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Wayne Escoffery “Vortex” Sunnyside Records cd Wanted to hear this one again before putting it back into the shelves. A good one!

Duke Ellington “Harlem” Pablo/OJC cd HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUKE! Recorded live at The Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden March 9, 1964.

“Vanessa Da Mata” cd

Cecil Taylor “Unit Structures” Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

Birthday boy looking good.

I still buy new books. . . though a good amount of the time I have been buying them from Daedalus Books which are cut-outs etc. at reduced prices. They often have books I am interested in reading. Also I've been buying some books from favorites Rex Stout and A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner), which are newly re-published titles that have been out of print for fifty years or more that Hard Case Crime et al have been printing.

Art Tatum “Jewels in the Treasure Box–The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings” Resonance Records 3 cd set, disc 1 What an exciting release! A great trio in great sound (for a 1953 club recording).

Magos Herrera “Whispering Orchids” cd

Theo Hill “Reality Check” Posi-Tone cd Theo Hill - piano; Rhodes; synthesizer Joel Ross - vibraphone Rashaan Carter - bass; electric bass Mark Whitfield Jr. - drums This one has grown on me. I like it more now than I did when I bought it a few years ago. Joel Ross was the attraction, and he contributes strongly.

I watched and enjoyed the first season, have the other two, will have to get around to watching them sometime soon. Currently enjoying Pierce in "Elsbeth."

I’ve been wanting to revisit this newest from Joel Ross, one of my favorites of the new cats, but it got lost in a few stacks of new arrivals. Found it! Great disc. Joel Ross “nublues” Blue Note cd

“Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil” Verve Originals cd Intriguing arrangements (and piano) by Clare Fischer.

Woke up to warmth! Lucinda and I had a wonderful warm evening with my brothers and most of their family last night, feeling really good today. Starting off with Grateful Dead, Veneta OR 1972 “Sunshine Daydream” box set, cd 3 560×561 58.6 KB Followed by Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon “In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album” Jazz Detective cd This is a short but sweet fun album. Joe Moondragon’s electric bass is a highlight.

Billie Holiday “The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters” 3 cd set, disc 3 This is the best I’ve heard this material on cd. And what material!

Antonio Carlos Jobim “Tom Canta Vinicius – Ao Vivo” cd Beautiful late Jobim. 600×526 64.4 KB

Kenny Burrell “Stormy Monday Blues” Fantasy/OJC cd Also contains the album “Sky Street”

It's a great volume in that series.

Then you want this one, which also has the great sessions with Nat King Cole and Una Mae Carlisle. https://www.discogs.com/release/14876055-Lester-Young-Volume-2-1939-1942-The-Complementary-Works

All that material is out there on cd, for example on Masters of Jazz Lester Young and Basie cds, but I don't know of ONE cd that would have it all.

Betty Carter “It’s Not about the Melody” Verve cd (With today’s change it is like hearing this cd for the first time in subtle ways. Wow. And I LOVE this cd.) 960×813 232 KB

Sonny Rollins “A Night at the Village Vanguard” 2 cd set Blue Note US 2024 Released today a new version of this material purportedly from a better tape than any before. It does really sound good. Does it sound better than my previous favorite, the Japanese “24 Bit by RVG” complete edition? Maybe, but I love the sound of that one (too).

I splurged and got the new re-pressing of the Thelonious Monk “Tenor” albums 7 LP box set from Analogue Productions. I had sold a few things, and bought it on impulse. I didn’t have any audiophile versions of these albums and had not listened to them (in the Complete Riverside Recordings cd box set) for some time. . . maybe I should not have, but there you go. Listening to the first LP, “Brilliant Corners,” which is here in the mono mix. Sounds great with my current phono set up. Mastering by Kevin Gray and the pressing are excellent. I broke my rule about spending money on new LP reissues, but I always wanted this when it was first released on either LP or cd and couldn’t afford it then. . . I sortof can now. 800×786 85.2 KB

Another cold morning. Starting off with some collective heat. SF JAZZ COLLECTIVE — THE MUSIC OF JOE HENDERSON AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS disc 1

Good stuff. This Lester and Lee stuff is also on Masters of Jazz (Media 7) Lester Young Vol. 2 (1939-1942) which is surprisingly cheaper to get than I would have thought.