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Please do share. I am afraid it’s a mistake.

Oh yes he sounds a lot like Junior Cook here

I really dare to state this is a modern jazz piano masterpiece.

Okay one more then

Everyday should be one right? fantastic music it is

Forgive me if I am not completely the guy you’re looking for. I did play saxophone between my 7th and 13th year. They said I had some natural talent but I was/am lazy and did not practice enough. I do have some music theoretical knowledge but nothing advanced and its been a while. I surely can’t hear what key something is. I do hear if a guy isn’t very skilled in improvising and trying to stick to blues scales and stuff (that’s what I did too). Some solos in well known pop songs tend to irritate me for that reason. I remember a video of Oscar Peterson duelling with Keith Emerson and Keith is clearly showing he could play from charts but couldn’t improvise at all. When I started listening to jazz, technique and skill was all that mattered to me. Now here comes the cliche: now I don’t care for it anymore. Now it’s mostly about feeling, emotional depth and originality. Bird, Newk, Stitt and Tatum: those guys could still make me crazy (in a good way) with their supernatural skills. But those skills aren’t a necessity for me to enjoy. I don’t analyze music technically or something like that. It’s just a click I’ll have that is not really to be put down in words. I have it with Billy Harper and Mal Waldron. It’s like feeling every sentence they want to tell. And I still have it mostly with Coltrane who of course also is a very skilled player.

Speaking of Bobby Hutcherson and the Tone Poets: I’d love a Tone Poet edition of Patterns!

Well I’ve stretched my personal limits for the Tone Poets and Acoustic Sounds series but I still can’t believe people pay a 100 bucks for a reissue. And the whole ‘keeping it small’ philosophy is what really annoys me. Keeping the batch small to maximize you’re profits. The opposite of what jazz should be: an art form available for anyone who wants to hear it. I am not a big fan of streaming but I do like the fact it makes much music available for everyone.

Yeah that album is fantastic. Gave it the full five stars on my blog. It’s really what music should be all about.

Oh yes. I hoped to see more Jackie in the upcoming Classics series. I think Demons Dance was unofficially announced as a Tone Poet. That one also deserves a good vinyl reissue.

Great record 👍

Yeah, he had his breakdown in 1963/1964. Moved to Europe then: Italy first and later Germany (Koln and Munich). He had a lot of gigs in those years but not a lot of records indeed.

I love Mal (I know, I don’t talk a lot about it…) but I mostly love him post 1960 and even more after 1964 when his sound changed. I think the reason why he is on so many Prestige recordings was a practical thing. He lived quite near the studios and was able to compose 3 or 4 songs in 24 hours. Mal said in interviews Bob Weinstock used to call him, told him who were going to record the next day, then Mal wrote a few pieces with those players in mind and bring his work to the studios the next day. Contracted and avaible: he was probably a logical pick as a pianist. Especially for Prestige, whose records always feel more like sessions than albums. Wasn’t Weinstocks whole philosophy: get some musicians, get some compositions, try to record everything in one take, pay the musicians and see if it sells?

Not my favorite Nathan, but a very good one indeed!

COVID infections at my workplace are very, very high for almost 2 months now. Every week, every class got two or three students infected. Every week, one or two colleagues are at home in isolation because they are infected. At my gym, everyone seam to have got it already. In the meanwhile my parents in law got infected, my brother in law, my sister plus her whole family and my brother plus his whole family. All in the last two months. Its weird how this new variant gives a new meaning to COVID. Where at first I almost panicked with every case in my surroundings, it’s really getting part of daily life now. Not that I am underestimating it now, definitely not. By you’re sort of getting used to it…

Must say I have to be in the mood for it but when I am..... About the Azar Lawrence: it's his date but does not feel like it. It's Woody Shaw, Julian Priester en especially Arthur Blythe that are absolutely killing it. Lawrence isn't bad, but it just feel's like he was a sideman. Don't know if other people feel that way too.