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The Persuasions: Live in the Whispering Gallery (Hammer n' Nails) Listening to "Place in the Sun" brought back memories of Jimmy Hayes' recent passing.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday - Wherever You Be!

I was watching some extra features from one of the Sherlock seasons, and one of the difficult things that Cumberbatch mentioned about playing the part is that he had to speak some of the lines when Holmes is thinking as fast as the character's thoughts would come. He would have to speak them almost without thinking, which would seem incredibly hard to do.

Yardbird in Lotus Land (Spotlite)

Louie De Palma Latka Gravas Jim Ignatowski

Money No Be sand (Original Music) A fascinating document showing how Nigerian (and a few Ghanaian) bands appropriated music from other cultures - calypso, rock steady and ska, soul and funk, Congolese guitar, British folk, and rock and roll, and made all of it their own music. It ends with a female vocalist singing the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down" against metal percussion instruments - and it works beautifully. The compilation was put together by John Storm Roberts for his Original Music label. He is missed.

OK - at least two, then.

Charlie Parker: Bird Meets Birks (ZuZazz)

Larry Young: Mother Ship

Some Savoy EP 45's - Ike Quebec, Lennie Tristano, Don Byas, Sonny Stiit, and Jay Jay Johnson I wonder how many copies of the Tristano 45 Savoy sold.

The Cecil Taylor Unit (New World)

Melvin Rhyne: Kojo (Criss Cross)

Have the LP. Not quite up there with the Trane LP - what could be? - but still up there.

Happy Birthday 2017!

Happy Birthday!

King Curtis: Night Train

Mopsy Flopsy Cottontail

John Coltrane: Stellar Regions

I recall enjoying it in a theatre when it was released. I look forward to seeing it again.

Percy Mayfield: Poet of the Blues

Cowboy Junkies: The Trinity Session

Sort of the reverse of the solo piano albums on Trio that she produced. Al Haig, Roland Hanna, and Tommy Flanagan, iirc. - each record was dedicated to one composer and Helen Merrill sang on one track on each.

Quartets 2, 4, & 6