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George Cables - Why Not (Why Not) "My Buddy": Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (Muse)

Art Pepper - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard (Contemporary) A favorite. Sonny Stitt - 12! (Muse) Ah, I see. The Celestial Country must be the same recording as the one originally released in the Charles Ives centenary box set in 1974. If you want to investigate more of Ives' choral music, I'd definitely recommend the Gregg Smith Singers LP below.

Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins & Ray Mantilla - The Pentagon (East Wind) Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground (Columbia/Legacy)

Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Vol. 5: The Suites, New York, 1968 & 1970 (Saja) Desert-island music.

Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz - Two Not One (Storyville) Disc 1

The Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (Mosaic) Disc 7 Gregg Smith's recordings of Ives' choral music for Columbia are magnificent. . . . I've never heard that disc though. What do you think of it, Paul?

Ruby Braff - Braff! (Epic) and Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion)

Buck Clayton - The Golden Days of Jazz (Columbia Special Products) LP 2

Larry Willis - Inner Crisis (Groove Merchant) This one's getting lots of spins lately.

James Moody - Another Bag (Argo, 1962) with Tom McIntosh (arr), Kenny Barron (p), a.o. McIntosh also wrote most of the music on this LP.

Disc 1

More Gator: Willis Jackson - Headed and Gutted (Muse) and Joe Henderson - Page One (Blue Note) Such a great record.

I'm with you, John. Whistle Stop is my desert-island Dorham also. For me, Philly Joe is definitely part of the equation, but the whole band is lights out. ...And the compositions! ...Everything about it.

Very, very cool, chewy. Thanks for sharing that write-up!

Sorry to hear this news. R.I.P.

Harold Mabern - Wailin' (Prestige) Originally released as 2 LPs: Workin' & Wailin' and Greasy Kids' Stuff and Willis Jackson - West Africa (Muse)

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More Attila Zoller:

Norman Connors - Love from the Sun (Buddah) I dig this LP from start to finish. It's a gem. But my favorite track is the opening cut, Herbie's "Revelation." The composition and arrangement could easily have appeared on Speak Like a Child or The Prisoner. ...The way Herbie creates such beautiful harmonies in a small ensemble context is so distinctive! It's a kind of perfection.

Don Friedman - Jazz Dancing (Progressive) The original Japanese LP cover was more interesting: