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I just became a Sheila Jordan fan!I already ordered that 62 Blue Note session! 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzJ7xa32XOghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xykw1TM6BdIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEw4IOtQKrs 
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R.I.P. Roy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVeCR1jlAwU 
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nsp thanks for the book recommendations. I have a Direct Stream Digital SACD (2 channel stereo) from Mobile Fidelity. The sonics are awesome to put it mildly. Its a limited edition numbered disc so get it fast here:https://www.musicdirect.com/opti... 
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Thanks all who posted Lester Young recommendations/links.For those who dig multi channel SACD's there is a new quad mix of Bitches Brew. I believe it is the first ever multi channel mix of that fantastic album. It is a Japanese pressing released o... 
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frogman I'm definitely ordering that book.mary_jo I listen to jazz all by my lonesome. Other then the ballads, my wife thinks of it as "noise"nsp, Any book recommendations would be greatly appreciated.alex, I received your email and replied as well.  
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Thanks frogman. Your background in the music industry is a plus for me as far as learning a thing or two.I would like to think I know a little bit about "how to listen to jazz music" after the last 15 years where have I listened to jazz almost exc... 
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I have been active 6 months now on this thread. I know Joey Alexander must have already been mentioned somewhere on this thread before I started posting. This kid is amazing. He not only has total command of his instrument, but he has that feel of... 
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frogman, I'm sorry to say that I could not make it. family circumstances have tied me up this weekend.   
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mary_jo, Chet Baker was way cool!His vocals are ok and in those ballads he sings I can hear the emotional torment through his voice. Maybe it had something to do with his demons who continued to haunt him on and off until his death. He lost his ba... 
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nsp, Thanks for the SM live recommendation.mary_jo, I posted that link for our resident Nina Simone lover and either he did not notice it or did and was unimpressed. In case he did not notice here again is the link:http://www.dazeddigital.com/musi... 
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John Coltrane, Sonny Fortune, Dizzy Gillespie, and Percy Heath are all alumni of the Granoff School of Music, also located in Philly.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granoff_School_of_Music 
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Orpheus,I like the first link of a younger Nina Simone. Her vocals are ok on that one. Her piano playing was always good..The second link she is older and it shows. You can hear it in her singing. Piano is still the same.Throughout her entire care... 
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Thank you Orpheus for the Caterina Valente links.She certainly had a beautiful voice! 
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frogman, That Ray Charles & Betty Carter rendition is fantastic as is the Carly Simon version posted by Orpheus.That song seems to have a lot of beautiful renditions