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Carlos Santana / Alice Coltrane "Illuminations" Columbia/Vocalion SACD

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" Sony Blu-Spec CD2 . . . .disc 1

Charles Mingus "Tijuana Moods" Jazz Connoisseur Legacy Sony cd Listening to the trio version of "Dizzy's Moods" made this spin inevitable. . . . Listening to the European cd from 2016. I have a handful of versions of this one. . . been listening to it for four decades now.

Omar Sosa & NDR Big Band "Es: Sensual" featurnig the arrangements of Jacques Morelenbaum My system broke into an anxious sweat when it saw this one being loaded into the transport, but it's playing it back with aplomb.

John Coltrane "Giant Steps--60th Anniversary Edition" disc 2

Charles Mingus/Hampton Hawes/Dannie Richmond "Trio" Jubilee/Atlantic 2 cd deluxe set released Friday 4/22. Listening to disc 2, which has unreleased and alternate material. CD 2: Outtakes (previously unreleased) Untitled Blues Untitled Blues (Take 2) Back Home Blues (Take 6) Hamp's New Blues (Take 4) I Can't Get Started (Take 1) Yesterdays (Take 2 - Incomplete) Dizzy Moods (Take 2) Summertime (Take 3)

Revisiting this one. Liking it somewhat more this time around. Bob Belden "Three Days of Rain"

"The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt" Strut cd

Those short studio pieces were where I first encountered Hermeto Pascoal and eventually I followed his music and became a fan of Brazilian music, both as wild as his and the Bossa Nova that preceded it.

Me too, I pre-ordered, thanks for the heads up.

Cool. If you like this translation, her book on Paul is very interesting.

Spooky Tooth "Bite Me--the Lost Album"

Charles Mingus/Hampton Hawes/Dannie Richmond "Trio" Jubilee/Atlantic 2 cd deluxe set released today. Just in time for Mingus' birthday! Sounds quite nice. Probably better than previous editions. Mingus is prominently recorded. Second disc has alternates and two tracks of a previously not released piece.

Barney Wilen "La Note Bleue" 2 cd set, disc 1

Aretha Franklin "Spirit in the Dark" Atlantic cd From this box set, "The Atlantic Recordings" I was going to say this is the best Aretha Franklin album on Atlantic. . . well from 1970. . . but no there's another one and. . . well they're all so damned good. What a catalog!

Miles Davis "Round About Midnight" Sony K2 HD cd Been too long since I played this one.

Birthday Boy Charles Mingus. . . one of his last albums, "Smoke 'Em if you Got 'Em"

Lionel Hampton "Light as a Feather and Flying Home"

Charles Mingus would have been 100 today. (My dad will be 90 tomorrow!) Had to play this and boy does this cd sound great! Mingus Ah Um Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD

Lennie Tristano "1947-1951" Chronogical Classics cd A Selmer, a couple Disc and Baronet, the New Jazz, seven of the Capitol and a pair of Jazz label sides. Quite a disc!

Some recent awarenesses were getting me down so I needed Betty Carter to lift me up. And with this album boy does she. What a band and what a band leader! "Feed the Fire" Verve cd

Countless hours of listening experience. Yes, that's it, as well as playing experience. I've had a little bit of musical education and I have come to understand song structure, and the components of a performance. But they really don't consciously appear as major factors in my listening to jazz. What first drew me to jazz was the instrumental nature of it and the fact that it wasn't a bunch of pop stuff marketed towards "someone my age." And a lot changed for me a few years later when I was returned to the States from Africa and then Miles Davis' "New Directions in Music" seemed to offer something more global than the US and British pop radio and drew me in with its moody expression and adventurous rhythmic nature. After that, in order I think to understand and unravel what I liked about it that was so different I went back deeper into the jazz that came before that from Miles and his sidemen and those Miles admired. . . and I think I developed the way to listen to it that allowed me to obsess. And after years I find many ways to listen to jazz. . . sometimes for the emotional content, sometimes for the joy of the ideas streaming along over the pulse, sometimes for the pulse, sometimes for the color and sound itself. And sometimes for the history, the history that spins with it, the world's and my own.

SFJazz Collective Live 2009 "The Works of McCoy Tyner Plus New Compositions" disc 1

Keith Jarrett "La Fenice" disc 1 Helping me to enjoy the view of trees FINALLY beginning to bud with that lovely lime green spring new growth.