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Donald Byrd “Blackjack” Blue Note Universal Japan UHQCD UCCU-45071 Now I’m ready for some Byrd boogaloo. This is quite a band.

Miles Davis “Seven Steps to Heaven” Analogue Productions SACD Two bands. Twice great music. This sounds marvelous. In a few days I’ll have the Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD version here, it’s in the mail. Will I need both? Probably not. . .but I’ll probably keep them both. It’s sort of a sickness.

Wow. This came in yesterday from amazon, his first one in some time, and it's a LOT. I love Ed, "The Collossus of Rio"! https://www.mps-music.com/releases/benind-the-tea-chronicles/ Ed Motta "Behind the Tea Leaves" MPS cd

It’s Sunday, a good time to play this one. John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” Impulse/Universal Japan SHM-SACD UCGQ-9037 (Acoustic Sound Series SACD) There are so many good sounding issues of this masterwork. This one sounds phenomenal.

Something quite different that will put your system through its paces! Flying Lotus “Yasuke Original Soundtrack” Music for an anime film. Like any Flying Lotus album it takes you somewhere.

Back to this one before it gets swallowed up by the shelves again. Such a great “anthology” of sessions. Bill Evans “Treasures” Elemental Music 2 cd set, disc 1 The system is sounding so good this morning!

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There are dozens of cds available on discogs. . . .

Jim Hall – Ron Carter – Duo “Alone Together” Milestone/OJC cd Been too long since I spun this one.

Birthday boy Red McKenzie

Jim Hall “Where Would I Be?” Milestone/OJC cd Airto! I love it when Airto is on the drumkit. And Hall always has such a rich guitar tone. It’s the type I dream of when I have a guitar in hand. Jim Hall - guitar Benny Aronov - piano, electric piano Malcolm Cecil - bass Airto Moreira - drums, percussion

Claudia Villela “Asa Verde” Found a cheap copy of this often expensive cd. I really like Villela’s work. She’s quite a singer with an interesting tone.

Now listening to disc 4 of the new Japanese SACD set of Miles Davis "Complete Live at Plugged Nickel" 8 disc set.

Happy Birthday Art Tatum! Art at the piano with John Collins, Slam Stewart, and Jimmy and Marian McPartland.

I’m listening to disc 4 of the new Japanese SACD set of Miles Davis “Complete Live at Plugged Nickel” 8 disc set. Followed by. . . . Keith Jarrett “Koln Concert” ECM Japan SHM-SACD UCGU-9059 Wow. It’s been some time since I played this music, and in fact I don’t think I ever played this SHM-SACD version before since buying it. This music was some of the rare music that I loved that I could share with my late first wife. . . she would listen for a while and most times fall asleep, peacefully and deeply. And I would finish up the cd the only one awake. For a long time I was unable to play this because it brought me grief. That has passed now. This is an album that I can almost play back fully in my head. It was the second Jarrett LP set I bought, first being “Bremen/Lausanne” which I got after discovering Jarrett on “Miles at Fillmore” and “Live/Evil.” What a DIFFERENT Jarrett was revealed on the solo albums. I still have my LP version of this, I should play it again soon. And I kept a gold cd version from ECM Japan, and this one. . . wow. The sound. Detailed resonance and sustain, each note attack. . . lovely. This is fantastic music in my opinion. One day it might be interesting to hear another master pianist interpret these pieces. There’s a timeless quality to it all.

I'm listening to disc 4 of the new Japanese SACD set of Miles Davis "Complete Live at Plugged Nickel" 8 disc set.

It's not that good.

Walter Smith III “Return to Casual” Blue Note cd 600×600 373 KB 890×1024 92.8 KB

The new SACD version of Miles Davis "Complete Live at Plugged Nickel" 8 cd box set from Japan, a Tower Records exclusive, arrived last night via DHL. Now listening to disc 3

Bill Evans “Treasures -Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings From Denmark (1965-1969)” Elemental Records 2 cd set