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#1-9 originally released as Lucky Thompson - Plays Jerome Kern And No More (Moodsville 39) #10-15 as Lucky Thompson - Happy Days Are Here Again (Prestige 7394) Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; March 8, 1963 (#1-9) and February 16, 1965 (#10-15). Solal is tremendous.

Yes sir!

I do.

More Lucky Thompson: I have both. It's desert-island music for me. 🙂

Good one! It seems like nearly every record that Waldron made during this period is excellent.

More Alan Broadbent:

This again:

I don't know, Ken. Maybe he's retired?

Back to Rush: I think I'd rate both A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres ever-so-slightly ahead of 2112. My two cents. As for the naked guy, he's a contrast to the banker-like figure. Like the two hemispheres of the brain, the two figures represent opposite ways of thinking & being. The banker is rational, uniform, conventional. The dancer is artistic, unselfconscious, natural. The naked figure on Hemispheres also hearkens back to the Vitruvian Man-like imagery on the cover of All the World's a Stage. It's another image about duality, contrasting the uniformity of the star and circle shapes with the naked human figure, who appears to be trying to escape from -- or at least resist -- their controlling confines. Or at least that's how I think about it!

Next up: Powerful! One of my favorite RRK albums. Terrific! ❤️

NP: Promo disc; 26 cuts excerpted from Parker's The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions: 1944-1948

More Arthur Blythe:

Next up: Arthur Blythe Trio - Spirits in the Field (Savant, 2000) with Bob Stewart (tu) and Cecil Brooks III (d); recorded live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam in 1999