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"Sonny Rollins on Impulse" Impulse/Universal Japan UHQCD

"The Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge ,Pete Brown, Jo Jones All Stars at Newport" Verve "50th Anniversary" cd This is one of those Kevin Reeves mastered cds from the first decade of this century that I think sounds bettter with my DAC "out of phase." Joe Jones makes this one for me!

"Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne Hall" Contemporary OJC cd. Russ Freeman is such a nice accompanist for a singer here and elsewhere. And Kaumca too. . .this is a nice chill pill of a cd. Bass – Chuck Berghofer Drums – Shelly Manne Piano – Russ Freeman Tenor Saxophone – Richie Kamuca (6 tracks) Trumpet – Conte Candoli (one track) Vocals – Ruth Price

The Music of William Parker "Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World" Volume 3, "The Majesty of Jah." I'm slowly, happily, working my way through this 10 cd box set, repeat listneing to each disc.

Booker Ervin "That's It" Candid/Solid Records Japan SHM-CD, mono mix These Nola Penthouse recodings are okay but I always wish there were a different piano. Great session though, one of my favorite Booker Ervins.

"Four for Trane" Archie Shepp, Impulse/Universal Japan UHQCD. These Impulse UHQCDs sound so good I had to order more, and this is an important cd for me so I had to have the UHQCD--and am not disappointed. Alan Shorter – flugelhorn John Tchicai – alto saxophone Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone Roswell Rudd – trombone, arranger Reggie Workman – double bass Charles Moffett – drums From wikipedia: According to Coltrane biographer Ashley Kahn, Four for Trane "was a direct result of Coltrane’s intervention, and his faith in the young tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia." Shepp recalled his efforts to get a recording date with Impulse!: "I had spent months trying to get Bob [Thiele] on the phone and he never answered the phone. Every time I'd call, his secretary, Lillian, whom I got to know very well, but at that point I hated her because she said, 'Well he's gone out to lunch,' or 'He's gone home and he's not coming back.' I was living in a fifth-floor walk-up and I'd save a dollar a day just to make ten calls. I'd run down and put a dime in the phone in the drugstore. This went on for months... So this one night I sat in with Trane at the Half Note. I got up enough courage to ask if he would intercede. So John gave me a look — the first time he really sort of looked at me in a very critical way, very questioning. He said, 'You know, a lot of people think I'm easy.' Then he took a very hard look at me. I said, 'Well, John, you can be sure I'm not trying to take advantage. I need this.' He knew I loved him. It wasn't about just trying to get off easy. So he looked at me and he says, 'Well, I'll see what I can do...' The next day I called Thiele's office and lo and behold the secretary says, 'Well, he's not in now but he will be back at three o'clock and he's waiting for your call.' So when I did talk to him, the first thing he said is, 'You guys are avant-garde. I know you're into your own thing. If you do this recording you're going to have to record all of John's music.' I had just been waiting for the chance to do that. I loved Trane's music and I had my own ideas about how to work with it. That became the Four for Trane date..." Regarding the recording session, Shepp said: "When we did the Four for Trane date, it went down almost take by take, because we had rehearsed nightly for months. After the third song, Bob, who had been really terribly rude at the beginning, smoking his pipe like a chimney, he brightened up a bit, sat down and said, 'I've got to call John and tell him this stuff is great.' He said, 'John, you got to come out and hear this!' Well, Coltrane already knew. He had been listening to this stuff for the last couple of years because the avant-garde was all around New York... John was very gracious. He drove out from his home in Long Island to Englewood, at about eleven o'clock at night. I assumed he got out of his bed, because when we took that photo they put on the album cover [he was] with no socks, you know."

I'm a big fan of Joe Chambers as a drummer, percussionist, composer. . . . He hasn't recorded enough as a leader. This one came out last week and the music and playing is very good. The sound is unfortunately loud and compressed. I can play it at low volumes. . . wish I could goose it some. Joe Chambers "Samba de Maracatu" Blue Note cd

Actually I recalculate that I probably listen to Jarrett 20 to 30 times more. Edit to add: I really enjoy the solo work, listen to the Trio more often, and not just for Jarrett but for Pacock and DeJohnette as well.

We're all different. I really like a lot of Corea's work, but I listen to Jarrett about ten times more!

I really like this album. The sound I am less fond of.

oe Chambers "Samba De Maracuto" Blue Note cd. https://store.bluenote.com/products/joe-chambers-samba-de-maracatu Nice music. Surprisingly loud bloated compressed sound.

Zoot Sims with Jimmy Rowles "If I'm Lucky" Pablo cd Zoot and the Lizard always make a comfortable pairing and the ease-inducing material here is in very good sound. Zoot and Jimmy share the same spirit here. . . probably the same spirits. Both are listening to each other closely and Jimmy is really giving Zoot just what he needs. And Zoot's horn really sounds great on this disc.

Duke Ellington "Black, Brown & Beige--featuring Mahalia Jackson" Columbia/Sony gold cd. Hadn't listened to either version I have of this release, cd or LP, in a long time. I think I've listened to my mono LP most often and forgot how great this stereo cd sounds.

Stanley Turrentine with the 3 Sounds "Blue Hour Vol. 2" Blue Note TOCJ cd. Sublime material, either volume. And no complaints about the piano sound from me--you can hear all the sustain and swing of Harris' playing.

https://chickcorea.com/ Same news here.

Oh crap.

Right now, scratching my frequent itch to play Jobim music. Joe Henderson "Double Rainbow--The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim" Verve cd.

Needed something different! "Count Basie at Newport" Verve Master Edition cd

Just got in this box set, one of the last of the first edition though that makes little difference. William Parker "Migration of Silence In and Out of the Tone World" Starting the first disc. https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/album/migration-of-silence-into-and-out-of-th... e-tone-world-volumes-1-10

Mario Adnet "Jobim Jazz" Adventure Music cd. I love this and its sequel. Great sound and great playing.

SFJazz Collective "Original Compositions and works by Thelonious Monk" disc 1 (the Monk material)

Archie Shepp "Blase into Yasmina Revisited" Ezzthetics cd. Followed by Cecil Taylor "Mixed to Unit Structures Revisited" Ezzthetics cd Got in a package from squidco yesterday with the latest Ezzthetics cds. Listening to these I'd say . . . they are definitely remastered. Not at all compressed. But. . . in the case of the Taylor I'd say I prefer the most recent Japanese reissues I have of these. The Ezzthetics have a more "cerebral/analytical" sound to them, the Japanese cds more depth and body to the sound. Not extreme, each is just on the other side of an imaginary 'NEUTRAL' signature between those characteristics. Been a while since I have heard my earlier versions of the Shepp and they are 45 miles away in my storage unit. . . somewhere in one of thirty boxes or so.

One of my favorites by Eliane Elias, "Kissed by Nature" This cd sounds so so good, it's so pleasant and soothing.

This one again. I have to say this is quite a feat of audio engineering, especially "Memories of John W. Coltrane," the way the instruments and voices are recorded is exceptional, and then they are artfully mixed into a beautiful tapestry that sways in the musical wind. And that gong! Wow. Pharoah Sanders "Live at the East" Impulse/Universal Japan SHM-CD 2021. Then the Tubby Hayes Quartet, "Grits, Beans and Greens" disc 1 from this Complete Fontana Albums box set. This was a great LP that never happened. And now, just to disorient myself from the normal Columbia Miles experience, "Nefertiti"--Tony on the left and Herbie on the right! This version is the Sony LP facsimile cd SRCS 9116 with 20bit SBM mastering. Not the best sounding of this release, but I have had it a long time and like to listen to it.