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Elis Regina – Elis Especial

Romano Mussolini & His Friends – Soft & Swing

Charlie Shavers Quartet – Girl Of My Dreams Interesting thought that occured to me whilst listening to Shavers' version of Bye Bye Blackbird: did Miles Davis ever acknowledge a debt to Shavers? There are some similarities in their tones at times, even though Miles Davis was doing something very different, and the similarities are probably played up here by Shavers. I wouldn't be surprised if not, given that Shavers was old guard and hardly a hip name to drop. Equally, there are plenty of ways that a trumpet player might arrive at this sort of silvery and flattened tone, given how rooted it is in blues trumpet history.

What size venues are they playing otherwise? What sort of crowd does the 2024 Tijuana Brass pull in?

Such a great track, even if the record gets a bit much after a track or two. RIP

It's the worst of the three with the best cover of the three.

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.