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Finally getting to listen again as Lucy is back at work. Two Stanley Turrentine cds in the Japanese series of Blu-Spec CD releases in the “CTI Supreme” series. . . “Salt Song” followed by “The Sugar Man” 599×534 111 KB

I've got an awful lot of Duke on cd AND on LP. And I'm not done.

I think it's a fascinating musical document, and I don't personally feel that any of the three "come up short."

The guy who amazed me being so into the beats was Jerry Garcia. He apparently kept a framed photo of Kerouac in his dressing rooms for a long time. And for a spell Neal Cassady drove the "Acid Test" tour bus.

Slim Gaillard “1946” Chronogical Classics cd 599×592 119 KB Into each life a little Slim Gaillard must fall!

One of my favorite shows. . . rewatching season 3 before tackling season 4.

Peggy Lee “Jump for Joy” Capitol/Universal Japan lp facsimile cd 2022 Another great sounding Capitol recording. . . and PEGGY!

Gorgeous Capitol Records sound. Sue Raney “All by Myself” Capitol/Universale Japan lp facsimile cd 2022 800×800 116 KB

Starting off the day with the double drum wallop of Kenny Clarke and Kenny Clare on Johnny Griffin’s “Lady Bottom Heavy’s Waltz” (Rearward cd).

Peter Scharli Trio with Ithamara Koorax “O Grande Amor” Wow. This is just the beautiful, mellow disc I need to end my listening day.

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette “Changes” ECM cd

Now some incredible sounding Columbia Duke: “Jazz Party in Stereo” 800×800 95.4 KB (CD from this box set) Reply

The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) disc 21 "The Far East Suite" It has been too long since I cracked open this set, and I'm on an Ellington kick right now.

The Jim Sangrey 11tet "If You Look Really Really Closely. . ." Plano Platters cd

Paul Gonsalves “Ellington Moods and Blues” RCA Victor cd I had to play another Ellington related disc. . .Duke gets under my skin. And I love Gonsalves’ playing! Paul Gonsalves - Tenor Saxophone Johnny Hodges - Alto Saxophone Booty Wood - Trombone Ray Nance - Trumpet Jimmy Jones - Piano Al Hall - Bass Oliver Jackson - drums Recorded February 29, 1960

I’m back to serious listening after a hiatus as my wife was off from Thursday last week til today. Started off with “Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet in Concert” from a gold disc sold by High Density Tape Transfers, a “gray market” firm that transfers in high density from tapes that are out of copyright, mostly classical and some jazz. Though they will sell numerous download in differing formats from DSD 256 down I don’t do files. . . they also offer Redbook options. Interestingly though this has the same material as the LP I am not sure what tape they use as the drum solos are intact that were edited out of the original release. Never-the-less I must say that the sound is excellent, better than the Columbia (expanded) 2 cd set. I also have Duke Ellington’s “Indigos” from them that sounds quite good, if not quite as transformed as this one. 700×713 52.9 KB I followed that up with the newly released XRCD24 disc from Audio Wave of the Stanley Turrentine Blue Note “Look Out!” Now onto a disc I haven’t played in a long time, Clark Terry “Duke with a Difference” Riverside/OJC cd. 600×592 39.3 KB Like an addict who needed a fix, I feel pretty good listening at length this morning; the system sounds fantastic!

I too wonder how Redd survived--perhaps he eked out a living playing sporadically in NYC. Wiki calls him an "autodidact" and he does sound self-taught to me (takes one to know one). I never know he played organ on James Taylor's "Carolina in my Mind"!

Ruffled some feathers there perhaps, none of mine. It just seems more like a tempest in a teapot than hell breaking loose.

I would say "All Hell breaking loose" is not an accurate description of what is going on there.

It's warmed up to 3 degrees! Above Zero!

I ordered 12. They won't make any money off this offer.

We lost power last night . . . which gave us traumatic flashbacks of twelve total days two winters ago without power, heat, water when the weather was even a bit warmer. . . but it came back on again four minutes later to our relief. Still no plows have come into our neighborhood and we've canceled a trip to the West side (about 50 minutes in normal weather) planned for this afternoon to see my brothers and their families. This is a lonely Xmas now as both Lucy and I no longer have parents among the living. Sigh.