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Carmen McRae - At the Great American Music Hall (Blue Note, 1977) Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (CTI, 1970)

So true. And, more importantly, no one person can possible absorb and know everything that's out there -- even if you happen to have it in your collection! Of course that's a wonderful "problem." For all practical purposes, our musical explorations are never-ending. . . . But you really should check out Lullaby for a Monster!!!

Carmen McRae - Velvet Soul (Groove Merchant) A reissue of two McRae LPs: It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling (1973) and Ms. Jazz (1974)

Oregon - Winter Light (Vanguard, 1974)

Enjoying this one...

Sought this book out after seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time on a big screen:

This again: Frank Foster & Frank Wess - Two for the Blues (Pablo)

I'm probably just repeating what's already been said on the other thread, but I'd strongly recommend these three: EDIT: Of course, all three of these are in the Complete Trio & Quartet Studio Recordings box set.

The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues (Cuneiform, 2017) Fellow forum member and friend Ken Dryden gave me this on a recent visit. Thanks Ken!

Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron - Play Morricone (Cam Jazz, 2005)

Andy LaVerne Trio - Another World (SteepleChase) with Mike Richmond & Billy Hart Excellent. No doubt! That band was incredible.

Bill Evans - His Last Concert in Germany (West Wind) Chris Byars - New York City Jazz (SteepleChase)

Jimmie Rowles - Grandpaws (Choice, 1976) with Buster Williams and Billy Hart

Now listening to the cuts originally released as Gemini. It's irrepressible music -- and it swings so hard. It's like being carried along by a wave. Hard to believe it was recorded in 1971... but it was.

mikel, If the Charles Tolliver is the small-group set -- Mosaic Select 20 -- then I would like to buy it. Pls confirm, and I'll get payment to you. Thanks! EDIT - PM also sent.

Seems like musicians like Legrand hardly exist any more, that particular combination of talents and the ways that he put them to use. So sorry to hear this news. R.I.P. I'll give Legrand's wonderful collaboration with Stan Getz, Communication '72, a spin this weekend in his honor.

Yep, you're right, sambrasa. Liebman is incredibly prolific. I remember back in the 1980s David Murray seemed to release another record each week. Now Lieb's doing it. That said, I get the sense that Fire is a special record, not just another one that Liebman "cranked out." He wrote all of the compositions. He brought in the heavyweight rhythm sections. From the outside, it has "major release" written all over it. Then again, I haven't even heard the record (other than samples), so what the heck do I know?!??! BTW: I hadn't made the connection with First Visit. Good call.

Terrific record. Lots of Moody flute!

Jackie McLean - Jacknife (Blue Note) Amazing that this incredible music sat on the shelf for a decade before it was released.

You'll get no disagreement from me on that point.

O.K. Fair enough. We are who we are. I guess I'm a (non-dogmatic) enthusiast at heart. From the Online Etymology Dictionary: enthusiasm (n.) c. 1600, from Middle French enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos "divine inspiration, enthusiasm (produced by certain kinds of music, etc.)," from enthousiazein "be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos "divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + theos "god" (from PIE root *dhes-, forming words for religious concepts). It acquired a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion through the conceit of special revelation from God" (1650s) under the Puritans; generalized meaning "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is first recorded 1716.

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - The Scenic Route (Palmetto, 2007) Despite the (ironically?) dour Matt Wilson cover photo, this is music with a smile on its face. You might even call it whimsical. I dig it. Sadly, R.I.P. Dennis Irwin.

Oh boo!!! Sure, I buy "hard work and openness." But if I were to follow your rationalist line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you could say that music is physics. Vibrating reeds and drum heads and hammers striking strings producing sound waves. So one could argue that music is actually physics even more than it's hard work and openness and methodology. But again WHY we listen to music has nothing to do with physics -- even though physics provides the most purely rational description of what's happening in the world when we listen. I still think we listen to music because of the way that it makes us feel -- whether we'd like to think of our experience of music in rational terms or otherwise. If music didn't get under our skin or grab us or transport us or captivate us (metaphors all!), we'd be doing something else! Instead, we spend hours each day on this board, reading & writing about music! Not music methodologies or physics or openness. MUSIC. ... And that poke at ghost for digging Roy Haynes and his cowboy hat is a rabbit punch, a low-blow. I freely admit that I'd be thrilled to be in the same room as Roy Haynes. Any day of the week. Roy freakin' Haynes. He's immortal! Of course, he isn't. But he is.