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A little bit of Gary... Followed by some Street Life

@Sk1Bum Tomorrow it will be either Miles or Gary Burton.

Because... I need some Russ Freeman

Its a Kenny Barron night -

It is hard to find anything bad by Dave. My personal fave is Nightlines. The cool thing is about this shop is, I am heading up to Aberdeen this weekend for my 50th HS reunion (OMG I am old!). I will have to stop in to see what new pieces he has.

Finally getting around to playing a batch of records I picked up at a 2nd hand store in lil ol Aberdeen, WA. The owner of the shop has a good idea for good quality recordings! I pay a little bit more ($8-12), but every single piece has been near mint in terms of media quality. Here are two pieces I listened to tonight:

The things you find at Goodwill...

Not sure why I like this theme so much. Hearing Grusin's take on it last night made it a pleasant ear worm. Soooooooo, I thought I would play the original...

Grusin and The Rippingtons: Two of my fave GRP artists.

Its a Grusin kind of night...

Gotta throw on some Orzabel and Smith - and a little bit of Street Life (The Crusaders)...

Two can play this game... 😁 This entire album is a masterpiece!

Thanks Daddyjt. I will simply avoid the seller who posts info about adding a tariff tax on their store front.

A bit of a rant here (stop me if you have had enough of that in general). I heard a new big band - WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany (Thank you Jazz London and KCSM). So i thought I would take a look at what they had available from the discography. First stop - discogs (big mistake. HUGE!). For whatever reason, recordings, be they vinyl or CD format, the price to ship from Europe is at/near $100 per recording! I damn near keeled over! Next stop - Amazon. It was a little better, $18-$20/recording, but then they get you with a 'tariff' tax! *sighs* It would almost be cheaper to take a flight to Cologne, grab what I can and fly back, hiding the music in the false bottom of my luggage to avoid the damn 'Duty Tax'. Who knew people would consider smuggling recorded music in this day an age?

TFF - Elemental