You have hooked me, Thanks for the recommendation.
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Glad to hear you are happy with it. It is about the content for me as well. Then again it also comes across as a money grab to a degree, if the artist can sell it all the better. I wonder though if they broke them up how many they would sell to the general jazz listener/collector. I don’t get the impression there are roo many out there buying these large box sets in general. Yes I get it, William needed to release a second series as the first set pre-sold out… Good for him I say, a strong talent. Hope to see him once again perform in Chicago at the Elastic Arts.
We’re talking very small numbers here. It’s not an Adele size release so no one is buying yachts by grabbing dollars. If you are inclined to actually take the artist seriously he then sincerely believes that getting music and sound out there is a healing benefit to mankind and more. I do believe he feels compelled to write and have his music recorded, much in the same way say Ellington wrote and needed his expensive gentlemen at his elbows to stoke life into the compositions. So he creates and creates and he wants to get them out there, this is one way he’s trying. I don’t see anything negative in the method or the intent. And I’ve enjoyed the two discs that I have heard so far and am looking forward to the rest and going back to the first two!
With some tweaks I’ve done to the sound lately the Henderson album is sounding spectacular. Forgot how interesting the Hancock-McBride-DeJohnette trio was behind Joe.
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Frank Lowe’s The Flam, with Joseph Bowie’s fine trombone work on this set. Yet another opportunity to listen to Wadada Leo Smith’s trumpet work.
Got a care package from NoBusiness Records. First up, a new double cd set from Red Trio. This is the first time (I believe) that they’ve recorded with a large ensemble. Verdict is still out…
Dug this one out this afternoon, Henry Grimes Trio on ESP, Bass, Clarinet and Drums: Henry Grimes, Perry Robinson, and Tom Price. I’ digging the clarinet work on this.
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Perry Robinson should have recorded more. There’s a good one he led on Savoy as well. . . a few later ones that aren’t quite as powerful.
Sad week. We lost Chick Corea.
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Just heard that, sad news indeed.
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I had no idea he was sick…
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23 years old French musician Michel Petrucciani live with Jim Hall and Wayne Shorter. Cool music.
Michel had a congenital condition, but defied his physical challenges and rose to stardom early in life as a performer and composer. He made his first recording at 17. He was only 36 when he passed away in NY.
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Here is Michel with jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. I think this one is well worth my ears (or the other way around 
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More strings jazz. Yo-Yo Ma did a few jazz works with the likes of Claude Bolling and Pinchas Zukerman. However, this work with Stephane Grappelli is unique.
Two new releases from Paolo Fresu with great music and sound!!
Here and there I already recommended sessions of him with Omar Sosa. I have about 50 albums of Fresu and 30 of Sosa, of which many are an absolute gem.
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Michel Petrucciani, Jim Hall, and Wayne Shorter, very simpatico! The Petrucciani NHOP is a rare treat. Too bad they did not play together more often. Check out their cover over Sonny Rollins’ Oleo:
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Ahmad Jamal should be well known without need to introduce. I have quite any of his older original LP’s (20-30) and a lot of newer recordings, too. This is a quite new album and a strong one (very good sound quality, too).
Play his version of autumn leaves and you’ll experience his unique ability to enthuse with leaving notes out.
Listen to the vocal track of “Marseille” by Abd Al Malik and even if you don’t understand french, you perceive you exactly know what’s being talked about.
A great album available digitally and on vinyl.
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He is a superb trumpet player. Incredible technique and wonderful interpretations.
I know only his classical work but I expect this album to be at least good.
