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I'm a sucker for ANY version of "Israel," with the Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio version foremost in my mind. Does anybody know of a later version that tries to replicate Carisi's counterpoints in the second chorus? The Charlie Parker + Strings version of "Rocker" is fun. There's a lyricized Mark Murphy version of "Boplicity" that didn't make me switch off the radio, which would have been my usual reaction to Murphy (sorry, fans).

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Y'know, when I was 12 years old, those Eleganza ads seemed soooo cool. Not that I bought the clothes, mind you.

Title track for me. The contrast of the rubato and groove sections gives it a cogent form. Teo's concept of looping certain passages works perfectly. And the trumpet playing slays me.

Say, have you heard about this exciting new artist named MATT DUSK?

Another Prez lift: There's a riff blues on "Sonny Stitt-Bud Powell-J.J. Johnson" (originally on Prestige, now OJCCD-009-2) that's built on the first phrase of his "Jive at Five" solo with Basie. I forget the title, and I'm away from home right now and can't check it.

Not a lower rung on the food ladder. This stuff is the sarcophagus inside the food pyramid.

I was late to the Jamal party. Didn't get there until "Digital Works" and "Rossiter Road." But oh, how I love those records! Here's one that few people seem to know about: Ahmad Jamal with the Assai Quartet, on the Roesch label, RR0042. The string-quartet arrangements work surprisingly well, and there's some revealing solo-piano material here too. KH1958 is right: Jamal has a telepathic relationship with James Cammack.

Yesterday, at a garage sale: Yummy vinyl of "A Jazz Message," Art Blakey Quartet (the Impulse date with McCoy Tyner and Sonny Stitt), and "Ella in Hamburg" (not sure I want to hear what she does with "A Hard Day's Night"). Today: Morton Feldman, "Words and Music," to a Samuel Beckett text.

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Crossed the 20 threshold last year, and ain't no goin' back now.

Absolutely! Bobby Watson's "Post-Motown Bop" is one of his 2 or 3 best albums. I'm also inordinately fond of Jack Walrath's "Master of Suspense" and "Neohippus." Michel Petrucciani's "Power of Three" is a masterwork. McCoy Tyner's "Revelations" might also be one. The albums from Ralph Peterson and Geri Allen, all very fine, came from the Somethin' Else label in Japan. Maybe they'll be reissued over there. But the others, from BN/USA, might be in an undeserved reissue limbo for a long, long time. Alas, some of the titles probably DO deserve to be in reissue limbo. The Hubbard and Turrentine titles were big disappointments.

No room here for McKinney's Cotton Pickers? And don't forget the undersung Roland Hanna.

We're three pages into this and nobody's mentioned Coleman Hawkins! The godfather of all saxophone tone. Another one you can recognize right from the first note.

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Saw Tom last week. He's been working on a political campaign, home repairs and job hunting. His cable modem's been messed up, though. Still the same Tom -- just not online at the moment. He shall return.

Subtle? I resent that!

My favorite Terence disc too. Played it again recently, after not hearing it for years, and found it to be even better than I remembered. There's a typo in the credits on the cover. The pianist is Bruce Barth.

Maybe someday we'll be calling him Oran "Hot Lips" Coltrane. (I want to personally thank all three readers who will get this joke.)

You know who's the only singer I've ever heard live who was brave enough to tackle "Laura"? Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. I kid you not. Sang it beautifully too.

How many discs in your set, Guy? I've got a couple of these as stray singles, and I wonder how many I'm missing. Number 45!!