There are a lot of people here on Bluesky who have #Haai #Humanise on their top albums list for 2025 Enjoy this live recording from the Jools Holland show Haai youtu.be/bUimZRc__fw?...

Somewhere in the house is a 17 year old with whom we are supposed to be watching stranger things. She's gone. I put this on loud, it's such a great compilation. "Jazz for quiet times" - perfect waiting music. Also the bass is so good...

Happy born day to Bob James, last year I spent weeks restoring live sets to create full "All Around The Town Concerts" - you can find them on ctproduced to stream or download. Here is my 2022 post www.ctproduced.com/podcast-time...

Sad to see "The London Boys" on BBC4 1989 chart retrospective on BBC4. Most people won't have ever heard of them for a very sad reason. The duo were killed when their car was hit by a drunk driver in the Eastern Alps, Austria, on 21 January 1996. Ephraim's wife also died in the accident.

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Some great copies of #hubertlaws #ericgale and #deodato albums at a house sale this morning... #jazzsky

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I don't care what you say, I really quite like this #deodato

Trying to tidy up my CD collection, went to list on @discogsofficial.bsky.social four volumes of this collection, only to find it's banned from sale. Jumped other to ebay, of course there are copies for sale in the USA.

Been a difficult two weeks, nothing serious but hard to concentrate. Trying to catch up with a few things tonight. Put this on the headphones, today worth it. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today, 1975 This is such a good pressing, great separation www.discogs.com/release/7267...

I had to look up Mundell Lowe and no this didn't happen and wouldn't have. "probably" doing all the work here! Jacksonville Journal (FL) Sat, Dec 15, 1956 ·Page 8 #creedtaylor

OTD: “Exciting Quintet in Town” On this day, December 13th, 1970 - Herbie Mann was at the "Both/And" club in San Francisco. The nightclub focused on jazz at 350 Divisadero Street, with the neighboring Harding Theater (( They had been home to the Tina Turner Revue and Miles Davis. In early 1971,…

Bandcamp in general is OK as a platform, they do though have a problem with dodgy off platform downloads, often of copyright material which asks for payment. It's taken them 3-months to action one of my reports.

Remembering today, December 12th - Grover Washington Jr's born day. I wrote about his "discovery" by Creed and his short but powerful tenure before he claimed the crown of King of Smooth Jazz www.ctproduced.com/born-day-gro...

Dunno, interesting, not his best.

Ron Carter, Donald Harrison and Fred Wesley... Earth, Wind & Fire I'm tempted, very tempted. Rod Stewart and Stevie Nick though?

I'm going to get back into blogging rather than writing (TLDR) articles to be sucked up by AI/LLM's. I'm inspired to write a set of infrequent posts called "One & Done" inspired by @imatthewi.bsky.social posting about Roland Kirk - itwas one of the last released by Verve produced by Creed Taylor

Elegant but weird Zenith mid-century modern turntable and speakers on a cart. Currently for sale in Denver Colorado

One thing we know about Trump, he won't have rehearsed; he can't stay on script; his arrogance will take up too much time; it's about him. he will make a ton of factual errors; discuss his piece prize(yes not peace); OK six things at least. * great series of posts by @vero1986.bsky.social

Sunday. Little known Creed Taylor production, doesn't carry a credit. Shavers playing that late 50's melancholy trumpet. Imagine sitting in Charlies, mostly empty, a few drinkers, some smoke. Guys with PTSD staring at the bottom of a glass... Those were not the days, but produced some great music

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

This is #2/50 original 1968 Pete Turner "Giraffe" large scale prints from Jan. 1968 - It was owned by Creed Taylor. It's the cover picture from the 1967 Anton Carlos Jobim album "Wave". What's is worth? Dunno but I couldn't come up with a big enough number for the seller to sell it to me. #jazzsky

The Internet Archive has its detractors, they continue to work on some awesome projects. They've built Ruffle, an Adobe Flash player. That allowed me to open the now-long gone David Horrowitz website and convert some of his showreels to mp4 files from flash Can you hear the sound on this 2006?

November 29! Happy Birthday to Billy Hart!!! Jabali is 85 today. The new record on Smoke Sessions is out: MULTIDIRECTIONAL. We started our three night run at Smoke last night; Billy sounds GREAT, as do Mark Turner and Ben Street.

