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Disc 2

Freddie Hubbard "The Body & The Soul" Analogue Productions/Impulse SACD The title track and arrangement seemed the perfect followup to that wonderful Betty Carter disc. (If only that weren't her last and she had given us a few more that beautifully moody and inventive).

Got busy doing stuff and forgot to post these: Mario Adnet "Jobim Jazz" . . . love this cd. Nice arrangements and playing and of course the great songs. Followed by Miles Davis "In a Silent Way" Mobile Fidelity SACD Man this is so damned tight and some of my favorite Miles trumpeting. Who else would have played what he played here? Finally this masterpiece from THE jazz singer. . .the one, the only Betty Carter. Betty Carter "I'm Yours, You're Mine"

CD 1

My cd version arrived in the mail yesterday!

I have that LP too, and a Japanese cd.

Disc 1

I pre-ordered it. . . no news on shipment yet.

Betty Carter "I Can't Help It" GRP/Impulse cd The irrepressible brave and resolute Betty Carter.

Joe Henderson "The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions" disc 3 Followed by Kurt Elling "Flirting with Twilight"

John Coltrane "Transition" Japan Impulse UHQCD

Ella Fitzgerald/Duke Ellington Orchestra "Ella at Duke's Place" Verve cd This is such a lovely album. My oh my. I need it's beauty today.

This was the first Lateef album I got and it was by accident--I bought one of the Charlie Parker albums on the Charlie Parker label and this was inside. It had the labels for the Parker album but it was this Lateef album instead. It took me a long time to figure out who it was, but I knew it wasn't Bird. I liked it a lot then and now. Yusef Lateef "Lost in Sound" Charlie Parker Records Japan cd

Makram Aboul Hosn "Transmigration" cd

Followed by

No surprise to me, I've been pursuing quality cd playback for a long time and there are remarkable differences between players, transports and DACs.

Time to spin a few LPs. First up "Jack Teagarden" on Verve.

Greg Osby "Further Ado" Blue Note cd

Fantastic news Mike!

Alain Jean-Marie "Complete Biguine Reflections" disc 1 Re-playing this disc because I don't have a lot of listening time and it really captured me yesterday. I totally adore the playing of bassist Eric Vinceno here. And the energy and verve of this music is something that helps me this week.

I had time to slip one in before family events. Disc one of this set. Alain Jean-Marie "Beguine Reflections" I've enjoyed Marie's work with Berney Wilen for a few decades but this is the first time I have heard his leader work. Very interesting!