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Agreed about servicing. And I may not be quite as vigilant about keeping up with all manner of historical releases and reissues as I have been in the past--this board and other forms of social media are helpful in that regard. I'm also fortunate that my local record store does a great job of displaying such titles of interest--that's how I found out that the Pullen/Graves Yale concert had finally been reissued on CD. It's also hard at times to keep up with the flood of new material by modern-day artists. Re Monk Palo Alto, I've always stayed away, in my own year-end lists, from any kind of ranking. I'll add these to the listener-and-reader-suggestions list. Hadn't heard of them, so thanks for the heads-up... I am a Rivers fan.

Great article--thanks so much for posting. (Full disclosure that I've been asked to vote in this poll for the past several years.)

That one somehow slipped by me... I'm sure I missed discussion of it here on the board. Btw I've added posters' suggestions and favorites here to the bottom of the post (as I did for last year's program). Also tacked on the Blakey, which was one that made it into the show, but which I inadvertently left off the overall list. Best Historical Releases 2020

I actually have the set but got it so late in the year that I've listened only to the first 1-2 discs so far. Thought about listing it simply on the basis of that and how much I enjoyed the first set, but didn't feel right including it at this point... will probably append it to the 2021 list.

One 2020 flashback that's hopefully more enjoyable than the year in general (granted, a low bar to clear): Best Historical Releases 2020 Also realizing that I'm long past due figuring out a way to incorporate exclusively vinyl reissues (such as Blue Note's Tone Poet series) into these surveys. I can't honestly feature or say anything about them, because I don't buy new vinyl (for a variety of reasons)* and such releases never get serviced to radio (at least that I'm aware of). But I'm certainly aware that vinyl is the more popular format now for reissues and archival recordings. I may just start posting a general supplementary list of LPs that came out in the past year, more as a reference point than anything else. *Rare exceptions made for titles like the Sonny Clark trio album that came out on Record Store Day a couple of years ago and was initially announced as vinyl-only, though it was subsequently released on CD as well.

Recorded and released in 1987, sounding all too timely right now: (Listening to the bonus disc now from the 2-CD version that got reissued a few years ago--a kinetic 1987 concert in Europe)

Happy to have at last gotten a copy of this:

Such great, great news!

With Herbie so much in the air these past two days:

Listening to Anatomy Of A Murder last night left me in the mood to hear more 1956-62 Ellington on Columbia:

Hey, yes, it's authentic--I listened live yesterday when Jason premiered it on YouTube, and it's amazing! Glad to see that it's still available for all to enjoy... well worth it for any devotees of Nichols (and I know there are more than a few on the board here). Near the end there are some notated sheets of Herbie's shown for a tune called "52nd St. Rag," with which I'm unfamiliar... has anybody recorded it?

We re-aired Swingers: Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine, And Jazz this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Amazon does list a CD, praise the deity of your choice. But yeah, several new releases I've taken a pass on, jazz and otherwise, in the past year or two because they were available only as downloads or vinyl.

Been there twice, to see Vijay Iyer’s sextet and Maria Schneider’s orchestra. Very nice venue—hope they’re able to hold on.

Will definitely be picking this up, assuming that it’s available as a CD.

Reading V. 1 of Derrick Bang’s Crime and Spy Jazz books spurred me to pull this one out:

For Sunday evening:

...and on to peak Husker Du--from 1984-85 stretch of albums that also produced Zen Arcade and New Day Rising:

Oh man, that's a beautiful record--just listened to it again a few months ago. Continuing my revisitation of 1980s indie:

Bertrand, thanks so much for all of the above.

... and evidently still very much underway. Hope it makes it to the marketplace! Honestly, whatever Mosaic releases from now on is gravy afaic. They’ve been around for close to 40 years, and while I’m rooting for them to keep it going ad infinitum, I’m also cognizant of the factors that make an extended run beyond the next few years more unlikely than not.

Same here--I don't tend to group him with the Young Lions, although his stint with Blakey in the mid-1980s might tend to encourage a glint of association with said artists. But he'd already spent significant time with Betty Carter and Woody Shaw by the time he joined the Messengers, and musically he always struck me as less slavishly reverent towards previous styles than most of the Young Lions.