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I believe this is a video from the same period as "Copenhagen Coda", but I had never seen it. The performance is not so bad, but he looks distressed and in bad shape.

Masahiko Togashi was actually a pretty good painter. Some of his jacket designs were done by himself, and a retrospective exhibition was held in 2004. I find it interesting that many excellent drummers are painters. https://twitter.com/parusminor33/status/1492372955372081154?s=20

It may lack a bit of authenticity, but I like James Hunter a lot.

Arrived on Spotify. Very good LBJS live as always.

This would be out of scope, but when I think of weird blues, this is what comes to mind. It even has Pete Cosey in it.

I have a lot of Mose Allison CDs. I like him, but I am not really an avid fan of his music. But somehow his records accumlated.

Others missing from this list as of 1970 but influential today include Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, and perhaps Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett (too young, perhaps). In a sense, they are all composers.

Come to think of it, this album made me realize how much I like Dolo Coker...Dolo was not a piano virtuoso, but he had a unique power. His Xanadu albums are all good.

AFAIK, there are more than 2 takes of Mingus solo piano recordings of "Wedding March/Slow Waltz" (11 min altogether). Each take is quite different. There are also fragments of the bass and guitar (Scofield?) practicing. If they call it "complete", I wish they would have released those as well.

In Japan, young jazz (or jazz-influenced music might I say) musicians attract a young audience. Jazz-themed manga and anime movies are also popular (Blue Giant was a hit). In the U.S., when I was in San Jose a few years ago, the audiences at shows by Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Makaya McCraven, and Theo Croker were quite young. Perhaps jazz fans are polarized. There are those like Glasper and his ilk, whose music is more akin to the old days of Black Contemporary, and those like myself who still listen to Blue Note, "real" Jazz and the like from the 60's. Yeah, hello us granpas!

A lesser-known aspect of Sun Ra may have been that he was a full-bodied blues piano player. Sounds very authentic.

Since the Arkestra is, after all, an excellent live band (as was Duke Ellington's orchestra), it seemed a good idea to list 10 live recordings. Some of them are quasi-bootlegs, but the sound quality is relatively good. 1. Music From Tomorrow's World (1960) A good record from the Chicago era. 2. Nothing Is (1966) Bordering on hard bop and free. 3. Black Myth / Out In Space (1970) Sun Ra on MPS! 4. Intergalactic Research (1971) Adventurous. 5. What Planet Is This? (1973) Tremendous live performance from his best period. 6. Live in Paris at the "Gibus" (1973) King Porter Stomp! 7. It Is Forbidden (1974) Overwhelming. 8. Live at Montreux (1976) Great as an introduction to the band. 9. Sunrise In Different Dimensions (1980) Sun Ra as a pianist shines. 10. Love in Outer Space (1983) A good sample of his later years.

Walter Bishop, Jr. SPEAK LOW -- This was the first jazz record I ever heard and I still love it.

I'm not really familiar with his style, but if it is recorded ca. 1966, it might be Kirk Lightsey?

Wow, I thought I've heard most of Stitt outputs, but seems this is one of the very best! And I really have no idea who were in the rhythm section...John Young on piano? (a bit Ray Bryant-ish but not heavy). Most of streaming services provide this music.

This one is new for me. Booker blows at Cafe Montmartre! Maybe SteepleChase will issue this someday...

I read somewhere that Dodo Marmarosa's hands were quite small. But he still could play Bach's Inventions at double speed.

I was surprised to find Johnny Guarnieri's The Duke Again on Spotify; I'm pretty sure it was never released on CD. It's a good, if unspectacular, performance by a small group. Guarnieri was one of the great interpreters of Ellington Music.

I meant "Blue In Green", but I wonder if "Nardis" was really written by Miles? Miles never played it, and it sounds Gil Evans or George Russell-ish to me.

I wonder if they have a common source?

I guess Clarence Gaskill was like Irving Mills (many of Duke Ellington's songs) and Richard Carpenter (Walkin'), who are music publishers who would sneak credits into other people's songs. BTW, are there any songs that Miles Davis definitely wrote himself until '70s, except some blues lines? Seems the authorship for most of the tunes attributed to Miles have been disputed. "Four" & "Tune Up" (actually by Eddie Cleanhead Vinson? Are there Cleanhead's own recordings?), "Donna Lee" (based on "Tiny's Con" by Tiny Kahn?), "Solar" (aka "Sonny" by Chuck Wayne?), "Walkin'" (aka "Gravy" by Gene Ammons?), "Nardis" (by Bill Evans?), "So What" (based on "Pavanne" by Ahmad Jamal?), etc.

Black Market? https://youtu.be/U7_vNpVXubA

How was that?

Now that Wayne Shorter has passed away, I would like to see a Mosaic set of his Blue Note outputs, including the Oct. 1970 rejected session as a bonus.

I didn't like Teddy Edwards much because he seemed somewhat frail, but I found the two Prestige records are excellent. Thanks for letting me know! These are eye openers. Also, I didn't like his composition Sunset Eyes much either, but I think The version on The Inimitable is great thanks to Duke Jordan.