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Bud Powell: "Un Poco Loco" and "You Go To My Head" from The Amazing Bud Powell Volume One (BN RVG)

I never get tired of listening to "Un Poco Loco", no matter how many times I hear it.

Well, he gives you it three times for a start!

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Bud Powell: "Un Poco Loco" and "You Go To My Head" from The Amazing Bud Powell Volume One (BN RVG)

I never get tired of listening to "Un Poco Loco", no matter how many times I hear it.

Well, he gives you it three times for a start!

Glad there are all three takes, but the master take is my favorite.

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The title track from Johnny Adams, One Foot In The Blues. One of the smartest things I've done in the past 12 months was taking a chance on Room With a View of the Blues. What an amazing set of pipes.

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Two tracks particularly caught my ear yesterday

Some Other Time - Monica Zetterlund with the Bill Evans Trio (Complete Bill Evans on Verve)

One Never Knows - Modern Jazz Quartet (The Last Concert, Atlantic)

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Well, despite having bought a Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday this week, what really grabbed mee this morning was "Sudan" from Idris Muhammad's "House of the rising sun" (Kudu), which I've had for aeons. Fabulous groove! Great solos from Fred Wesley, Tom Harrell, Sir Roland Hanna and Idris. In particular, Tom Harrell really got through this time. I think I should perhaps look into him a bit.

MG

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Stan Kenton - "Willow Weep for Me" from Standards In Silhouette. Marvelously inventive writing by Bill Mathieu impeccably interpreted by the band. Not sure what, if anything, Kenton had to do with this ending up as it did, but if credit is due, then credit is given. And if it turns out that Mathieu was given free reign to rehearse & conduct his charts, then he gets the credit (and Kenton would get credit for knowing when to do the right thing and get out of the way).

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Stan Kenton - "Willow Weep for Me" from Standards In Silhouette. Marvelously inventive writing by Bill Mathieu impeccably interpreted by the band. Not sure what, if anything, Kenton had to do with this ending up as it did, but if credit is due, then credit is given. And if it turns out that Mathieu was given free reign to rehearse & conduct his charts, then he gets the credit (and Kenton would get credit for knowing when to do the right thing and get out of the way).

I'll spin that one tonight, I'm stuck at work this afternoon.

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Please do, and pay attention to how Mathieu's arrangements integrate the soloists into the chart. It's very seldom a head-solo-outchorus thing like so much big-band writing is. This guy weaves them in and out of the arrangements, almost as commentary rather than as statement, if that makes any sense. A very linear, organic, non-rigid course of development, it seems to me.

You know how I feel about Kenton in general, but this one is....different somehow. At least to my ears.

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Sivuca's "Voce Abusou (I'm Free As A Bird)" just won't let loose its grip on my lobes today. What a beautiful melody!

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Please do, and pay attention to how Mathieu's arrangements integrate the soloists into the chart. It's very seldom a head-solo-outchorus thing like so much big-band writing is. This guy weaves them in and out of the arrangements, almost as commentary rather than as statement, if that makes any sense. A very linear, organic, non-rigid course of development, it seems to me.

You know how I feel about Kenton in general, but this one is....different somehow. At least to my ears.

I really like that little repeated motif that drifts in and out throughout the arrangement, it's almost got a Gershwin mood to it. I don't think I've ever heard that song played with that particular mood before, it's got an ominous quality about it. You are also correct about the arrangement of the soloists, they don't stand out as "hey, I'm soloing now", but fit in to create a cohesive whole.

It's an interesting album, think it will take several spins to really sink in.

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"By Your Side" by Sade, from Lovers Rock. It just speaks volumes to me right here and now. Her music, her words, her voice. . . these are some of my favorite things.

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Two tracks:

1) "Minawa" by Hugh Masekela (from Home is Where the Music Is). It's a beautiful composition anyway, but I was listening to it while driving to my folks house to help my dad get my mom from the car to the bed after having eyelid surgery. What would normally be a five-second walk for my mom became an hour's journey guiding my pain-killer-stuffed semi-conscious (and fiercely independent) mother to her bed for much-needed rest and recuperation. (I'm happy to report she's fine now and is seeing much better than before the surgery). The tune just sounded very longing and fit perfectly with the anxious mood of the drive.

2) "On the Corner / New York Girl / Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another / Vote for Miles" Listened to this while driving to church this morning. I happened to get behind a vehicle which had a license plate, on which the word SLY was part of the license-plate number. How cool is that? :)

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Don Byas playing 'Laura' with the Don Redman Band in Geneva in 1946. Tenor playing at or beyond the highest level...harmonic and melodic sophistication and tone and control unmatched by anyone else at this time.

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Three Hours - Nick Drake

Sure, I've heard it countless times, but it always feels like a new experience. One of those tracks that I have to play a few times in a row. This comes as close to perfection as I think music can possibly come.

Starting it over for the 3rd time...

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Oh hell yes. Blue in Green. From Kind of Blue. It's the best thing going for me right now. God. That's just beautiful.

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