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Starting off a cool morning with some music I love! “Ella and Louis” 300×300 26.6 KB Recorded 16 August 1956 I’m listening to this music on this box set: 830×553 59 KB A master class in singing jazz duets!

Happy Birthday Louis! (And Obama. . . and me).

The Duke Ellington Orchestra*– On to Side 2 Black And Tan Fantasy Willie "The Lion" Smith– Echoes Of Spring 3:12 Jimmy Rushing With The Benny Goodman Orchestra*– Boogie Woogie 3:07 The Benny Goodman Orchestra*– Cherokee 3:23

Pops is going to be 124 years old tomorrow so I’m getting ready with Side 1 of this 2 LP set, three great tracks of Louis. “Newport Jazz Festival: Live (Unreleased Highlights From 1956, 1958, 1963)” Columbia 2 LP set. Followed by a track by Rex Stewart and one by Ben Webster.

Charles Mingus “East Coasting” Bethlehem/Solid UHQCD Japan Absolutely one of my favorite jazz albums.

Darren Johnston’s Gone to Chicago “THe Big Lift” Porto Franco cd

Freddie Hubbard “On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco” Resonance Records cd, disc 1

Tony Williams “The Story of Neptune” Blue Note cd Arranged By – Tony Williams Bass – Ira Coleman Drums – Tony Williams Piano – Mulgrew Miller Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Bill Pierce Trumpet – Wallace Roney Recorded at Power Station, NYC, on November 29, 30 and December 1, 1991

Elvis Prestey “From Elvis in Memphis” Legacy Edition disc 2 These Legacy Editions really do sound good. Nice mastering!

You're right, I have that one as well, like it a lot, forgot it was on this label.

Next, revisiting this second disc from the band Artemis. Artemis “Arboresque” Blue Note cd

A cool morning, it’s early, eerily quiet and still. I love living off the beaten path. Starting off with another disc from “Enjoying the Ride,” the most recent Grateful Dead big box set. Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89) (disc 3) 254×200 12.1 KB

I think this is Joshua Redman’s first for Blue Note, “Words Fall Short.” I really like it.

Blossom Dearie “Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott’s” Fontana/Universal Japan SHM-CD Such a great listen. For a Ronnie Scott’s recording, pretty darned good. Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals Jeff Clyne – double bass Johnny Butts – drums Recorded 1966

Jethro Tull “Still Living in the Past” cd 3 (mostly Steven Wilson 2025 remixes of sides 3 and 4 of the original 2 LP set)

Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra “1927-1928” Chronogical Classics cd BIX!!

Tonight at Noon, “To Mingus with Love” Prophone cd Hammond organ and horns Mingus!

Back at the stereo for a bit. Pulled out Dexter Gordon "Our Man in Paris" 24 Bit by RVG Blue Note Japan cd Earl "Bud" Powell on the piano chair makes this a special session. There are perhaps better sounding digital editions, but I still like this one, it's "earthy" sounding to me.

SF Jazz Collective “Live 2009 – 6th Annual Concert Tour – The Works Of McCoy Tyner Plus New Compositions” disc 1 Dave Douglas on trumpet, Joe Lovano on tenor, Renee Rosnes on piano, Robin Eubanks on trombone, Matt Penman on bass, and Eric Harland on drums

Starting off another deliciously cool morning with another disc from the Grateful Dead "Enjoying the Ride" 60th Anniversary box set, Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA (12/27/89) [b]disc 2[/b]

Miles Davis “Water Babies” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 I was so excited when this LP was first released. And I remain excited about this music!

Two different Kurt Elling albums. First: “Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling sings John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman” Then “Superblue: Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 2”

Bill Evans “Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest” Resonance 2 cd set, disc 2

Bob Dylan “Time Out of Mind” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 This is such an amazing, powerful album. The new remix is good, but I find that I prefer the original mix–maybe because I have had it so long, but maybe because the swampy density of the sound just seems appropriate for the material. I’ll never tire of this work–the songs, the sequencing, the mood.