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Last time I checked, all Gene Ammons records more or less are five star recordings.

Max Roach and Clifford Brown, The Best of Max Roach and Clifford Brown in Concert (GNP Crescendo/King) Duke Ellington, 1940 (Smithsonian) Freddie Hubbard, Skagly (Columbia)

Bunk Johnson, Bunk and Louis (GHB)

Elvin Jones, Skyscrapers, volume 2 (Honeydew) The New Brubeck Quartet, A Cut Above (Direct Disk) Dizzy Gillespie, The Giant (America) Billie and DeDe Pierce and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band, (Preservation Hall) Art Blakey and the New Jazz Men, Live in Paris '65

Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Aux Trois Mailletz

I like it. Roland Kirk blows the roof off of Carnegie Hall The jam session on the album is the second set of the concert, the first set being the Mingus Quintet, with George Adams, Don Pullen and Hamiet Bluiett. If a recording of that set still exists, it has never been released, unfortunately.

Catalog numbers go from 5001 to 5568 (with a few skipped numbers), so over 500 titles!

Sun Ra, Haverford College 1980, Solo Piano. This is download only, but rather pleasing and perhaps unique, a solo concert by Sun Ra performed entirely on Fender Rhodes piano. A Walt Dickerson performance at the same concert rounds out the program. https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/haverford-college-1980-solo-piano

Ray Brown Trio featuring Gene Harris, Soular Energy (Concord)

Hank Jones, Handful of Keys (Verve)

Cannonball Adderley, 74 Miles Away (Capitol) Basie Jam No. 3 (Pablo)

Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)

Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Soul Shoutin' (Prestige) Dizzy Gillespie, Bahiana (Pablo)

Chet Baker and Crew (Pacific Jazz)

Purchased today: Christian Scott, Axiom (pre-order), and Sun Ra, Hartford College 1980, Solo Piano

New album: https://rudreshmahanthappa1.bandcamp.com/album/hero-trio

Astral Project, Blue Streak

I actually got to see Sonny Simmons live once at the Iridium. It was a double bill with David Murray, so they alternated sets, and I stayed for four sets.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, A Tuba to Cuba (SubPop)

Gary Burton, Duster (RCA) Gary Bartz and Maisha (Night Dreamer) Etuk Ubong (Night Dreamer)

Jupiter and Okwess played a concert on Saturday from a boat floating on the Seine, broadcast on facebook live. Their set starts at about the 1:36 mark

Lakou Mizik, HaitiaNola (Cumbancha)

Jackie Venson Yesterday at 11:34 AM · I scream you scream we all scream for...... the never ending nightmare of 2020 to finally end Stay strong out there y’all, if you need just go outside and yell at the sky for a second, do itttt. As you can see here it worked for me! I’ll be back on Wednesdays and Saturdays in August on FB Live, Insta, YouTube, and Twitch. See you all soon

The best version of that song I ever heard was by Dave Burrell in a live solo performance.

Duke Ellington and Count Basie, The Count Meets the Duke (Columbia)