Dave Holland – Not for Nothin’ (ECM) Bobby Hutcherson – Wise One (Kind of Blue) Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher ‎– If Bix Played Gershwin (Arbors) Vijay Iyer – Historicity (ACT) Frank Kimbrough – Solstice (Pirouet) Guillermo Klein – Los Guachos III (Sunnyside) Lee Konitz, Alan Broadbent – Live-Lee (Milestone) Steve Kuhn – Pastorale (Sunnyside) Dave Liebman Group – Further Conversations: Live (True Azul) Chris Lightcap Quartet ‎– Bigmouth (Fresh Sound New Talent) Charles Lloyd Quartet – Rabo de Nube (ECM) Joe Lovano Us Five – Folk Art (Blue Note) Brian Lynch, Eddie Palmieri - Simpatico (Holistic Musicworks) Tony Malaby – Adobe (Sunnyside) Ray Mantilla & the New Space Station – Man Ti Ya (Savant) Rick Margitza ‎– Memento (Palmetto) Branford Marsalis – Braggtown (Marsalis Music) Pat Martino – Think Tank (Blue Note) Benny Maupin – Penumbra (Cryptogramophone) John McNeil, Bill McHenry – Chill Morn He Climb Jenny (Sunnyside) Pat Metheny – The Way Up (Nonesuch) Mulgrew Miller – Live at Kennedy Center, Vol. 2 (MaxJazz) Jason Moran – Ten (Blue Note) Moutin Reunion Quartet – Something Like Now (Nocturne) Ted Nash – The Mancini Project (Palmetto) Bill O'Connell + the Latin Jazz All Stars – Zócalo (Savant) Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra – Song for Chico (Zoho) Chico O'Farrill – Carambola (Milestone) William Parker Quartet – O’Neal’s Porch (Aum Fidelity) Enrico Pieranunzi – Perugia Suite (EGEA) Odean Pope ‎– Odean's List (In+Out) Chris Potter – Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside) Joshua Redman – Compass (Nonesuch) Adam Rogers – Time & the Infinite (Criss Cross) Sonny Rollins – Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert (Milestone) Josh Roseman Unit – Treats for the Nightwalker (Enja/Justin Time) Renee Rosnes – Beloved of the Sky (Smoke Sessions) Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Solo (Blue Note) Jerome Sabbagh – North (Fresh Sound New Talent) John Scofield – This Meets That (EmArcy) Christian Scott ‎– Anthem (Concord) Wayne Shorter Quartet – Beyond the Sound Barrier (Verve) Edward Simon – Poesia (CamJazz) Alex Sipiagin ‎– Destinations Unknown (Criss Cross) Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet – The Year of the Elephant (Pi) Walter Smith III ‎– III (Criss Cross) Jim Snidero – Interface (Savant) Martial Solal – NYC-1: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) Terell Stafford Quintet – Taking Chances: Live at the Dakota (MaxJazz) Bobo Stenson Trio – Indicum (ECM) Craig Taborn – Light Made Lighter (Thirsty Ear) John Taylor – Angel of the Presence (CamJazz) Henry Threadgill & Make a Move – Everybody's Mouth a Book (Pi) Trio 3 [Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille] – Open Ideas (Palmetto) Steve Turre – Delicious and Delightful (HighNote) Mads Vinding, Jean-Michel Pilc, Billy Hart – Open Minds (Storyville) Cedar Walton – One Flight Down (HighNote) Bobby Watson – Horizon Reassembled (Palmetto) Kenny Werner – Beat Degeneration: Live, Vol. 2 (Night Bird Music/Sunnyside) Randy Weston & His African Rhythms Trio – Zep Tepi (Random Chance) Kenny Wheeler Big Band ‎– The Long Waiting (CamJazz) Jessica Williams – This Side Up (MaxJazz) Gerald Wilson – In My Time (Mack Avenue) Mike Wofford Trio ‎– Live at Athenaeum Jazz (Capri) Bojan Z Trio ‎– Transpacifik (Label Bleu) Denny Zeitlin – Slickrock (Maxjazz) Comments? … Anyone care to share a list of your own favorites? The more, the merrier.

Wow! What a solid tribute. Thanks for the bump, Rooster. I'd somehow missed this earlier.

Superb music! When I first heard Mingus at Antibes, I knew I had to hear MORE of Booker Ervin's music. So I found this . . . which is that . . . plus some.

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean (Thrill Jockey, 2007)

To me, this volume has been the most interesting of Miles' bootleg series.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - Out Louder (Indirecto, 2006) I'll listen to anything that Orrin Evans plays on.

Such a wonderful record.

The Bad Plus - Never Stop (eOne/EmArcy, 2010)

Josh Roseman Unit - Treats for the Nightwalker (Enja/Justin Time, 2003)

Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Solo (Blue Note, 2006)

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Morton's Foot (Enja, 2003)

Dizzy Gillespie - Afro (Verve/Norgran, 1954) The pairing of Diz with Chico O'Farrill's arrangements is bliss.