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Melvin Sparks - Sparkling - Muse

Very different from his usual style of albums - I wish he'd recorded more with a piano quartet.

MG

I wish I had a copy of that one.

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Liz Gorrill/Lenny Popkin/Eddie Gomez - True Fun (Jazz). I found this 1984 LP today. It's on the label dedicated to Lennie Tristano and his followers, discussed recently I'm really glad I picked this up - it's Tristano-influenced, but goes pretty far afield. Popkin's "True Fun," based on "There Will Never Be Another You," and parts of Tristano's "Lennie's Pennies" sound the most Tristano-ish, but Gorrill's "Astral Projection" is a modal vamp tune, and the three-part "Suite for Vincent" is apparently totally improvised by the trio. Gorrill is more aggressive and hard-edged than Lennie, and even plays the first head of "Lennie's Pennies" as a boogie-woogie(!).

A little poking around the internet reveals that Gorrill later had a health crisis, followed by a spiritual experience, and is now known as Kazzrie Jaxen. The quality of True Fun is so high that I just might set aside my aversion to new-age spirituality and check out some of Jaxen's music.

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This morning, Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Coleman Hawkins, Al Sears, Pee Wee Russell, etc.) (Prestige Swingville), and Bunky Green, Testifying' Time (Argo).

Curiously, Joe Goldberg's liner notes to Things Ain't ... talk about Buddy Tate, rather than Al Sears, who is actually the leader of half of the album.

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Dr Charles G Hayes & Cosmopolitan Church in Prayer Choir - Everytime I feel the spirit - Savoy

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Bill Hardman - Focus - Muse (promo)

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Shouldn't that be Out of Focus? ^_^

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