Dub Modal

Great album WP: Heavy soul with jazz inflections... Then: First listen and it's simply incredible.

Big band album released just last month:

I'll say

Nice. Now I know where the cover design for U Roy's Dread In A Babylon found inspiration

I really dig The Source. I wouldn't call her the greatest living sax player or anything but I find her creative and expressive in an enjoyable way. However, there isn't much that separates that style of record from "smooth jazz" which I think some would find negative. The production isn't as slick, there's no constant ambient keyboard in the background, and the melodies aren't as repetitive, but it's heavy groove playing within a type of soundscape.

A really good solo bass album:

Good stuff!

Per discogs no credits before 2020 but she was probably out there somewhere. She remixed a Nubia Garcia track this year too. Good scene going there right now

yep, posted it a few pages back actually - and I think you commented as she works in a local shop sometimes...? I dug that album. Totally new artist for me.

Like a mash up of late Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers. And now, one I slept on from 2020: Album is Earthbound from LCSM.

Carlos Henriquez's The South Bronx Story and then: Emma-Jean Thackray's Yellow

Good, good stuff.

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).