JohnS

Yesterday. Prompted to play this after finishing Szwed's Miles Davis book Then back to the source Complete on the Corner, Disc 4.

Yesterday Great record with a dream team, Olu Dara, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille.

Serious stuff.

The sad news keeps coming. Fortunately I did get to see him in London leading a terrific nine or ten piece group. Memorable.

Some very nice Murray here. Sparkling piano from John Hicks and top notch playing from Ray Drummond and idris Muhammad. Branford Marsalis guests on two tracks..

Very nice set. Another gteat set.

With Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Jack DeJohnette Better than Blackjack Bill.

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Yesterday

Yep. I'm not sure I'd go for Brown Vinyl (Tatum), beige/yellow with black splatters (Ellington, Strayhorn), pink and white marbled (Garner), yellow with orange splatter (Getz). and so on.

RIP Fats. I'm pretty sure that Fats was the first black American music I heard back in the mid 50s as a teenager.

Splatter vinyl seems to be in vogue here.

Soulpope mentioned this the other day. Disc 1. Reunion.

Me too.

Moved on to Disc 2

The Jazz at the Academy tracks. Shame about the fake applause.

Agreed.

Sadly I'm not really up to making London gigs these days. Iwould have loved the opportunity to see the wonderful Hugh Ragin again. Fortunately I can think back 30 years or more to seeing the AEOC on two occasions, The atmosphere at the Roundhouse for their first appearance was absolutely electric - unforgetable.

Still sounds amazing.

A good one. I only came across it recently.