Bluesnik

I loved the Velvets from 14 to 17 and still do now.

Respectable! That album is one of my all time faves.

I'm in a bebop mood lately, like I regularly am. Specifically since Charlie Parker's 100. And thankfully I have some of those reissues Savoy did at the beginning of the 21st century.

Very good. With Joseph Reinhardt playing under his name, among the performers.

I have this in a 91 edition. I'd be surprised if has ever been reissued again. Yes now I see in 96, but afterwards I don't think. It is three terrific bebop sessions: two by James Moody and one by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. But it's really an octet, I think.

This one I also have and keep returning to very often.

Today more than ever!

I never saw them, but I know their debut album Kilimanjaro, which I had as a vinyl and now as an mp3.

Do you know the Teardrop Explodes? That's where I know him from. His first band before he went solo. An 80s thing and quite psychedelic. But your description is spot on.

It' such a pleasure hearing Costa interplaying with Salvador. Specially when Costa is on vibes. But also on piano.

I like his St. Julian album from 1987 very much. And he became quite obsessed with Krautrock (which I also love) in the 90s. He even wrote a book about it.

Yesterday night I listened to this: Sonny Stitt Plays With Hank Jones, Freddie Green a.o.

Fantastic piano trio. Plus it's a k2.

That's one I must keep an eye out for: it might really be my thing.

I changed from PC to Mac in the mid 90s because I thought, and was told so by everyone, they were superior. But I saw they were not and at that time were a complete island: uncommunicated with everyone. And they hung constantly. So I ended changing back to PC.

A collection of spaced out and mellow tracks from the 70s. From the excellent British label Harmless.

That, together with CSN's first, is also one of my all time perennials.

A nice EMI compilation of tracks from the BN catalog covering Burt Bacharach tunes. It's from the mid 90s and I think the whole series (I also have a Blue 60s) was commissioned by Dean Rudland from the UK. There are terrific covers by Stanley Turrentine, Reuben Wilson, The 3 Sounds and m.o.

Interesting. I just got a 10 inch Savoy collection. Together with a Savoy-T from Craft. I think I had already heard about it, but now I got it. It reminds me of the Cuban jam sessions with the Panart-T I also got from them.

I've got that same picture in a reissue of Ascenseur pour l'echaffaud, Jeanne Moreau playing one of the main roles in the film, which I've seen several times as it's a personal favorite, just as the album.

Very interesting article and well worth a read.

, A nice overview of the first Miles, in the late 40s. Surrounded by Charlie Parker, John Lewis and co.