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One for ages.

I picked up the Esoteric LP for three music, but the design of the label was an unexpected bonus of value!

Ok folks, our forum protocols is that we don't bitch about a seller's asking price. Period If the price is met, good for the seller. If it is not, then message sent. Either way, the asking price is entirely the seller's prerogative.

Kenny Garrett & ,Lockjaw are instantly recognizable. I'll have a full listen when I get back home.

Brantford had a very pleasant and well-rounded set to end the evening. I ended up enjoying it much more than I anticipated, maybe because I was there at least as much for the festival experience as for serious listening. Probably more. Let me put it this way - I would not pay serious money to hear them, but outdoors on a beautiful night, at no charge? Yeah.sure! And thank you!

Jaleel - thanks for the update. I know it's a bear when you depend on others and they don't get it right. Best wishes, and stay strong!

Omar Sosa had a pretty interesting compositional thing going on. Plus he played with a LOT of dynamics, very much appreciated! A bit of acoustic Zawinul/Shorter vibe going on but not excessive. Very enjoyable!

Go see Lakecia Benjamin, yes. She's young, she can play, and she's bursting with Positive People Energy. There's no guarantee that any of that keeps getting better. It very well might but... See her now and take the whole damn family!

Kenny Barron's trio with guest vocalist Tyreek McDole played a wonderfully intimate set. Maybe not the most intimate setting, but that's ok. A really tight group, and Barron continues to have the ability to weave really long lines. Plus, I want to know where Jonathan Blake shops for shirts! The one word that nobody seems to ever use to describe James Carter is UNAPOLOGETIC And God bless him and his band for that. It was aggressively unapologetic 313, and it was some of the most spiritually nourishing music I've felt in years.

It was like Max & Cecil only totally different if you know what I mean... But..."it" all starts here... https://youtu.be/XqDim6Ix96E?si=eoktnIToZrEXJPkm

That was a show worth seeing. Especially the duets with Mills and Moran

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I find the last two to be compromised by an overt (as opposed to organic) appeal to commercialism. Still, heck of a band!

Art Clokey was badass.

Yep.

Shameless.

I was allergic to Aebi for a long time, but I've come around and now think of her as another texture, not a singer or even a voice. Besides, there's so many excellent Lacy records with her on them that even before I "got" her, I decided not to cut off my nose to spite my face,

Excellent!

Yeah, if he's doing all that work, he should get paid

https://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/2010/Duke_Ellington_NI2736.htm This new CD contains 15 such recordings made between 1965 and 1972. They are said to be "previously unissued" but they were actually first released in 1991 by the MusicMasters label. That's a very good record too.

Jaco's crowning achievement imo. I'm not really a big fan of his, but Joni taned that beast.

That much just for a quick copy job of one tune? Yikes!!!

Crink Falton - The Woman Who Wouldn't Plat Bartok

200 what?