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Very much in the vein of The Jewel In The Lotus (which is covered here). Benny Maupin is mostly under the radar these days, but he has not vanished.

I recognize some of those Harding charts. Still...

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"Not a better" certainly allows for 'as good as'.

There is not a better Milton Jackson album than Sunflower.

There is not a better Stanley Turrentine album than Salt Song.

Grady Tate!

Am I reading that right, this is a free concert?!?!?!?!

Not Billy Cobham, right? Looks like he works out.

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I wish I knew Buster Harding's writing well enough to be able to rule out it not being an early Tadd Dameron chart on "Beaver Junction". The voicings for the sax section are very modern for the time, more 1945 EckstineBand than 1945 BasieBand...and 1945 is a good time for a Dameron chart. But I'm afraid I don't yet know Harding's other scores of the time...anybody got any examples?

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I like this one:

Mah, it just doesn't seem to be swinging or cool. just may medicated to make it seem that way. In other words. It's, s got the air of a detached show to it.

Teddy Reig, but the problem (if it is one) happened before that. There's just no pocket and the tempos mostly sound like they're that way so everybody can skate. Maybe this is Stan Getz as Sonny Stitt?

Still something fishy about this one to me... Still seems that it sounds like it's swinging more than it is actually swinging? Otoh, those heads are tight!

That's a good record!

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Simple test to see if it's your speakers or your ears - find some cymbals and some sticks and have at it. See how much "ping" there is and then proceed accordingly

SO cool!

The one they released on 78, they also released on 45.

That chart on "Beaver Junction" on the 1944 V-Disc sure sounds as if it could be Tadd Dameron, just from the voicing of the saxes. But Buster Harding was already writing for Basie...guess I need to go back and see how Harding was writing at the time.