"The Jackie Paris Sound" Atlantic/Collector's Choice cd

This century I discovered the joy of Jackie Paris recordings and this is a good one.



Bass – Joe Benjamin, Wendell Marshall
Drums – Bill Clark, Ed Shaughnessy
Guitar – Barry Galbraith
Piano – John James
Tenor Saxophone – Ed Wasserman

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Saw this cd on the shelves and had to spin it--this is such a sunny and warm and fun cd. I love Paula's voice . . . and Joao shares her bright musical spirit.

"Paula Morelenbaum & Joao Donato"

John Coltrane "Coltrane Plays the Blues" mono cd from this box set:



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Glad you dig that Santos disc. I have made it a rule of thumb to sample anything on the Adventure Music label--they are always very well-recorded and nine times out of ten music I return to over and over.

I used to be "anti-vocal" in many types of music but this century jazz and Brazilain vocals have meant more to me, especially male instrumentalists who sing like Tom, Pops. Jackson, Fats, Woody et al and some women I can't resist, American and Brazilian.

Dexter Gordon "Clubhouse" Blue Note EMI Japan cd.



One of my favorite Dexters with Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins.

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"The Amazing Benny Bailey--Mirrors--arranged and conducted by Francy Boland" Rearward Schema cd



Orchestral backing on some of these tracks is quite innovative for a horn and strings session. Very well-recorded as well.

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Sahib Shibab "Companionship" Rearward Schema cd





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Yes, Wayne's first for Vee Jay and I think his first leader date. I have this in a Mosaic box set and before that I had separate cd versions. Nice music.

You mentioned how you are somewhat less averse to vocals this century, but I am learning, especially some vibrant female vocalists.

But a few days ago I came across Pops, scatting to a rhythym and I could not stop listening.
Now understand the most hideous type of vocal renditions to me has always been the scatters. I hate that!  Mostly. I mean they call that what it is when animals do it and I concur!

But hearing his take was eye opening. So deep and beefy, forced gravel through a blender on SLOW speed, but rhythmic.  I threw the CD in the "keep pile" for some reason. I don't really think I'll ever get rid of anything he has done. It was just one song with scat, after all.

But I am becoming less averse to vocals as I hear more and hear more listenable attempts. I began to soften with the sultry female European vocalists, but bluesy guys are OK sometimes, too.

Jim Tomlinson (with Special Guest Stacey Kent) "Only Trust Your Heart" Candid Records cd

Smooth and easy in good ways.



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I listened to the Tomlinson from last night again and then

Aline Muniz "Onde Tudo Faz Sentido"



A Brazilian singer-songwriter with a lovely voice.



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That's another good Wayne.

Glad that you became a Holiday fan so precipitously. It as a good movie, though not entirely accurate--it hit the emotional notes.

Right now, another unsung vocalist that I really enjoy Babs Gonzales. He was a complete goof. But he could also deliver straight and emotionally as he does often enough on this LP. A reissue of an earlier LP which is very hard to find:

Babs Gonzales "Babs" Chiaroscuro LP

Some of my favorite musicians behind him here!

Drums – Roy Haynes
Leader, Vocals – Babs Gonzales
Piano – Horace Parlan
Acoustic Bass – Buddy Catlett
Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin
Trombone – Melba Liston
Trumpet – Clark Terry
Violin – Ray Nance



Original 1968 LP



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Great to start an LP collection. I sold half of mine in the 'eighties and sort of wish I hadn't; I've built back up since I went to a turntable playback as well as digital about fifteen years ago. And now that I have an upgraded DAC and run my phono preamp into the DAC (my phono preamp has an excellent ADC and is configured to send DSD to my DAC via HDMI/I2S) my playback sound quality has improved quite pleasantly.

Listening now to two newly arrived Teagarden LPs from a four LP lot of Jackson I got very cheaply from eBay. First up was a mono LP of "Think Well of Me"--I've had the stereo on LP and cd, but never heard the mono and it's a great mix, and sounded great. Now I'm listening to "Mis'ry and the Blues" one of my favorites--I've never had it on LP only on cd, and it's a great sound stereo copy. Now I need to decide of I want to splurge on a (more expensive) mono copy. I'll keep an eye out I'm sure I'll find one eventually I can't resist.

Tatum was facinating. I wonder if those LPs are most of what was in this out of print box set from Denmark:

https://storyvillerecords.com/product/tatum-art-box/

212 tracks, 12 1/2 hours, 10 CDs and a DVD, some recorded for Voice Of America, mostly live.  $80?

I would buy that because I am an American with a dab of interest in history, let alone a music fan,  if it was not out of stock.

I have no idea, but you have done it again ... given me more to research.

Thanks, again.

I am going with my own cleaning process. His looks good, setting things up to go into storage, but I know to trust my own.
Besides, I want to play these. NOW!

Just continuing with this Tatum stack. Only seven in this handful.


... and I'm still cleaning some of the Shorter's btw.  If I did not have to listen to every other thing, this culling process would go much faster.

Maybe for both of us.


Going back to family time, before magic time and some deeper listening comes back around much later in the evening.

By then all my Spincleaning and vac'ing will be done.

Gregory Tardy "Serendipity" Impulse cd



Great band!

