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👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1054 ST

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Alice Babs and Duke Ellington “Serenade to Sweden” cd Now a focus on Ellington trombones and Alice Babs, an excellent session recorded in Stockholm. If ever there is a jazz album that could use the Plangent Process. . . I think this one would benefit heavily, there seems to be a wobble to the sound.

Joe Farrell: Upon This Rock. CTI Records CTI 6042 S1 [US 1974]

Schubert String Quartet D.887 - Guarneri Quartet

Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble featuring Gary Smulyan “American Jazz Institute presents Ellington Saxophone Encounters” A very well-recorded swinging disc that has scratched an itch for Ellington music.

👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1063 ST

This again:

MV 2506 (Japan 1974) - Getz / Gillespie / Stitt " For Musicians Only" - rec. 1956

Returning to the Fourth Symphony in this set: Picked up this set recently after having owned the companion set (Syms. Nos. 1-3) for a long while. I'm really impressed. I think Markevitch's entire Tchaikovsky cycle is terrific.

I couldn't say what way is the most common, but I have heard a couple of different recordings with J.J.Johnson and he always seem to include those four bara. I think it's a nice way to conclude a solo and if you're doing several choruses I like to hear it at least in the final chorus.

He plays on 4-5 tracks on a Fred Hersch quintet album on Enja from 25 or so years ago.

Such a great cover photo (and the album isn't too shabby either). I remember buying that on cassette, Sub Pop issue, in the fall of 1991, maybe days after I picked up Nevermind.

Mozart - Piano Quartets K.478 & K.493

Enormously prolific, I recommend Rich Perry´s later quartet recordings with Harold Danko for Steeplechase: "Gone" and "Mood". Many attractive sessions as sideman, too: I second colinmce: "Soft Hands" is an outstanding, drummerless album by Ron McClue, also very attractive the two horns line-up with Stephen Riley on McClures superb "Dedication". Also recommended: Perry on George Mraz´s quartet album "Bottom Lines" from the late Nineties.

Jason Marsalis, Heirs of the Crescent City

Stephen Riley - Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Steeplechase)