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Marian McPartland - From This Moment On (Concord) Trio with Brian Torff & Jake Hanna

LP 1 - Originally released as Bags Meets Wes

Very cool. How did you come to know this interesting fact? Did you learn it yourself through geneological research? Or has the knowledge been passed down through your family? I only ask because my mom has been doing quite a bit of family ancestry research lately. Just the other day, she told me that we are direct decendants of one of the Governors of the Massachusetts Bay colony. We had no idea.

Houston Person - Houston Express (Prestige) as heard on

Laurie Antonioli & Richie Beirach - Varuna (Origin) A wonderful release. Kenny Barron - Soft Spoken Here (32 Jazz) Disc 2 - originally released as Golden Lotus Funny. I could listen to those guys play all day. "Different strokes" and all that.

Jessica Williams - Songs for a New Century (Origin)

Spinning this LP again: Anita O'Day - Recorded Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival (MPS, 1970) Earlier, another Konitz duo: Lee Konitz / Harold Danko - Wild as Springtime (Candid)

Yeah! NP: Brian Lynch Presents - Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Perspective on the Music of Woody Shaw (Hollistic MusicWorks)

Rock solid -- with some very nice playing by Abercrombie & Gonz.

Sounds like a blast, Allen. Wish I could be there! I actually will be in NYC about ten days before that. But, alas, I'll be back here in ATL by the time 02/20 rolls around.

Ray Drummond - Vignettes (Arabesque) with Gary Bartz (as, ss), Chris Potter (ts), Renee Rosnes (p), and Billy Hart (d)

Disc 3 - "Caravan" and "Azure" and "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue" and "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" and "Lost in a Meditation" and . . .

Great news!

Here's what today's list might look like -- if I limited myself to JAZZ only (and no huge box sets): - Duke Ellington - The Best of Duke Ellington: 1932-1939 (Sony) - Bobby Hutcherson - Medina/Spiral (Blue Note) - Mal Waldron - One-Upmanship (Enja) - Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach - Forgotten Fantasies (A&M Horizon) - Randy Weston - The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Antilles) - Miles - Bitches Brew (Sony) - Thelonious - TM Big Band & Quartet in Concert (Sony) - Jaki Byard - Solo/Strings (Prestige) - Mingus - Mingus at Antibes (Atlantic) - Larry Willis with Cecil McBee & Gary Bartz - Steal Away (Audioquest) Of course, so many are missing. Picking ten is tough! But I LOVE these ten like you love your best friend, your mama's cooking, your childhood dog.

More Harrell: Tom Harrell - Stories (Contemporary, 1988) with Bob Berg, John Scofield, Niels Lan Doky, Ray Drummond, and Billy Hart

Tom Harrell - Moving Picture (HighNote, 2017) with Danny Grissett, Ugonna Okegwo, and Adam Cruz

Really enjoying this 2-CD overview.

This same poster is on the wall at my house too.

Music that goes to the desert island with me.

Certainly the best version of the Second Orchestral Set that I've ever heard. From my Charles Ives site: This recording is another demonstration why, in my view, Tilson Thomas is the most consistently fine conductor of Ives' music. He has the clearest command of Ives' musical idiom, and he makes this work come alive. The first movement is both familiar and mysterious, characteristics that MTT regularly discovers in Ives' music. The second movement has a swinging, rhythmic flair lacking in any other recording. The third movement is as epic and audacious as anything Ives ever wrote. Tilson Thomas captures the spirit of the movement. It's both tenderly elegiac and resolutely determined. Ives considered this to be one of his greatest musical achievements, and it's easy to understand why: It sounds great! My recommendation is that you play this exultant music very loud! The Concertgebouw Orchestra plays with an unparalleled, refined power. No surprise there. But perhaps a bit more surprising, they play completely idiomatically. They sound very much at home in Ives' unique, very American sound world. This is one of Ives' greatest works, wonderfully played and recorded.