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And those Counce records are dazzling. Glad to see I'm not the only one who owns 'em.
Thanks to my local public library, those Curtis Counce (or at least ONE of those Curtis Counce albums) was one of the first things I heard (and DUG!) when I was in 8th grade and trying to educate myself about 'jazz'. Also there: Charles Mingus - ? (some two-fer on Impulse that had basically all of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingusx5 with a track or two from the solo piano album tagged on. Changed my life and made me Silver Spring's biggest Mingus fan) John Coltrane - Ascension (didn't know what to think of it, but I kept checking it out over and over again and playing it - hey, I was only 14 years old!) Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (ditto) Bless the libraries. Steve