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What about those 6 or 7 mid-‘70’s Ahmad Jamal albums on 20th Century Fox? Inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, filled with the trappings of the period, probably pretty dated at this point, but I always enjoyed them. (The only thing from that period that seems to have been out is that “Oil Can Harry’s,” which was available at one point.)

The first record I ever bought was “Steamin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet,” which had just got a rave review in “Hi Fi/Stereo Review.” But thanks to the Columbia Record Club, we had lots of jazz - Jazz Lab Quintet, Miles “Porgy and Bess,” several of those Columbia anthologies (“Jazz Omnibus,” “I Like Jazz,” those kind of things) and from the Capitol Record Club (among other titles) Dakota Staton’s “Time to Swing.” Hip neighbors lent us the big Jazz LP’s of the day, stuff like Shelly Maine’s “My Fair Lady” and “Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing.” As for Jeff Goldblum... He does have maybe an unexpected repertoire - “The Kicker” and “Nostalgia in Times Square” show up in his albums. But, then, the Tijuana Brass did “Work Song”... Goldblum’s piano playing is in the style of Steve Allen.

Laws plays tenor on Harold Mabern’s “Greasy Kids Stuff.”

A few years ago I asked Michael Cuscuna why he never did anything with the “Live” Captitol material (the sextet with Lloyd), he said that was on his list before the bottom fell out of the business. Besides uncovering more from the date, he really wanted to deal with the clumsy edits on the released version.

I saw Green many times (the group with Claude Bartee) up at the Crawford Grill... EVERY tune was a half hour!

No details as yet.

Years ago I had a sampler on United Artists of cuts from some of their current albums (Lloyd G. Mayer's "Taste of Honey," something from Jerome Richardson's movie album, tracks by Herbie Mann, Billie Holiday)... Most of the original albums have been reissued in the CD era. But one of the best cuts was by a singer named Danny Small. The track was "At Sunrise," from a LP called something like "Woman, She Was Born From Sorrow." Never did see a copy, and its apparently long forgotten. Looking around the internet it appears Small is still alive (as of a few years ago, anyway) and making his living singing in the subway. Anyone here familiar with him?

Just picked up Jackie McLean's disco/fusion RCA album "Monuments," which apparently is part of another one of those Japanese reissue series. Anyone know anything about this? (Must be something about this on here somewhere, but no luck finding it.)

The Barbara Carroll title (called "Barbara Carroll" - pretty lazy) is on CD, saw it on Amazon recently. As I recall, some of it was pretty good.

So far (and what do I know?) I can only find this as a download on streaming services. Seems like the kind of release that would benefit from documentation , liner notes, some information. What am I missing?

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

Off the top of my head, "England's Carol" (MJQ &Orchestra), "Winter Wonderland" on Hank Crawford's "Got a Good Thing Going" (that album's highlight, for what that's worth), "We Free Kings".... Material that hasn't shown up on those endless holiday compilations.

A "digital box set" (huh?) of Jimmy Smith singles? Does that exist?

A track from each of these LP's showed up on a compilation of material from Douglas's UA albums a couple years ago. And many years ago on the Tonight Show, Paul Schafer played the Nelson arrangement of "Honey" with the Carson house band - he mentioned "the great Oliver Nelson," no mention of Mayer, even though his solo had a few of Mayer's licks from the album.

"Pyramid," on the MJQ album of the same name.

Russell Martin's father played sax during rush hours in the Montreal subway, which allowed him to have his days free to work with his son on baseball. He gave Russell the middle name of his favorite saxaphone player. Martin's made a big contibution to the Pirates' season - currently in the division lead, although Pirates' fans aren't getting their hopes up just yet...

I picked this up a couple of days ago, but haven't put it on yet - all those Jimmy Garrison solos are scaring me off! (AS much as I like Garrison, those long solos usually bring the proceedings to a standstill, and I rarely play those later Coltrane albums where they seem to show up. Maybe this release will force me to reevaluate my position.)

Now that EMI's music business is being divided up, where's Blue Note? Up for grabs?

Regarding "Natural Illusions"... Dull, for sure, but my main problem with it is that it sounds cheap - like they tried to get by with a couple violin players and thought with overdubbing they could be passed off as a string section.

Some Japanese Blue Notes - "Linger Lane," "Silver N' Brass," "Carnival of the Spirits," and Charles Llpyd, "Voice In the Night."

"Zoot Sims in Paris" (an album I've wanted ever since I read the 5 star review in DownBeat 50 years ago!!) and Walter Bishop Jr., "Coral Keys/"

Any suggestions as to where to start? I have little under his own name, and not sure where to begin. Like Ellington, he recorded over several decades, so it's a little overwhelming... Thanks!

Looking at this Steely Dan box set (from the mid-'90's) - Keith Jarrett shares a composer's credit on "Gaucho." First time I noticed that. (I also see Ray Brown's name in there somewhere on an early album.)

Wynton Marsalis' "Crescent City Christmas." (The only album of his I actually listen to.)

Just picked up the Russell "New Directions" and the Calvin Keys- the Russell is pretty much as I remembered it, in the 3 Sounds vein - some pop tunes of the day and a couple hip tunes that hadn't been done to death. The Keys is new to me, it's okay, when it's good it's very good, but it's a mixed bag; I know it has a strong reputation among some, not sure I'm on board yet. But the 2 Rudolph Johnson's - don't miss them.