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JG sounds so good on this.

Joe Dioro - Peaceful Journey (Art of Life) Beautiful solo guitar. Originally released in 1977 on Spitball Records.

I need to get that ! ! ! Two of my favorite artists -- Lucky Thompson & Martial Solal!

More latter-day Chet: with Phil Markowitz (p), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (b), and Jeff Brillinger (d)

Chet Baker - You Can't Go Home Again / The Best Thing For You (A&M Horizon) Disc 2

Those Quincy charts sound stinkin' fantastic. (I'd never heard 'em either. ) They remind me of the Basie/Sinatra record It Might as Well Be Swing -- Quincy did those charts too -- which just might be my favorite Sinatra record.

Yes sir! Some excellent playing for sure. This morning, I've been listening to The Individualism of Gil Evans: What an astonishing record. Today, "The Barbara Song" made my hair stand on end.

Fathead again: That's an amazing record from beginning to end -- but I think the cuts with Philly Joe Jones are ridiculous.

Mal Waldron - Moods (Enja) Desert island music.

Compiles tracks from three of Earland's Muse LPs originally released in the latter half of the 1970s.

I spent a lot of time driving in the car this afternoon and evening, listening to jazz all along the way. Style-wise, I covered quite a bit of territory. A couple fusion classics: In 1974 Crosswinds peaked at the 23rd position the Billboard charts. Not on the jazz charts; the pop music charts! Can you imagine a jazz record doing that today?!??! Live Ellington from the stockpile: Lots of terrific Shorty Baker on this disc. Some SERIOUS soul-jazz from Fathead: And, last but not least, some great tenor from Illinois Jacquet:

I agree with Ghost. Enough time has passed. My general impressions are that the acoustic/electric thing that formerly seemed like a giant chasm doesn't amount to a hill of beans now. It's all blurred together. BTW: This is not to say that I (or others) reflexively admire WR. Some of it grabs me and some of it doesn't. What I am saying is the fact that they happened to be playing oddly-structured "songs" on electrified instruments doesn't rule them out of bounds or whatever. We're free to pick-and-choose just like we would with any other jazz. Frankly, I think you could say the same things about many of the jazz-hypenated musics in the 70s -- soul-jazz, Latin-jazz, funk-jazz, jazz-rock. The distinctions between them -- which probably had a lot to do with extra-musical, social context stuff -- tend to be less meaningful with the passage of time. Or at least that's how I like to think about it.

Cal Tjader - Primo (Fantasy/OJC) with arrangements by Charlie Palmieri & Tito Puente

Ray Bryant - Now's the Time (Doctor Jazz) trio with brother Tommy Bryant (b) & Oliver Jackson (d) This CD is a reissue of a 1960 Signature LP originally titled Ray Bryant Plays.

I don't have a problem with the article either. Sure, I'd do some things differently if I'd written it. (The overuse of the "greatest X, Y, or Z" -- particularly in the context of art -- is a pet peeve of mine too.) BUT, all things considered, many people (most people?) reading The New Yorker probably barely know who Wayne Shorter is. If this piece piques readers' curiosity and gets them rolling down the path of exploration, then . . . No one's going to be harmed by starting with those three records. IMHO.

Ray Bryant - Montreux '77 (Pablo) Solo piano.

NP: Milt Jackson - Second Nature: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy, rec. 1956) with Lucky Thompson (ts), Hank Jones [or Wade Legge] (p), Wendell Marshall (b), and Kenny Clarke (d) Bags and Lucky Thompson together with that rhythm section. No surprise that this is so good. Earlier, while driving home from work: Elvis Presley - Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters (RCA) Disc 3 Surprisingly potent music, even when it shouldn't be. The guy could just sing, and that can get lost in the shuffle sometimes.

Really enjoying this.

Now listening to:

Judgment is my favorite Hill record too.

This again: