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Joe Newman & Oliver Nelson always sound good together.

Yup. They are most definitely NOT phoning it in.

NP: Johnny Griffin - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1975 (Jazzline, 2017) with Tete Montoliu, NHØP, and Art Taylor That makes sense. Maybe so.

Yes, I agree.

And now this:

❤️ A desert-island disc for this listener. ❤️

ghost, IIRC, the Tony Williams release, Spectrum: The Anthology, was also part of that series. But I'm not familiar with any other "Verve Chronicles" reissues. A terrific LP.

Now spinning:

Next up: Disc 2 - mostly tracks originally heard on the album Traneing In

More from the MJQ:

NP: Disc 2 - The second night at Juan-les-Pins

This again:

The music and AQ are marvelous. Small-group swing inspired by the spirit of Ellington. I'm especially partial to the four septet cuts with Lew Tabackin, Marshall Royal, and Bill Watrous. Berry's big band album from around the same time, Hello Rev, is also very good. Next up: Mario Bauzá & His Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra - My Time Is Now (Messidor, 1993)

One of my MJQ favorites also.

I keep coming back to this over and over again lately: Tomasz Stanko - Balladyna (ECM, 1976) I have the CD version with the non-descript, battleship-gray cover -- but I'm posting the uncanny, strange-but-familiar original LP cover instead. I think it's much more in tune with the music.

Funny how we all hear things differently. Because I love Mance's playing -- with Griff & Lock, with Dizzy, with Cannonball, with Gene Ammons -- whenever he's a sideman or a leader. Different strokes for different folks, eh!?!