DG Mono's Summer Jazz Extravaganza! ☀️🥵😎🍉⛱👙🩳 

My mood and musical taste is highly influenced by the weather so I can totally relate. Great idea! Looking forward to listening to the playlist.

Great vid!

Thanks for this and the playlist! - Mike

Hey, you're back! Nice to see you again.

Great to see Gil Melle getting some love. I have the Toshiba vinyl release of Patterns in Jazz but none of those Japanese 10 inch pressings. Definitely agree that vibes and flute give a summer feel to a lot of music. I'm lucky enough to have all those Hutcherson releases, a couple are Liberty pressings and Oblique is the Japanese original on King with the funky 70's artwork. That one was costly even 10 years ago. I do prefer the cover on the re-issue, though. Coincidentally my copy of Patterns is the Connoisseur vinyl. I live in Tokyo in case you're wondering how I have so many of these Japanese pressings. 😊 As far as the BN pressing with a Japanese insert. Yes, I have seen that too on a couple of my Blue Notes and I've reached the same conclusion, pressed in the States and shipped to Japan where an insert was added. I'll definitely need something to cool me down for the nasty summer ahead. Excellent summary.

Great content.I can definitely see Season influenced jazz albums being a thing.There are certain songs I only play in autumn because of I first heard them at that time of year.A version of Autumn Leaves by Vince Gauraldi and Pat Methyneys Last Train Home.

Oh man.. I have Oblique as well from the TP collection. I really love it too. I have a challenge for you- The ultimate Summer LP (well of course this is my opinion). I want you to stream Charles Lloyd “ Forest Flower” recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1967. The album cover is so Summer. The music is spectacular. The lineup: Charles Lloyd, Cecil McBee, Keith Jarrett, and Jack DeJohnette. At one point, a plane flies over and it’s easily picked up.. I always imagined it was an old plane, pulling a banner advertising the festival somewhere near the beach L O L The crowd is extremely into the session and makes it all worth listening to ..: any time I’m kind of down, this album picks me up and puts a smile on my face. The music is just incredible. Jarrett has a solo that just blows me away.

Vibes are a summer vibe. And I’m sorry for writing that.

Love those Gil Melle 10 inches. That first one really caught me off guard being so modern sounding.

“Oblique” is a fantastic album. It didn‘t come out until 1979, and then only in Japan. I‘ve opined before that the reason probably why it never got released initially is that it was Alfred Lion‘s second-to-last session as a producer, and I assume that it fell through the cracks with the chaos ensuing his retirement. Lion would return to the RVG studio a week later after “Oblique” for a Stanley Turrentine session which also remained unreleased - that would be his last time in the studio, in the summer of 1967.

Rich--That Henderson side is great... good stuff there and thank you for your incites---always one one the best contributors here in the VC---JG

nice list. Me personally i associate alot of the 70s jazz funk/soul and avant garde stuff as great summer listens