After a year and a half of living here, I am still unpacking boxes. I don't mean boxes I have acquired recently in this case, but my old racks of music CDs are still not organized well.

Did not forget this one, but I have not heard it in a while. It goes great with morning coffee, watching a heavy fog burn off.

This is new, 2017 release. Can't find it listed on Discogs. I got this from Amazon after following an article from AAJ talking about him going on without the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

Oscar Hernandez, The Art Of Latin Jazz

Nice!
Thanks, Lon. I suppose I gave up too soon.
It's a fun album.
New, but not from a new soul. He's been around for a while.

This is the latest I have.

Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre – Love The Moment

If it seems as if I went on a shopping spree just before we moved, I did. I bought lots of stuff I had been reading about, streaming on occasion and wanting actual discs to hold.
Actually about two years worth of CD purchasing at a high level for me.
Then we found out the city is taking our home.
I became a bit more tight pocketed at that point.

I can remember once in a discussion many years ago of how the leaning from the industry was to end production of physical media, cursing us with nothing but digital downloads and your position was that you had enough music on hand to last the rest of your life.

It struck me with a light green envy at the time, but it got me thinking that I will be OK, too.
The rise of the Audiophile Collections seems to have had a hand in saving some aspects of the industry for the short term.


Understanding all that does not mean I've quit chasing "shiny" when I see it.




Go ahead and have a talk with yourself, but see that you win the argument.

From the shelves

"Bennie Green" Time Records/Solid Records Japan cd



Bass – George Tucker
Bongos – Joseph Gorgas
Drums – Al Dreares
Piano – Sonny Clark
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Forrest
Trombone – Bennie Green

From the shelves

Wes Montgomery "In Paris -- The Definitive oRTF Recording" Resonance Records 2 cd set, disc 1



Exciting material. Johnny Griffin featured on several numbers.

From the shelves

Louis Hayes "Serenade for Horace" Blue Note cd



A relatively mellow sounding disc full of Horace Silver compositions. Nice band.

Bass – Dezron Douglas
Drums – Louis Hayes
Piano – David Bryant
Tenor Saxophone – Abraham Burton
Trumpet – Josh Evans
Vibraphone – Steve Nelson

From the shelves

Another from the old racks, new, but very pleasant.


Brian Dickinson Quintet, The Rhythm Method

That's cool. I don't do ANY streaming of music and am not likely to start. I have my own ways of finding "new" music that involve reading online and recommendations from friends. And. . . I really should be cutting back on new music, so don't want to expand that exploration with streaming.

I am what I yam.

Claudia Villela "Encantada" Adventure Music cd



From the shelves

Miles Davis "Live at the Plugged Nickel Chicago, Vol. 2" cd (sort of) from the Miles Davis Complete Columbia Albums box set.



From the shelves

That Masters of Jazz is a big series!

Speaking of Blossom Dearie, here's the most recent SHM-CD reissue from Japan of her Fontana release "Soon It's Gonna Rain"



From the shelves

Joel Ross "Who Are You?" Blue Note cd

Mr. Ross impresses me with his writing and playing more and more and having Immanuel Wilkins on board is an added big plus.

Frm the sheves

David Murray Black Saint Quartet "Live in Berlin"



Recorded at Radialsystem V, jazzwerkstatt special, November 17, 2007

Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – David Murray
Composed By – David Murray
Double Bass – Jaribu Shahid
Drums – Hamid Drake
Piano – Lafayette Gilchrist

In from eBay

Very cool to have that on reel-to-reel. Reel-to-reel is something I had experience with in the late 'seventies via a friend's deck, not any since. Still remember how Jefferson Airplane (his favorite) sounded cranked through that system.

David Murray put me to sleep. . . and Lucy woke up. Music on pause for a while.

Yes, very cool!
I don't have great R to R rigs. I only have an old Crown, which works fine and a Revox in need of a lube and alignment. I also have complete rubber kits for each when the time comes back around and a spare set of heads for the Crown.

I used to run a Studer A812 when I still had my sound reinforcement business going, and recorded every show I could.
Many bands did not care and half did not care enough to even know I was recording the show. I have many old live tapes to sort some day!
I wanted to keep it, but that floor standing Studer still had a lot of dollar value when I sold off most of that gear.

This is a well mixed bag of odd tapes and I am glad to have them all.
There are also two Brubecks, A Duke, Oscar Peterson, Blind Faith, Disraeli Gears, Doobies 1st, Beatles White Album, Abbey Road and a few more, but to me the cream of the mismatched crop, Electric Ladyland.

Obviously, this is a "buy what ever you find when you find it" collection. They are all 3 3/4 ips, small reel, mill run production.
Miles Davis, Live - Evil sounds great! I only have an early run CD to compare it to, though. Hands down, analog rules!

Electric Ladyland is next after some fiddling.

Sometimes, it is the arduous fiddling that makes me switch from one format thing to another.

Playing Brubeck's Take Five tape and moving back to far less venal bribery via CDs for a while.

Duke Ellington "The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse" OJC cd



Up way too early but awake now!

From the shelves

I don't even want to hear Pink Floyd (burned out on their material long ago as it was overplayed and constantly played) let alone jazz versions!

Had to take time off to be available for the cable guy. Though our cable remained connected though the tornado minutes, it was blown out of its roost and lying across the ground.

Now back to the music. . . going further back than I have lately, to a disc which is one in a series of cds put out with an English magazine, all remastered by the late great J.R.T. Davies.



From the shelves

I could wish this concert was better recorded, but I'm happy that it sounds better on this Octave/Mack Records cd than an earlier cd and the LP i had--due I bet in large part to the use of the Plangent Process.

I think this is the last live concert of Garner's recorded and released. And it sure is a good one.

Erroll Garner "The Campus Concert"



From the shelves

Going with something new. From the old racks, 2016.

A cute gal and her organ. B3 trio, I mean!

Adrienne Fenemor, Mo' Puddin'  

Guinga "Noturno Copacabano" Velas cd

In from Dusty Groove

I find that these Brazilian artists' work are easiest for me to find and afford at www.dustygroove.com They allow you to put an item in a want list and be notified by email when and if one not in stock becomes available. (This one is listed there as out of stock at the moment).

I wasn't meaning my posting as a recommendation. I'm always hesitant to recommend things as tastes are so varied and mine some consider eccentric. I'm just chronicling some of the things I listen to. I'm certainly not interested in many items I see posted and don't expect interest in what I post from others.

Dusty Groove is a great record store in Chicago that does a great online service. One great thing about them is their LP grading is CONSISTENT so I know what a VG+ IS, no guessing.

Right now
Chet Baker "Chet" Riverside/Keepnews Collection cd



What a band and what a mellow session to ease into the day with.

from the shelves

Allman Brothers Band, Live at the Filmore East

Never gets old....