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¡Música fantástica!

Bucketloads of personality without any showboating.

NP: Ethan Iverson, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Ben Street - Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE, 2010) This might be my favorite Tootie record. Either this or Dark Beauty with Kenny Drew & NHØP. R.I.P. Albert Heath . . . and thank you for the music.

A photo I took last summer of the Lavapiés neighborhood in Madrid, Spain.

Wow! What a beautiful creature! My family & I live on a little creek that flows into a nearby floodplain, so we get all sorts of animals wandering through our neighborhood -- but NOTHING like that.

Excellent! Thanks. Adding it to the list. 😉 I've never seen that one before. No idea it existed! Issued in Japan only, I presume. How's it sound, @jazzcorner?

Outstanding performances of Ives' songs.

Maurice Ravel conducted by Jean Martinon with the Orchestre de Paris. Over the last few years, Martinon has become one of my favorite conductors. His approach to conducting has the (very French) transparency of Boulez but also the (well balanced) expressiveness of his teacher, Charles Munch. Others might deliver more color, but there's something very appealing (to me, at least) about the astringency that Martinon brings to the table. It's all a very potent combination, imo.

Now listening to this LP: Elizabeth Suderburg (sop) & David Starobin (gtr) - Spanish Music for Voice & Guitar (Turnabout, 1980)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll investigate. Continuing the theme with:

Here's a dozen that I enjoy (in no particular order): The Chicago Jazz Giants - Live! (MPS, 1977) with Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Hubble, Bob Wilber, Ralph Sutton, Isla Eckinger, and Cliff Leeman Soprano Summit (World Jazz, 1977) and Soprano Summit II (World Jazz, 1978) featuring Bob Wilber & Kenny Davern with (critically) Dick Hyman on piano Dick Wellstood - Live at Hanratty's (Chazz Jazz/Chiaroscuro, 1981) solo piano Don Ewell - Man Here Plays Fine Piano! (Good Time Jazz, 1961) with Darnell Howard, Pops Foster & Minor Hall The World's Greatest Jazzband of Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart - Live at the Roosevelt Grill (Atlantic, 1970) with Billy Butterfield, Lou McGarity, Vic Dickenson, Bob Wilber, Ralph Sutton, and Gus Johnson Bobby Hackett with Vic Dickenson - Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vols. 1 - 4 (Chiaroscuro, rec. 1970) with Dave McKenna, Jack Lesberg, and Cliff Leeman; I'm most partial to Vol. 3, which focuses on New Orleans classics The Albert Nicholas Quartet with Art Hodes (Delmark, 1961) with Earl Murphy and Freddie Kohlman Art Hodes - I Remember Bessie (Delmark) and Tribute to the Greats (Delmark) These solo piano tracks were originally made for the Euphonic Sound Recordings label in the 1970s. Ralph Sutton - Alligator Crawl (Solo Art, rec. 1975-76) The CD compiles two solo piano LPs originally released on Riff Records, NL. Vic Dickenson – Plays Bessie Smith: "Trombone Cholly" (Sonet, 1976) with Joe Newman, Frank Wess, and others The Classic Jazz Quartet - The Complete Recordings (Jazzology, 2 CDs) compiles their two mid-80s albums; with Dick Sudhalter, Dick Wellstood, Joe Muranyi, and Marty Grosz Bucky Pizzarelli with Bud Freeman - Buck & Bud (Flying Dutchman, 1976) some cuts are duos and others include a rhythm section of Hank Jones, Bob Haggart, and Ronnie Traxler

Now this:

Even though you missed McShann, that sounds like AMAZING year at Jazzfest.

Now on my turntable: Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Cantata based on Music for the Eisenstein Film), Op. 78 / André Previn, LSO & Chorus, Anna Reynolds (Angel, 1972) EDIT After listening to this Alexander Nevsky and being impressed, I've been doing some digging on Discogs. Turns out that Previn recorded a lot of Prokofiev during his eleven-year run as the principal conductor of the LSO: - The Piano Concertos - with Ashkenazy - The Violin Concertos - with Kyung-Wha Chung - Symphony No. 1 "Classical" - Symphony No. 5 - Symphony No. 6 - Symphony No. 7 - Cinderella (complete ballet) - Romeo & Juliet (complete ballet) - Peter & the Wolf - with Mia Farrow - Alexander Nevsky (cantata) - Lieutenant Kijé (suite) I had no idea that Previn had made so many Prokofiev recordings! (Perhaps because many of them are no longer available?) Along with his Nevsky, I only know Previn's Romeo & Juliet and his piano concertos with Ashkenazy. I'm now streaming Previn's recording of Prokofiev's Fifth Sym. It's startlingly good. . . . I'm going to need to dive into this stuff more deeply. Seems like Previn had a very convincing handle on Sergei Prokofiev!

Now spinning: Laurindo Almeida, Salli Terri, and Others - Duets with the Spanish Guitar, Album 2 (Angel, 1971) Originally released on Capitol in 1960 as Conversations with the Guitar Another very special album from Almeida & Terry. I'm jealous of you guys. I saw Hutcherson a few times, but I never had an opportunity to see the Timeless All Stars.

Brahms' Third Symphony, performed by Eugen Jochum and the LPO, as heard in this set:

Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane [Suites Nos. 1 & 2] / Martinon, Orchestre National de L'O.R.T.F. (Erato, rec. 1968) Lovely.

Two terrific records.

Next up: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée (et Eurydice) / Louis de Froment, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicolai Gedda, Janine Micheau, Liliane Berton (La Voix de Son Maître, FR) Recorded in Aix-en-Provence in 1955

Now spinning: Mose Allison - S/T (Prestige, 1972, 2 LPs) This album collects Allison's first two LPs: Back Country Suite and Local Color, both of which were recorded in 1957.

T.D. - I'd love to hear your impressions of these -- particularly the Yamashita Trio -- after you've had a while to absorb them. I ordered these 2 LPs on Discogs yesterday: