Starting the day with… Portraits In Jazz: Cannonball Adderley Live At The Half Note (2016) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet live on the radio 1965! Absolutely fantastic 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

This is phenomenal 👍😎 Keely Smith - Kelly Swings Basie Style With Strings (2002) A septuagenarian Keely in fine voice and really swingin’ #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal #Swing JazzSky

Easing into the day with… Nina Simone Sings Nina (1996) A superb collection of her recordings on Philips and Verve. Wonderful stuff 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

This is superb 👍😎 Harlemania - Various Artists (1994) A swingin’ celebration of life in Harlem 1927-42 #NowPlaying #Jazz #Swing Jazzsky

Easing into the day with… Tony Bennett - The Art Of Excellence (1986) Wonderful stuff and Ray Charles guests on ‘Everybody Has The Blues’ Perfection 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal #Vinyl JazzSky

Easing into the day with some soul… Staring Lou Rawls With Special Guest Stars Joe Tex & Brook Benton (1970) A very low budget LP, sound is ropey and every track is at a different volume! Great music though 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Vinyl #SoulMusic SoulSky

A little bit late for his birthday, but close enough Louis Armstrong And His All Stars - Live At The Hollywood Empire 1949 This is absolutely fantastic and for my money the greatest All Stars lineup 👍😎 #HowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

Tonight’s aural treat, four albums by ‘Queen of the Organ’ Shirley Scott 👍😎 Great Scott (1958) Like Cozy (1960) Hip Soul (1961) Happy Talk (1962) Fantastic stuff, especially Hip Soul as it features her future husband Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

Another trumpet legend… Bill Coleman In Paris Vol.1 1936-1938 (1992) C’est magnifique 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

This is fantastic 👍😎 Cat Anderson And His Orchestra - Cat’s In The Alley (2007) Two albums by the Ellingtonian trumpeter… Cat On A Hot Tin Horn (1958) & Ellingtonia (1959) Marvellous stuff! #NowPlaying #Jazz #Ellingtonia JazzSky

New record shelves 👍😎 Now my 10”s & 78s can spread out a bit and my jazz vocal LPs have a home of their own leaving more room in the main jazz section. #Vinyl #78rpm #Storage #Jazz #JazzVocal JazzSky MusicSky

Starting the day with some killer blues and R&B 👍😎 Texas Blues Volume 2: Rock Awhile - Various Artists (2003) All 3 volumes in this series are great! #NowPlaying #BluesMusic #RhythmAndBlues BluesSky

Easing into the day with… Peggy Lee - Perfect-Lee A superb collection of her Decca recordings 1952-56. Beautiful 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal JazzSky

This is absolutely fantastic 👍😎 Cannonball Adderley Quartet - Liederhalle Stuttgart 1969 It’s been far too long since I listened to Cannonball Adderley, which is very wrong Thanks for the tip @darkredbirds.bsky.social 🥃👍 #NowPlaying #Jazz Jazzsky

This is tremendous 👍😎 Russ Garcia And His Orchestra - Four Horns And A Lush Life (1956) What a record, what a cover, what a lineup! #NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl JazzSky

Easing into the day with… Charlie Byrd At The Village Vanguard (1961) Absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl JazzSky

It’s impossible to listen to this without a smile on your face… Mae West - Great Balls Of Fire (1972) A 78/79 year old Mae getting her groove on and doing her thing with some classics. This is a hefty slice of cheese, but very listenable 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Vinyl #Cheese

Starting the day with… Max Kaminsky And His Dixieland All Stars - New Orleans Dixieland Jazz A fantastic collection of broadcast performances, but with no info as to where or when, but it is autographed! Wonderful music 👍😎 #Nowplaying #Jazz #Dixieland #Vinyl JazzSky

Easing myself into the day, slightly later than usual, with… Benny Goodman - Happy Goodman An LP of BG in various settings 1947-49. There’s even some bebopery! Absolutely fantastic 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl JazzSky

This is superb 👍😎 Bobby Hackett - Live At The Roosevelt Grill Vol. 2 (1996) Recorded in 1970, originally released in 1975. Wonderful stuff! Thanks @birdlives1.bsky.social for highlighting the gap in my collection 🥃 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

This is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert (1988) Ella live on her 40th birthday, April 25, 1958. Backed by Lou Levy, Max Bennett & Gus Johnson on all but the last track when Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown & Gus Johnson take over! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

I’ve been doing some rearranging of my books and now have one shelf of just British jazz and it’s off shoots 👍😎 #Jazz #UKjazz #BritJazz #JazzBooks JazzSky BookSky

Easing into the day with… Peggy Lee - Fever! Live At The London Palladium, 20th March 1977 (1997) Peggy on top form backed by a surprisingly funky orchestra! Wonderful stuff 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal JazzSky

Needed cheering up, so treated myself to this… Stan Tracey - In Person… (1967) Just Stan and a piano, an absolutely beautiful album (and almost mint) 👍😎 Retail therapy is great! Only one more Stan Tracey album to find! #NowPlaying #Jazz #UKjazz JazzSky

Easing into the day with… Arne Domnérus - What Kind Of Fool Am I (2004) The Swedish sax legend at 80 proving that age is just a number. Absolutely phenomenal stuff 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #SwedishJazz JazzSky

According to a Discogs seller this obviously homemade copy is a NM/VG version of the real album and won’t hear a word said otherwise 😡 Thank goodness PayPal sort these things out painlessly unlike Discogs themselves

This arrived today, along with a nice note, all the way from Iceland! Sunna Gunnlaugs - Cielito Lindo (2015) Fantastic piano trio jazz 👍😎 Thanks again @scottmclemore.bsky.social #NowPlaying #Jazz #IcelandicJazz JazzSky

After a day of soul crushing disappointment, this is just the job 👍😎 The Kings Of Blues - Various Artists Recorded live in Copenhagen, Denmark 1956 - 1972 #NowPlaying #BluesMusic BluesSky

I’ve finally got round to listening to disc two of The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings (2009) which contains alternate takes from their two albums. Wonderful stuff 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

Tonight’s aural treat… Disc 5 & 6 of Colosseum - Transmissions: Live At The BBC (2020) Recorded 1969 - 71 This is all fantastic, but the July ‘71 session is Colosseum with Neil Ardley’s New Jazz Orchestra which is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzRock #UKjazz JazzSky