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Release date June 24:

Release date May 20: Acclaimed vibraphonist and composer Joel Ross returns with his third Blue Note album, The Parable of the Poet, an expansive album-length suite comprised of seven evocative movements. The suite is performed by a dynamic 8-piece ensemble with Ross joined by Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Maria Grand on tenor saxophone, Marquis Hill on trumpet, Kalia Vandever on trombone, Sean Mason on piano, Rick Rosato on bass, and Craig Weinrib on drums. Release date May 27: South African pianist & composer Nduduzo Makhathini follows his acclaimed Blue Note debut Modes of Communication, which was named one of the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by The New York Times, with another profound artistic statement: In The Spirit of Ntu. The album features some of South Africa's most exciting young musicians including saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane, trumpeter Robin Fassie Kock, vibraphonist Dylan Tabisher, bassist Stephen de Souza, drummer Dane Paris, & other special guests.

Release date July 1: On his second release for ECM, New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and impassioned designs. Throughout Isabela, Oded and his collaborators apply their subtle dialect in a more intense space, exploring the nuances and colors of his self-fashioned raga in a suite-like sequence of quiet meditations and powerful exclamations.

Release date May 27:

Release date June 24: Ella Fitzgerald's "Songbook" records - with her peerless renditions of the best songs from iconic composers from Irving Berlin to Rogers & Hart to Cole Porter to George & Ira Gershwin - are the cornerstone of the Verve catalog and the standard for jazz vocal recordings. Ella never released a live version of these Songbooks. This record, discovered in the private collection of Norman Granz, will make the first time a live Songbook has been released from the First Lady of Song.

Avid just came out with a two-CD set that includes Just You Just Me, All Of Me, Songs From The Heart, And I Thought About You, and the vocals with Andrew Hill.

He's on two tracks (Patanjali and Don't Stop The Carnival) on Road Shows, Vol. 3, and one track (Professor Paul) on Holding The Stage (Road Shows, Vol. 4).

Listening now to Jimmy Cobb's Only For The Pure At Heart. Bernstein is a standout. I definitely hear Grant Green in him, with Jim Hall's rounded tone. The guy swings.

Do you want something for outer sleeves (to encompass the entire cover), or just for the discs themselves?

Interesting article from the April edition of Stereophile: https://www.stereophile.com/content/from-congo-square-times-square-short-history-drums-jazz

Thankfully, the later pressings replaced the 3" disc with a regular-sized one.

I think I have enough Mingus. He really needed a good editor. One reason that Ah Um and Dynasty made such an impact is because Teo wasn't afraid to shorten and tighten up the tunes. Mingus may have been "great" (whatever that means), but he really wasn't 35 minutes a tune great. This is from an Amazon review: "There's nine performances of tunes like (the 35 minute) "Fables Of Faustus", and (the 30 + minute) "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress Then Silk Blues", or (the 19 + minute) "Noddin' Ya Head Blues", plus other good arrangements of Mingus' compositions. "Mind Readers' (sic) Convention In Milano (AKA Number 29)", at just under 30 minutes, is also a great example of Mingus and this band." Sorry, but that's way too long.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/s-neil-fujita

If anyone's interested, there's a copy available at Dusty Groove.

RIP. Phaedra is wonderful music.

Just got an email for the next GarciaLive release (vol. 18, 11/2/74). Garcia and Saunders doing Freedom Jazz Dance?!? I'm intrigued how it sounds. Paul Humphrey on drums! It's also interesting that this is just two weeks after GD went on hiatus.

Thanks. It looks good! All BN tunes except for Stanley The Steamer (Bethlehem).

They're on this:

What are the titles on the CD, and how long is it? Dusty Groove now shows the release date as May 25.

Williams also played on this Public Image Ltd. album:

Reissue date July 8: For the first time on CD and digitally Tony Williams' 1980 "Play Or Die" album is available again. It was a limited edition LP of only 500 vinyl copies when it was originally released. Tony Williams certainly counts among those unique drummers in the history of Jazz, whose work has had a lasting influence on styles and still does. At the tender age of 16, saxophonist Jackie McLean brought him to his band in New York. He also made his first recording with McLean. Soon after, aged 17, Williams was already making a splash in the second Miles Davis Quintet. Almost twenty years later, in 1980, on May 30 and 31, Tony Williams went to the Zuckerfabrik recording studio in Stuttgart/Germany, together with Tom Grant (keyboards, synthesizer, he joined this band on the recommendation of Jeff Lorber) and Patrick O'Hearn (bass, synthesizer, he joined this band on the recommendation of Tom Grant). In the 1970s and early 1980s, this studio was an illustrious address for audio productions of all kinds. Larry Coryell, Wolfgang Dauner, Stephane Grappeli, Elvin Jones, Martin Kolbe + Ralf Illenberger, Volker Kriegel, Alphonse Mouzon, John Scofield and the United Jazz+Rock Ensemble recorded there, to name just a few. Tony Williams and Peter Schnyder produced this recording in tandem. The album was recorded in just two days and mixed right there in the studio. This timeless album, released in an edition of only 500 copies, was hardly promoted at the time and may therefore have remained unknown to one or the other. All the better that now for the first time since the release of the Vinyl it is also available on CD, with a significantly improved sound. TRACK LIST: The Big Man Beach Ball Tango Jam Tune Para Oriente There Comes A Time (Lawra) A very special LP of this recording will be released later this year!

I owned them both on a Fantasy twofer "Reincarnation of a Lovebird." Strangely, the version there of "Love is a Dangerous Necessity" faded out 30 seconds early.

Listening now to Johnny Hartman's The Voice That Is!, I see he's accompanied by Hank Jones, piano, Barry Galbraith, guitar, Richard Davis, bass, and Osie Johnson, drums; recorded in 1964. It seems to me this group played often together. No idea if they ever played live; perhaps more like session guys who were personally compatible and were able to be hired as a group. Does this qualify?

Release date November 1: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Here's the AP obituary: https://nypost.com/2022/04/16/art-rupe-pioneering-record-executive-dead-at-104/