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Album Steel Guitar Jazz Artist Buddy Emmons Year 1963 Personnel Buddy Emmons (pedal steel guitar), Bobby Scott (piano), Jerome Richardson (reeds), Charlie Persip (drums), Art Davis (bass), plus additional ensemble members Era / Style Jazz with Pedal Steel / Mainstream Jazz Favorite Tracks Complete album experience First Listen Reaction immediately became one of my favorite… Read more
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Album Just the Beginning Artist Armel Dupas Trio Year 2021 Personnel Armel Dupas (piano), Kenny Ruby (bass), with trio drummer Era / Style Contemporary Piano Trio Favorite Tracks Complete album experience First Listen Reaction An outstanding discovery that immediately became one of my favorite contemporary trio recordings. Atmosphere / Mood Tags intimate, spacious, warm, conversational,… Read more
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Album Midnight Blue Artist Kenny Burrell Year 1963 Personnel Kenny Burrell (guitar), Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Major Holley (bass), Bill English (drums), Ray Barretto (congas) Era / Style Soul Jazz / Blues Jazz / Guitar Jazz Favorite Tracks “Chitlins Con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Soul Lament” First Listen Reaction LIVE RECORDINGImmediately welcoming; bluesy, relaxed, and deeply… Read more
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“Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own” ~cf. “Eyes of the World” by Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia Just shy of 100 albums into my album-listening project—which I have come to call “My Jazz Project”—I find myself listening over and over this week to a single track: “Cigar Eddie” by… Read more
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Album Money Jungle Artist Duke EllingtonCharles Mingus Year 1962 Personnel Duke Ellington (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), Max Roach (drums) Era / Style Piano Trio / Modern Jazz Favorite Tracks “Warm Valley,” “Solitude” First Listen Reaction Three “Legends” together. A compelling and historically important album that I admired throughout, even though only a few tracks fully… Read more
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Album From Sweden With Love Artist Art FarmerJim Hall Year 1964 Personnel Art Farmer (flugelhorn), Jim Hall (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass), and rhythm section Era / Style Chamber Jazz / Folk-Jazz / Cool Jazz Favorite Tracks Fine Crystal First Listen Reaction Immediate connection. The combination of Swedish folk melodies and jazz improvisation felt fresh and… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on September 30, 2013. Non-Fiction writers are disciplined. Poets not nearly so. And so the long hiatuses here. I pass time pushing lines of verse around on metaphorical pages. In short, I have been waiting for inspiration. A… Read more
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Album Firefly Artist Emily Remler Year 1981 Personnel Emily Remler (guitar), Hank Jones (piano), Bob Maize (bass), Jake Hanna (drums Era / Style Mainstream Jazz / Guitar Jazz / Post-Bop Favorite Tracks Album experience as a whole First Listen Reaction Immediate and enthusiastic connection. One of the most satisfying discoveries of the project so far.… Read more
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In early April, I was on Substack and found a link to an article with a list of someone’s 100 Greatest Jazz Albums. When I took a look at the list, I could see that I had listened to a fair number of the albums already. However, there were still more that were new to me. On… Read more
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