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Clare Fischer - Exentsion (Discovery / Pacific Jazz) The Modern Jazz Sextet - Dizzy Meets Sonny (Verve) Pat Martino - Exit (Muse) Hank Jones - Ain't Misbehavin' (Galaxy)

Gigi Gryce / Duke Jordan / Hall Overton - Signals (Savoy / Arista) Sides A (Gigi with Duke Jordan) and D (Gigi with Thelonious)

Claude Williamson Trio - La Fiesta (Discovery)

Mike Wofford - Scott Joplin: Interpretations '76 (Flying Dutchman)

Al Haig with Jamil Nasser - Interplay (SeaBreeze, 1976) Lovely duets.

Jimmy Rowles sounded great on that Brookmeyer record. So now ... This is one of Rowles' best, I think.

Bob Brookmeyer - Back Again (Sonet, 1978) with Thad Jones, Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz, and Mel Lewis

Helen Merrill / Dick Katz - A Shade of Difference (Landmark) Originally released on Milestone in 1968. This is my first listen. Just picked it up today. Really digging it, so far.

The recordings that I play most frequently are by Michel Béroff with Kurt Masur and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig on EMI.

You and me both!

Wofford has such a lovely touch, and the music is like German chocolate cake, rich and delicious. ... Hybrid-SACD recorded sound is sumptuous too.

On TCM the other night:

Kenny Barron - Golden Lotus (Muse) An outstanding release from '82.

No doubt! I'm now on to Volume 2:

A solo piano morning so far. Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu/Elemental) and Richie Beirach - Impressions of Tokyo: Ancient City of the Future (Outnote) Each very different. Both wonderful.

Don't you mean Charles Tolliver (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) .... ?

James Moody at the Jazz Workshop (Argo)

Oh man, this Art Hodes sounds GOOD. I've never heard this LP before. Thanks for sharing.

Amen to that. Not sayin' that it didn't happen. I'm just sayin' . . . Besides, lots of jazz musicians -- bebop musicians -- were on the outs during the 60s. I've been listening to Duke Jordan today. He didn't make ANY records from 1962 to 1973. He was driving a taxi to support himself. Lots of factors at play in that. I'd be cautious about simplifying it as a race issue -- especially in Haig's case. My 2 cents.

McKenna is like a bear, isn't he?!?! BIG and POWERFUL. He's sorta like the Lazar Berman of jazz. I'm listening to more Duke Jordan: with Mads Vinding and Ed Thigpen; from the same '73 sessions that produced Flight to Denmark

Duke Jordan Trio - Change a Pace (SteepleChase)