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Count Basie "Live at the Sands -- Before Frank" Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD Who needs that Frank guy? Not these guys.

Erroll Garner "Feeling is Believing" Octave Music/Mack Avenue cd I needed the elfish spirit to kick off this mid-week day. Great sound on these dozen Garner cds that came out over the last few years from Mack Avenue.

I wish them luck and bet they predicted they would sell x amount of copies and will produce x and probably sell most of them. I bought each of the 12 cds as they were released. Fun stuff!

Joyce Moreno (the artist formerly known as Joyce) "Raiz" (Roots) Far Out cd Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Rodolfo Stroeter Drums – Tutty Moreno Electric Guitar-- Roberto Menescal Piano – Helio Alves Vocals, Guitar, Music Director, Producer – Joyce Moreno

Just finished Season 5 of "The Expanse."

Re-listened to this as it was in the player and it's so good. Charles Haden "Montreal Tapes--Gonzalo Rubalcado Moved on to Doug Carn "Infinant Eyes" Black Jazz/Real Gone Music cd Wow! This is a great one.

I selected answers. I'm fully vaccinated and enjoying the chance to be mask-free.

The Visconti remixed version. A great, influential album and a delight to hear after a long absense.

Charlie Haden "The Montreal Tapes--Gonzalo Rubalcado" Verve cd All these Montreal Tape releases are excellent. I may have to buy the Henderson one again--I can't seem to locate my copy. This piano trio is perhaps my favorite of the three piano trio releases in the series. . . but then I suspect I think that of each of the three when I play them. They are all excellent.

Charles Mingus "Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Complete)" disc 2 Contrary to another opinion or two I think the first set is excellent.

Some Stevie Wonder tunes are on their way to becoming jazz standards. The first I remember is the excellent "Maybe your Baby" done by Gary Bartz. This century SFJazz Collective have done two releases (a live concert compilation and a studio session) dedicated to his tunes. And I know there are more interpretations.

Hot off the van! It sounds very good (so far). Nice mastering. Mr.Bluett gets the first solo.

Hot off the delivery van! Charles Mingus "Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Complete)" disc 1 Sounds great! So glad it arrived in time for me to listen before Lucinda comes home from work!

Me too. . . I'm six stops away.

Kurt Rosenwinkel "Deep Song"

Gary Bartz NTU Troop "Live in Bremen 1975" Disc 2 Really nice sound and fun listening.

Cool. Early guitarists caught my ears many years ago so I definitely can understand that. Blue Note guitarists I listened to intently after I lucked into this set shortly after its release: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Blue-Note-The-SP-Days-1939-1952/release/15154456 Jimmy Shirley especially knocked my socks off.

Sorry to hear that John. I say. . . give "retirement" a shot. I'm on my second decade, and I've enjoyed every year, each has been a "project" that I get to conclude mostly at my pace and with whatever energy I want to spare. And I realized I was so exhausted at the start, it caught up with me and made me pay the price. I think you'll have fun.

Definitely Bechet was a force at least til he became a god in France. What glued me in to the early Blue Note was Hodes and Hall--those two guys did work for Blue Note that was the best they did and was phenomenal. . . I kept hearing it and hearing it and listening to it.

Yes, lots of good music on that set. That was the set that made me decide to diligently get all the music from the first decade of Blue Note. I think I managed that with effort in the 'nineties thanks especially to Mosaic and Blue Note Japan.

Charlie Haden with Paul Bley and Paul Motian "Montreal Tapes" Verve cd So much space and quiet in this wonderful recording I had to turn off the fan. . . it's hot up here but this music makes it seem worth it.

I like Jimmy Grissom as well. He was just the kind of vocalist Duke and Billy felt fit into this. band, and he did, he fit in well.