paul secor

I guess that it's good for the young guys to celebrate (especially given the fact that, before the season started, many didn't expect them to do much this year), but it seems to me that the Yanks didn't used to celebrate until they had actually won something - like clinched their division.

Bennie Green: Back on the Scene

Happy Birthday!

Site is now gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/nyregion/a-composer-richard-alan-white-hester.html Check out the mention of the Jazz Loft near the bottom of the article.

Ben Webster: Did You Call? (Nessa) The best late period (say, post 1967) Ben that I've heard

My favorite Aaron Neville

It's always great to make a "find" like that.

The Last Metro - Soundtrack - Original Music Composed by Georges Delerue (DRG) plus recordings by RIna Ketty, Lucienne Delyle, and Leo Marjane

I'll definitely have to scan the Lester Bowie and Herbie Nichols essays, plus "The Buddy Bolden Case". The Bowie essay is the best thing I've ever read on Mr. Bowie's music. Anyone interested should check some or all of this out before it disappears. And thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Irma Thomas: Time Is on My Side (Kent)

Le Sacre du Printemps + Petrouchka

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/concord-music-group-acquires-famed-jazz-label-savoy-429-records-1202565443/ More music that they can sit on and do nothing with, at least as far as the general public is concerned.

The Olympics: All-Time Greatest Hits (DCC)

Johnny Otis Band: Be Bop Baby Blues (Night Train)

Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman

Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman - The Ultimate Collection Not "The Ultimate", but a solid collection of his most popular releases.

Basquiat!!!!!

Lonnie Johnson: Mr. Johnson's Blues 1926-1932 (Mamlish)

Pee Wee Crayton: Blues After Dark - The Sunset Blues Band & The VeeJay Years (Charly) Gerald Wilson plays some very good bluesy piano on the Sunset Blues Band sides.

Muhal Richard Abrams: 1-QOA+19 (Black Saint)

Monk: Genius of Modern Music Volume Two

Eddie "Buster" Forehand: Looking for a Home (Sequel)

It would usually be difficult for me to single out one "best" track of my week's listening too.