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A terrific album!

Which I understand made him pass for a moldy fig in the opinions of certain "progressivists"!

More Hank Mobley:

12-Feb †Paul Bascomb 1912-86 12-Feb †Tex Beneke 1914-2000 12-Feb †Ernst Landl 1914-83 12-Feb †Bernie Privin 1919-99 12-Feb †Hans Koller 1921-2003 12-Feb †Art Mardigan 1923-77 12-Feb †Mel Powell 1923-98 12-Feb †Juini Booth 1948-2021 12-Feb Bill Laswell b.1955 12-Feb Ron Horton b.1960 12-Feb Szilárd Mezei b.1974

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the Lew Tabackin release is excellent.

Perfect!!!

Agreed - I think the market is focused on 'audiophile' album reissues making anything before the LP era a more difficult prospect. Or no con-fusion as Sweet Papa Lou would always remind us 😂

Now, music from this wonderful set of Hermann Scherchen recordings: Disc 1 - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - with the LSO

haven't dug that record out in years. There's another volume under Ron Pittner's name that is good as well (and not on CD).

One that I'd recommend:

Heard them a lot as a kid growing up in Cologne where they had a weekly radio show... Can't say that I grew into a fan but one album I remember liking is this one with Charlie Mariano and a fusion of jazz and Indian music https://www.discogs.com/release/4008349-WDR-Big-Band-Köln-Charlie-Mariano-Karnataka-College-Of-Percussion-Mike-Herting-Sketches-Of-Bangalor but I may be biased since I was in the audience that day... They have regular programs which they play for the radio and in concerts in the region, only some of which make it into albums ... This week it's probably carnival music, but in other weeks they have quite nice and diverse projects

Magnificent. One of my favorite versions of the M1.

Bill Evans “Evans in England” Resonance Records 2 cd set disc 1 This is on sale at Resonance at the moment for 9.99 and also for 9.99 is this fabulous 3 cd set: https://resonancerecords.org/product/art-tatum-jewels-in-the-treasure-box-cd/ Four or five other good ones are on sale.

yeah, Kaye was excellent. Bobby was a special cat and I was privileged to know him pretty well.

That is correct. Kaye can also be heard on some other Naughton recordings. There's also a fascinating CD that came out a few years ago of a group Kaye was leading in 1967 with Steve Tintweiss, Joel Peskin, Peter Lerner, and Enrico Rava.

K.421 and K.458

If you enjoy Joe Williams' singing this one is fine: https://www.discogs.com/release/19562413-WDR-Big-Band-Köln-feat-Joe-Williams-Milt-Jackson-w-Cedar-Walton-John-Clayton-Jeff-Hamilton-Blues-Be