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The original CD 'Memories for Scotty' on the Insights label from Japan has 'Dawn', 'How Deep Is the Ocean' and two additional takes of 'The Bears of Bern' with Chuck Israels and Joe Hunt (another 1961 Don Friedman trio session), but not the two tracks with Bill Evans. 'Memories for Scotty' is a Don Friedman solo piece. All the material (including the tracks with Scott LaFaro) is in excellent sound. The only thing wrong with the Insights CD are the liner notes, all in Japanese, no translation!

Kenny Dorham 'Inta Somethin'' (Pacific Jazz, mono)

Once more! With Feeling!

The Trap (Gerry Mulligan) The Tender Trap (Oscar Peterson) Bear Trap Blues (Jimmy Yancey) Trapped (Lee Morgan) Trapped in a Web of Love (Peggy Lee) Next up: LOSER(S)

Merry XMas and Happy New Year, Vic!

Hoagy Carmichael 'The First of the Singer Songwriters' (JSP) playing this at random. It's all good! What a superb set it is!

Before Dawn (Yusef Lateef) Before Long (Louis Armstrong) I Never Felt This Way Before (Duke Ellington) The Night Before Christmas (Pete Rugolo) Before and After (Pete Jolly) Next up: SNOW

Pepper Adams 'Encounter' (Prestige, green label)

Mine is the smallest room of the apartment but it is a luxury. One of the wall is lined with vinyls, the other wall is lined with CDs and books. The audios and an armchair are in the middle.

All Roads Lead to Rome (The Stranglers) All Roads Lead to Middletown (Anthony Braxton) Roads Diverge (Quartet Out/Jim Sangrey) Roads Travelled, Roads Veiled (Keith Jarrett) Roads Gone By (Bill Dobbins) Next up: SWEETHEART(S)

Capital Idea (Tommy Dorsey) Capital B's Happy Birthday (Capital B) Capital G (The Projects) Ma Peine Capitale (Christophe Mahé) Capital Punishment (Big Pun) Next up: FINAL

I get kicks out of the male and female stylists. They have all been mentioned here (except Al Hibbler, a personal favorite). A recent 'discovery' is Bing Crosby whom I enjoy more and more!

Arnett Cobb 'Movin' Right Along' (Prestige, yellow label, mono)

Top prize ($2,247 for a Kenny Drew Riverside LP Kenny Drew Trio

The Coleman Hawkins 'Body and Soul' CD on WestWind 2018 includes the following tracks (all from the July 16, 1961 Rio concert): - Rifftide - The Man I Love - Body and Soul - Love for Sale - Caravan - Lover Come Back to Me all by Hawkins, Tommy Flanagan, Ahmed Abdul Malik and Jo Jones with Roy Eldridge added on the first and the last two tracks. 'Love for Sale' is a Flanagan trio feature.

All Sun Ras: Calling Planet Earth Romance of Two Planets Planet Saturn Jazz From an Unknown Planet Planet Earth Next up: FINANCE

The Storyville label is releasing a Louis Armstrong Box - 7 CDs plus one DVD - which is just out now. The Louis Armstrong Box The Amazon.com link with prices and a customer review.

Jimmy Heath 'Swamp Seed' (Riverside/Milestone, Japan)

As NON legit as you can get!