E.s.t. - Viaticum
But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn on Verve
David Benoit - The Artist's Choice, Here's to You Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years
Richard Elliott - Metro Blue
Woody Witt Quintet with Randy Brecker - Square Peg, Round Hole
Maceo Parker - School's In
Gabriela Anders - Wanting
Spyro Gyra - City Kids, Access All Areas

Recent purchases:

Paul Taylor - Nightlife
Marc Antoine - Modern Times
Rick Braun - Yours Truly
Euge Groove - Just Feels Right (My new husband has fallen madly in love with this CD...Euge's version of "Just My Imagination" hooked him!)

Currently revisiting:

Voodoo Village - Funk Soup (Gonna watch the DVD in a little while)

HELLO donna.

ive been on a mad mezzoforte listen session.

for christmas i got

Forward Motion by Mezzoforte
and
Obon by Hiroshima

so, this christmas i had Iclandic Jazz and Japanese Jazz. try to explain that to my girlfriend's brother who likes eminem.

ive not noticed any talk of Mezzoforte on here but you guys should REALLY check them out. the new album is looking to be excellent. maybe not quite as funked up as older stuff but definately not smooth as some of the stuff out these days.

Matt, Thanks for the heads-up...GOOD stuff.

AG & V,
Cabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbage
Nu-bee

Jason Smith - Think Like This - I really dig that Minimoog on "Gnu York"

Hiromi -Spiral - Sugoi desu-ne! Think like this too!! New, different, interesting!!!

Here's my last few days spins:

Roy Hargrove - With the Tenors of our Time
Mark Hollingsworth - On The Mark
Chieli Minucci - It's Gonna Be Good
Mitchel Forman - Mr. Clean
Lee Ritenour - Overtime (watching DVD too)
Spyro Gyra - Alternating Currents
Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra - Bigbandjazz.net
Jeff Golub - Temptation
Euge Groove - Just Feels Right
Marc Antoine - Mediterraneo
Arturo Sandoval - Hot House
Brandon Fields - Brandon Fields
Marion Meadows - Player's Club

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Looking In The Eye Of The World .....I noticed Katisse Buckingham (DTTB) played on this one, so I picked it up. Speaking of Katisse - He filled in for Bob Mintzer on a few Yellowjackets European dates and a couple of fans on the YJ Board complained they were not told about the change. Mintzer defended his fine sub.

I'm also looking at/listening to the Brian Auger DVD recorded at the Baked Potato back in July....dwill123, this is some nice B3in. Pretty cool, after midnight Auger turned 66 and the whole place sang Happy Birthday....Herbie Hanc-o-c-k was in attendance. dwill123 - I'll definitely catch him if he comes within a hundred miles of here.

AG & V,
Cabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbage
nu-bee

I just received my 2-CD copy of the "Parallel Realities-Live" release featuring Jack DeJohnette on drums, Pat Metheny on guitar, Herbie Hanc-ock on piano and keyboards and Dave Holland on acoustic bass. It was recorded at the 1990 Mellon Jazz Festival in Philadelphia and I was absolutely floored by the music.

I already had the DVD, however, the 2-CD set gives a lot more of the music played at this once-in-a-lifetime music event.

HIghly recommended.

The Monday, 1-09-06 playlist included selections from the following albums:

1. "I Had the Craziest Dream" - Dave Pell Octet (Capitol, 1957)
2. "Still Fresh" - Four Freshman (The Gold Label, 1999)
3. "Another Mind" - Hiromi (telarc Jazz, 2003)
4. "Beneath the Mask" - Chick Corea Elektric Band (GRP, 1991)
5. "Parallel Realities--Live" - Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hanc-ock, Dave Holland (Kang, 1993)
6. "For Ella" - Patti Austin & the WDR Big Band (Concord, 2002)
7. "For Hamp, Red, Bags & Cal" - Gary Burton (Concord, 2001)
8. "Here's To the Ladies" - Tony Bennett (Columbia, 1995)

Well, we got a treadmill for ourselves for Christmas, so I've been firing up the music library to listen to, while doing that for a half hour.

Which brings up a question, what are your favorite bands for exercising to?

Today, I dug up one I haven't heard in a while (because the cd was misplaced, for one thing...)
Eric Marienthal's Sweet Talk.
This is a great one, lots of variety. Definitely has a Jeff Lorber groove to it.

Next was Fourplay's Heartfelt. There's more going on in this than I'd remembered....Harvey Mason has all sorts of groove going on in the background, and Nathan East is a monster bassist.
I guess since I haven't really listened to it loud until today, I was missing some of that.

yeah, that's a total of way more than 30 minutes, but I had the remote... so it was more selected cuts, bypassing the slower tunes...I have to stay in the uptempo stuff to keep the energy going.