Todays tears courtesy of Amy Winehouse. So good, such a loss. I'd never seen this video until I just went to look for a link. "We only said goodbye with words - I died a 100 times" So prophetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAf...

Do you have a happy song or track? This is mine now. You can listen here(yes the youtube warning is mad): www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_GL...

Beauty is everywhere, breathe it.

Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Not from Creed's pantheon, although he did release a Mitchell live at the playboy club. Here Allen Murphy's voice is just so perfect. This is for all the people hurting, we hear you. m.youtube.com/watch?v=blRq...

Creed Taylor's last original project and tribute to dizzy... m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOOa...

Nearly finished my wrap-up on Jack DeJohnette, which includes a piano gig at Lake Meadows Lounge and Restaurant through News Years eve. Champagne dinner for NYE was $11.50 per couple - at the same time, you could see John Coltrane at McKies with free chicken on Mondays

I'm bed bound after surgery wednesday, spending the time listening to almost the entire Bethlehem recordings from 1954-5. A lot of it isn't jazz, but it is simply a great time peace. Shavers playing is great, it's like any minute James Stewart will walk in.

so sad to hear of the passing of Purnell Steen, brunches with him at @dazzledenver.bsky.social were always so good. He has few recordings, was a live legend & part of the Denver 5-points jazz royalty The @denverite has a great free to read biography. 3-people are listed on discogs, I'm one of them.

I've been in for surgery so a bit distracted and busy. I've been working through some of the history of Arnold Maxin. Heard of him? Probably not. This is a really interesting take on how the music business used to work. Now days, and to a point even then it was about money, but not just about it.

Recorded this day, 1959: A third session for the LP 𝙎𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 (Columbia) produces the master take of 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗲𝘇 with the Gil Evans orchestra. The arrangement actually only includes the second movement, the Adagio. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

Have you been to at least one live jazz event this month? Supporting live jazz is more important than ever. Please do your part! For us, we saw John Scofield in #boulderco

I so wish I was in London, if you are or can be, make sure you attend at least one event EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 Nov. 14-23

Start looking for options for NYE this year, back on Dec. 31st, 1971 you could have gone to a dinner/dance at Shelly Manne's for $14.50 per couple In todays money that would be nearly $110. I dare anyone to find a top-flight jazz artists just tickets NYE for that per person, much less per couple

In the music business as much and probably more than any other, it's who you know from sidemen to engineers, club owners to booking agents. If you don't know people, this shows the importance of getting a manager who knows people. Lots of great musicians go their whole careers without a nomination.

Anyone on #Bluesky printed their own album covers, inner sleeves etc. Found a few printers that claim to do them...

I purchased a Cal Tjader "Soul Source" album last week, cover in great condition, shiny NM vinyl, great for archiving. Except it had some random 1970's inner sleeve. Jumped on ebay to look for one, $7.69 plus postage and tax for an inner sleeve... Time to get into reproduction printing

Trump may tell Americans — even his own supporters — that they won’t pay the tariffs. But at the same time, his own lawyers are arguing before the Supreme Court that American businesses and consumers pay the tariffs. Listen for yourself.

Denver and suburbs folks... general admission tickets for #denverjazzfest are available. Bob James is playing April 9th - we are in, join us! newmancenter.evenue.net/event/R26/NG...

It's been 18-years since I first saw deadmau5 live in Austin TX during SXSW 2007. He's playing Red Rocks in Colorado for 2-nights, we can't go. I get a lot of people don't like electronic dance music, every generation needs to "find their own voice".

Tune of the day…Kai Winding - Speak Low. Maybe this arrangement is little too tight and polished for some, but that’s also kind of the joy of trombone. The great players are concise and their solos just get to the good notes without wasting any time. #jazzsky youtu.be/Knpy-7Nuea4

Morning all. Today is a big day in my house for vinyl. After a 15-year search I've finally acquired a VG+ copy of all of Creed Taylor's East Coast Jazz series - originally I'd hoped to get them all in the vinyl 10" format - but I gave up on that about 6-years ago. This was my first not my last.

Arguably Creed Taylor's only classical music album. Forget Sebesky's "Giant Box". Recorded February 25, 1966 at Van Gelder's studio, just as Creed started negotiations to launch CTI as a imprint of MGM, Verve, or possibly another label...