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Eddie Palmieri - Exploration: Salsa, Descarga, Jazz (Tico)

Latino con Cal Tjader -- with Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo & Vince Guaraldi (Fantasy) CD collects 2 Tjader LPs: Demasiado Caliente and Latino! Including Guaraldi's name on the cover is a bit misleading. He only appears on one track.

Good deal. War & Peace is among my very favorite books, and Tolstoy is my favorite author. So, regardless of the list-maker's bona fides, I would have wondered about him if Tolstoy wasn't there!

Interesting list. But one oddity: There are only nine books listed. I presume that the "missing" tenth book is Tolstoy's War & Peace. You really can't have a list of important Russian novels without Lev Nikolayevich!

Somebody should reissue Davis' two LPs originally released on Segué: Makatuka and 6th Sense in the 11th House. Dusty Groove maybe? The latter LP features an all-star rhythm section: Sir Roland Hanna, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson. From what I can gather, the former LP features local musicians from Pittsburgh, where Davis was teaching at the time. Both albums are worth investigating, imho. Here's a sample:

Nice review. Thanks for sharing, CJ! I need to check out the record.

Desert-island renditions of these orchestral songs. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "In the Year 1905" / Stokowski, Houston SO (Capitol/EMI) It would be difficult to name a recording of DSCH's 11th that I like more than this one.

One of the many wonderful Lacy/Waldron duo collaborations.

Now: Al Haig - Ornithology (Progressive) Earlier: Chris Connor - In Person + I Miss You So (Atlantic)

The music is the same as in the Dexter Mosaic Select set -- but these Capitol sets are downloads only. That said, I'm sure that you could track down the music in CD form if you wanted to. IIRC, it was also released on 3 Blue Note CDs before being compiled in the Mosaic Select set. And of course there was the original 2-LP set.

RIP https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-genius-of-cecil-taylor

Looks like they're not available on Spotify here in the U.S.

Has anyone heard the Dizzy CDs?

Cal Tjader - The Grace Cathedral Concert (Fantasy)

John Scofield - Bar Talk (Novus, 1980) with Steve Swallow & Adam Nussbaum

Willis Jackson with Pat Martino - Single Action (Muse, rec. 1978)

NP: A Portrait of Julian Dash (Master Jazz, 1970) with Jimmy Shirley, Cliff Smalls, Milt Hinton, and George Foster Earlier: Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach - Balladscapes (Intuition, 2016) Gorgeous playing by two masters of the art. Harold and Hutch sound SO good here. This is my all-time favorite release issued on the Mainstream label. Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Happy Passover to all who celebrate it! Happy regular ol' Sunday to everybody else!

Wayne.

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