A&M Records Highlights: Herbie Mann

Revisiting A&M Records No. 28
Herbie Mann: ‘Glory of Love’ (December ‘67)

I must not be jazzbo enough to understand why this very enjoyable one-off the groundbreaking flutist cut for Creed Taylor’s CTI subsidiary isn’t held in nearly as high regard as albums that came before and after it.

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A&M Records Highlights: Quincy Jones

Ordinarily I would’ve shared this latest installment in my #TuesdaysWithJerry series on, well, Tuesday.

But as I spent yesterday on the road from Tucson back to Cali, there simply weren’t brain reserves left to produce a post with any measure of meaning. And yet I don’t want to wait longer to nudge this never-ending survey of A&M Records along.

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