Some jewels I've been listening to this weekend . . .
Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine, "Prayer Meetin'"
! No longer availableCurtis Fuller Quintet, "Five Spot After Dark"
! No longer availableStanley Turrentine, "Sugar"
! No longer availableStanley Turrentine, "Impressions"
! No longer availableGrant Green, "Blues for Lou"
! No longer availableJane Jarvis Trio, "Cut Glass"
! No longer availableTrivia: Jane Jarvis got her recording career late in life, but before she did she was the organist for the Milwaukee Braves in the late 1950s through 1963, before joining the Mets and playing the Shea Stadium organ from 1964-1979. Early in her Mets years, she endorsed the organ she played, Thomas . . . she posed for this photograph for a Thomas ad in 1966:
. . . and was photographed toward the end of her Mets tenure in her perch at Shea Stadium . . .
She died at 94 in 2010.