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That's interesting. I would not in a million years have guessed that it was a Mal Waldron tune.

Other than Consummation which are generally the most well love records from the first period, and what is a representative record from the latter two? Consummation is the only one that I know.

Okay! Going in, sir.

Are these two as good? If so, I'm not stopping at all. Still streaming the first, but the evening is young.

The Fritz Pauer Trio – Blues Inside Out (MPS) Listening to this now for the first time after a recommendation in the MPS thread and it's absolutely top notch. One of the best piano trio records I've heard in ages. So exciting. It's like someone dropped Tyner, Evans and Garner into a blender. Thank you to whoever recommended it.

Amy views on these three? I see them constantly in markets and second hand shops. Are they up to the CBBB releases' quality?

J.J. Johnson – First Place (Columbia, 1957) Nit sure why, but Max Roach always sounds great on these 50s JJ Columbias.

Thanks!

I don't know these two. They look interesting. I had not heard of the group Detail, or this enhanced version. They appear to have a number of records. Are there any that anyone particularly recommends?

Elegant Soul is an outlier. It isn't really a three sounds record in the same way but I do like it. I don't have a bottom 1 or 2. The rest are records that I simply don't like as much. I think it's basically a soul record, and a nice one. I'm with you here.

Gil Melle – Patterns In Jazz (Blue Note, 1957)

The 1/3 is: Introducing… Bottoms Up Here We Come Out of this World Elegant Soul Clearly there’s the first two in there. Beyond that, no real theme. Sometimes they just sound more switched on, and crackle a little more, and sometimes less so. With the 3 Sounds the quality I look for comes from such tiny little decisions of rhythm and emphasis, that I think this sort of gut reaction is intensified, in a way that it would not be with their peers.

I see that it is on Spotify.

Charlie Mingus – A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry (Bethlehem, 1959) I feel like this one gets lost in the shuffle sometimes. A great record.

Nice ones. Are you still in Canada?

I find 3 Sounds to be all about chemistry. I take strongly to or against specific records, for no reason that is immediately clear to me, except that it sounds like the group is clicking on this one and not on the other. Sorry to spout drivel of this sort, but I love roughly a third of their records and don't really click with the other two thirds, and I see no logical reason why.

David Hurley – Outer Nebula Inner Nebula (Porter, 2008)

Are there any good books (or even documentaries) that cover the "non classic" Blue Note eras. The stories above are quite compelling, and I would love to read something of this sort that talks about Butler, the Vault reissues, etc.

I don’t remember either of them! I’ll go back and review. I remember Blakey being refreshing, because he was one of the few who dodged the leading questions.

This is true for some older jazz fans whom I know too. I mentioned the Three Sounds to my aunt who is a lifelong jazz fan, and she had never heard of them. Perhaps Blue Note didn't sell them into Europe, and perhaps concentrated on other audiences?

Thanks! Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society – Nasty (Moers, 1981)

Weldon Irvine - Sinbad (RCA)

Max Roach, Herb Geller, Walter Benton, Joe Maini, Clifford Brown– Best Coast Jazz I’m not sure I know who Joe Maini and Walter Benton were.

I liked the first track most. But even then it’s nothing that we haven’t heard before. The later tracks are just jam standard with quite a lot of audible mistakes.

Strata. Edited.