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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Gone With the Wind (Columbia 6 eye stereo)

In spite of reservations about Brubeck's musicianship, I find his music very comforting when I'm in certain moods. And it's probably morbid to say this, but I've been thinking a lot lately about his age and health, and how much I'll miss him when he's gone.

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Friedrich Gulda 'At Birdland' (RCA Victor, mono)

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Interesting lineup (Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Cleveland, Phil Woods, Seldon Powell, Gulda, Aaron Bell and Nick Stabulas) fgor this excellent session. Cover photo by Herman Leonard, liner notes by producer John Hammond (did he often produce for Victor?)

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John Jenkins featuring Kenny Burrell- Toshiba Japan- the excess of the cymbals heard on the conn Cd are tamed on this version which is all mono (unlike the Conn). Probably needs a middle ground- how's the MM issue of this . Anyone ?

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Another one for Charles Brackeen fans. This is my favorite, YMMV. More Ornette influence here. No surprise with the lineup that is with Brackeen: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden ("misspelled 'Hayden' on the sleeve), Ed Blackwell. Strata-East LP.

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Thanks to mjazzg and Leeway for inspiring me to get out some Charles Brackeen.

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Fred Hopkins - a monster on bass. Surely one of the greats on the instrument.

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Coleman Hawkins (Crown). A good one, with Thad Jones and Eddie Costa. Visually, it's near mint, but it's a pretty crappy pressing. (Surprise!)

Dickie Wells/Joe Turner/Teddy Weatherford - Swing Sessions 1 1937/1939 (EMI/Pathe)

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Earl Humphrey & Igor's Imperial Orchestra (Center mono). Dick Allen used to insist that Earl was the most talented of the Humphrey brothers. Don't think I agree - Percy was great and Willie was fabulous at his best, but I would at least pay attention when Dick Allen told me something.

This 1966 album was Earl's first recording in 40 years, since the Louis Dumaine sides. All the Humphrey brothers could put away some Wild Turkey, apparently, but Earl was the only one for whom it was apparently something of a problem. His playing is rough, but appealing, and the band is good - DeDe Pierce in on trumpet and young Orange Kellin is the clarinetist. (I saw him at Preservation Hall last year.) Nice stuff.

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George Girard - Stompin' at the Famous Door (Vik). One of the last recordings by the talented New Orleans trumpeter - he died of cancer seven months later at age 26. His music sometimes had too much of that Bourbon Street dixieland flavor, but at his best he was so tasty that I'll forgive him for a few lapses of taste. And Harry Shields, one of my favorite New Orleans clarinetists, is on hand. I've always thought that he was a much better player than his brother Larry, of the ODJB.

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