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Jackie McLeann “Jackie’s Bag” Blue Note Japan RVG Edition cd 2023 600×600 115 KB Both sessions are great, the second with Tina Brooks on board. Tina Brooks . . . so sad we didn’t have him long enough.

I forgot how interesting this album is. Poindexter and Ervin are great front line sharers here, and my one complaint is that Al Gray is not on every track on this disc. This edition from Japan does not have the extra material on the US cd (which was not part of this session). Pony Poindexter and Booker Ervin “Gumbo” Prestige Japan lp facsimile cd 660×660 53.6 KB Followed by “Fats Sadi’s Vibe” Fresh Sound cd 800×800 199 KB I don’t have too much Fats outside of the Clark Boland Big Band and small group sides, so this is a welcome compilation. I generally listen to music most in the early hours of the morning as I wake up early with the dog and squeeze in three hours or so before my wife awakens. To me it doesn't matter what I play during these hours and there's not a "right time" for an album for me. . . but I've been retired over fifteen years now and there's fewer hours when something is significant for me in the way when I had a working schedule. Even though I had more hours to lisen in the years before my wife retired this year. . . I never have had enough time to listen and enjoy my stereo systems. What would our lives be without music, creating (I do vanishingly less of that as time goes by) and listening!

Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” Mono Blu-Spec CD2 from the 2023 2 cd Blu-Spec CD2 title.

“Hank Mobley” Blue Note RVG Japan SHM-CD This one sounds better with phase reversed to me.

Grant Green “Am I Blue?” US RVG Blue Note cd This one gets little love, but I really do like it myself.

Like Dan I wouldn't RELY on the car's safety/warning features, but they can be very helpful.

Cool. I differ strongly, I love her signing and her evolving production choices. Her politics not so much, but it's hardly in the music if at all.

Yes, he shines as well.

Interesting. While I do like to hear Ellington compositions by others they are really not a substitute for the "real thing" for me. The Ellington Orchestra is an amazing musical organization. There's a slop in their presentation, just a dollop, that makes them unique for me--tightness in tension with a little looseness. And Ellington and Strayhorns arrangements are always interesting and I love how they are framed for soloists and how the soloists and the framing changes over the years. And there are instrumental voicings that just floor me with their uniqueness and beauty. I think if I were isolated to a deserted island I'd wish I had a lot of Ellington recordings with me. . . I'd leave a lot of others' behind if I could bring more Duke.

Dexter Gordon “Our Man in Paris” Blue Note Japan RVG SHM-CD 2023 600×597 121 KB Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke! Followed by E.S.T. Live in Gothenburg, record 1 800×800 129 KB

Bill Evans “The Sesjun Radio Shows Vol. 1” Solid Records Japan cd 598×601 43.8 KB From the All Music Guide: [i]The first five tracks are from a duo tour with the phenomenal bassist Eddie Gomez, who spent over 11 years with the pianist. The absence of a drummer (Marty Morell was evidently not a part of this tour, though he played with Evans into 1974) gives Evans a more intimate sound; Evans seemed to achieve an incredible E.S.P. playing with the talented Gomez. Following a buoyant opener, “Up with the Lark,” the duo’s moving setting of Evans’ bittersweet, lyrical “Time Remembered” is a reminder of the pianist’s total mastery of ballads, as is his equally touching “The Two Lonely People.” There are plenty of fireworks in the pianist’s “T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)” as the two musicians use his dissonant theme as a jumping-off point for brilliant improvisations. The 1975 set adds drummer Eliot Zigmund, who spent four years with Evans. In these trio selections, the pianist introduces each theme alone, though it is a diverse five-song set. Evans’ upbeat “Sugar Plum” showcases the leader extensively, with the rhythm section coming in several minutes later. There were several modern pop songs that drew the pianist’s attention, including Bobbie Gentry’s “Mornin’ Glory” (which incorrectly lists Glen Campbell as co-writer), which Evans transformed into a potent jazz ballad. Evans’ “T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two)” is even more demanding than its predecessor, with the trio navigating its pitfalls with ease in a wild, breezy performance.

Started the day off with the breezy sounds of trombonist Vittor Santos “Renewed Impressions/Renovando As Consideracoes” cd on Adventure Music. I love this cd! Followed by the Verve Acoustic Sounds series Japanese SHM-SACD of “Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.” Sublime sounding disc, music that I have cherished a few decades. 600×600 57.4 KB Followed by “Chico Buarque Songbook Vol. 6” Lumair cd

I went to a car audio store and tried five different USB equiped cd players that they offered to see if one would work in my wife's Honda. All skipped with the car sitting in a parking lot within ten minutes of use. The owner said that is not uncommon at all--it's very hard to find one that works and one that works well in one car may not in another. Gave up. My wife doesn't mind not having a cd player. I listen to NPR instead.

Miles Davis “The Complete Plugged Nickel 1965” Sony SACD box set 2023, disc 6

“Introducing Roland Kirk and featuring Ira Sullivan” Argo/GRP cd 800×789 180 KB Every time I hear RRK I’m amazed at what he could do initially and then I’m just lost in the music he creates.

Art Pepper “Unreleased Vol. 10: Toronto” 3 cd set, disc 1 Art Pepper with Bernie Senensky, David Piltch, Gene Perla, Terry Clarke at Bourbon Street in Toronto, June 16 1977

Ed Motta “Behind the Tea Chronicles” This one is both pure Motta and a bit enigmatic. Re-spinnings are enjoyable however. 1024×577 63.3 KB

Didn't really seem that way to me.

No other info. Politically she's been way right of center the last ten years or so it seems. She did that Billie Holiday tribute album, an Austin City Limits show (loved them both) and then. . . crickets. I wish her well, we're nearly the same age and I've always loved her work.

Right now a young trumpeter I am beginning to really love, Jason Palmer. “Songbook” on AYVA cd Jason Palmer (tp), Ravi Coltrane (ts), Greg Osby (as), Warren Wolf (vib), Leo Genovese (p & Fender Rhodes), Matt Brewer (b), Tommy Crane (d)

Keep an eye out, they just reprinted Aqualung, Songs from the Woods and maybe others and they are back at list price or less. I picked up Songs from the Woods which was the only one that I had missed and I was not going to pay three to four to five times list price for it.

Her eyebrows certainly don't bother me--they seem more natural than many "plucked" eyebrows do. My wife says I don't really have a type and that's true except that I prefer brunettes (and am married to a brunette who dyes her hair blonde because she hates the gray--I don't.) I think honestly as far as having someone who shares my life I look for a lovely voice. A woman is going to talk, and if you don't like her voice. . . well it's not a wonderful thing. "The one that got away," a woman of Mexican descent, has the most wonderful warm, silky voice, like a clarinet in the chalimeau region. . . I miss hearing that voice so much.

Ray Charles “Genius+Soul=Jazz” Impulse/Verve Acoustic Sound Series LP 800×800 43.8 KB I’ve had this in other analog and digital versions, it always sounds good but this record is a little step above the others. Followed by E.S.T. “Live in Gothenburg” LP 1 1024×921 119 KB

Jordi Savall "Marin Marais -- Pieces for Viol: Selections from the Five Books" SACD box set, disc 2 I'm a big fan of Savall and the viol de gamba and should play his discs more often. Great sound on this box set.