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Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - Ambassador Satch (Sony Legacy) and Count Basie - Chairman of the Board (Roulette)

More Sonny: Another favorite.

I feel the same way about Solal that you do. Such a unique musical "voice"! There's no one else like him. I'm jealous that you've had opportunities to meet & correspond with him.

That's on my to-get list! (And I'd like the Enrico Pieranunzi recording from the same series too. )

Sonny Rollins - Work Time (Prestige) One of Sonny's very best records, imho. I even prefer Work Time over the more-celebrated Saxophone Colossus.

Will get around to it at some point! By the way, here's my Bobby Hutcherson discography. It's no longer comprehensive; it needs to be updated -- because I haven't revised the site for LONG time. Also, the discography is album-based, rather than session-based -- since I didn't have access to those details. Despite those shortcomings, it may be useful to some folks.

Does John Chilton's biography of Hawkins include a discography? I've never read that book. Always wanted to.

I'm just starting to dig a bit deeper into Carmen McRae's discography, but one thing that immediately leaps out is that she seems MUCH more at ease in a live setting. Today, I've been listening to two more of her live gems, "Live" & Wailing (1968) and Woman Talk: Live at the Village Gate (1966).

Carmen McRae - At the Great American Music Hall (Blue Note, 2 LPs) 5 stars

You won't regret it.

David Murray Trio - Sweet Lovely (Black Saint, rec. 1979) Young David Murray strutting his stuff in a pared down setting with Fred Hopkins & Steve McCall.

Earlier, on the way home from work: Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry - Tenor Giants (Commodore) Hawk's "My Ideal" from this CD... Phew! Wow. Doesn't get much better than that.

Dick Wellstood - From Ragtime On (Chiaroscuro) This is perilously thin vinyl -- it reminds me of the floppy RCA Dynaflex LPs from around the same time -- so the sound is less than ideal. Regardless of sonics, Wellstood plays beautifully, with great sensitivity. No surprise there. I wonder: Why hasn't Chiaroscuro ever reissued this music in digital format? Most of their back-catalog has been made available -- but not this. Oh well. I guess it's just another example of life's myriad little injustices.

Disc 1 - Originally released as The Return of the 5000 lb. Man -- plus the first half of Kirkatron.

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Enrico Pieranunzi Trio - Seaward (Soul Note) with Hein van de Geyn & André Ceccarelli

Still diggin' into Dizzy: Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie - Carter, Gillespie, Inc. (Pablo)

Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie - The Gifted Ones (Pablo / OJC) with Ray Brown & Mickey Roker

Dizzy Gillespie - The Giant (Prestige, 2 LPs) Recorded in April 1973 with Johnny Griffin (ts), Kenny Drew (p), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b), Kenny Clarke (d), and Humberto Canto (perc). Originally issued in France on the America label.

George Russell - Jazz in the Space Age and New York, N.Y.

Pres for me too:

Keep the recs coming, Larry (and everyone)! Whether they're from 1936 or yesterday. Doesn't matter. If you dig it, that's all that matters.

Gary Burton - Times Square (ECM) Roy Haynes comes flying out of the gate on this one. Count Basie - I Told You So (Pablo / OJC)