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I'm now listening to another recording of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony:

HutchFan, Your list inspired me to put together a list of my favorites. However I modified it to select only Piano Trio albums. In some cases it was a very difficult choice, and on another day I might pick a different album. Monty Alexander - Threesome - Soul Note Kenny Barron - Live at Bradleys - EmArcy Bruce Barth - Live at the Village Vanguard - Max Jazz Count Basie - For The First Time - Pablo Richie Beirach - Summer Night - Venus Alan Broadbent - Everything I Love - Discovery Ray Bryant - trio - Prestige George Cables - But Beautiful - M & T Bill Charlap - Souveniers - Criss Cross Cyrus Chestnut - Midnight Melodies - Smoke Sessions Stanley Cowell - We Three - DIW Harold Danko - Hindsight - Steeplechase Walter Davis,Jr. - Live Au Dreher - Paris Jazz Corner Kenny Drew - If You Could See Me Now - Steeplechase Bill Evans - Explorations - Riverside Tommy Flanagan - Eclypso - Enja Don Friedman - Days Of Wine And Roses - Soul Note Red Garland - Red In Bluesville - Prestige Benny Green - Happiness: live At Kumbwa - Sunnyside Al Haig - Portrait of Bud Powell - Trio Tardo Hammer - Tardo's Tempo - Sharp Nine Roland Hanna - Glove - Storyville Barry Harris - Magnificent - Prestige Hampton Hawes - Blues For Bud - Black Lion David Hazeltine - Close To You - Criss Cross Tamir Hendelman - Destinations - Challenge Fred Hersch - ECT - John Hicks - Is That So - Timeless Eddie Higgins - Again - Venus Elmo Hope - Meditations - Prestige Pete Jolly - Yeah - VSOP Hank Jones - Blues-Ette - Black & Blue Duke Jordan - Two Loves - Steeplechase Dick Katz - 3 Way Play - Reservoir Roger Kellaway - Heroes - IPO Wynton Kelly - Full View - Milestone Steve Kuhn - Years Later - Concord John Lewis - Delaunay's Dilemma - EmArcy Mike LeDonne - Common Ground - Criss Cross Lou Levy - The Kid's Got Ears - Jazzizz Jan Lundgren - A Swinging Rendezvous - Marshmellow Pete Malinverni - A Very Good Year - Reservoir Ronnie Mathews - Lament For Love - DIW Bill Mays - Summer Sketches - Palmetto Dave McKenna - The Piano Scene - Koch Mike Melvoin - You Know - City Light Mulgrew Miller - Live At Yoshi's ,Vol.1 - Max Jazz Paul Moer - Trio - Del-Fi Thelonious Monk - Unique - Riverside Dado Moroni - Live In Beverly Hills - Resonance Bill Mays - Summer Sketches - Palmetto Phineas Newborn,Jr. - Here is Phineas - Atlantic David Newton - Inspired - Bright New Day Hod O'Brien - Blues Alley- Third Set - Reservoir Horace Parlan - No Blues - Steeplechase Jeb Patton - Tenish: Live in New York - Cellar Live Carl Perkins - Introducing Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests - Verve Enrico Pieranunzi - Live In Paris - Challenge Bud Powell - Trio - Roost Eric Reed - Blue Monk - M & T Renee Rosnes - A Time For Love - Video Arts Jimmy Rowles - Our Delight - VSOP Rob Schneiderman - Smooth Sailing - Reservoir Shirley Scott - Skylark - Candid Norman Simmons - In Private - Savant Rossano Sportiello - Strictly Confidential - Arbors Frank Strazzeri - I Remember You - Fresh Sound Charles Thomas - The Finishing Touch - Space Time Bobby Timmons - Easy Does It - Riverside McCoy Tyner - Reaching Fourth - Impulse Cedar Walton - Cedar - Timeless Kenny Werner - With A Song In My Heart - Venus James Williams - I Remember Cliffordm - DIW Claude Williamson - New Departure - Interplay Larry Willis - How Do You Keep The Music Playing - Steeplechase Mike Wofford - Live at Anthenaeum - Capri Richard Wyands - Reunited - Criss Cross

Have you heard this one, HG? I think it's excellent.

