This week I go to my cd collection and pick out a few with which I was familiar at one time, and give them another spin. The recordings span the years 1955 all the way to 2021.

Included are three Canadian cd’s. One is by Dave McMurdo out of Toronto. The second is vibraphonist Peter Appleyard with some of the most famous jazz players ever. And last but not least, an amazing and obscure cd (you won’t find it anywhere online) by a Penticton/Kelowna B.C. jazz-funk groups called The Mammals.

Going from oldest to newest, I play Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk with Coleman Hawkins, Peter Appleyard with Benny Goodman’s Jazz Giants, french hornist Tom Bacon, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave McMurdo, The Mammals, Patricia Barber, Betty Carter and DJ Spinna, Sweden’s Aaly Trio with Ken Vandermark, and Anthony Joseph with Shabaka Hutchings.