Bass – Reginald Veal
Drums – Eric Harland
Piano – Mulgrew Miller
Tenor Saxophone – Gregory Tardy
Trumpet – Russell Gunn, Tom Harrell  

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I don't often do this but I'm playing this one again immediately. So wonderful for a Jobim nut like me, and the sound is vivid and real seeming.

Don’t often do this but I’m playing this one again. For a Jobim nut this is wonderful. The sound is very vivid and real as well.

“Eric LeLann & Jean Marie Ecay Play Jobim” Plus Loin cd

Guitar and trumpet duo interpretations of the master’s music.

Jon Irabagon "Behind The Sky--featuring Tom Harrell"



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I'm sticking to the LP boxes for right now. Found two more Monk, bringing the total up to eight, mostly mono LPs, all from the '60s.
This album is labeled as stereo, Columbia, but possibly contrived. It sounds great anyway.

I have shuffled a few to compress the stacks, but I have eliminated four banker boxes to flattened cartons. With thirty six still to go, this will take a while.
I am sure everyone is tired of hearing about my stack, but most (not all) of these albums (especially the older LPs) are new music being added to my collection.
I'm not positive that I can quit with the blather yet, especially with my jaw dropping every time I bust open a new box.

The last two boxes were from his basement, where even the wifey had forgotten to look, thrice sealed and ready for some long term storage. I had to break the seals!
The lighter ones are LPs, but the really heavy ones have about two hundred CDs in them. No worry with crowding those, but he actually made plywood supports to take up space in each LP box, covered in bubble pack to keep the LPs from leaning.

More Monk ...

Is that your attempt at being gracious with your wife and it was more like a quart of water?
I don't own Apple, but that seems like a very small exposure to environmental conditions to take out one of the flagships of modern technology.

I feel for you, anyway. I don't use my phone for much more than a phone, but I flip it around as a camera at times (rarely, but it happens) and I have a couple of distraction games on it that kill time when I have to.

I dropped a bolt on the screen and broke it. I have always been preaching to the kids NEVER lay your phone down screen up!! Bad things happen!

And now I am the one who did so and my screen was broken. Fortunately and as I see it, the saving grace of this incident, was that they both saw it happen. So maybe a lesson carried forward.

The expense and inconvenience of dealing with service to a tech item is completely out of hand.
Mine is going fine again.
Good luck with your repairs.


Finishing off my little Monk marathon with this one. This album was definitely recorded in stereo.

OK, I gotcha. The weakest point in any technological device, that provision made for a mechanical interface with a human host, is an easy target to take out. Just like the delicate screen on my phone when I hit it with a bolt.
Sad, but true.



I have all of the Herbie Hancock Blue Notes on CD and quite a few more, but I have not even seen this one in years, let alone on an LP.

I met Hancock once. He was booked for our jazzfest which used to be a bigger thing than it is now. The concert was rained out, but some tents were still up and my son and I were checking out some media, continuing our conversation about how bummed we were to have missed Herbie Hancock.
Suddenly, out of the shadows from the back of this tent emerged a kind spectre who asked, "So who is this little man?" as he walked straight up and shook my son's hand. I was surprised to see him still around after festivities had been canceled. My son was 12 at the time.

He then turned and offered me his hand and said, "Daddyo (he flipping called me Daddyo!), I can't thank you enough for bringing him out like this and bringing him up to appreciate our music."  But, it felt inclusive, though, not like he meant "our" as in a band he runs, but he included me and my son as a part of what he does.
We spent a half hour there (a crowd had begun to gather) and he offered to give my son a CD. My son chose "Empyrean Isles" which I probably play more than any other. Herbie Hancock signed the inner pad and thanked me again. I wanted to pay, but he said that I already had.

It's still a little emotional for me, how he made over my young son, talking to my son like he was a grown up, asking who his favorites were, but it's great to have a safe place to share these tales of a gifted life.


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This one I have not seen in a while.

I always had the sense Herbie was a good egg. Glad to hear he is.

Still waiting on a laptop.

Yes, Lon, I will always think of him in the light of the Good Egg type of reference. He also has a bit of experience talking to a young mind, engaging them in conversation on their level and not making them feel intimidated.

It was a little funny when Hancock asked my son who his favorite was and my son looked at me, tentatively, not quite knowing how to respond. I knew the answer.
I told him it was OK and that Mr. Hancock knows more people than we do and he won't be mad. My son told him his favorite was Miles Davis.

Hancock knelt down to his eye level and said with a tempered energy and enthusiasm just right for the conversation that Miles was one of his favorites, too and told the boy that he used to work with Miles many years ago.
It was a memorable encounter for me and my kid was impressed, but on a different level from me and for a different set of reasons.
Not everyone meeting youngsters has the ability to draw anything out of them and often the kid gets a token head pat. Not this guy!

He seemed as impressed by my son's interest and knowledge as I was that he was still there and hour after the massive storms had rolled through, canceling everything that day.

Glad you got your new laptop sorted out.


Anyway, my next grab is Ornette Coleman, early work, reissue.

I love Wishbone Ash!

I think I have all they ever did on vinyl from the old days and a few favorites on CD recently updated.


Moving through the stack ...