Check out the two ,12/66 live (Left Bank) recordings on Steeplechase. Lamont Johnson, Sotty Holt, and Billy Higgins. https://www.discogs.com/artist/2137638-Jackie-McLean-Quartet

Vanessa Lillie: The Bone Thief

That looks interesting: Parker and Moholo

Ts-find, symphony no. 3

+1, same with 'Bout Soul, but I've always liked Demons Dance.

Parker, Rogers, Moholo coming soon https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/tebugo

Bunny Berigan And His Orchestra “1938-1942” Chronogical Classics

as heard in this set:

Books! USA mailing addresses only. Just ask that you reimburse towards media rate postage: 1 - 10 Ellis Peters 'Brother Cadfael Mystery' books. Not my thing, but my wife loves them. These are extra copies acquired from buying Ebay lots. 2 - Howard Sounes: Down the Highway, the Life of Bob Dylan. Widely recognized as the best Dylan bio. This is an extra copy. PM if interested.

Issue #1. Surprisingly violent, with hangings and a stabbing.

Disc 2 - originally released as The Highest Mountain ❤️

I know, Colin, I have plenty of these sheet-type booklets in other Folkways LPs from the 50s and 60s. Except that the printouts of the scans from their site turn out somewhat smaller than the originals.

Thanks Dan, I'm a (Philadelphia) Eagles fan, and Jalen and Saquon say we don't do offense anymore, so none taken! I'm 11 years older than you, which music-industry-wise is a lifetime (Woodstock vs. MTV), with music probably holding a very different meaning to my youth than it did to yours. My earliest jazz listening (1972, first semester of college) was John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Blue Note. tracks #1 and #4 - I was there. track #2 - the pianist is a favorite of mine. track #8 - Not Hutch or Land, not written by Cedar, or Hutch. But a well known tune (though not in this version). Thanks as always for your good-natured feedback - I even read it to my wife! And I'm sure many will breathe a sigh of relief (and some will re-engage in the BFT process) when you're up in January.

Yes, the liner notes make mention of the death of his wife, which happened after this recording was made, but before its release. He dedicated the recording to her, Akiko Tsuruga, a jazz organist. Now:

Lester Young - The Jazz Giants ´56 (Verve)

PM sent for Montara

Sidney Bechet, Live in Paris 1952-1958 (Fremeaux)

Best part is this is basically what most of them are like in the first place!

It's a two-LP set. In any case, the music is fantastic.

Your words of the day: Offensive/Inoffensive. That's the best way I can describe a Felser compilation. Listening to his BFTs over many years now, for me it reinforces the "music of my youth" cliche and today I was wondering, if I were his age, and he mine, would we have the same radical differences of opinion, only from a different angle of opposition? It has to be recognized that the jazz I like was not in any way the music of my youth, but I did come to the music when neobop was in its ascendancy, and my earliest listening was a mixture of classic swing and bop/hard bop. Something I pondered while swinging between degrees of offense. On to the specifics: TRACK ONE: I think you had to be there. Is there a jazz connection here aside from the sort of scat the vocalist briefly attempts? Inoffensive: **. TRACK TWO: Sunrise, Sunset? After two minutes I want to say NEXT but I did persevere (work emails helped distract). Is that Elvin? Piano is better ... I think because it is much harder to make ugly sounds on the piano (if you stick to, you know, the keys). Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK THREE: Not my style of piano. Inoffensive: ** 1/2 TRACK FOUR: Really had to be there. What the hell is he singing about? Offensive: * TRACK FIVE: No notes taken, so ... Inoffensive: ** TRACK SIX: See #4, but final evaluation is Inoffensive: ** TRACK SEVEN: Oh hell no. Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK EIGHT: Following up one of the worst with the track for me? Is this a Cedar tune? Hutch? I don't think its his regular partner Mr. Land on tenor. Neither offensive nor inoffensive - *** 1/2 (1/2 star removed for the congas which rarely thrill me that much) TRACK NINE: When the band came in .... I went out. Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK TEN: Wait a sec this is obviously the Dan selection. Doesn't thrill me the way Gene would. *** TRACK ELEVEN: More vocals I have a hard time understanding ... Inoffensive: ** Thanks Mr. Felser and remember, if you were offended by offensive/inoffensive, you always get the last word since my BFT follows yours.

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