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Buying the Ornette to save the LPs ( for/from what, I have no idea, but it seems like a valid-ish justification?), but the Eckstine, is due to hearing this on a YouTube discovery-binge and thinking, wow, that chart is a lot more..engaged than it had to be.

I don't know if there's been a curve I'm now behind, but a re-evaluation of Billy Eckstine as more than just "the guy who had that hip big band and then turned into a bland MOR crooner for the next how many ever decades" is definitely something that seems due, for me, at least. The man's instrument was remarkable and he yielded it masterfully no matter the context. I've hears some pretty questionable contexts, but never any questionable singing.Is it just me, or is he pretty much forgotten these days except for leading the big band? That just seems wrong...

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Just ordered these two LPs from Dusty Groove:

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Mickey Tucker Trio - Sweet Lotus Lips (Denon)
with Reggie Workman & Horacee Arnold

 

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John Hicks - Some Other Time (Theresa)
with Walter Booker & Idris Muhammad

 

It's payday. :g

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1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Just ordered these two LPs from Dusty Groove:

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Mickey Tucker Trio - Sweet Lotus Lips (Denon)
with Reggie Workman & Horacee Arnold

 

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John Hicks - Some Other Time (Theresa)
with Walter Booker & Idris Muhammad

 

It's payday. :g

Good stuff ....

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  • 3 weeks later...
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Just pulled the trigger on a couple CDs by Aldo Romano's Quartet with Franco D'Andrea, Paolo Fresu, and Furio Di Castri:
 

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To Be Ornette to Be (Owl, 1983)

 

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Dreams & Waters (Owl, 1991)

 

 

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Ordered a single from the late 1950's by Andy & the Bey Sisters on UK Fontana - couldn't find it in any discography. Must have look into my vintage printed Bruyninckx discography in the basement tomorrow ...

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a lot... but it seemed outrageous to live within commuting distance  from Utrecht and always missing the famous record fair


The Bop Friends - Live at the Mozart (Vogel)
Walt Dickerson Trio - Serendipity (Steplechase)
Loek Dikker Ensemble - Summer Suite (Daybreak)
Joe Diorio - Earth Moon Earth (Nocturne)
Jon Eardley / Al Haig - Stablemates (Spotlite)
Jon Eardley - Namely Me (Spotlite)
Clare Fischer / Gary Foster - Starbright (Discovery)
Dexter Gordon - Live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam Vol II (Catfish / Yes to Jazz)
Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest - Out 'dere (Grayforrest)
Hampton Hawes - Spanish Steps (Black Lion)
Louis Hayes - Variety is the Spice (Gryphon)
Gijs Hendriks - Dom Rocket (Timeless)
Philly Joe Jones - Round' Midnight (Lotus)
Paul v. Kemenade / Ron v. Rossum (BVHaast)
Jimmy Knepper Sextet - Tell Me (Daybreak/Affinity)
Keshavan Maslak Quartet - Big Time (Daybreak/Affinity)
Don Menza / Frank Strazzeri - Ballads (Fresh Sound)
Hod O'Brien - Bits and Pieces (Uptown)
Horace Parlan Quintet - Frank-ly Speaking (Steeplechase)
Ray Pizzi Quartet - Expressivo (Discovery)
Frank Rosolino / Conte Candoli - Conversation (MPS)
Ack van Royen - Homeward (Mood)
Jordan Sandke / Jaki Byard - Rhythm is our business (Stash)
Saheb Sarbib Sextet - Jancin' at Jazzmania (Jazzmania)
Thomas Pelzer Limited (Vogel)
Etienne Verschueren - Mr Blue (BRT)
Etienne Verschueren - Early Spring (Jazz Cats)
Vince Wallace Plays Vince Wallace (AMP)

 

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Somewhat inspired by the music that didn't make it to LP thread, I searched again and found Dolo Coker's Third Down LP for $15 and ordered that.  It will be quite some time before it is in my hands and I reassemble my turntable, but I'll try to be patient.

I'm leaning towards ordering Night Train by Jimmy Forrest, a compilation of his early material on Delmark.  I'm holding back for the moment because I think I probably owned this at one point, but maybe I just saw it a lot back in the day when I used to drop into the Jazz Record Mart a lot.  In either case, I don't have it in my collection now.

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I've been getting lax keeping up with Houston Person releases lately. But I had a day a month or so ago when I listened to his material all day long.

As a result, I asked my wife and daughter to get me a couple I'd missed for Christmas.

Well, they got me four!

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Something personal

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Thinking of you

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Naturally

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Rain or shine wasn't even available when I asked, so my daughter got that, too!

Boxing day was LOVELY!

MG

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2 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

I've been getting lax keeping up with Houston Person releases lately. But I had a day a month or so ago when I listened to his material all day long.

As a result, I asked my wife and daughter to get me a couple I'd missed for Christmas.

Well, they got me four!

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Thinking of you

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Thinking of you

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Naturally

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Rain or shine wasn't even available when I asked, so my daughter got that, too!

Boxing day was LOVELY!

MG

I've made a habit of watching for Houston's Fall Highnote release then ask for it at Christmas or use an Amazon gift card for it. So all I got was the latest, Rain or Shine. Very nice. There's a certain sameness to his releases on Highnote but I don't care. Someday there won't be a new collection of ballads, standards and blues so I'll keep collecting them all.

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Was doing some poking around on on-line discography sites.  Found out about an Al Haig session with Jimmy Raney - Special Brew.  Never on LP.  Sad...

It is mentioned briefly here in a different thread more focused on Raney, but not the music that never made it to CD thread.  Anyway, found a supposedly NM- copy on-line for $5.  I'll post my thoughts on the not on CD thread when I can, but it will be a long while before I actually have it in my hands...

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Last week I finally bought from CD Japan the latest reissue of 

Booker Little's Time album, thankfully still available,

and

Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life. Features latest remastering. Hopefully as good as the Blu-spec CD of Red Clay with its flat transfer.

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Ordered:

4 CD box of Frode Gjerstad w/William Parker & Hamid Drake - on Not Two Records

4 CD box Mats Gustafsson 50th Birthday concerts from 2014 with many interesting musicians playing with Mats - on Trost Records 

newest Parker-Guy-Lytton recording on Intakt

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3 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Ordered:

4 CD box of Frode Gjerstad w/William Parker & Hamid Drake - on Not Two Records

4 CD box Mats Gustafsson 50th Birthday concerts from 2014 with many interesting musicians playing with Mats - on Trost Records 

newest Parker-Guy-Lytton recording on Intakt

Nice haul.The Mats birthday box has some great music and that Parker/Guy/Lytton is as strong a recording as any they've done before. A fitting tribute to the founder of The Vortex

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On 4/3/2018 at 7:00 AM, Misterioso said:

Mosaic Select Bob Brookmeyer for $16.99 incl. postage to Australia. I guess I did well.

Outstandingly well. It’s a great box. 

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