June Christy "Ballads for Night People" Capitol cd



I'm not one of those night people, haven't been so long I don't remember being one. . . but I do love these ballad performances.

June Christy – vocals
Bob Cooper – arranger, conductor, tenor saxophone
Frank Rosolino – trombone
Bud Shank – alto saxophone, flute
Buddy Collette – clarinet
Chuck Gentry – bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
Joe Castro – piano
Red Callender – bass
Mel Lewis – drums
Stan Levey – drums
Kathryn Julye – harp
Jim Decker – French horn
Norman Benno – English horn, bassoon
Recorded Los Angeles, 27 August and 10 September 1959.

(This cd also contains five tracks from "Do-Re-Mi")

Mark Shim "Turbulent Flow" Blue Note cd



Drew Gress      Bass
Eric Harland      Composer, Drums
Stefon Harris      Vibraphone
Ed Simon          Piano
Mark Shim      Composer, Tenor and Soprano sax

I love Mark Shim, but I only have that one album and "Mind Over Matter."  
I know he appears on a few more, according to Discogs, but I have yet to find them available.

Great music!  Thanks for posting.

Bob Dylan "Melancholy Mood" Sony EP CD



Four tracks. . .I love the singing and accompaniment.

Bob Dylan "Tell Tale Signs" Deluxe edition, disc 3



Just a few weeks til the next Bootleg Volume!

Holy Cow. . . these XRCD24 from Audio Wave can really show you what condition your system is in. This is a fine recording from Rudy Van Gelder to begin with, the mastering is great and the sound is just right. Not to mention that this quintet means business.

Donald Byrd "The Cat Walk" Blue Note Audio Wave XRCD24.

"Shorty Rogers Quintet (With Guest Vocalist Jeri Southern)" Studio West cd

Hey, Lon, you probably have no idea how many times I see something you just got or just posted and I preview it on Tidal or Hell, I have Spotify on my TV rig thanks to my daughter.
I go looking for it so "I can be cool too!" Frustration ensues.

Then all I can find is a Redbook version or an LP from the '80s or some such.

Like the XRCD24 for instance from Donald Byrd,  "The Cat Walk"  seems to be elsewhere from where I need to look.

I also understand that many of these postings you mention were short runs and you've had them for ages.

I know it's a LARGE ask, but some you have recently acquired shown with an added source, rather than track information or collaborating band members would be amazing.

I tip my hat to your shopping aplomb, but would love a tip back of source once in a while.
You do a great service, either way! I can only thank you and cry like a baby sometimes.

Okay. I'll delete my previous comment. I'll try to remember to include sources of anything newly released I pick up. . . but no promises.

Kind of wish you had not deleted your previous, but here we are.

I know you are humble and you try to treat people gently.

I told you I had a LARGE ask.

From a song I love:

"they'll never know me, and I'll never be what they want me to be .... but l'm still here."

Thanks, Lon for any guidance you can offer.

Bless you in this time of angst and get better soon!

I regret bringing up something that has worsened your time through this.

By contrast, I am mostly healed from my latest injuries and enjoying everything I can.

Hope the same for you.

This arrived from ebay (not very well packed darn it) this week, I missed this when it was first released many years ago and I'm glad I finally corralled it:

Joe Williams "At Newport '63" RCA Bluebird cd.



Great band backing him with the great Coleman Hawkins as a guest.

I came to appreciate Pablo after so many went out of print. Luckily I had bought a lot of them for cheap when Fantasy went out of biz.

The one and only Basie with Zoot, a great swinging combo.

Count Basie and Zoot Sims “Basie & Sims” Pablo cd



with John Heard and Louis Bellson

Stan Getz "Anniversary" Emarcy cd

Earlier this week I played the companion disc "Serenity" and that inevitably led to my playing this one. Great live Getz with Barron, Reed and Lewis.

AHMAD JAMAL "EMERALD CITY NIGHTS - Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964" Elemental Music 2 cd set, disc 1



One of two sets (the other presenting live sets from 1961 and 1962) from Elemental releasing Jamal's trio in great (mono) sound. Jamal's playing just grabs my attention and I hold on for a great musical ride.

I ordered and received these from amazon.

My phono preamp has been playing hide and seek with me. Twice now in the last six weeks it has gone dark. . . and nothing I do revives it. Then a number of days later . . . it is back on and ready to roll for a few weeks. It came back on today so I'm spinning a few records, and they sound glorious.

First is Duke Ellington "Jazz Party" mono copy, the cymbals and Jimmy Rushing's voice and Dizzy's trumpet sound out just so right.




Followed by
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette "Standards, Vol. 1" --the start of the Standards Trio.

