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Herbie Mann – Memphis Two-Step

What is this? I can't read the font I have never listened to this. I'd be very interested in a reissue on Bandcamp.

I have a massive hard drive of music too. I ripped all my CDs before offloading them. I never ever listen to it.

The nice bit is that I get to make sure that I really do listen to all the records once every couple of months. The not nice bit is the obvious one.

As a man whose shelving space limits his collection to 400 records this discussion really hurts...

Hard to tell. You may find this Art Pepper and Chet Baker date from 1956 more to your tastes, sir.

I love this one. It's my favourite Getz. I got a bit obsessed with it when my eldest son was first born, for fairly obvious reasons.

Benny Golson – Time Speaks: Dedicated To The Memory Of Clifford Brown Some fireworks on a Sunday night.

Bernie Green And His Orchestra – Futura Great cover image.

Eddie Harris - Instant Death Currently on the second side. My wife's choice.

Jimmy Heath - The Quota Never quite understood why this one gets comparatively little recognition with the reissue crowd, because its a hell of a record.

A lot of very wealthy fans in tech and finance, I guess.

Bud Powell – Jazz Giant Powell at his most Tatumesque, in my view.

I am also visiting Chicago in April next year, so would greatly appreciate recommendations.

Love this one. It’s the CD I miss the most, largely because it is really hard to stream.

The ones I liked most were Big Gurl and Mannish Boy. I assume those are the early ones to which others are referring as well. Those are by now classic albums, as far as I am concerned. Great cover art and great music.

Nice one. And well done for finding the streams, which I never managed for some reason. Good to hear that fuzzy bass, harpsichords and baritone sax go together as well as I assumed they would. That's going to sell to those crazy long haired kids. Poor old Stanley. I picture him at this point of his career like Princess Leia in the Jabba the Hut scenes of Return of the Jedi. Meanwhile, keeping on the theme (if not so extreme): you like rock, kids? Well try this! Marty Paich – The Rock-Jazz Incident

Got kicked out of the office for a fire drill so went to the market. It was nice to be there early for once before the good stuff had gone. I bought a copy of Mr. Hands by Mr. Hancock and a Snooks Eaglin comp.

I know those records and have a soft spot for them. Not necessarily because of Shank, but the package as a whole. Retrospectively they look less like a cash in and more like a desperate survival technique. Even more so because of the presence of a broken, toothless Chet Baker on a couple of them.

Bud Shank Quartet If find it interesting that lots of descriptions of Shank's playing at the time highlight cliches of Californian sun, but when you listen to his earlier records, he actually has quite an aggressive and fast punching concept, albeit he never sounds worked up or angry. This is one of my favourite early Shank records, saving the bossa albums which I really do like. I never did entirely like Shank's sound though, for some reason. I don't play saxophone so I don't know what it is, but maybe there is too much loose air flying around. It sounds like balsa wood to me.

I think Edwards deserves credit for range and rate. He is so experienced in improvising that he can play whatever is needed. Arguably that is faint praise (like when older rock fans praise a "session musician"), but it is what I see as his key skill. He is an asset in any performance.

I haven't really been checking this thread (work and family chaos are eating into Organissimo time) but I have recently been enjoying some of Celia Cruz's Santeria records. They're enjoyably cross genre, with a mix of vocal work outs and trombone heavy salsa.

That's right, although here I think it was Steve Noble rather than Sanders, which is probably among the things that elevated it. Nothing wrong with Sanders, but Noble has an added rhythmic sense that keeps things from being too languid and improv-ey.

I saw Darius Jones recently at OTO with the usual OTO rhythm section. It was enjoyably aggressive, with enough to keep the interest going, but not necessarily that subtle or 'new'. Those earlier records are still really good, I think.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis-Johnny Griffin Quintet – Blues Up And Down A particularly enjoyable match up. Who is pianist Lloyd Mayer's?