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Probably so, but I've never heard a recording on which he appears where his command of the horn was less than stellar. Take this set for example. George is magnificent!

Did anyone get the vinyl? Is it a good pressing?

Here's some piano"

This is about trio recordings, right ? Well how about the Monk album for Prestige, the one with Little Rootie Tootie and so on ? McCoy Tyner Super Trios was very much heard when I was in the last year of High School. Bud Powell ”Time Waits” was my favoruite Bud Powell Trio album. But also the one from Paris, Montmatre 1962 or so with Round Midnight, Night In Tunisia, Shaw Nuff, Thelonious, and so on is one of the best for me. I like also the Trio album Horace Silver did in the early 50s for Blue Note.

I saw George Coleman live shortly after he had recorded „Amsterdam after Dark”, but on bass was Ray Drummond instead of Sam Jones.

In Iverson's list, it's completely subjective, if you pull it out to listen to piano, it's a piano record... Like, for me, Up in Volly's Room by Art Hodes is clearly a piano record despite the horns, just like Tales of Another by Gary Peacock despite the leader... But the typical piano record is solo or trio and the pianist is the leader...

Herbie’s playing on *The Trainwreck* is — imho — phenomenal (or phenomenally interesting)… …and somewhat in the vein of his contributions to *The All Seeing Eye*. A really visceral side of Herbie we didn’t get to hear all that often.

For the purposes of this discussion, it doesn't matter whether the pianist is the leader or not -- as long as the pianist plays a prominent role. For example, my list includes an album by the Mads Vinding Trio, Open Minds, that features pianist Jean-Michel Pilc in a sideman role. Similarly, Ethan Iverson selected Miles' Round About Midnight as his album to represent Red Garland. So there's no need to restrict your choices to pianists who happen to be leaders or co-leaders.

I am curious how "jazz piano albums" is defined? It seems to be albums where the leader/coleader is a pianist, but where would this put albums where piano is the featured soloist, but the leader is another instrumentalist? How would this impact the lists?

You can hear it here: https://forvo.com/word/jan_garbarek/#no

“Douglas Willams 1928-1930, recorded in Memphis, Tennessee” Jazz Oracle cd All Victor sides. Fun stuff.

Nice, thanks for letting us know!

United Artists LAX 3125 (Japan) - Kenny Dorham " Matador" - rec. 1963 - Engineer: Bill Schwartau

❤️ Mosaic MD 5 -237 - Quincy Jones "The ABC / Mercury Big Band Sessions" - rec. 1956 to 12964

❤️ United Artists GXF 3039 (Japan 1979) - Benny Carter "Aspects" - rec. 1959 - Engineer: Peter Abott

Here are a few of my favorite trios: Money Jungle Piano in the Foreground Happy Moods Changeless Bud Powell in Paris Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio Explorations Eliane Elias plays Live

Not a reissue but there’s a lovely new Michael Garrick recording from 1970 that’s just been released https://myonlydesirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-autumn-sunshine

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Doh! Another oversight on my part, John. My first choice would be The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1. I need to listen to those Pablo recs some more. Which volume do you like best, Ken?

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