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Osar Peterson “Exclusively For my Friends” Verve 4 cd set, disc 2 Some great tunes on this disc. Sound is great!

Starting off a cold morning with a disc from a compilation of Grateful Dead tracks featuring Pigpen that a friend made me years ago. Ron’s vocals are suiting my mood this week. I love when he fronted this band. . . so sad we lost him way too early due to his heavy drinking.

Listening to disc 1 of this new release from Japan, Miles Davis “Paris Jazz Festval - Salle Pleyel - 10/1/1964” 2 disc hybrid SACD set from Sony. 1200×1200 173 KB Followed by “Carmen McRae” Bethlehem US cd 170×170 10 KB

There’s a bit of sadness in our household that the crisp autumn air complements. It sure is beautiful here in our sylvan neighborhood. Right now starting with disc 2 of the Ike Quebec “Complete 45 Sessions” released last week on Blue Note. Quebec’s sound is so full and enticing, and he has both the spirit of the swing era and the modernism of Rollins–I also really appreciate the A&R work he did for Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.

Me too.

Nor I.

On to “David Bowie Live at Montreux Jazz Festival” disc 1 From the box set “I Can’t Give Everything Away” Great performance in killer sound. 200×200 9.45 KB 500×245 13.6 KB

A cold morning. Quiet as a tomb. Memphis is not feeling up to the day yet. I got enough sleep and can’t shut my brain off so I’m up. Pulled this up from the shelves, bought long ago and neglexted. Michael Brecker and Eliane Elias “Amanda” Denon cd

Aretha Franklin “The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967–1970” Atlantic 2 cd set, disc 1 The Plangent Process really brings out subtle magic in these singles. Wow.

Aaron Parks “Big Little III” Blue Note cd This is helping to chill me out.

Kevin Gray.

Ike Quebec “The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions” Blue Note 2 cd set, 2025 As one would expect, sound is great.

She was my first love and fascination, an exceptional person, yes. I have been lucky to find love since, and with someone who understands love does not die. Now it is great that there are just wonderful memories.

On to my OG LP of Joni Mitchell “Hejira”

This week marks 18 years since my first wife Helen passed from lymphoma and MDS. She was so brilliant and kind and beautiful--a great loss to lose her at age 52. I'll never forget her. Here is a photo of her smiling so happily from her stay in Chile the summer before I first met her on our first day at the University of Chicago.

A cold fall mrning. Typing is hard with Memphis piled on me in the listening chair! I'm online less. . . a good thing? Starting off with a revisit to [s][/s]Gerald Clayton "Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard" Blue Note cd

A cold morning – 40! Starting off with The second half. Wow. On to Stan Kenton"Contemporary Concepts" Capitol cd

It rained all day yesterday. Today, beautiful temperature and no rain. Memphis the American Bully was so happy that we took a flashlight walk and enjoyed the sounds and smells. Two deer crossed in front of us and he was so good, just sat when I told him to and took it all in. This dog surprises me with his demeanor. Got in the mail yesterday a cd that I am listening to, a sort of hard rock fusion band covering Thelonious Monk called "Brillian Coroners." A dynamic and intriguing listen.

It's not really different with the SACD or Redbook. We may be hearing the same things, and they matter more or less to one or the other.

Since I was spinning LPs and had pulled some more Barry Harris ones out of the shelves I spun “Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron” Xanadu LP and then Barry Harris “The Bird of Red and Gold” Xanadu LP

I'm with you on both counts.

I play this material often enough. . . I DO enjoy Miles here, and there's lots of Herbie to like as well. An interesting point in time for the Quintet.

Well I continue to be confused. The listing that I bought this from said that it was released in 2012. I bought it in 2013 from someone who said he had just picked it up and compared it to the original Japanese set, sounded the same and so put it up for sale. I got a great deal. Everywhere I look though shows it was issued in 1995. Maybe other copies were found and re-released in 2012. We could not have conversed about this particular set as I didn't own it til 2013--we my have conversed about the original Japanese set which I ALMOST got--I had it pre-ordered through Tower Records Austin, but Tower decided to stiff the Austin store and never sent them any of their promised copies. So I was SOL til the US release, and was really excited to get the gold cd Japanese set, which really sounds good.

Well I would not myself say that this set has been completely invisible for thirty years. Japan reissued their version of it on gold cd after the US set went out of print, and another company released more than half of it as an LP set; individual and 2 cd versions have been reissued separately and as part of the "Complete Columbia Album" box set. Much of the music has been bouncing around. I too would not recommend this to a jazz novice. . . but I also don't think it's that inaccessible to someone who is on a jazz journey.

“Barry Harris plays Barry Harris” Xanadu LP Great piano sound.