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Release date August 23: Trumpet player, bandleader, composer, and arranger Tom Harrell picked up rave reviews for 2022's Oak Tree, and here he follows it up with another ambitious, hard-to-resist album, once again made up entirely his own remarkable compositions. Harrell is supremely regarded, not for playing loudly, fast, or high, but rather for his extraordinary talent at fashioning ravishingly beautiful auricular shapes with a wonderfully expressive tone and depth. He is also an exceptionally fine arranger, crafting scores embroidered with felicities of detail and an inevitability which are unique in jazz. Teamed here for the second time with Venezuelan-born pianist Luis Perdomo, featuring the tenor saxophones of Danya Stephens and Mark Turner, the guitar of Charles Altura and regular collaborators, German-Nigerian bassist Ugonna Okegwo and American drummer Adam Cruz, Harrell and his associates emphasize the diverse musical influences of the compositions with a versatility that vividly displays their common strength.

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I've found most over the counter cough syrups to be useless, but I found one on Amazon that really works: Buckley's. It's expensive and tastes astonishingly awful, but it works. I found that it interrupts the cough syndrome (coughing because your throat's irritated from coughing), and allowed me to sleep at night. It's worth checking out. Read the Amazon reviews: people are amazed at how awful it tastes - they're pretty funny.

The liner notes to Last Date (Limelight) say "Eric Dolphy had arrived in Berlin from Paris on June 27. He was four days behind schedule as he hadn't been feeling too well, and Leo Wright was subbing for him. Two days later, on June 29th, Eric died suddenly and unexpectedly. Leo was here in July, and he told me that he reached the hospital at ten past seven in the evening, just ten minutes after Eric died. The doctors told Leo later that Eric died of diabetes, and had probably never suspected his condition." So there at least is one first hand account: Leo Wright recounting what the doctors told him.

Just noticed that this will be released in Japan on July 24, at a very nice price (1600 yen, currently $10.12): https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICJ-40040 Also of interest: Gary Peacock - Eastward Keith Jarrett - Expectations

Glad to see Essiet Essiet on the scene.

Disc 5.

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 47.

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 60. I'm finding that Teldec recorded the orchestra a little too far away - there's more room reverberation than if miked closer, therefore more echo and less detail. Do you think differently? Just curious.

If you're thinking of selling, it probably makes sense to sell LPs now, as the market is hot. CDs not so much, so you can wait on those until the "CD nostalgia" craze inevitably hits.

Great news!

Is it collection or is it consumption? The big difference between buying music and having a great restaurant meal is that once the meal is over, it’s gone. But you can listen to a great album and, at the end, have that album still in excellent condition. But the impetus for both was still the same: to have a great experience. I recently bought from Dusty Groove a mono copy of The Dave Clark Five’s Greatest Hits. I bought it because I haven’t heard it since I was 10; my best friend had it and we played it all the time. So it will bring back a lot of great memories for me - not for anyone else in my family, but specifically for me. And I’ll get to hear it with fresh ears, which should be a treat. I’m not at all thinking about what I’ll do with the record afterwards - it’s almost irrelevant. Writ large, that’s my attitude towards my music collection. If I cared about what other people thought or how they’d react, I probably wouldn’t own 90% of it (and these days, I probably wouldn’t even own a CD deck - I’d just stream everything). I buy and listen to music because I enjoy it. When the day comes, I figure my kid’s smart enough to research what everything’s worth.

Great album.

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 46.

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 59.

Just a guess, but maybe for the filming of Dick Tracy?

Just picked up a vinyl copy of World Of Trombones from Dusty Groove. I really like Slide's mind. He's certainly all in on the trombone! Ingenious arrangements for 9 trombones playing in unison. It's an interesting sound! The musicians are all late-70's wonderful: Trombone: Slide, Clifford Adams Jr., Clarence Banks, Curtis Fuller, Earl McIntyre, Douglas Purviance, Janice Robinson, Steve Turre, Papo Vasquez Albert Dailey, piano Ray Drummond, bass Leroy Williams, drums

It was Soul Finger.

I think it's a function of having fewer active members.

Very few people contributed to mine also.

My guess is Plas Johnson.

Like a freight train. RIP.