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Johnny Hodges - The Eleventh Hour (Verve mono). Home from a very loud gig, and my ears hurt. This album is the medicene they needed. Oliver Nelson's string arrangements walk the line between meeting expectations and confounding them.

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Soothing, hey, glad it worked for you. I find Nelson's string arranging tepid and uncertain. Maybe these charts are sketches for a movie score that never happened. This obscure Verve album from '63 is easily topped by Rabbit's 1970 reunion with Nelson on Flying Dutchman's 'Three Shades of Blue'.

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Some Sunday afternoon Zap-Pow action with Sun Ra and 'The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale' aka Blues Project

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Universe Records reissue of the Tifton.

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Al Grey - Shades of Grey - Tangerine

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Willis Jackson - Funky Reggae - Trip (no Reggae, but plenty of funky)

(and we've had the next sleeve on the sexiest covers thread already :))

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Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis & BIll Doggett - Midnight slows vol 10 - Black & Blue

A sudden thought; I think I got all of these LPs from Dan Gould. Thanks Dan.

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Harold Alexander - Raw Root

I'd have liked more raw, and more root, and less production, and less blatancy. And less flute. A lot less flute.

I mean, geez, (mostly) Roland Alexander, Joe Bonner, Richard Davis are on board, and this is all that comes out?

Produced by the now-reknowned Jimmy Douglass...guess he used this one as a "learning experience".

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Roland Alexander Quintet plus Kalaparusha - Live at the Axis (Kharma)

As fate would have it, this followed Harold Alexander in the recently alphabetized (and already obsoletely so) To Be Listened To LP section.

I like it, very much "of it's time" in every regard, and strong playing aplenty, although perhaps not always collectively. But sometimes so, yes.

There's one point where Kalaparusha just leans back (figuratively, wasn't there to see if he actually did or not) and blows and it comes out Gene Ammons like a MOFO. Pure LOL Delight, that moment was.

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