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Miles Davis “Round About Midnight” Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD 640×640 42.9 KB Followed by Carmen McRae “Bitter Sweet” Focus/KOCH cd. (A great Carmen record). 639×628 77 KB

Kenny Burrell “Night Song” Verve Japan SHM-CD UCCU-8064 Despite the nocturnal title, great Saturday afternoon music. That guitar tone!

Carmen McRae “Velvet Soul” Laserlight cd Pairs two Sonny Lester produced LPs on Groove Merchant from the early 'seventies. Carmen in pure jazz settings. . . can’t beat that. She was a master.

Herbie Hancock “Maiden Voyage” 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile cd from Blue Note Japan.

Dexter Gordon. So many new live releases have come out this century. . . I have a ton of Long Tall Dexter now.

Joe Lovano with Gunther Schuller “Rush Hour” Blue Note cd Orchestra arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller.

Greg Spero “The Chicago Experiment” Some cool stuff. Greg Spero (piano) Makaya McCraven (drums) Marquis Hill (trumpet) Joel Ross (vibraphone) Jeff Parker (guitar) Darryl Jones (bass) Irvin Pierce (tenor sax)

I really like this one as a collection of early material in excellent sound. https://www.discogs.com/release/8244446-Lee-Wiley-The-Complete-Young-Lee-Wiley-1931-1937 And this is a great collection: https://www.discogs.com/release/12313526-Lee-Wiley-Live-On-Stage-Town-Hall-New-York

Lee Wiley With Billy Butterfield And His Orchestra “A Touch Of The Blues” RCA Victor Japan 24bit K2 remastered lp facsimile cd. Now, I think I prefer the darker, richer sound of young Lee Wiley, BUT this album is amazing. Butterfield and the arrangements and Orchestra make a divine pocket for Lee to fit in, and her expressive nature has matured so gracefully, and that vibrato has crystalized–she reminds me of Bechet in having a strong personal vibrato signature. There are great tunes chosen here as well. I’ve always loved the Louis Armstrong tune “Someday You’ll be Sorry” and she does a great rendition of the Jack Teagarden signature tune “A Hundred Years from Today.” And this disc really sounds great. Sounds best with the phase reversed on my DAC.

We're different people. I'm not a late night person, and my dog wakes me up early. (When I was performing in two bands on drums it was agony to me--to be out late and have to get up early to go to work, one night at the drums messed my balance up for a few days.) My wife continues sleeping, for three or so hours, so I listen to music, I'm very happy to have music playing while the world is so quiet and slowly coming to life. I don't have breakfast or coffee until my wife awakens. I love the Blackhawk material. It was among the first Miles I picked up and digested after getting into Miles via his first three electric years or so. I don't find the trumpet playing weak, I love Wynton Kelly and PC and Jimmy Cobb as a section, and Mobley imo really does well here. I couldn't disagree more about the transitional early 'sixties period. So be it. We're all different.

So great to not have to be listening to headphones this morning. Miles Davis “In Person, Friday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco Vol.1” Sony SICP-3963 Fantastic music. This and it’s Vol.2 companion will be issued on Blu-Spec CD2 for the first time in about 4 weeks.

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “The Sesjun Shows, Vol. 1” Solid Records Japan cd I used to overlook later Blakey but that has proven to be a mistake. The man led good bands to the end.

Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff “Kirk’s Work” Prestige/Universal Japan RVG cd 2023 652×978 136 KB Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren Jack McDuff – Hammond organ Joe Benjamin – bass Arthur Taylor – drums Followed by Arnett Cobb “The Wild Man from Texas” Black & Blue/Solid Records Japan cd It’s easy to identify the Black & Blue Records sound in the first minute. The Texas Tenor swinging with lto Saxophone – Earl Warren* Bass – Roland Lobligeois Drums – Panama Francis Organ, Vibraphone – Milt Buckner Piano – André Persiany Tenor Saxophone – Eddie Chamblee Trombone – Buster Cooper Trumpet – Wallace Davenport

Eddie Harris “Live In Berlin At The Jazzclub Quasimodo” Timeless/Solid Records Japan cd Ralph Peterson shining on bass! Very “live” sound.

J. R. Monterose “Body and Soul” Munich/Solid Records Japan cd Bass – Henk Haverhoek Drums – Pierre Courbois Piano – Rein De Graaff Tenor Saxophone – J.R. Monterose Trumpet – Jon Eardley Recorded: January 31, 1970 (at the Auditorium of Wageningen Agricultural University). The most “Coltrane-like” I’ve heard Monterose.

Pat Martino “El Hombre” Prestige/Universal Japan RVG cd 2023

Spotlite did put this out which I remember seeing in the 'nineties. . . may be hard to find now: https://www.discogs.com/release/3734959-Charlie-Parker-Bird-Lives-The-Complete-Dial-Masters

Ricardo Bacelar “Sebastiana”

Grateful Dead “Grayfolded” disc 1 A headphone listen as one of my 300B tubes died on Monday. . . after only 3 months of use, a real bummer. But . . . this one is made for headphones in important ways. Always a trip.

She was an amazing singer. Period. You have a lot to catch up on but you got there. Awesome! I have the complete Columbia set that unfortunately is way out of print. In important ways my favorite Aretha.

Eddie Lockjaw Davis Nice Jazz 1978" Black & Blue/Solid Records Japan cd Lots of swing stars. Alto Saxophone – Eddie Vinson Bass – Major Holley Drums – Alan Dawson, JC Heard Piano – Gerry Wiggins, Hank Jones, Roland Hanna Tenor Saxophone – Eddie Davis, Illinois Jacquet, Paul Bascomb Trombone – Vic Dickenson Trumpet – Harry Edison Recorded live at the Nice Jazz Festival, July 7, 8, 9, 10 & 15, 1978.

Miles Davis "The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965" 2023 Sony SACD edition, disc 3