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Billy Bang Sextet: The Fire from Within (Soul Note)

On an interview with Trane on the Miles/Trane Stockholm 1960 LPs, he says that Blue Trane is his favorite of all of the records he'd recorded under his own name up to that point in time.

I wasn't aware that he had been around this long until a friend emailed me his obituary.

Marion Brown Quartet (ESP) Original issue with Bennie Maupin on "Exhibition"

R & B drummer/bandleader who recorded with his own band and with Frank Motley: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=184970574

Amos Milburn: Chicken Shack Boogie (Aladdin/Pathe Marconi)

Damsels in Distress - Whit Stillman Like a Woody Allen film minus intelligence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/arts/music/chuck-berry-funeral.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&action=click&contentCollection=arts&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0 Good to read that people were thankful that he kept his roots in St. Louis, rather than leaving for NY or LA.

Another . Some great music on those Felsteds.

Good stuff!

Charlie Parker: The Washington Concerts

Uncle Miltie Cousin Mary Papa John

Miles & Trane: Live in Stockholm, 1960 (Dragon)

According to Hampton Hawes' autobiography, Raise Up Off Me, Sonny Clark "played the ending on one of the tracks because I was in the bathroom fixing again." It's possible (probable?) that Hawes' memory may have been faulty and that Clark plays on the entire tune. I don't have the record.

Happy Birthday!

Ray Drummond Tom Tom Club Stix Hooper

Kind of Blue - mono

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Yazoo)

Tim Berne Sanctified Dreams

Dick Hyman: Scott Joplin - Piano Works 1899 - 1904

Jaki Byard Trio: Foolin' My self (Soul Note)

King of the Road 18 Wheeler Driver Eddie Burns

Listened to this again - this time at home, rather than in the car. Sounded much better at home - more of the sound and nuances of Carter's horn caught my ear - as to be expected. A friend once gave me some advice about Benny Carter: Don't listen to him the same way you'd listen to Bird, expecting the same kind of invention. Obvious advice, but I needed to hear it. Even so, I have some problems listening to Benny Carter. At times, what I hear is a hip dance band sax player. At other times, I hear a Woody Allen soundtrack - which is ok, but not what I really want to hear. Then, as this afternoon at home, I hear a masterful jazz saxophonist. I guess that Benny Carter is a lot of different guys for me. Or, perhaps, I'm a lot of different guys.