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The Bert van den Brink Trio with Rick Margitza - Conversations (Challenge)

Joanne Brackeen with Eddie Gomez - Prism (Choice) Adam Kolker - Reflections (Sunnyside)

Another excellent JIB LP from the 1980s: Jane Ira Bloom - Slalom (Columbia) with Fred Hersch (p), Kent McLagan (b); and Tom Rainey (d, perc)

Jane Ira Bloom - Modern Drama (Columbia)

Good one! NP: John Coates, Jr. - In the Open Space (Omnisound) LP 1 of 2

The Maritime Jazz Orchestra featuring Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor & Norma Winstone - Now and Now Again (Justin Time) Stefon Harris - Black Action Figure (Blue Note)

Now playing: Up next:

The Teddy Charles Tentet (Atlantic) I haven't listened to this in a long while. Sounds good!

John Hicks - Some Other Time (Theresa LP) with Walter Booker & Idris Muhammad Milt Jackson, J.J. Johnson, Ray Brown - Jackson, Johnson, Brown & Company (Pablo) with Tom Ranier (p); John Collins (g); and Roy McCurdy (d)

Mickey Tucker Trio - Sweet Lotus Lips (Denon)with Reggie Workman & Horacee Arnold

Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun (Sony) I stayed away from Hendrix's posthumous releases for many years, not wanting to hear any "half-baked" Hendrix. My son, who's a Hendrix fanatic, brought this home a few years ago. When I finally heard it playing in his room one day, I was shocked by how fully realized -- and flat-out GREAT -- it sounds. Billy Cox brings so much to this music, an incredibly funky and soulful vibe. . . . When Hendrix died, I was two years old. If I could travel back in time to hear Hendrix in person, I'd rather hear the band on this record (with Cox & Mitch Mitchell) than even the classic "Jimi Hendrix Experience" with Noel Redding. I'm going to see/hear Pharoah perform next weekend.

More Lieb: Dave Liebman Quintet - If They Only Knew (Timeless) This is Lieb's smoking band with John Scofield and Terumasa Hino, the slapper of over-enthusiastic student drummers. David Liebman Big Band, Directed by Gunnar Mossblad - Beyond the Line (OmniTone)

I've been listening to the Dave Liebman Group:

Marian McPartland - In My Life (Concord) with Gary Mazzaroppi (b) and Glenn Davis (d); Chris Potter (as, ts) also sits in on a few cuts

Andy Emler - Sombritude (Casa Editions, rec. 1998) - Andy Emler, piano - Dave Liebman, saxophone soprano & ténor saxophone, flûte indienne - Stephane Belmondo, trompette & bugle - Linley Marthe, basse électrique - Francis Lassus, batterie

Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes - Question and Answer (Geffen)

It's been a John Hicks Day: Is That So? (Timeless)

More John Hicks:

For sure. Russ Freeman's piano work on that "West Coast Session" CD really caught my ear last night. That's what prompted me to also cue up Among Friends -- wanting to hear more of Pepper & Freeman together. On the way into work this morning:

Art Pepper - Among Friends (Interplay, 1978) with Russ Freeman, Bob Magnusson and Frank Butler

John Scofield - Time on My Hands (Blue Note) with Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette Art Pepper Presents "West Coast Sessions!" - Volume 4 with Bill Watrous (Omnivore)

Tommy Flanagan - Lady Be Good ... for Ella (Verve) with Peter Washington & Lewis Nash

Ricky Ford - Saxotic Stomp (Muse)

Happy Birthday, Ken!!!