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Nice. Hope you are getting on well with your practice, JK, and welcome back, I think ?
Currently listening to lots of Dave Brubeck, after rather catching the bug after a chance listening to Jazz Impressions of Japan.
Just bought a bunch of CDs in fact, to go with the 7 album set I got recently.
For the past hour (before having tea that is) I have been listening to and transcribing the amazing Olli Soikkeli's part of the opening tune 'Alumiando' of this video -
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupSome Clark Bars · Sonny ClarkMy Conceptionâ„— A Blue Note Records release; â„— 1959 Capitol Records, LLCReleased on: ...
I'm going to see Shakti at the end of this month, so over the next week I'll be listening to all my Shakti and Remember Shakti CDs, starting today with their eponymous first record.
Been listening to Andrew Hill's "Grass Roots" which was a late 1960s disc and omprises two sets of the same material, the first one with Woody Shaw and Frank Mitchell having been rejected by Blue Note. This are Hill's funkiest session but I think that the music does not lose it's indentity as an Andrew Hill record. The session with Booker Erwin impresses me as he is not a tpyical Blue Note saxophonist. Shame that his front line partner Lee Morgan is out of form on this. I prefer Woody Shaw's playing on the rejected session.
Tony Williams Lifetime's complete concert performed in New York in November of 1969. This show was recorded for radio broadcast and presents the original...
Picked up a near-mint double LP of "Ella Swings with Nelson" in the local vinyl emporium. Produced by Norman Granz -- still sounds sensational 60 years after recording.
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