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Looks as if it's going to be an amazing set.

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/classic-don-byas-sessions/

Grant Green "Alive!’ Blue Note Japan UHQCD.

Many are living challenging lives and overall not happy. Has nothing to do with jazz as music per se.

Grant Green “Carryin’ On” Blue Note Japan UCCQ-9518 cd Groovy '69 Green.

One more episode to go of "Invasion" Season 2 (Apple). Then on to "Foundation" Season 2.

Sad. Gone too soon.

Julian Priester/Sam Rivers “Hints on Light and Shadow” Postcards cd This one I spied on the shelf and have not played in quite some time. Not my usual fare, but making for an interesting listen this morning. Followed by Milt Jackson “Plenty, Plenty Soul” Atlantic cd All star early stereo sessions. All but one are Jackson compositions. The ringer is by Cannonball. 768×768 93.4 KB

It's amazing what polls can "uncover." That has hardly been my experience among the jazz fans I know.

Booker Ervin “Freedom Book” Prestige/RVG Edition Japan

(Dr.) Lonnie Smith “Gotcha” Groove Merchant/Solid Records cd Japan That sort of “Stuff” (the band)/CTI/KUDU not quite disco sound. Some really nice guitar bass and Lonnie Smith sounds.

A few compilations of material I already have were in a lot of Carmen McRae cds I bought from eBay (cheap). This one really does sound good and is nicely selected and sequenced.

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.