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Clark Terry's Big B-A-D Band - Live! at Buddy's Place (Vanguard)

Cal Tjader - Tjader (Fantasy, 1971)

One of the best in Brubeck's "Time" series, imho.

Byard is one of my favorite pianists, so I wouldn't want to be without ANY of his recordings -- whether they're solo or with a band. I love them ALL. Right now, I'm listening to this brilliant solo session from 1972: Jaki Byard - There'll Be Some Changes Made (Muse)

I've just started reading this too.

David S. Ware - Go See the World (Columbia) with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Susie Ibarra

This again:

Brilliant Bags and Lucky Thompson!

Steve Lacy Five - The Way (Hat Hut) This music is so ALIVE. Is there any higher compliment?!?!

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More big band Dizzy. This time from 1948.

Dizzy Gillespie - The Big Band (LRC) Disc 1 - live recordings from 1968

Bill Evans - Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate (Resonance) Sarah Vaughan with Quincy Jones - Misty (Polygram)

McCoy Tyner - Passion Dance (Milestone/OJC)

Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska (Blue Note) with David Friedman (vib, mar); Gene Bertoncini (g); Ron Carter (b); Cecil McBee (b); Billy Hart (d); Alphonse Mouzon (d); Frank Cuomo (d, perc) A singular and wonderful record.

Now listening (via YT) to "Little Sunflower" from the Freddie set. Wow. Sounds really good. Another one for the list, I guess. Will probably get around to the Woody Shaw too, eventually.

Not exactly your "garden-variety" Christmas music. I love it!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ep1str0phy. I think this idea is especially on-the-mark: Don't you think that these "perverse desires" you're describing just reflect our larger societal desires for stability and comprehensibility -- and the most natural way for people to find that is to look backwards, to the way "things used to be"? Especially in a time when formerly stable-seeming things seem to be falling apart all around us. I remember reading an interview with the composer Lou Harrison, and he made these same sorts of criticisms that you make about jazz about classical music -- and then he expanded those ideas into critiques of Western thought in general. So I guess we can take your macro view of jazz to MUCH greater macro view. The social forces that you're describing in jazz are the same as those affecting our entire world. It's happening all around us. Old theories aren't really working all that well any more -- but people can't resist their attraction without having something else to replace them.