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Dick Grove - Little Bird Suite according to John William Hardy in his role as ornithologist, the cover photograph may well be the first published picture of an Aulocorhynchus Prasinus

The Bay Big Band – Plays Duke Ellington part of the Brussels world exhibition that also gave us the Atomium? Not quite sure, but the cover photo (by Ray Avery it says?!) is from the Belgian Congo Pavillion at the Brussels world fair... I guess the underlying story is that Belgian jazz musicians' expertise in playing Afro-American music had some of its roots Belgium's involvement in Congo? Those were different times... And, of course, despite the stereo sound, I guess you only need this if you are the most hopeless type of Ellington completist... the band is good, most of the musicians can also be heard on Jack Sels recordings from the time... but Ellington is impossible to cover well with a bunch of studio heroes

This Burns album I like a lot, I have it on a Japanese cd

no, on High on an open mike, like this LP, it's well Burns, but on the Burns album I posted above it's Peterson...

Funny story w the open mike ... Also thought of those early days of learning English again when there was this discussion of the Queen compilation for five year olds and the explicit lyrics... Had never thought of that problem because over here kids don't understand anything when they're small... In fact, being able to understand some of the lyrics is a major motivation for learning English.... have some Ralph Burns albums from the 1950s that I like a lot so I was first disappointed that on this album he only arranges while the rhythm section is Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Louis Bellson... But, of course, they do a fine job... The whole thing is - again unexpected when you read Peterson - a big band album with soloists like Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Hamilton, Flip Philips... Would have paid the 2€ for the cover alone but now I find myself playing this more than I expected

if they count, post-Syd Barrett Pink Floyd must also count

thanks for sharing the liner notes! so this would suggest that the tenorist below is Johnny Griffin provided it's the same version as here (and there's only one tenorist on the record) edit: we'd been there years ago, not Griffin was the crowd's verdict back then

imho, the problem isn't so much the fat-shaming but rather that the song talks about sex between a kid and his grown-up nanny as if it was no big deal... maybe they should have left off more of those songs - maybe a Queen Greatest Hits collection for five year olds wasn't the best idea in the first place... but kids are going to be fascinated by guns anyway, what matters is that they don't have access to them... "sexual innuendo" when it's all going on between children and grown-ups... can wait until they're 12.

Some amazing sessions in there like the Jones-Collins or Sam Morgan

imho, Mike Zwerin's memories of playing with Claude Thornhill in the 50s are required reading on this topic, https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-square-on-lawn-by-michael-zwerin.html (the relevant part starts with "When I came back to New York from Miami," but the stuff before is actually interesting, too)

Those Kikuchi albums are something completely different though, you should give them a try, they're amazing.. In the Netherlands, there's the Rob Franken keyboard cycle / Third Eye which might fit the bill but I have never heard the music / never looked into where to find it...

"Giants of the Organ come together in concert" may not be what you are looking for... Some early Masabumi Kikuchi albums fit the bill w organ and electric piano but some saxophone, no guitar (going by memory: Poo Sun, Reconfirmation, In concert, maybe Collaboration)

and then you have this here from the same artist around the same time (is this what "Second Concept" refers to?)

Thank you! I like my favorite late Ammons albums (The Black Cat and You talk that talk) but was suspecting I might be missing something (and those two albums I indeed don't know)

Off topic, I know, but: Allen (or anyone else), when you say "late Gene Ammons" which recordings are you thinking of? Thanks!

There's also Concerto with Masabumi Kikuchi which I like a lot (but I don't know the others except some with Satoh)

Have to play Day of the Sun again but a dim memory says that when having to choose between Easy Listening and Free Jazz I wouldn't put it into the Free Jazz bin... It sure isn't bad at all

looking at those guys credits, some well-known like Carl Fontana or Harry Edison, some less so, possibly because they spent too much time in the Vegas scene led to this album which is apparently another self-produced Las Vegas affair... Another fine album by a Las Vegas band is Woody Herman's Jackpot

If tall people had to play larger pianos, you might be in trouble...

Nice find! Have to admit that I bought myself the same(?) white LP stand that Pim has, but my setup is not very suitable for nice pictures...

fwiw, my CD player claims it's 80:05...