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Rubinstein's Brahms is wonderful. NP: The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (Blue Note) So much about this record works perfectly. I guess it's no wonder that it was a hit. Then again, these days, the idea of a "jazz hit" almost seems like a contradiction. Late last night: Brother Jack McDuff - Who Knows What Tomorrow Is Going to Bring (Blue Note) Yeah!

Yep. Miles was a welter of contradictions for sure.

Bill Carrothers - Castaways (Pirouet) with Drew Gress and Dré Pallemaerts

Excellent.

I am so sad to hear this news. Horrible. Ugh!!!

Oh no. That's TERRIBLE news.

The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Disc 4

Duke Ellington - The Duke Box (Storyville) Disc 7 - 1945 recordings

VERY underrated Hutcherson, IMHO. Especially the cuts that make up the LP Cirrus. NP:

Mark Murphy - Stolen... And Other Moments (32 Jazz / Muse)

Mal Waldron with Jean-Jacques Avenel & Steve Lacy - One More Time (Sketch)

Picked this up for a few bucks at a used bookstore a while back . . .

Ray Barretto & New World Spirit - Portraits in Jazz & Clave (RCA) The Phil Woods Quintet - All Bird's Children (Concord)

Dizzy Gillespie - Odyssey: 1945-1952 (Savoy) Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Impulse)

More James Moody: The Blues and Other Colors (Milestone/OJC) Moody and the Brass Figures (Milestone/OJC)

NP: Pepper Adams - The Master... (Muse, 1980) In my personal pantheon of bari-sax players, there are three who stand well above the others. They are Harry Carney, Pepper Adams, and John Surman.

More hosannas for Rowles' & Cohn's Heavy Love! Earlier: Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson - The Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note) Everybody on this record sounds great -- but tonight I was really locked in on Roger Humphries' drumming. Fan-stinkin'-tastic.

On the way into work this AM: Elvin Jones - The Main Force (Vanguard)

On to Disc 2.

On the way home from work: Disc 1

Yeah, the Jazztet quickly came to mind for me too. How about James Moody? I'm thinking of his mid- and late-50's stuff in particular, much of it arranged by Quincy.