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Count Basie and His Orchestra "This Time by Basie" Reprise cd Another 1963 album. Slick, smooth, swinging.

Okay, you're convinced. Right now The new stereo US cd released Friday on the newly managed Candid Records label, "The World of Cecil Taylor." This certainly sounds very good.

Okay. I have seen nothing that convinces me they are bootlegs either way. Right now Franco Cerri "Bossa Nova" CDJapan actually sent me this cd instead of "International Jazz Meeting" which has Barney Wilen. I kept it anyway, it's an interesting early (1963) Bossa Nova interpretation from Europe. Nothing serious or ground-breaking but it does make me want to move about. Like the flute and trombone blend on many main melody statements.

Duke Ellington "Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973" Lost Recordings cd https://couleursjazz.fr/duke-ellington-live-at-the-berlin-jazz-festival-1969-1973/ Great sound, interesting performances. Scratching my Ellington itch this morning. You know there was a time when I didn’t pay much attention to late Ellington. But I now realize what a mistake that was. There’s a world of charm in the late recordings. And “the piano player” was often featured prominently for good reasons.

House of the Dragon, second episode. Like this one more than the first. The show is pretty predictable so far, telegraphing their moves in advance, little surprising. But that will likely improve. The heroine has some charisma, I don't find her as attractive as some do but then again she's meant to be fifteen and I don't want to be attracted to fifteen year olds. They certainly are trying to make her seem very Kahlisee like, which is par for the course.

Right. The Duncan Phat Cats are P90s in a humbucker size, so they fit right in. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/guitarists-what-guitars-do-you-play-photos-welcome-part-four.369368/page-126#post-27423446 Just for grins, this is a pic of one of my "Wolf" Jerry Garcia Tribute guitars from luthier Troy Post.

That's the model I have--it's been modified to have the Phat Cats and the Ghost piezo system. Yes, it's Indonesian. Fit and finish are excellent. The Laurel fretboard is really nice to be honest. A feel sort of in between maple and rosewood. Sure no Nitro finish but the finish is expertly applied. This is the prettiest guitar in person I have owned. No case; I bought the Fender padded gig bag for mine--these gig bags are excellent.

"Terry Gibbs Quartet" Impulse/Universal Japan cd. followed by Marquis Hill "New Gospel Revisited" Edition Records cd

Sheila Jordan "Winter Sunshine" Justintime cd Great rapport with the crowd, and love how she incorporates new lyrics and pronouncements into the songs.

It has taken me a long time to warm to Telecasters, I have one now that I like, it's an Indonesian made FMT Custom that has been outfited with Phat Cat P90s in a humbucker shape, and also a Graph Tech Ghost pieczo pickup, blending the Ghost with a Phat Cat is a great sound. It also has a 12" fretboard. . . took some getting used to by I really like it now, so nice and flat. I use .11s on one of my Wolf Tribute guitars, and also on a '59 Thinskin Jazzmaster reissue guitar. I use .10s elsewhere. I like .11s and .10s.

Miles Davis "Miles Smiles" Sony 20bit LP facsimile cd. Of all the versions of this I think this is the one I enjoy listening to most. I don't like SBM as done by Blue Note, but I do really enjoy a lot of the Sony cds using that tech. Followed by Immanuel Wright, "Omega" Blue Note cd. This has become a favorite.

The way I hear Don Knotts pronouncing it is more like "And" . . . .

Two swinging albums on one cd. Cal Tjader "Los Ritmos Calientes" OJC cd

Paula e Jacques Morelenbaum "Live in Italia" cd Beautiful! Followed by Count Basie "Prime Time" Pablo cd Some pretty funky electric bass on a few tracks!

I'm sure a Suhr is an excellent guitar. I've never played one. I like Stratocasters a lot and haven't struggled with any. My favorite Stratocaster is actually a "Frankenstein"--it is a Warmoth body and compound neck, body and neck mahogany, semi-hollow body, ebony fretboard, splitable DiMarzio 36th Anniversary PAFs which are fantastic humbuckers. And I love the compound neck, it's just right.

Mario Adnet "Villa Lobos -- Um Olhar Sobre" This one grows on me. Maucha Adnet is in beautiful voice here. Followed by Carmen McRae "Ms Jazz" Groove Merchant/Solid Records Japan cd Bass – Paul West Drums – Jimmy Madison Guitar – Bucky Pizzarelli Piano – Tom Garvin Tenor Saxophone – Zoot Sims

Sigh. Too young.

It's a Rhino release.

"Flautista! Herbie Mann Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz" recorded live at New York City's Basin Street East in June 1959. Verve cd. Herbie Mann flute, bass clarinet, Carlos "Valdes percussion, vibraphonist Johnny Rae, bassist Knobby Totah, and percussionists Santos Miranda and Luis Mangual.

Disc 6

Happy 89th!

Betty Carter "I'm Yours, You're Mine" Verve cd I will never play this one too many times. Betty's last and perhaps her best. . . it's certainly a favorite of mine.

Listening to this one again. Interesting material... Recorded a year and a half after Johnny Hodges passed. The band was playing interesting arrangements that year and this is an interesting recording which gets better and better as the concert progresses. Duke Ellington "Upsala 1971" Storyville cd