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The second release from OUTOF/INTO, "Motion II" B;ie Note cd Acoustic Bass – Matt Brewer Alto Saxophone – Immanuel Wilkins Drums – Kendrick Scott Piano – Gerald Clayton Vibraphone, Marimba – Joel Ross

Yes, me too. This was not my favorite season.

Wes Montgomery “The Complete Full House Recordings” Riverside/Craft 2 cd set, disc 2

Starting off a warm morning with Pops! Continuing to move backwards in this set so to speak (last three, then middle three and now the first three discs). Disc 2- -More with the awesome Jack Teagarden on trombone with the All-Stars.

This is the first time I have spun this since Rev. Jackson passed. Cannonball Adderley Quintet “Country Preacher” Capitol cd I forget how powerful this disc is. This Quintet had paid its dues and their funkiness here comes right from the expertise in jazz performance they amassed working together. It’s blues, jazz, all music out of one source according to Cannon here. Cannonball’s playing is so gut and flow but always, on soprano or alto, has a beauty of its own, an inevitablity from his skill, that sort of melodic beauty and inevitability of Bird, or the Rabbit on alto. . . . Great stuff. Zawinul really shines here.

Billie Holiday and Mister –Herman Leonard, NYC, 1949

Dave Holland Quintet “Seeds of Time” ECM cd

Paul Gonsalves “Tell it the Way it Is” Impulse cd, includes the album “Cleopatra Feelin’ Jazzy”

“The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars” Mosaic Records 9 cd set. Continuing to move backwards in this set so to speak (last three, then middle three and now the first three discs). Now Disc 1–the amazing birth of the All-Stars live, the Town Hall Concert.

I'm 70 and. over the last few years I've started to feel old. . . in my head. . . all over, and having a few issues at last. But I shouldn't complain.

Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 14” disc 3. This is the final US concert before they shipped off for that Eupropean tour in 1972.

Good to see a post from you! Have a great birthday evening!

Jimi Hendrix “Valley of Jams” Third Man Records 3 LP set, LP 1

Barney Wilen with the Mal Waldron Trio “French Story: Movie Themes from France” Timeless cd

Agreed.

“Blue Spirits: 85 Years of Blue Note Records Selected by Don Was” Blue Note Japan 2 UHQCD set, disc 1

A film still of Una Mae Carlisle on the set of “I Like It ’Cause I Love It,” a soundie from 1944. (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

I love the sound of lovely Una Mae Carlisle’s voice and her phrasing. I wish someone would look deep inside the Columbia vaults. . . I bet there is more to discover there. Una Mae Carlisle “1944 - 1950” Chronogical Classics cd

Youngster. So much to come ahead of you!

One of the (too few) albums that Duke Ellington was able to produce for Reprise Records before Sinatra sold the label, this one featuring one of his favorite people, Swedish singer Alice Babs. “Serenade to Sweden” Real Gone cd I have never become a fan of "New York Reunion"--I've really tried, I have the SACD. It's partly the sound which I don't connect with, and partly the music itself which I don't find that interesting. I do like the Swainson album a lot.

I'm about 40 miles east of downtown Cleveland, out in the "rural suburbs," in Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio. Trump country unfortunately, but I am living in a sparsely housed wooded neighborhood directly across from a large state wildlife preserve (read big forest, a half a mile up a really steep hill from a man-made lake, Bass Lake. It's nice to no longer be in an urban, and just outside of a suburban, environment, but it has disadvantages in the heaviest snowfalls of NE Ohio perhaps, and because of the forest and trees abounding dangers due to high winds (which have become a thing when a few years ago they were NOT). There's really so little going on in my life to talk about that the weather has more import to me than it ever did before.

Another warm morning. Slept well. My two closest “snow bird” neighbors are now back from the South, but it’s still eerily quiet early mornings with the wind in the trees the predominant sound, a soothing familiar sound. It will soon be eleven years I’ve been out here in this sylvan world. Spinning OUTOF./INTO “Motion I” Blue Note cd. This is an ensemble of current masters that delivers!

The Walter Norris Quartet “Sunburst” Concord cd Bass – Larry Grenadier Drums – Mike Hyman Piano – Walter Norris Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson Recorded at Coast Records,San Francisco, August 13 & 14,1991

Song stylist Carmen McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) with musician Gerry Mulligan at the Chicago Orchestra Hall. 1955 (William Lanier and Ebony Collection)

“Happy Birthday Duke! Volume 5” Laserlight cd Recorded April 29, 1954