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The Formalized Compression - Squozen Too Tight

Or 1959, period.

Mel Lewis Jerry Dodgion Jerry Lewis

Indestructible was my very first Blue Note and one of my first 25 or so jazz records period. Pulled it out of a cutout bin. Still haven't quite recovered from the opening Wayne solo.

Those 1964 dates were a cut above, though. Imo. It was like a Messenger supernova, a torrent of energy amped up and unleashed one last time.

The Meters Horton Foote The Who

It's part of the sextet magic run that also included Free For All + Indestructible. Straight line through imo. I get the timeline thing, but at this late date it sorta amazes me how it still seems slept on. It was waaaay late to make it to OJC as an LP.

Dariel Hudson - No Green, Just Blue

How come Kyoto has always been so hidden compared to the other two Riversides? This befuddles me.

Yeah. Sad.

I would never play poker with Earl Hines.

The secret link in Jacquet is Lester Young. There's a distinction between "White Lester" and "Black Lester" in terms of which general way his influences landed. Personally, my preference for Jacquet is from the middle 50s on. It seems like he (mostly) set aside the JATP crowd-pleasing devices and began just playing, like on the track here. No matter, the guy was a superb player, period. There's a rich body of work to explore, so have fun with it! Oh, and he played very credible bassoon as well!

The Edna Scrum Singers - Try!!!

It certainly is Jacquet!

@DrJ Right song and right drummer. Welcome back!

I bought his Christmas record and liked it.

No, this is still the same one.

This.

That's what the man said. And he played a lot of gigs.

Two things that two different musicians have told me about OP: As you get older, you'll appreciate how clean he plays. An eighth note is always an eighth note, a sixteenth note is always a sixteenth not, there's no slurring of the time with him. OP is preferable to Bud Powell because Bud Powell was sloppy too much of the time. But Bill Evans is better than both of them. I could not disagree more strongly with both of those, but it also goes to show what some people value.

Kyoto is even better.

Strong church thing in Billy's music. Tongues of fire.

@mjzee Right song, right trumpeter. Wrong pay scale. Hoping that somebody at some point notices the rhythm section, the drummer in particular.