Dub Modal

1 - Reminds me of Bud but it's not him. 2 - Great clarinet playing. No guesses. 3 - Grapelli/Django inspired. Who else plays that fast? And it sounds like a more modern recording but I have no idea. Could very well be Grap/Django with other players. 4 - More clari in a Goodman/Shaw type swing setting. Love the dirge-ish arrangement. 5 - Epistrophe with a B3, oh and it's live with some good guitar as well. 6 - Ok, so this really sounds like Grapelli & Django. Kind of...is that a banjo being strummed to comp, or another guitar? Sounds like it's a guitar. 7 - The Charleston, and it sounds like the "definitive" arrangement. 8 - Another clarinet - is it really Shaw this time? 9 - Love the reverb used here. Is this Hank on tenor? 10 - No guesses.

This one is Jonathan Blake's new one Homeward Bound with Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, David Virelles, and Dezron Douglas. Except for the Shaw (from '05 as I was tracing Blake's work), all of these are current year releases and I've been digging them for the past few days.

Super impressive. Love following (or trying to anyway) along with the sheets.

Great BFT. Several added to the want list but #s 2 & 14 really stand out as priority.

Spot on whew! Great voice for sure. Not my favorite Andy comp/album but still pretty solid.

Well, it's sold out. I wouldn't be within a mile of a cruise ship port but it appears plenty have a jones for it. And now: Enjoying this one. Although Allan Mednard is credited with drums on most tracks, Marcus Gilmore is also credited with drum programming on others as well. But I swear I hear drum programming on tracks where Gilmore isn't credited with such. Weird. Maybe it's just the sound of how Mednard is recorded...?

I'm not averse to smooth jazz. I can take about half an album's worth at times. This is definitely smooth. And Simpson's going to be on the Smooth Jazz Cruise this coming January. Who's going? Now this is good stuff. Gendel has some definite late-era Pharoah Sanders influence.

Me too. GG and JP are in top form together here.

Fox Capture Plan's Xronicle. Interesting at first but it kind of wore thin after a few songs. May need to revisit. Then: which was good, especially that track with Regina Carter. Before all that:

RIP He worked as one of DA Jim Garrison's investigators in the lead up to Clay Shaw's trial in NO. Garrison was subsequently tried on trumped up corruption charges and was defeated by Harry Connick Sr. in the following election. Another jazz connection there.

The million dollar question

Playing today:

Exactly. Just my take. Plenty of other stuff to watch and enjoy (or not).

Started Ted Lasso. There was a review written about the 80s movie The Breakfast Club that mentioned that the interactions between the kids were essentially therapy sessions formatted to a specific conflict resolution mode - one that was pretty aggressive but en vogue at the time. Lasso comes off the same, only a different model is used. I thought this was supposed to be funny. There's some good bits but overall it feels like attending friendly therapy sessions and life coaching seminars. Aw shucks Huckleberry, I've been scammed.

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Allen Iverson >>>>>>>>...the other Iverson. Dude is just not my cup o' tea.

I got lucky with the local used bins on the CD a year ago or so. This is a good album Nala Sinephro's Space 1.8 Released last month. I know pretty much nothing about Nala but this is an enjoyable listen

For the past few days: And then, something new:

Nice find. Who’s the drummer? He’s keeping this tune from being much better unfortunately. Dudley has some licks but he’s got some good groove in his playing.

He absolutely slays it.

Disc 2 from: Followed by:

Wow, this album smokes! Frank Foster, Pepper Adams, Jan Hammer, Gene Perla, Cornell Dupree, Warren Smith, Steve Grossman, Candido and Pablo on percussion, and Omar Clay. They fade out the track Currents/Pollen unfortunately but that's the only negative I have about this one.

Squid Games. So dumb and ridiculous...

Love Manne's spoken interlude after this volume's Black Hawk Blues. He says they're a West Coast band and it's very important to them that everyone considers them that way. He then introduces everyone and names where they're from: New York, Boston, England, Philly and Nebraska And now: