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Charlie Parker - Bird at St. Nick's - (Jazz Workshop, orig)

Hal Singer - Blues & News - (Futura, FR)

Lovely. Too bad the second LP from the 1980s didn't really hold up, though it is a curious document. Would love to have been a fly on the wall for his stand in Don Cherry's group.

ECM has put out a LOT of records. It's almost impossible to comprehend. I mostly just have earlier titles, though have enjoyed some recent ones (especially the Cyrille). Other than Steve Reich LPs (dig) and the occasional Pärt (not a fan), I've not spent any time with New Series music.

I don't think most of us have won 100 of anything in a row (not even eBay auctions). Pretty phenomenal.

Did not know his own music well but understood his significant place in the German/European jazz pantheon. RIP.

ah, too bad.

yeah, I'd heard on social media about that. Pretty fascinating legacy, whatever one thinks of the particulars (esp. around finance).

Wow, RIP. Seems rather young too but he accomplished a ton in his time on earth.

b/w hello Jazzmoose!

that is AWESOME.

yeah, it's pretty hard to deny the quality of that work (and I do prefer the more arch sonic explorations of P.S.). It's not teenybopper pap... or at least not all of it.

Beach Boys Love You is a good record. Pet Sounds, Smile, All Summer Long -- wonderful music.

You can learn a lot about art forms by exploring the margins, though.

Totally. I've become far less doctrinaire in my listening as I've aged, and I think part of that is due to this message board... which I hope would find a lot of commonality with Mats' varied collection (I'm told by a shopowner who knows him that it is close to 15,000 pieces) if not his own playing.

Little Richard is AWESOME.

wow. RIP.

Exactly.

Yeah, random recent acquisition I wasn't expecting to find... it's really something to have on LP (I'd heard a CD version years and years ago).

Charles Mingus - The Complete Birdland Sessions - (BAT, IT, record 2 of 4)

Wow! Looking forward to this material. I have the Air LP (classic) and the rest looks spectacular.

^ yeah, that's a GREAT one.

off-topic but an interesting question, as it's true you don't see much in terms of vault material from that era. Which is weird because he led some great bands and had a serious book.