Jim Duckworth

Not the Record Collection though he worked tirelessly to make certain I loved Mozart. My father had no jazz records at all, but he managed to surprise me. In a conversation with him and his childhood running buddy about swing bands, the later mentioned that they had seen a "fella could really play the piano-Bennie Moten." Now, he had no idea that Bennie Moten had made records or was highly thought of in some circles, they were impressed enough to remember the band 45 years later.

Yeah, I dig you about Mr. Lawrence: he was showing up on what may well be my favorite Mcoy Tyner records, The Moontrane with Woody Shaw, and with Elvin, and with Miles. Seemed like he was all set to take his place in the top echelon.

Not through personal dilligence, but rather by purchasing a series of JSP boxes I believe I have everything by Fats Waller and Django Reinhardt. The closest I've come to researching, searching, and acquiring close to a full discography would be Lester Young-but I readily concede that my collection is not complete.

I thought Lester Young was the President.

I am apparently part of the movement for whom this is a go to. Interestingly, Point of Departure isn't getting the nod that once was seemed automatic when assessing Andrew Hill's output.

Some of my all time favorite music on this and there's so much to like here: Hawk, Chu Berry, and Dicky Wells on beautifully swinging sessions.

When I find myself in need of a record to fill in a playlist or some such thing I often go to Classic Jazz On Line-http://www.jazz-on-line.com/pageinterrogation.php. It is searchable and can provide those missing discs...

Neither of my children care for either Jazz or cd's and only one likes vinyl. Poor Mrs. Duckworth has suffered enough with this collection mishegas, so I don't know if I will honor the requests of a couple of my friends who have asked for a 10 minute super market sweep of my collection.

Love MBRB but wasn't expecting much from this-was I ever wrong! Take away the awful vocals on 5 or 6 tunes and everything swings.

Really enjoying Brew Moore this morning!

Avoiding the questionable vocals-this band swings!

Stumbled across a Youtube video of Tomasz Stanko playing music from Litania and was quite impressed.

Nice work! Here's how I lost my older son's trust in my musical guidance: as his sixth grade year drew to a conclusion, there was a talent show and he was very interested in my coming to see him perform "The Times They Are A'Changin."" Of course, I knew he was talented and gladly took a day to come and see him and his classmates perform. His time came and he performed that song very nicely remembering all the words and so forth. His teachers and I were tremendously impressed...and here's where the story goes wrong. Although the response of his peers was mutedly appreciative, the reaction was absolutely thuderous for two different (male) students who "danced" to Holla Back Girl. This was the very moment that he quit entertaining my musical suggestions for him. I can't say I blame him.

A partner of mine gave me the Shorty Rogers set on cd after he acquired a vinyl copy. Although I had tried to reconstruct the Mosaic set from other issues, the Mosaic set remains extremely satisfying.

I too listen to an awful lot of pre-1940's music and find it woefully underrepresented on streaming patforms and this has kept me in the cd business. Much of what I listen to is physically present in my cd collection but has been re-contextualized via playlists.

This imprinting has been in my thoughts a good deal lately-particularly how it impacts my ongoing listening.

...but some more Don Pullen and George Adams era is right on time! I don't find myself going back to that '64 European tour so much these days.

I am older and really surprised as seemingly common sense precautions urged by public health officials are politicized. It is shocking to me that the Post Office is now (in all likelihood) a polarizing institution. I have been very resistant to the idea of balkanizing the US, but now I'm ready to listen to the case for such drastic action.

The first Grant Green I ever purchased, this one just holds up very well for me.

That's where I came in on Charles Mingus-it was a pretty recent record at the time. A friend's older brother asked what I was listening to, and then played a few things for me-this included. I was a convert right away!