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Miles Davis “Directions” Columbia 2 LP set, LP 1

The turntable is spinning with the mono version of a stereo LP I spun last week, “Jack Teagarden” on Verve. Both the stereo and mono sound glorious; the stereo is a lot cleaner copy.

Cold again, and ye olde dachshund is not doing so well. . . I didn’t get enough sleep but I’ll try and make up for that later. Starting off with a new arrival, Ethan Iverson Quartet & Tom Harrell “Common Practice” . . . I’m not the biggest Iverson fan but I do love Tom Harrell and he is playing really well on this live session. 300×300 35 KB

Maybe it was Orrin's partner who has a less than stellar rep I think. After all Grauer, Jr. was in charge of sales and business I think.

Miles Davis “Water Babies” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 This cover always makes me smile–we used to on occasion have a neighborhood Dad who would get out a monkey wrench and free up the water for the kids to play around in my Philly neighborhood as a kid. Followed by Tom Harrell “First Impressions” High Note cd Tom on High Note is always great. Arranged By – Tom Harrell Bass – Ugonna Okegwo Cello – Rubin Kodheli Drums – Johnathan Blake Flute, Bass Flute – Charles Pillow Guitar – Rale Micic Piano – Danny Grissett Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Escoffery Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell Violin – Meg Okura

Personally I believe the Real Gone story, and they have done wonderful mastering work, so I expect this will sound really nice. I pre-ordered a black vinyl copy.

Saturday bump

Another cold day for Spring. Starting off with some Kenny Burrell and Harold Land with Bill Evans, a nice way to ease into the day. Bill Evans “Quintessence” Fantasy cd

Claudia Acuna “Turn Pages” Claudia Acuña, vocals; Juancho Herrera, guitar, vocals; Pablo Vergara, Jon Cowherd, piano, keyboards; Carlos Henderson, Michael Olatuja, bass; Yayo Serka, drums, percussion; Grégoire Maret, harmonica.

Tom Harrell “Infinity” High Note cd Wow. This band. . . this writing and the arrangements. . . one of his really good ones. Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn Mark Turner – tenor saxophone Charles Altura – electric guitar, acoustic guitar Ben Street – bass Johnathan Blake – drums Adam Cruz – percussion

I really haven't been an alcohol drinker in about 35 years, gave it up about the time I gave up smoking cigarettes. Of these I was a Heineken fan, and liked Modelo (Negro). Didn't drink the others.

Bill Evans “Another Time: The Hilversum Concert” Resonance Records cd Bill with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette. Killer imo.

Well I remain a Lovano fan. I like all his recordings. . . except I'm not really fond of those ECMs with gongs. Gongs just don't float my boat in jazz. And I'll repeat he is the nicest jazz musician I ever met and conversed with. I'll never forget meeting him at Tower Records Austin.

I am having what turns out to be an interesting day. One happy thing is that we had our taxes done. . . and we lwe less than we thought we did, much less. Whew! Yeeha! And then the mail came. . . and there was a Claudia Acuna cd that I didn't think I had ordered. In fact there were two copies, one sealed, and one open with on the front cover "Lon Armstrong, Thank you for your support! Claudia Acuna" . . . . I looked and it was mailed by Claudia Acuna. I've looked through my purchase history and I can't see anywhere that I ordered that cd, although I did order a few other Acuna cds a month ago. A happy mystery! Thanks Ms Acuna!

A cold morning. Lucinda and I have an appointment for our taxes today. . . expecting to write a big check. Sigh. Starting off with the mostly composed pieces on “Mountains” by Micah Thomas. 300×300 34.1 KB

Count Basie Orchestra “Me & You” Pablo cd This band was so tight all the way to the end. Recorded February 20 and 28, 1983

TANAREID “Looking Forward” featuring Tom Harrell, Evidence cd

Now LP 2, second LP of 1938

Duke Ellington “An Explosion Of Genius 1938-1940” Columbia Special Products/Smithsonian Collection. Record 1, 1938 These records (I also have them in the 2 LP sets for each year) sound phenomenal. And the music is so intriguing.

Miles Davis “My Funny Valentine” Sony Blu-Spec CD2

Moving on to something different. . . my original release LP of Jerry Garcia Band “Cats Under the Stars”. . . a favorite.

Starting a cold morning off with the warm and wise voice of Andy Bey. Andy Bey “Ballads, Blues and Bey” 301×300 21.3 KB

He's really good on this excellent one: https://www.discogs.com/release/14658196-Bobby-Gordon-2-Jon-Erik-Kellso-Dan-Barrett-3-Rick-Fay-Johnny-Varro-Marty-Grosz-Bob-Haggart-Gene-Este and this one as a leader is very good imo: https://www.discogs.com/release/7645858-Dan-Barrett-Dan-Barretts-International-Swing-Party I really like him here as well: https://www.discogs.com/release/17253637-Johnny-Varro-Swing-7

That's amazing that you tried that. Dan Barrett is the only one I know of that really succeeded at that. Tea was an astonishing musician. One of those dearest to my listening heart.

I believe you are correct on all accounts there. I have the mono and stereo LPs and the Teagarden family release on cd. I'm a Teagarden nut.