Ended the long weekend and welcomed the week with Young at Heart/Wise in Time an album by pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams released by the Delmark label in 1970 that featured an LP side-length solo piano composition and Abrams accompanied by Leo Smith, Henry Threadgill, Lester Lashley and Thurman Barker on the other side.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "Fascinating music, it is recommended strictly for the open-eared listener who does not demand that all jazz swing conventionally".[5] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Young/Wise combines the definitive Abrams solo performance of the period with a group of tracks of burning intensity".[3] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said it has "a long example of Abram's reflective piano and a tighter group performance by an excellent AACM quintet" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2704DJjkCa4&list=RD2704DJjkCa4&start_radio=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday with From Left to Right an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. It was recorded with his regular bassist Eddie Gómez and drummer Marty Morell and with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Michael Leonard. This was the first album on which Evans played a Fender Rhodes electric piano.

Evans biographer Peter Pettinger noted, "The aim of From Left to Right was far removed from the continuing work of the trio. This album and the earlier The V.I.P.s [with Claus Ogerman] are the only Bill Evans records to be filed appropriately under 'easy listening' at your local record store." - Wikipedia

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Today’s my birthday, and I couldn’t have planned a better way to spend it.

I got a last-minute call two nights ago to sub for a show in Vermont, and now I’m spending my birthday doing what I love — playing piano with students, performing with a trio and a big band. Truly grateful for the music, the opportunity, and the chance to share this moment with the next generation of musicians. What a special way to celebrate.

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