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I love "My People," ever since I saw the selections the Orchestra performed on the Bell Telephone Hour (Canada) show. I've four cd versions. .. but this mono LP on Contact sounds the very best, just big and bold and present.

Now listening to. . . Jerry Garcia Live, Vol. 14

Spun a few LPs this morning, vinyl is sounding good to me these days due to an important change. First, an old favorite, bought the LP about '75 or so and still have it, still plays nice and quiet. Chick Corea, "Return To Forever" Then Dave Brubeck "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia" The drum solo featured on this one sounded amazing! Then on to a new 2 cd set that arrived--I used to have this from the collectors' circuit but it didn't sound like this! Sal Nistico "Live at Carmelo's" Fresh Sound, disc 1 After that this one caught my eye in the shelves. . . . Tania Maria "Nouvelle Vague" WestWind cd And now, just fished out of the mail, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Just Coolin'" Blue Note cd

Yes, it's a special day.

Well, it is still on amazon and my order for the cd is still in . . . release date is 7/31 and my copy is due to arrive on Pops' and Obama's birthday, 8/4.

They were also released in Japan, one in 2014 and one in 2019, both also just straight album reissue.

I spun LPs this morning. Bob Dylan, "Blood on the Tracks" Test Pressing, SONY RSD. Jack Teagarden, "Think Well of Me," Verve Stereo. Love this one. Teagarden and these songs are a great match. Jack Teagarden, "Shades of Night," Capitol, Mono. Backing orchestration is so so but man Jack's trombone! Followed by Flora Purim "500 Miles High, Live at Montreux" Milestone. This one I love, and it always tells me how my system is doing--I've had it in every system I've had since the 'seventies.

Perry Mason, episode 5, HBO. Wonderful move to have Ian Lithgow, John Lithgow's son play the character of the son of John's character. I find Mason's relationship or lack thereof with his son moving. It mirrors in many ways the situation a friend of mine has with his son.

Hell no.

Duduka Da Fonseca Trio "Plays Dom Salvador"

SF Jazz Collective "The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions".. . Listening to disc 1, the Jobim material. Both discs are great. What I like most about the Jobim disc is how they've taken the Brazil out of most of the arrangements and added other Latin elements and straighter ahead jazz components. I love Jobim in all forms!

All sold, sorry, should have indicated that earlier.

The booklet says that Addey mastered from hi-res files made from the original analog tapes. Which makes me think Addey was given files that someone else mastered. My guess is that these were part of a label-wide mastering for archiving that Japanese and US releases have used since 2013 or so. . . . I could be wrong, but I don't think Addey transferred these tapes to files and then mastered them. I had all the recent Japanese versions of these cds, and liked them a lot, and sold them after I got the set. The set sounds similar to them but different, eq choices being likely the differences, and my system seems to play back the box set with a slightly more relaxed sound. I'm very happy.

I bought "Coltrane" and "Africa Brass." They sound very good. I'm not sure if they are new remasterings or not. But I'm glad to have them.

Myriam Alter "Crossways"

There are two families in my neighborhood where both husband and wife have had the virus. Both couples were very sick and didn't become hospitalized but were sick at home for over three weeks and this was March. The couple I interact with the most has said that they still don't feel 100 percent with lingering weakness. The husband said "several times I thought I was going to die." Both couples are in their fifties. One of my wife's nephews, in his thirties, also came down with it in March, in NYC. He was sick a few weeks and as he was a waiter and the city was closed had nothing to do but recoup. His comment is "this virus is no joke."

I have this LP and also on cd. I haven't listened to it in a while, but I've been enjoying Sam Brown on "Expectations" and "Gary Burton/Keith Jarrett" recently. I really like his playing and that he wasn't afraid to get the power tubes in the amp into distortion. . . . He made an interesting jazz sound on the Telecaster.

My wife likes Grant Green in a quartet with piano, soul jazz ballads by Houston Person, she doesn't like anything that she calls "busy." Which seems to be the way she views about 94 percent of jazz. Her favorite music is the Judds, Steve Earle, Dixie Chicks. Luckily she doesn't want to play her music often.

Ricardo Silveira with Vinicius Cantuaria "RSVC" cd Helping me stay cool here in my hot upstairs listening room.

Yesterday and today I revisited the first three recordings of Barbara Lea (and the first has four additional songs recorded with Billy Taylor at the piano later in her career). My favorite is "Barbara Lea" on Prestige with Johnny Windhurst. Johnny Windhurst also appears with her on the followup Prestige, "Lea in Love" though there are expanded groups that I don't quite enjoy as much, though several tunes are elevated by the wonderful underrated baritone playing of Ernie Caceres. I have both of these in DSD remastered cds from Japan that sound excellent. "Barbara Lee" "Lea in Love" The first, "A Woman in Love" on Riverside is reissued on cd with nice sound on the Audiophile Records cd mastered by Jack Tower. Billy Taylor appeared on her original debut session and also appears here mixed with four tunes with only Billy on the piano recorded in '78. On the original tracks Johnny Windhurst appears as well. And his playing is very fitting. "Barbara Lea" Audiophile Records cover Original Riverside 10" EP cover of "A Woman in Love" Lea was a good singer, in the Lee Wiley school but transcending it in ways I really enjoy.

Jovino Santos Neto "Roda Carrioca"

I would consider the Nat King Cole box set and the Eric Dolphy the top two that I have.

I'm so glad this was released. It's excellent.

Barney Wilen/Alain Jean-Marie "Montreal Duets" 2 disc set on Elemental. WOW.

Ya think? I imagine they are being re-routed to become inaccurate (but you're probably being tongue in cheek).