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I Breakfast listening.

Justo Betancourt – Distinto Y Diferente

Wardell Gray – Memorial Volume 1 I'm a fan too.

He is primarily known as a salsa pianist, but he had jazz ability and aspirations and several of his classic records find him stretching out and exploring much more than salsa normally allows for. He is probably the first name that one would associate with salsa expanded to jazz level. If you are interested, I'd say that the records with which to start are Superimposition and The Sun of Latin Music.

Tomeka Reid Quartet – Old New

Eddie Palmieri – Justicia

I haven't read this, but cats do figure widely in the literature of mental illness. Phobia of cats is also a recognised thing and is closely linked to post-partum depression. My late grandma could not be in the same room or area as a cat. From the reactions above, I'm pretty sure that this is not what the article is about, though.

Nice one Oh wait. It isn't An Indian's Week! It's a new one. Is it a nice one?

Maybe "smooth jazz" is the wrong way to describe Eric Gale. More of a session musician / CTI guy who crossed over to radio jazz in the late 1970s, alongside others taking a similar trajectory. He was never "smooth jazz" in the sense of George Howard or Najee.

Sweet photograph. Shame that the poor family didn't have some warmer pun in their surname, but you take what you're given in life.

Smooth jazz guitarist. Late 70s / Early 80s. Not the same person, despite me having assumed they were for years.

One day science will identify a way to tell Eddie Gale and Eric Gale apart.

Anita O'Day / Cal Tjader – Time For 2

I'd like to know how much is needed for the year. I'll definitely be contributing but want to know how much

There've been some great recommendations. I've really been enjoying going through the music in the thread. Real deep stuff.

Thanks! Some great answers to the query on Watrous. Interesting to hear that there was such overlap between the jazz rock groups, the likes of Maynard Ferguson and the jazz education crowd. I'm not sure how well MWR has dated, but it certainly isn't bad. Some pretty impressive trombone work in there.

Was this record big at the time? I had never heard of it until recently but the contexts in which it comes up online suggests that it might have made a splash, perhaps with the Phil Woods attuned bop revival crowd at the time.

Oh no! A huge figure. RIP.

Moe Bandy - I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today

Nice. I hadn't realised it was Papo Lucca on this.

Did you sit through all of this?

Buck Clayton and Buddy Tate - Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues Six days in, fever finally seems to be passing. Wife and elder kids more or less on the mend again.

Well done (and already got it!).

I don't understand why the label was so consistently bad at faking Reid Miles covers for archival releases, at a time when any random jazz rap group with three fans seemed to be able to pull it off perfectly.

Thanks!