Album of the Evening

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The film’s title song, “Green Dolphin Street” (often recorded as “On Green Dolphin Street”), went on to become a jazz standard. The song has been recorded by Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane, Agnieszka Hekiert, *Dick and Kiz Harp, and Grant Green among others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dolphin_Street

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The debut album from Ike Quebec. 1961. Kind of a thick, swampy sax, if you like that groove. I like that groove. 

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How about a double dose of Art Farmer?

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...bluesy vocals and nice band. Interestingly, the Qobuz sounds a little better than my local file. Hmmm...

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Yes! But they blacked-out the freaking Alp d'Huez stage in US for golf! I love "The Open" but I double-love leTour!

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Bertha Hope, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins.
 

"Nothin But Love" and "Between Two Kings" albums would be worth checking too. 

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...most anything on Qobuz by Hammer would be worth a listen.  This is 2013. Cellar Live. 

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1954. Prestige. 

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One hour and sixteen minutes and there are only four tracks, so it's a scramblin, ramblin excursion, if you're in the mood. 

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A Qobuz search for: "Horace Parlan" will yield some sweet fruit. 

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...very tasty side from 1957.

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...my personal favorite recording of these two blues giants. Stripped down, intimate recording. 

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1963. On the Impulse label. Very nice trio session. 

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...to fit my hysterically informed listening trends. 

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...the trumpet voicing on some of these tracks is hauntingly sad, distant, but wonderful. I have been on a bit of a Blue Mitchell jag of late. 

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...looks this hasn't been recommended since 2014 by @Musicophile, so let's go one more time. Bop-zilla. 1963. "No Room for Squares."

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6 hours ago, TubeLover said:

And still, to chart at the top again after nearly forty years

...an amazing album. When this came out, I was living in a USFS barracks in SoCal. I bought the cassette and listened to it about 10,000 times via tiny headphones on my Walkman. I still smell smoke when I play it...albeit on a somewhat more "developed" system. The power of music and its ability to dip into your mind is amazing.