One of my favorite rock albums of fifty years ago has been given a RADICAL remix. Sounds great, but it's almost a different album, which is also not a bad thing!

There's a contemporary live redo of the album by Bob and new bandmates on disc 2 that I have not gotten to yet.

Bob Weir "Ace" 50th Anniversary 2 cd set, disc 1.

This is one of my "Go To" albums when I just want a warm LP experience or as I am doing now, a test album.
I've played this on and off most of the day and some last night, both with and without my dipole subwoofer system on or off.

I bought this the week it came out so I have an early run copy.
Bought the Redbook later, but this is the one I chose to digitize for my hard drives.

Count Basie "The Golden Years" disc 2 (of 4)
Pablo box set



I used to think later Basie was somewhat inferior. Silly man. I could not have been more wrong, as I have been discovering this decade.

I saw Ahmad Jamal perform a few years ago, and I think he was 90 years old at the time. He followed the other performers on the stage, and he walked slowly to the piano. I wondered if he would make it. Once he started playing, he changed. Quick, light, coordinated movements that produced beautiful music. His first album was at the age of 19. What a career.

Re-listening to this remixed cd, a very different mix than the original. I can like them both and I do, but boy is this mix different.

Bob Weir "Ace" 50th Anniversary reissue, disc 1

This just came in from amazon. It completes my collection of all 25 of the AudioWave XRCD24 Blue Note titles.

Now I can work on finishing off my Japanese RVG editions of Blue Note titles. Only need about 40. . . but it may take the rest of my life--a lot of these are expensive.

Freddie Hubbard "Open Sesame" Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24



A great session. I should be ashamed to admit I have three other versions. They all sound good.

Triosence "First Encounter"

A find from an amazon marketplace seller:

Harry Carney, Harold Ashby, Paul Gonsalves "Rock Me Gently & Two From Duke" Vocalion cd



1            Tree Of Hope      4:57
2            Blues For Blokes      3:45
3            Baby Blue      4:23
4            Jeepers Creepers      3:51
5            Rock Me Gently      4:04
6            Hand Me Down Love      5:14
7            Mabulala      3:31
8            Five O ' Clock Drag      3:58
9            Don't Get Around Much Anymore      4:12
10            The Midnight Sun Will Never Set      4:53
11            Jeep's Blues      5:38
12            Backstairs      3:44
13            Oh Shucks!      4:06
14            Out Of Nowhere      4:13
15            My Buddy      5:09
16            Swallowing The Blues      8:55
Baritone Saxophone – Harry Carney (tracks: 1-8)
Bass – Aaron Bell (tracks: 10, 11, 14, 16), Al Hall (tracks: 9, 12, 13, 15)
Drums – Jo Jones (tracks: 10, 11, 14, 16), Oliver Jackson (tracks: 9, 12, 13, 15), Sam Woodyard (tracks: 1-8)
Guitar – Paul Gonsalves (tracks: 10, 11, 14, 16)
Piano – Jimmy Jones (3) (tracks: 9, 12, 13, 15), Rollins Griffith (tracks: 1-8, 10, 11, 14, 16), Sir Charles Thompson (tracks: 10, 11, 14, 16)
Tenor Saxophone – Harold Ashby (tracks: 9-16), Paul Gonsalves (tracks: 1-8, 10, 11, 14, 16)
Trombone – Booty Wood (tracks: 1-8)
Trumpet – Andrés Merenguito (tracks: 7, 8), Ed Mullens (tracks: 1-6), Ray Nance (tracks: 1-8, 16), Willie Cook (tracks: 1-8)
1-8 recorded in New York, September 16 & 17 1960
9-16 recorded in New York, 1960 & 1961

Just in from discogs in the mail a Helen Merrill I never expected to find at a decent price:

Helen Merrill "Sing A Swing With Digital" Mitsubishi cd, 1983



Alto Saxophone – Marshall Royal
Arranged By – Eiji Kitamura, Kousei Uchida or Nat Pierce
Bass – Hideo Kawahara or Monty Budwig
Clarinet – Eiji Kitamura
Drums – Jake Hanna or Tim Horner  
Guitar – Cal Collins
Piano – Kousei Uchida
Trombone – George Masso
Trumpet – Jack Sheldon
Vocals – Helen Merrill

INTERESTING NOTE:  Mitsubishi Stereo Digital Recording
Made In Japan. All the songs recorded in this CD have done by the system of digital recording. 32ch-PCM recorder X-800 by Mitsubishi Corp., which has the most channels as fixed-head PCM recorder, and digital recorder X-80 with 2 channel fixed-head by the same company are built in the digital recorder used here.