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#LunchtimeLP Jazz drummer Roy Haynes was born 101 years ago today. Out of the Afternoon by his quartet featuring Roland Kirk, Tommy Flanagan, and Henry Grimes was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Impulse records. This is a truly superb record, especially if you love jazz drumming. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Lyle Lovett’s 12th of June released in 2022 on Verve records is an eclectic mix of retro jazzy numbers performed with his Large Band and his signature style of country music. Dave Frishberg's 'Peel Me a Grape" is covered nicely. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Miles Davis's sketches of Spain was recorded on this date in 1960. Featuring Davis is a mournful trumpet over Gil Evans lush arrangements, this is one of my favorites. I fell in love with it upon first hearing. #jazzsky

Music 🎶 for the cocktail 🍸 hour: Reflections, Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk was released on Prestige in 1959. It features Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger and Elvin Jones. Reportedly this was the first album devoted entirely to Monk's music recorded by another artist. It is highly digable. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Oh Baby! by Big John Patton with Blue Mitchell, Harold Vick, Grant Green, and Ben Dixon was recorded on this date in 1965 by Rudy Van Gelder or Blue Note Records . #jazzsky #jazzmusic

#LunchtimeLP Gábor Szabó was born 90 years ago today in Budapest, Hungary. He is one of my favorite jazz guitarists. Charles Lloyd's Live at Slug's was accorded in 1965 with Charles Lloyd on tenor, Gábor Szabó on guitar, Ron Carter on basels, and Pete La Roca on drums. #jazzsky #jazzmusic

#LunchtimeLP Jazz guitarist West Montgomery was born 103 years ago today. Beginnings is a compilation two-fer recording by Blue Note Records as part of their re-issue series released in 1975. It contained music from sessions recorded in 1957, 1958 and 1959. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Re-Up by guitarist Greg Skaff with Ugonna Okegwo and Jonathan Barber was recorded in 2023 and released in 2024. This album has eight original compositions by Greg Skaff plus “Green Chimneys” by Thelonius Monk and Florette and “Fleurette Africaine” by Duke Ellington. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Stan Getz’s Opus De Bop The Savoy Sessions in a 1977 compilation issued by Savoy records from three sessions in 1946, 1945 and 1949 most of which had been previously released on three albums, including the original Opus De Bop in 1958. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP First Encounter by Mal Waldron and Gary Peacock with Hiroshi Murakami on drums was recorded in Tokyo in 1971 and released on the Victor Japan label. Inventive music. Everything you’d hope for in such a meeting. Peacock really shines. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis was born on the state in 1922. Listening to Cookin’ with Jaws and the Queen - the cookbook albums hello hello which he made with organist Shirley Scott. They were recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1958 for Prestige records. #jazzsky

My review of Dou Corda by Jacqueline Ultan and Pavel Jany is published on Jazz Police: #jazzsky www.jazzpolice.com/archives/20293

#LunchtimeLP Guitarist guitarist Ralph Towner who just passed away in January was born on this date in 1940. His album Solo Concert was released in 1980 on ECM. It has him on both 12 string in classical guitars. He was a monster player and the sound quality of this recording is excellent. #jazzsky

Latin percussionist and Jazz drummer Willie Bobo was born on this date in 1934 he plays drums and timbales on one of my favorite albums Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock with Paul Chambers and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez. It's intriguing minimalist modal Jazz with Latin rhythm. #jazzsky

Trump’s case for striking Iran rests on questionable claims.

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#LunchtimeLP Dexter Gordon born 2/27/1923. Doin’ Alright with Freddie Hubbard, Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood 1961. Our Man in Paris with Bud Powell, Pierre Michelin and Kenny Clark 1963. Clubhouse with Freddie Hubbard, Berry Harris, Bob, Crenshaw, and Billy Higgins 1965. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Dexter Gordon's 103rd birthday is tomorrow. I'm starting the celebration early with one of my favorite records. Go with Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records. I'm sure it's on many folks' top 10 lists. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Eric Dolphy‘s Out To Lunch from 64 w/ Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Tony Williams in his final album as a leader. So pairing this with Dolphy‘s 1st album as a leader Outward Bound with Freddie Hubbard but with Jackie Byard, George Tucker, and Roy Haynes. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP The Sonny Clark Trio with George Duvivier on bass and Max Roach on drums was recorded in 1960 for Time Records. My version is a 1975 Japanese reissue. It is highly listenable. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Soul Jazz by Something Else featuring Vincent Herring with Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery, Paul Bollenback, David Kinoski, Essiet Essiet, and Otis Brown III was recorded in 2024 for Smoke Sessions records. It is a very satisfying session. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Herbie Hancock’s Takin’ Off with Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren, and Billy Higgins was his debut album as a leader. It was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note. It introduced “Watermelon Man”. This is an excellent hard bop album, each track is a gem. #jazzsky

Previously unreleased recording of the late great pianist, Bobby Peterson, with bassist Gary Raynor and drummer Jay Epstein recorded live at the Dakota in 1996 review #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Latin Mann - Afro to Bossa to Blues by Herbie Mann was recorded for the Columbia label and released in 1965. Arrangements by Oliver Nelson. there’s a diagram of Latin jazz family tree by Herbie Mann on the back and where the tunes on this record came from. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess was released in 1965 on Atlanta Records. The MJQ with their chamber jazz style gave us this brilliant interpretation of a Gershwin classic #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Tenor Legacy by Benny Golson was released in 2024 on Arkadia records. This material was previously released on CD in 1996 in Japan. Golson was is joined by tenor players James Carter, Brantford Marsalis and Harold Ashby backed by Geoff Keezer, Dwayne Bruno and Joe Farnsworth. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Ron Carter, Art Farmer – Live At Sweet Basil with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins released on Arkadia records in 2024 was originally released on laserdisk in Japan in 1991. This album has all originals and one standard, "My funny Valentine". Great performances all around. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Jazz Samba by tenor man Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd was recorded 64 years ago today and released by Verve Records. The opening track "Desafinado" written by Antonio Carlos Jobim earned Getz a Grammy award for best instrumental performance #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Angel Eyes by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded in 1962 and 1965 and released in 1966 on Columbia records. It features the compositions of Matt Dennis. Brubeck and Paul Desmond each solo expertly on this material. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Workout by Hank Mobley with Grant Green, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones was recorded on March 16th, 1961 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note records. It's a smoking hard bop album featuring some of the era's best practitioners including a solid rhythm section. #jazzsky

As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.

At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 and the wrongdoing includes patterns of violence, sexual abuse and corruption, a review by The Associated Press found.