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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.

It's actually not a Sun Ra thing at all!

I haven’t been doing a great job of chronicling my listening lately. Been busy. . .some home disasters like a 20 plus year old washing machine needing repairs that there are no longer parts for. . . so we were researching and buying a new one. (Settled on a GE Commercial model). And my best friend in the world has been going through some health issues and loneliness and I wish I could help him more but I’m 1400 miles away. . . so I’ve been spending time on the phone that helps us both out. And that and the holiday season have me calling others far more than I usually do. (I’ve a certain type of loneliness too, especially as I have friends of over 30 years, two over 35 years, that are far away and no one close by of the same closeness besides my wonderful wife). Anyway the system sounds fantastic and when I do get to listen I’m just awed. A few Tom Harrell and Miles Davis listens have been the best that I could ever have imagined hearing. And this is a great one as well–one of those contemporary recordings where the music and the engineering are so well woven together. And the music has been giving me great dividends as it spins this last year. Wilkins is a real young lion with the goods. Immanuel Wilkins “7the Hand” Blue Note cd

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Roger Kellaway and Eddie Daniels “Just Friends” Resonance Records cd This is a corker.

Yesterday I listened to this great cd, Joe Chambers “Samba de Maracatu” on Blue Note And followed it up with Walt Dickerson Quartet (featuring Sun Ra on piano and harpsichord} “Impressions of a Patch of Blue” MGM/Verve Elite cd. The two were a great back to back listen. I played the Dickerson Quartet cd again this mornning. What a fascinating album, with wondeful engineering that brings dynamics from low to high clearly into play and which gives the bass a perfect place in the mix over all. And now Miles Davis “Someday My Prince will Come,” Blu-Spec CD2 2023 2 cd package, disc 2, the Mono version. Sounds wonderful, Kelly’s piano so resonant and lyrical. And Mobley!

Yes, I remember him. Both the Flash and Martian Manhunter appear in the TV series "The Flash."

I'd like that one too. And also a Ricky Ford Muse Sessions box set.

No, written years before the Nero Wolfe, Tecumsah Fox or Dol Bonner series.

1m Art Pepper “The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings” Omnivore Records, final disc, disc 7

You know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian she was the law