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James Booker RESURRECTION of the BAYOU MAHARAJAH Rounder   1993 Notes: "Booker had all these musical cats hanging out inside him - Louis Morreau Gottschalk, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor longhair, Chopin, Monk - and they all decided to stand up ... 
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Milt Jackson PLENTY, PLENTY SOUL  //  BALLADS & BLUES Atlantic / Poll Winners Records      1957 / 2012   Plenty, Plenty Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8mbsZG1XY Blues at Twlight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHMcn9xMDsk The... 
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Jimmy Smith THE SERMON Blue Note / Hallmark      1958 / 2013   The Sermon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH84Nl_gxwc&t=191s Flamingo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_tBlVu69Y   Cheers  
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Just poking a little fun on the somewhat large number of postings   That's the way I took it.  But I try to post only once a day.  I can get carried away! Cheers  
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 ****Are you just listing every song you ever heard?***** I only list what I own,  and only the ones I consider above average. Cheers  
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Thelonious Monk THE LONDON COLLECTION  VOL. 1 Black Lion / 1201 Music        1971   Loverman : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwxR9duH-Y Blue Sphere : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDg259Jbsc Darn That Dream : https://www.youtube.com/wa... 
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Tina Brooks Quintet MINOR MOVE Blue Note 1958 One of the more tragic personal stories in Jazz. First recording as leader in 1958, last recording in 1961, dead at age 42. Died 13 years after his last recording. Recorded a lot more but Blue Note ... 
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra THE FAR EAST SUITE - SPECIAL MIX Blue Bird     1966 / 1995 Notes: When Duke Ellington visited Baghdad, Isfahan and Beirut in 1963, they were part of a world we know more about today.  The fact that a military co... 
Jazz for aficionados
  If you think about it, a lot of American slang or cut off words coming from the black jazz musicians were originally from slang words developed in the black south. Chittl(in) circuit anyone? I think you are correct about the origin. Btw, I w... 
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Rok will protect me.   I ain't scared of no Putin!  He better keep his cotton picking paws off a certain Croatian Beauty. Cheers  
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Sonny Stitt THE LAST SESSIONS, VOLUMES ONE and TWO Recorded 9 June 1982.  Sonny Stitt died of cancer on July 22 1982. with Jimmy Cobb, Walter Davis, George Duvivier, Bill Hardman, Junior Mance Savoy Jazz        1982 / 2003 Volume Two: At Las... 
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Various Artists BODY + SOUL : LOVE SERENADE Twenty-Four Sensual Grooves Sony / Time-Life 1998     2CD Set   Can You Stop the Rain : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9yRFWvY8s Cruisin’ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx77P0VH6FA Rock Me T... 
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Lee Morgan LEE MORGAN VOL. 3 Lee Morgan (trumpet), Gigi Gryce (alto sax), Benny Golson (tenor sax, arrange), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Charlie Persip (drums) Blue Note  1957 / 1996     (mono) All Compositions by Benny Golson ... 
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Miles: Cookin’, Walkin’, Workin’ , Relaxin’, Steamin’, Gotta be the Coolest Cat in Jazz!!! Dig? Cheers  
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Coleman Hawkins ALIVE! AT THE VILLAGE GATE 1962 Verve / American Jazz Classics       1962   Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9qN7afXL0 All the Things You Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNg1jELYyI   ...