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Sir Roland Hanna - Solo Piano (Storyville) This man is a magician.

Dizzy Gillespie - The Big Bands (LRC, recorded 1962 & 1968) Disc 1 There's some excellent music here -- but it's astonishing how bad a job LRC does packaging it. They do all that they can to convey, "Hey, we're cheap!" (And I don't mean value-conscious cheap. I mean slipshod and careless.) Dizzy deserves better.

I don't know that one, erwbol. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.

Billy Harper - Somalia (Evidence, rec. 1993) This is one of Harper's best, imho. It's right there with Capra Black.

Duke Ellington - The Great London Concerts (Jazz Heritage) Recordings from 1963 & 1964

Sun Ra Arkestra - Reflections in Blue (Black Saint, 1987)

Danny Richmond Quartet - Ode to Mingus (Soul Note) Frank Strozier Quintet - What's Goin' On (SteepleChase)

I only saw Lacy that one time. Didn't realize that he'd come back the following year at the Red Light. Still have wonderful memories of that one show, how they played their asses off for a nearly empty house. That was 18 years ago. Wow. Time flies. . . . cool story about seeing Lacy's early sets at the Nexus, then running to your gig. I'd have been in Athens / UGA then.

Jeff, if that's the show that I'm thinking it was, then I was there too. Was it at the Variety Playhouse -- with about a dozen people in attendance? with Jean-Jacques Avenel on bass?

Now on to this: Junior Cook - Pressure Cooker (Affinity)

Now: Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At (Blue Note, 1962) 1986 DMM reissue Earlier: John Stowell - Golden Delicious (Inner City, 1977) with Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, Billy Hart, et al BOTH of those are TERRIFIC. Nice score! CONGRATS, chewy!

Sonny Fortune - Four in One (Blue Note) All Monk compositions. with Kirk Lightsey, Buster Williams, Billy Hart. You hipped me to this one, soulpope.

Mike Wofford Trio - Live at Athenaeum Jazz (Capri) with Peter Washington & Victor Lewis Doc Watson - Southbound (Vanguard) "He had the nerve and he had the blood / And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud..."

Yep, I thought the same thing about hearing Prime Time in this music. The Players and Peregrinations have a big, fat bottoms with a keening alto across the top -- just like Prime Time. Glad you're enjoying it.

I think I'll check it out. I've just read the introduction (on Amazon) and the review that ghost posted. I don't know how much Chinen's aesthetics line up with my own -- some of the musicians that he's writing about don't much appeal to me -- but it sounds like Chinen is touching on some interesting, BIG topics: Jazz vs. "Jazz", the tension between the jazz tradition and the broader culture. Knowing what I know about the book (which, like I've said, is practically nothing), it sounds like Chinen might exploring some of the same territory that Howard Mandel did in his book about Miles, Ornette, and Cecil. The sub-title of that book is Jazz Beyond Jazz. Anything that stirs the pot a bit is (or at least can be) good, right? And, like Steve points out, at least he's writing about contemporary musicians. That counts for something. (Or at least it does for me.)

Earlier this morning, on the way into work: James Moody - Feelin' It Together (Muse / Savoy) Now: The Bill Evans Trio - I Will Say Goodbye (Fantasy / OJC)

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations (Blue Note, 1975) This is really good, very unique.

James Moody - Heritage Hum (Perception, 1972) with Mike Longo, Sam Jones, Freddie Waits

Bucky Pizzarelli with Joe Venuti - Nightwings (Flying Dutchman) Jimmy Smith featuring Kenny Burrell & Grady Tate - Organ Grinder Swing (Verve) James Moody - Moody & the Brass Figures (Milestone / OJC)

More James Moody: A bit of trivia: This was the first Muse album to be released.

I've always thought of Mode for Joe as being sorta like Coltrane's Africa/Brass. Interesting, but slightly off to the side.

Now listening to Jack McDuff's The Heatin' System (Cadet) via YT: