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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe “An Evening of Yes Music Plus” disc 1 of 2 cd set. 300×300 49.9 KB Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Jon Anderson – lead vocals Bill Bruford – drums, percussion Rick Wakeman – keyboards Steve Howe – guitar, backing vocals Additional musicians Jeff Berlin – bass Julian Colbeck – additional keyboards, backing vocals Milton McDonald – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Stan Kenton “Adventures in Jazz” Capitol cd Lots of mellophiums! (Or. . . mellophonia?)

Roberta Flack - I CAN SEE THE SUN IN LATER DECEMBER

Ever since COVID, it's been impossible to find people to jam with. In the last handful of years, I've found many who say they'd be interested after I post a song, but then they disappear. I had to sell my guitars, bass, and other instruments to pay my bills, but I still have my drums and keyboard... I mostly improvise, and even when I write down the chords, etc., I tend to go with my feeling. If you're interested and have the time, please reply. I say this because once I start a song, I'm into it, and soon, it's out of my head.. Straight ahead!

I play all the instruments, except for the vocals and horns. I play all the instruments on my first album... I don't use computers. I have one condenser microphone, and use a Tascam DP01 East Meets West (2nd album) --- I do everything myself.

Piano Sonata - No.30, No.31, No.32,

I have a few of those.

I started re-reading (for may be the second or third time) Raymond Chandler’s “The Lady in the Lake.” I just get into a particular enchanted zone reading Chandler. His writing has enthralled me since I was a young man. Picked up this edition at Half Price Books:

Gil Evans: All the Sad Young Men Gil & Miles: The Meaning of the Blues

ELO - 15038 Overture

Cool. Now. . . . Paul Desmond “Bossa Antigua” RCA/Legacy cd 599×614 152 KB From this excellent box set:

Well, at least a few Christmas tracks on this compilation:

There you go. I have all of those.

Seeing her in person next month with Jenny Scheinman"s quartet.

I may have liked last year better actually... My two favorites, both without much press were Tilburg Noord by Meter Erker Shakkei by Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni di Domenico Of the somewhat more high-profile stuff, I liked the Amina Claudine Myers solo and the new Masabumi Kikuchi solo on Red Hook, Sullivan Fortner Trio (Southern Nights) and the duo record of Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoisier...

Carmen Staaf “Sounding Line” Sunnyside cd 479×500 37.6 KB Carmen Staff - piano Ben Goldberg - clarinets Ambrose Akinmusire - trumpet (2 tracks) Darren Johnston - trumpet (two tracks) Dillon Vado - vibraphone, tambourine John Santos - bongo Hamir Atwal - drums

I think that part of the problem is the way that it was presented. Maybe they should have called it: Jazz - The First Half Century." In that case, I might have felt moderately favorable toward it. But to exclude the next half century as if nothing was going on outside of Wynton Marsalis is absurd.

Backordered copy just arrived; I was glad to see several shows represented that give me fond memories.