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Didier Lockwood - Out of the Blue (Gramavision) with Gordon Beck, Cecil McBee & Billy Hart The other, other French jazz violinist.

I just ordered Harold Land's New Shade of Blue. Since this is some of my favorite music, I'm hoping that the CD sound is a significant improvement on the LP. For those of you who ordered it, have you had an opportunity to compare?

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Light & Lovely (Black & Blue) Is there anyone cooler than Jaws? He makes that cardigan look bad-ass.

Great record! Now listening to more of John Scofield's early-80s band with Steve Swallow & Adam Nussbaum: Shinola (Enja)

John Scofield - Bar Talk (Arista Novus) Larry Willis - Blue Fable (HighNote)

Bennie Wallace - The Talk of the Town (Enja)

This again: Frank Foster & the Loud Minority - Manhattan Fever (Denon)

Kenny Barron - Golden Lotus (Muse), as reissued on Soft Spoken Here (32 Jazz) with John Stubblefield, Steve Nelson, Buster Williams & Ben Riley

More Franco D'Andrea: Dialogues with Super-Ego / Es (Red, 1980) Solo piano

Franco D'Andrea - No Idea of Time (Red, 1983) with Tino Tracanna (ts, ss), Mark Helias (b), and Barry Altschul (d)

Two artists immediately come to mind. Coincidentally, both are alto saxophone players too. Gary Bartz and Kenny Garrett.

I LOVE that photo of Lieb! Reminds me of this one, which is similarly wonderfully time-bound: Back of the album Forgotten Fantasies (A&M Horizon): This LP is on my desert-island list.

NP: New Orleans: The Living Legends - Sweet Emma "The Bell Gal" & Her Dixieland Boys featuring Jim Robinson (Riverside) Earlier: McCoy Tyner - The Greeting (Milestone)

David Friedman / David Samuels - Double Image (Enja) Still in heavy rotation 'round these parts. Art Pepper - The Trip (Contemporary) "The Summer Knows" on this record... Yowee! Tremedous!

Cool. Thanks for the link, Rooster. It's showing for a week here in ATL.

Sheila Jordan - The Crossing (Blackhawk) Damn. What a singer.

That makes sense. Though, as you say, not many of those over here on this side of the pond. I think I've only got one of those Black & White reissues -- a Fats Waller solo piano set. Remember the OJC catalogs that you could get in Tower back in the day? In the days before the internet, I learned tons about jazz by poring over those!

Arthur Blythe - Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk (Columbia) I think Thelonious would have approved. RIP Arthur Blythe

Thad Jones with Kenny Burrell, Frank Wess, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor - After Hours (Prestige) This is one of the best Prestige jam sessions, imho. Yes sir! Good stuff.

Sonny Criss - Saturday Morning (Xanadu/Elemental) Outstanding.

I wondered if anyone would catch it. NP: Jim Hall - Live in Tokyo (King Japan) with Don Thompson & Terry Clarke

Recently, I've really enjoyed the "Xanadu Master Edition Series" from Elemental. I also have quite a few 32Jazz reissues of the Muse catalog. I'm not sure whether those count as a "series." But, in any case, it's some of my favorite music. For vinyl, I really like "RCA Victor Vintage Series" -- most of them had the wine-rack design on the cover. Between Bechet, JRM, Duke, Fats, and others, there's just so much great music there. ...And I still enjoy spinning those LPs -- even if most of the music has been reissued more comprehensively in other sets. There's a lot to be said for an artfully-programmed single LP of music originally released as 78s. Often, they feel more approachable than the huge, "impossible-to-hear-in-one-sitting" boxes.* * Not that I'd ever want to give up any of those box sets! Oh yeah. Good call.

Complete Capitol Fifties Jack Teagarden Sessions (Mosaic) Disc 1 I found this set in a thrift store a few months back -- for $6. No book or box, but all four discs in NM condition. A nice find.

Brad Mehldau - Live at The Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two (Nonesuch)

On the way into work this morning, more from the Timeless All Stars: It's Timeless: Recorded Live at Keystone Korner (Timeless) Next: Old and New Dreams - S/T (ECM) It's definitely a good one.