I added this nice album to my collection last week. Dolphy & McIntyre both on also sax and flute, plus Walter Bishop Jr., Sam Jones and Arthur Taylor.

Ken McIntyre With Eric Dolphy - Looking Ahead

(1977 – Japan, Reissue, Prestige – SMJ-6566)

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Jazztodon artist of the week: Walter Bishop Jr.! Bishop got his chops playing piano at jam sessions at Minton’s Playhouse, then later joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He played with Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, and many others of the original bebop generation. After studying at The Juilliard School with Hall Overton in the late 1960s, Bishop taught music theory at colleges in Los Angeles in the 1970s. He also wrote a book, "A Study in Fourths," about jazz improvisation based on cycles of fourths and fifths. He continued performing into the 1990s.

Good places to start with his recordings as a leader are “Midnight Blue,” “Ode to Bird,” and “What’s New.” What are your favorite Bishop performances?

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from Baltimore into what could be and is

Blown Away by “Blues” from Bish at the Bank
George Kalamaras

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1600426/blown-away-by-blues-from-bish-at-the-bank

on now: Blue Mitchell - Graffiti Blues (1991 Mainstream Records MDCD709) 💿

"Compiled from original releases in 1973 and 1974 with new liner notes by Leonard Feather"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nnTahRgEi4

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